Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 267

AWAITING ’COPTER SERVICE ' ;X 4 i •:WLl r •- •” " - '. ' ■ »-' ' ■ M US "•»>.. **9 A'Vz..” . FrMw .-f~ljj i*Th » ofTI r JiJ-T?.-"- ’_ *«i4|gOHHWMh^.* F k : Wis t .llk.-ASSSfei WOUNDED BRITISH SOLDIERS lie on stretchers at Port Said, waiting to be helicoptered out of the battle area. A ship rests at anchor in background. Destruction Os Once Beautiful City Described

Editors note: United Press staff correspondent Anthony Cavendish was in Budapest when the Russians returned to begin the destruction of the once beautiful city on the Danube. Cavendish now has arrived in Vienna after being captured and held by the Rus- " sians more than 50 hours in the Hungarian town of Gyoer. In the following dispatch he tells the story of the rape of the Hungarian capital by the Red Army. By ANTHONY CAVENDISH United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA (UP)—The smell qf death hangs over Budapest. Hunger and disease stalk the living. More than 200,000 Soviet troops —equal to 15 full Red Army di-, visions—hold shattered Hungary in their grip. _ Yet last ditch rebels fight on against the Red invader. When I left Budapest Thursday to bring out the story of the city’s martyrdom, the bodies of freedom fighters and dead Russians still lay in its streets. The crump of Russian artillery fire shook the ruins. Smoke rose from still burning buildings. Every now and then the crack of the rebel guerrilla’s rifle shot rang out, followed by the boom o fßussian ""tank guns and the staccato rattle of Soviet tommy gunners. Fight Goes On In alleyways, in darkened streets and from the glassless windows of shattered buildings, the fight goes on. It was the steel-sided tank against the sniper bullet. It was desperate youngsters who spring up as fast as others are cut down. It was the flaming bottle of gasoline against armor and big guns. Soviet headquarters in Budapest are established in the Hungarian Defense Ministry. The Soviet commandant is a MaJor General Grebennik. No one seemed to know his 'first name—if it matters. But the mastermind behind the Red Army’s efforts to crush free Hungary is generally believed to be Marshal Georgi Zhukov himself, conqueror of Berlin, hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet defense minister. Artillery Opens Assault The Soviets launched their attack at just 4:50 a.m. (9:50 a.m. CST Saturday' on that Sunday, Nov. 4. A thunderous artillery bar- , rage crashed into the old city around the former royal castle on the west side of the Danube. Elephantine T 54 tanks with 100the streets of the city, still only millimeter cannon lumbered into half-awake and unaware of the torture it still faced. Within an hour the Russians occupied all main centers and the bridges across the Danube River. Maj. Gen. Pal Maleter, hero of the first rebel stand at Kilian Barracks and now Hungarian defense minister, was caught at Soviet headquarters negotiating with the Russians. A Soviet officer marched up to the main door of the Kilian Barracks and demanded entry. A rebel sentry opened the door.- He was shot dead on the spot Children’s. Clinic in Shambles (Continued on Paa* Slxj ’ INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder with diminishing winds tonight. Tuesday fair, becoming a little warmer in. afternoon in northwest half of state. Low tonight 25-30. High Tuesday 46-53. Sunset 5:33 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:26 a.m.

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Governor-Elect On. Florida Vacation Delays Announcement Os Any Appointments 5 lUPI3A Nov. 12 gm 909a INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Gov.-elect Harold W. Handley and his family went to Florida for a rest Sunday, leaving behind a statement saying no state appointments will be announced while he is'away. Handley took his family southward for a 10-day vacation to relax from the effects of a strenuous campaign which ended successfully last Tuesday with the defeat of his Democratic rival for governor. Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute. Handley’s statement said he had been “on the go constantly since February performing the duties of lieutenant-governor and seeking nomination and election as governor.” “No announcements of appointments to any state position will be made by me while I am in Florida,” Handley said. “I intend for this to be a genuine vacation, to become reacquainted with my family.” “Indiana needs the best qualified appointee iq every instance for any state position. I alone have the responsibility of making these appointments, and I will conscientiously fulfill this assignment which the voters have given to me in good faith.” Handley said job applications are “now being received and classified for my consideration in December.” He said he conferred with GOP state chairman Alvin C. Cast and appointed Robert W. Matthews, a member of Handley’s campaign headquarters staff since February, as patronage secretary. Handley said all patronage will be channeled through GOP county organizations, and “any speculation at this time regarding my decisions in these matters is completely premature.” When Handley returns to Indiana, he said, he will appear as Indiana commissioner of agriculture at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago on Nov. 26 and at the annual luncheon of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce in Indianapolis Nov. 27. Rounding Up Cattle After Train Wreck PAMPA, Tex. («PI) — Twenty boxcars loaded with cattle jumped the Santa Fe tracks near the center of Pampa Sunday night, and a posse on horseback still was trying early today to round up dozens of animals which fled from the battered cars. Some cattle were killed in the accident. But no train personnel or other persons were hurt. Scour Atlantic In Huns For Survivors HAMILTON, Bermuda (UP) — Two destroyers and a fleet of Navy airplanes scoured the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Bermuda today in search of survivors or wreckage from a Navy flying boat. Navy officials in New York said nothing could be found in an area about 300 miles northwest of Bermuda where a Spanish freighter radioed Sunday it had sighted a white flare.

