Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1956 — Page 6

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DESTRUCTION »<.:••• <i*« ***’ ~» •*•** Red Army tanks converged on the yellow stone building, already pock - marked from the earlier f ghting. The tanks opened point blank fire on it Within an hour it was blazing and more than 300 of the 700 o iginal defenders were either dead 1 or dying. Directly in the line of fire was a children’s clinic with more than 200 sick youngsters in it. Doctors and nurses sent out desperate pleas to spare the building. But the Red Army gunners and Russian embassy were ruthlessly deaf to the appeals. Red Army guns fire right through the clinic as nurses and

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doctors sought to shield the screaming children. In an hour the building was a shambles, piled deep with the mangled bodies of children and other patients. How many were killed there I never was known for sure. But certain it is that few escaped. i Men Fighting or Dead In the midst of battle, old women wrapped in black shawls scurried through the ruins and i smoke seeking a cabbage or a loaif of bread to feed their starving ; families. The young men were all out : fighting. Or their bodies lay ■ mangled in the streets. Soviet tanks drove callously over them. Alma-t nil hurt tw'°n shot down [ by the Red Army tank guns.

Outside the dingy old Duna Hotel on the Danube, headquarters of all foreign correspondents in Budapest, lay the crumpled body of a man in a green hunting cape. I On the house opposite flew a I green-white-red tricolor flag of Hungary with a large round hole wneie the Communist red star had been cut out. Western observers put the Hungarian casualties in the first four days of the battle at around 5,000 Hungarians and perhaps 500 Russians. But when the city morgue was called to remove a body last Wednesday a harassed official replied that he already had 12,000 bodies stacked there. The world probably never will know the true toll of death in Budapest—let alone the rest of

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Hungary—in that jweek that staggered the world. Use Mongol Troops The Russians 5 blasted away a whole house to kill a single sniper. They pulverized the Korvin Na- ! tional Theater. They put the his--1 toric former Royal Palace through i a cannon meatgrinder. Even the Duna and Astoria hotels came under shell-fire. To add to the terror of the Huni garian population, many of the • troops they used were Mongols, i slit-eyed fighters from the steppes : of innermost Asia. Newsmen in the Duna Hotel I were awakened that morning by the explosion of Soviet artillery I and found their communications i with the outside world severed. I Almost 100 in all, we hurried

for the shelter of the already crowded U.S., British, French and other legations. We bedded down mostly on cellar floods. Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, was given asylum at the U.S. legation that morning, toon, on special orders from Washington. At the U.S. legation the first food was two peanut butter sandwiches. Visit Insurgents’ Shelter On Tuesday, United Press correspondent Russell Jones and I picked our way to the big Astoria Hotel. A department store next to it was burning and there were signs of looting—something Budapest did not experience in the earlier battle in October. Three Soviet tanks in front of

the Astoria were firing almost | point-blank into houses. They were answered by the occasional sharp crack of a rifle and the whine of bullets. One freedom fighter, a pretty Hungarian girl, asked us to come to her shelter to see how the insurgents lived. We climbed down in the cellar of an apartment house behind a municipal building and found 40 popple, mostly women and children, crouching there and eating cold macaroni. •‘We cannot make a fire,” they said. "We have been here two days already. W have no more food. Our men are fighting. What is left for us?” All we could give them was the cigarets we had with us and a bar

' of chocolate, A U.P. Workshop On Tuesdav, Jones and I moved back from the hard floors of our respective legations and set np shop again in the Duna Hotel. We typed our stories among unwashed plates, pieces of salami, dry crusts of bread and dryingout nylon shirts. But we could not file our dispatches, because there • were no communications with the outside world. There was no heat and the windows of my room were broken. But we were the onlv wire service i newsmen working outside the legai tions. * On Wednesday the Soviet commandant issued a proclamation in i Budapest demanding immediate surrender but the fight raged on

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unabated. Kremlin bosses had ordered shelling to continue until white flags hang from all windows. But tne only flags seen were the green-white-red Hungarian tricolors and black flags of mourning. Next morning I left Budapest by car in an attempt to bring the first story of the battle to the West. But I was held up by Russian troops in a western Hungarian city for 50 hours. And it was not until Sunday night that I reached the free world in Vienna—lights, traffic, no thud of shells and no Russians. Man's Body Found In Deslerted House Decomposed Body Is Found By Two Boys INDIANAPOLIS (UP) TwO boys Sunday K»u**d u»-* aposed body of a neatly dressed man in ? spooky deserted house on the city’s near South Side. Police said the man might have been beaten to death. The head lay on a sheet of blood-stained wrapping paper. Police did not identify the body. Dr. Frank Kinsley, deputy coroner, estimated the man was dead at least a week and possibly died a month or more ago. Esker Byrns, 9, and Leslie Reeder, 13, found the body on the second floor of the seven room hourse where they -had gone, with the father or Esker, Ernest, 53. Byrns went to the house to look over lumber he planned to buy for a new home, police said. The deserted house bore a “for sale" sign. It was vacated months ago for a Madison avenue improvement project. The house's, windows were shattered, its doors broken and rooms littered with debris and abandoned furniture. Police said the litter made it difficult to determine if there was a scuffle. The man was described as at least 6 feet tall, weighing 155-170 pounds, He probnblv had gray hair. His age could not be determined. Police Said the body lay on a of newsoapers. It was dressed in blue trousers, a two-tone .neckered brown and white jacket and shoes that were in good condition, police said. When the boys found the body they ran down stairs and told Byrns. He said he thought the man probably was drunk and was not alarmed. Esker and Leslie met Marvin Kirby, 14, down the street. He summoned attendants at a nearby service station who investigated then called police. Knowland Catls For Expulsion Os Russia NEW YORK (OF) — Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland called Sunday night for expulsion of Russia from the United Nations and for a U.N. crackdown on Britain, France and Israel if they do not remove their troops from Egypt Immediately. Knowland, appearing on the NBC television program "Meet The Press,” said Britain, France and Israel could touch off “a major conflict” by “dilly-dallying - ' on compliance with the U.N. troop .removal order. Big Time Boxing Returns To Philly PHILADELPHIA (UP) - Big time boxing returns to Philadelphia tonight when top ranked Larry Boardman meets former lightweight champion Paddy De Marco in a 10 round feature bout at the Arena. ( _ The match will be the first major fight held in the city since May of 1955 when Gov. George* Leader suspended boxing in the state pending a full scale investigating of the Harold Johnson-Julius Mederos “doped orange” bout. Trade in a Goou Town - Deratut ■ ' K- . . .... iiiwiiiiin-..J FIRST WOMAN to be elected to the t). S. House of Representatives from a Philadelphia district is Mrs. Kathryn E. Granahan (above), who won in the Democratic landslide. She succeeds her late husband, WilHam Granahan. (International)