Only Handful Os Rebels Are Still Fighting General Strike In Hungary May Bring Some Concessions VIENNA W—A general strike that has ftaralyzed Hungary for 20 days appeared today to be winning concessions from the Soviet-con-trolled puppet regime where death and bravery had failed. This ruthless extermination of the freedom fighters by 200,000 Soviet soldiers left only a handful of. rebels holding out in isolated posts. But the strike brought famine, chaos and embarrassment to the Reds. Today the puppet rulers held out a promise of bread to the starving in a new attempt to lure workers back to their jobs, but death by starvation rather than by a Soviet bullet appeared a likely choice by many of the rebels. Premier Faces Chaos Premier Janos Kadar faced worse chaos than that t used by Moscow as an excuse to depose the government of Imre Nagy and throw its armed might into suppression of the rebellion. Kadar even hinted he might bring Nagy back into the government to try to win support from the Hungarian people who have suffered between 12,000 and 20,000 dead in their fight for freedom. - Kadar said Sunday the freedom fighters had been “crushed.” He admitted that guerrilla fighting continued in Budapest and the provinces but brushed aside the effort of die-hard rebels against the mass weight of the Soviet forces. Russia poured in some 4,000 tanks and 200,000 troops to stamp out the anti-Moscow resistance. Budapest radio revealed the new Red strategy aimed at ending the general strike which has paralyzed the nation since the freedom revolt flared last month. Meeting in Factories The Communist-controlled radio said there would be meetings in factories today to decide whether work should be resumed. It added that food would be on sale at the factories—an obvious attempt to bait the hungry workers into attending the meetings, at least. Kader appealed to the nation Sunday for a return to normalcy. He admitted starvation threatened the shattered nation, and he promised a series of reforms in an attempt to win support for his shaky regime. He met with deposed “Titoist” Nagy in the capital in an apparent bid to win his support, and thus the backing of Nagy’s sizeable following. Eight Persons Dead In Cincinnati Fire Seven Children And Woman Are Killed CINCINNATI (IW) — Seven children and a 26-year-old woman were burned to death today in a fire that burned out a three story brick building in old tenement section. Three other adults leaped to safety and suffered injuries. Police Sgt. Henry Scott said firemen believed the blaze apparently started in a large pile of waste and rubbish near a basement staircase. He said the flames sped rapidly up the stairs to the roof. Firemen fought the blaze for an hour and a half before it was brought under control. Scott identified the victims as: Edna Dyas, 26, mother of five of the victims—John, 10; Beverly 8; Jocelyn 3; and Arelene Moore, 6, and James Moore, by a previous marriage; and Larry Clark, 5, and Terry Clark, 13 months, children of Johnetta Clark. 15 Rebels Killed By French Forces ALGIERS, Algeria (Iffll—French military forces announced today they had billed 15 rebels and arrested 19 others inpan air-support-ed operation in the mountainous Constantine area. Open House Is Held At Northwest School A crowd estimated at 1,700 to 1,800 persons thronged to the new Northwest Elementary school Sunday afternoon as formal open house was conducted by school officials. Hours for the open house had to be extended because of the unexpectedly large crowd which attended and the last visitors did not complete their inspection until nearly 6 o’clock.

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Egypt Accepts United Nations Police Force, Ist Units Due Tuesday

Delay Likely For Planned Military Cut Tense International Situation Likely To Delay U.S. Cutback WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States probably will delay a planned cutback in its military manpower because of the tense international situation. A high Defense Department official told the United Press it would be a “mark of prudence” to defer such cuts because “this is not the climate in which to announce downward changes” in the armed forces. Earlier this fall, he said, the Pentagon had planned on a manpower reduction of 4 to 6 per cent —or between 112,000 and 168,000 men —for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. But he indicated the new budget the Defense* Department sends to Congress next January probably will call for continuation of the present 2.8 million-man strength of the armed services. He said a final decision of this has not been reached and probably will not be for another month. " In a speech last week Kt Sea Island, Ga., Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess said the defense budget going to Congress next January will include “no cut in combat forces that I know of.’’ It was estimated deferring earlier planned cutbacks in U.S. military manpower will add about half a billion dollars to Defense Department costs. But this increase would not push overall defense spending significantly beyond a 4 to 6 per cent increase already forecast. Youth Is Wounded As Gun Discharges Everett Dale Currie, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Currie of Pleasant Mills, suffered an injury to his left foot in a gun accident Saturday afternoon. The Currie family had been working on a farm near Pleasant Mills and were returning home at about 2 p. m. The boy and his brothers were apparently playing with the small caliber rifle. The rifle was accidentally discharged and the shot entered Currie’s left foot. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, where he is reported in good condition. Campaign Underway By Junior Red Cross Annual Enrollment To Open This Week The Adams county Red Cross chapter will launch its annual enrollment of local public and parochial schools in_the American Junior Red Cross this week. Youngsters will be given the opportunity to join a nation-wide organization which had a membership of 21,000,000 last year. The organization specializes in promoting the humanitarian ideals: of the Red Cross through a variety of useful projects <*nd programs. Mrs. Mildred Foley and Miss Glennys Roop are co-chairmen for the Junior Red Cross enrollment drive this year. Nationally, there were more than 74,000 schools enrolled last year. It is estimated that the world-widtf membership of Junior Red Cross stands at approximately 45 million members in 68 Red Cross'societies. Junior Red Cross membership plays an important part in the program of the Adams county Red Cross chapter. The members assist in the Red Cross blood program. If disaster should strike here, the youngsters would serve as messengers, typists and receptionists. Members skilled in swimming and safety can assist instructors in teaching first aid and water safety classes to other youngsters.

12 Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic First Fatality On Indiana Toll Road By UNITED PRESS At least 12 persons were killed iii weekend traffic accidents in In’cEana —- - : A woman was killed in the first fatal crash oh the Indiana toll read and three young men were killed in an accident near Lawrenceburg. Each were onecar mishaps in which the car overturned. Mrs. Julia Granza, 69, South Bend, was injured in the toll road accident Sunday morning and died Sunday night in a Michigan City hospital. .James Shaw, 24, his brother, Gaylor, 19, and Clifford Walston, 20, all of Aurora, were killed Saturday when James' speedjpg car overturned along U. S. 50. William Young, 38, Walton, was killed Friday night when his car hit a bridge east of Walton. Melvin Parr, 59, Indianapolis, was killed Saturday when his car hit a tree along Ind. 67 in Hendricks County. While playing in a piles of leaves in a street in front of his home, Jimmy Brownlee, 5, Peru, was hit and killed by a car. A South Shore freight train hit a car at a Hammond crossing l.Saturday, killing Joseph Lima, 68. Hegewisch, 111. Another Illinois resident —Mrs. Beulah R. Turner, 55, Danville—was killed Sunday. A truck hit a car in which she was riding on U. S. 136 west of Convington. Elavi Griswold, 76, Fort Wayne, was killed when his car was hit head-on by another auto at the bottom of a hill north of Fort Wayne. Floyd Darding, 55, Indianapolis, was killed while crossing an Indianapolis street Saturday. The driver, Jimmie Green, 39, Indianapolis, was charged with drunk and reckless driving. Post-War Looting Led To Uprisings U.S. Information Agency In Report WASHINGTON (UP) — The U. S. Information Agency (USIA) claims Russia’s systematic and “massive post-war looting” of its satellites contributed heavily to the antiCommunist uprisings in Poland and Hungary. _ . The agency, which presents this country’s views overseas, madethe charge in a 100,000-word survey of “Communist colonials." The report deals with the way Russia has exploited these captfVe peoples, first through outright military looting immediately after World War 11, later through unreasonable reparations and finally through the present system of “fictitious” trade pacts. These pacts, it said, contribute to the “explosive unrest” in Eastern Europe by compelling “national populations .under Soviet economic colonialism to endure short-,: ages * and « deprivations while increased production is skimmed in the form of exports” to Russia. “The Soviet Union’s policies of economic looting and cultural domination of its Eastern European satellites were strong factors behind the anti-Communist revolt in Hungary and the anti-Soviet uprising in Poland,” it said. 24-Day Strike At Evansville Ended EVANSVILLE (UP) —A 24-day strike of electrical workers at the Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., ended Saturday when A majority of strikers voted to accept a company offer of pay increases ranging up to 10 cents an hour in a 32-month contract. International Union of-Electrical Workers members voted 1,104 to 761 in favor of accepting the company proposal, and about 4,000 workers went back to their jobs almost immediately in one of the firm’s two Evansville plants. Workers at the second plant returned to their jobs today.

U.N. Assembly Is Facing Two Grave Crises Regular Assembly t In Face Os War Fear UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (ffl_ The United Nations general assembly opens its regular 1956 session today confronted with two of the gravest crises in its 11-year history— Hungary and the Middle East. • Fears of a third world war hung over the glassed-wall of U. N. headquarters on the East River as the delegates of 76 nations assembled. The test of the U. N. as a peace organization may hang in the balance. A tenuous ceasefire was in effect in the Suez Canal Zone. The first of the U.N. observers are expected to fly in today. The U.N. police force was awaiting orders from U.N. headquarters to follow. Withhold Decision The new Communist Hungarian regihie acknowledged, but withheld its decisions on the U.N. request to permit an on-the-spot inquiry by.U. N. observers. U. N. General Dag liammarskjold called on Moscow for help. An unusual number of foreign ministers were on hand for the crucial session. They included British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will not attend. He is recuperating from an operation. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt sent his foreign minister, Mahmoud Fawzi. First anppearance For Shepilov Leading the Soviet Union’s delegation is Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov. It is his first appearance at the U N. Dispatches from Moscow quoted diplomatic observers as saying Shepilov will have a twin objective: 1. Attempt to assume toe leadership of the Afro-Asian bloc by spearheading the attack on toe “imperialist aggressors” in toe Middle East. 2. Attempt to prevent any discussion or effective action by toe U.N. in regard to Hungary. , Leo J. Bogner Dies Early This Morning ' Funeral Services 11 Thursday Morning Leo J. Bogner. 67, of 239 H ' Monroe street, and a resident of 1 Decatur most of his life, died at 1 3:30 o’clock this morning at the ’ Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne following a four-months’ illness of a tumor. He was born in Franks, 0., May 1 18, 1889, a son of Frank and Fran- ; ces Bogner, and had never mar- ' ried. ' Mr. Bogner retired two years ago after working many years a£ 1 a tool grinder for the General • Electric Co. He served in the < army for 18 months during World ’ War I. He was a member of St. ’ Mary’s/ Catholic church, the I Knights of Columbus, Holy Name society, American Legion and I Moose lodge. Surviving are three brothers, 1 Otto Bogner of Detroit, Mich., Al- I bert Bogner of Los Angeles, Calif., t and Richard Bogner of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Emma c Horner of Akron, 0., Mrs. Bertha s J. Gruber and Mrs. Samuel No- c vick, both of Fort Wayne. Two s sisters are deceased. a Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Thursdaiy at the 1 St. Mary’s Catholic church, toe ’ Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz of- | ficiating. Burial will be in toe Catholic cemetery. The body has been brought to the Gillig & Doan ’ funeral home, where friends may i call after 2 p. m. Tuesday until 1 time of the services. The Holy 1 Name society will recite the ros- i ary at 8 p. m. Wednesday. 1

d — Two Allied Newsmen Killed By Egyptians Report American, Frenchman Killed TWO ALLIED NSWSMEN PARIS (IP) — Two Allied newsmen—an American and a Frenchman — were shot and killed by Egyptian troops near El Kantara in the Suez Canal Zone, the French ministry of defense announced today. They were identified as David Seymour of Gagnum Photos and Jean Roy of the Paris weekly Paris-Match. An earlier dispatch from AngloFrench headquarters on Cyprus had listed them “missing,” and a field dispatch from Port Said had held out some hope they might still be alive. El Kantara is about 30 miles south of Port Said. Anglo-French forces battled there when the cease fire went into effect. The two men were reported killed by Egyptian soldiers when they drove into the no man’s land separating the Anglo-French and Egyptian front line positions. Dispatches from Port Said said the two “crashed” through the Anglo-French lines Saturday in a jeep. s . A British lieutenant was quoted, "We tried to stop them but they were driving hell-for-leather and they crashed right by us.” “Then we heard shots from the Egyptian side and the two men didn’t come back. Either they went into the canal or they are Egyptian prisoners,” the lieutenant said. Discuss Problems Os City Officials Industry Division Selects Officers An informal discussion of the city’s problems with emphasis on the purchase of power from Indiana and Michigan Electric company was featured at a luncheon meeting of the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce at noon today at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The meeting also featured the nomination and, election of officers for 1957. Lowell' Harper was named president; Tom Allwein, vice-presi-dent, and Glen Ellis, director. They will assume duties in January. Earl Caston, Harold EJpgle and Wilbur Petrie were members of the nominating committee. Ray Leitz is the outgoing president and Harper has sen/ed as vice-presi-dent during the past year. Tony Teeple was director. Lester Pettibone, superintendent of the Decatur light and power department, was the guest at the meeting, representing Mayor Robert Cole. Pettibone stated during the informal question and answer period that when a contract is signed between the city and I&m, a temporary power line will probably be brought in until the sub-station is completed. He also said that when the new power supply is brought in, the city will probably discontinue power generation at the steam plant although a 30-day supply of coal will be kept on hand in case the plant is needed. Members of the city board of public works and safety are in Fort Wayne today conferring with I&M officials on the contract proposal submitted by that company to the city council last Tuesday. At the next meeting of the industrial group, Mayor Cole is scheduled to speak on the latest developments in the efforts to solve the power, water and s’ew< age disposal problems of Decatur. Man Is Killed As Fire Sweeps Home FRANKFORT, Ind. (IB—William Wellman, 67, was killed Sunday in a fire which swept his small hpme at nearby Scircleville. His body was found by firemen laying on the kitchen floor near a kerosene hotplate.

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First Units Are Ready To Fly To Egypt * Jr Dag Hammarskjold Announces Egypt Agrees To Force UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (VP) United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced today that Egypt had agreed to accept a U.N. police force and the first elements will arrive there Tuesday. The move came as the U.N. raced against time to get its police force into the Suez Canal Zone before Moscow could make good on threats to send "volunteers” into the Middle East Hammarskjold told a news conference that he was going to the Mideast himself to see there are no loose ends in the policing arrangement. He said he will leave New York Tuesday afternoon for Cairo and i arrive there Thursday to help coi ordinate the U.N.operation. Ready for Signal First elements of the .U.N. police . force are at a staging area at ■ Naples, Italy, ready to fly to 1 Egypt as soon as the word is given. . Canadian Maj. Gen. E.t.M. i. Burns, designated comnander of r the U.N. force set up td enforce . the cease fire in Egypt, flew to . Cairo today and conferred with Egyptian leaders on last-minute details of the plan. Shortly afterwards, 5 of the 10 U.N. observers which Egypt agreed to accept before the police force arrives, reached Cairo from Jerusalem. The other 5 were reported en route by car from Jerusalem to Port Said. An air raid alert was reported in Caifo this morning and antiaircraft guns were heard a short time later in Heliopolis, 6 miles to the north. There were no information available to indicate what’ 1 caused the alert. U.N. Session Opens These new moves in the Mid1 east crisis came shortly before the U.N. General Assembly opened its regular 1956 session against a background of bloodshed in Hungary and Russian maneuvering in the Arab world. Official British sources in London said the Soviets had built up large air force and armored unit concentrations in the Arab countries. They said Moscow had sent in 100 MIG fighters, 50 Ilyushin-28 bombers and 300 medium and heavy tanks. Moscow dispatches said these reports could not be confirmed in official circles there. However, the official Soviet newspaper Pravda reiterated that Soviet “volunteers” would go to Egypt if the Anglo-French and Israeli forces were not withdrawn immediately. Red China Repeats Threat Communist China also repeated its threat to send “volunteers” to Egypt, noting .that registration. aUready had started of "military, medical, engineering, transport and other volunteer personnel.” However, a dispatch from Baghdad quoted a responsible Iraqi official as warning “senior officials” in all Arab countries against the dangers of sheltering Russian experts and “volunteers.” He said the North Atlantic Treaty .Organization (NATO) might consider the arrival of Russians in Arab countries, “and particularly in Syria,” as a provocative act that could lead to world war. In Saudi Arabia, King Saud sent a message to President Eisenhower asking him to take the. lead to “avert the danger of war.” “If the United States fails to take positive action against the Anglo - French aggression in Egypt,” Saud’s message said, “I am afraid a situation will develop in the East creating a large gap between East and West which would be difficult to pass over and would have the gravest results on world peace. God only knows what the results would be.” * Against the background of these widely scattered moves, Hanimarskjold announced the implementa(Continued on Five)