Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1956 — Page 1

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PEACEMAKER IN TROUBLE SPOT mSv - r r ’ *3r ■ • 1 r . FLANKED by two Egyptian liaison officers, U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold leaves his plane at Abu Suweir airfield where he stopped briefly enroute to crucial talks with President Nasser. He was greeted by Col. Salah Gohar (civilian clothes) and Brig. Amin Helm! at Abu Suweir. A-

Britain, Egypt In Hew Dispute; On Suez Canal Dispute Threatens To Collapse Peace Moves In Mideast LONDON (UP)— A new dispute between Britain and Egypt over the Suez Canal today threatened to collapse Middle East peace moves. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was caught squarely in the middle. Success of the United Nations emergency forces in the canal zone was seriously endangered even before they could take up their duties of policing the troubled areas. The latest dispute arose when the British Admiralty announced that at least 49 sunken ships were blocking the canal and that the job of re-opening the waterway should be given to the Royal Navy, with crews also working at the Egyptian-held south end. This brought an angry reply from Col, Abdel Kader Hatem, director of the Egyptian Information Department, whcsaid such an act would be a violation of the U.N. resolutions on the Middle East. Stronger British Stand Urged A new demand for a stronger Anglo-French stand in the Suez crisis came today from Patrick Maitland, a Conservative member of Parliament and one of the "Suez rebels” who have demanded strong action against Nasser. Hammarskjold already was reported having trouble in his Cairo talks with Nasser over the widely different approaches taken to the problem by Egypt and by the An-glo-French forces. Cairo has insisted throughout that the Anglo-French forces withdraw immediately from the canal zone and that the U.N. forces be reduced to patrolling the old Egyp-tian-Israeli cease fire Jine. Britain and France rave insisted their troops will remain until they are assured the canal will be reopened. (7 a.m. EST Release) (The New York Times reported in a Washington dispatch today that the United States had joined British and French officials in agreeing that U.N. troops should station units along the entire length of the canal in addition to placing men on the Israeli-Egyp-tian border.) (End Embargoed Material) Meanwhile so many U.N. troops were arriving at the U.N. staging area at Capodichino Airport outside Naples that the situation was getting serious. The troops are being flown from Italy to the old RAF base of Abu Sweir in the Suez Canal zone by only Swiss Air transports. The planes can't keep up with the flow of men to Naples. Total U.N. member contributions of men reached 4,680 and the number was growing rapidly. Related News In other Mideast developments: ° Baghdad— The leaders of three Baghdad Pact members, Pakistan, Turkey and Iraq, met today to discuss the Middle East situation. Their talks followed an Arab “summit” conference also attended by Iraq. The Hague— Officials of L, Smit and Co., the biggest Dutch firm asked by the U.N. to help unblock the Suez Canal, said today its salvage experts had not yet received Egyptian visas to enter that coun(Continuea on i*ag« Five)

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Revolt Is Reported In North Viet Nam Initial Anti-Red Revolts In Asia SAIGON, Indochina (UP) — Reports reaching Saigon today from Communist North Viet Nam said "many Communist soldiers” had been killed in a revolt against the Red regime of Ho Chi Minh. The reports were received here by the French News Agency from its resident correspondent in Hanoi on the eve of a visit by Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai. The agency reported from the Communist capital of Hanoi that popular revolts broke out Tuesday and that “numerous” persons were killed and wounded. It said “many Communist soldiers were among the victims.” The cabled reports said the revolts were reported by Nhan Dan (People), the official Communist organ of Hanoi. They were the first such anti-Communist revolts reported in Asia. According to Nhan Dan, as reported by the agency, the revolt took place 15 miles north of Vinh, a city midway between the 17th parallel (the frontier between North and South Viet Nam) and Hanoi in an area heavily popu- ’ lated by Roman Catholics. It said insurgents seized arms and battled police and Communist Party workers. The Vinh area was the scene of the 1931 uprising and is known as a revolutionary district. Chou will fly to Hanoi Sunday according to radio reports. Western diplomatic quarters in Saigon said Chou's arrival may increase tension due to the Vietnamese dislike of the Chinese. South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem, studied the dispatches from Hanoi today but made no comment. In Washington, U.S. officials said reports of uprisings in North Viet Nam appear to be repercussions of freedom uprisings in Eastern Europe. The Red Viet Nam government said Friday in a broadcast monitored by the State Department in Washington that some troops near the ciy of Vinh were sacked in a “couner revoluionary uprising” and some were killed or wounded. Polish And Soviet - Talks Close Today MOSCOW (UP) — Three days of talks between "Polish and Soviet leaders are expected to .end this afternoon with signing of a joint communique and a gala reception at the Kremlin. Neither the Poles nor the Russians so far have divulged anything on progress of their negotiations on Poland’s future. Two Airmen Killed In Training Crash ATMORE, Ala. (W) — A Navy training plane crashed Friday killing two airmen and setting afire some 20 acres of timber near here. The T2BB pistion-engine plane exploded in flight and crashed into a field near the Alabama State Prison Farm, starting the 20-acre fire- « • Victims were Lt. JG Henry L. JWiller of Pensacola, Fla.: and Naval Cadet Eugene T. Whitney, sou of Mr. and Mrs. Percy E. Whitney of Valley Stream, N.Y. Miller's wife and two-year old daughter live at Pensacola.

Settlement Os Dock Workers' Strike Sought Union And Shipping Representatives In Negotiations Today 5 f. 3 UP37 Nov. 534aES NEW YORK (UP)— Dock union and shipping association representatives meet today to seek an end to the strike which the International Longshoremen's Association Ind. called “100 per cent effective” in tying up all major East and Gulf Coast ports. More than 200 passenger and cargo ships were stranded in harbors from Portland, Me., to Brownsville, Tex., by the walkout of some 60,000 ILA members. The effects of the strike already have spread to the West Coast where members of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union refused to handle cargo on about a dozen ships bound .to or from East Coast ports. In Second Day ILA President Capt. William V. Bradley ordered the general strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday, when the union's second contract extension with the New York Shipping Association expired. , Informed sources in Washington said the administration would not seek an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction to halt the strike until the middle of next week or possibly longer. Such an injunction was obtained to halt a strike in 1953. The administration hoped the strike might be settled before next week, an official said, and there was no thought “for the time being” of invoking the Taft-Hart-ley act. The New York Board of Trade Friday appealed to President Eisenhower to declare a national emergency and invoke the TaftHartley law. They said the walkout of 25,000 longshoremen in the port of New York would cost an estimated $1 million a day. *2O MilUon Loss Dally The cost to the nation's shippers and other businesses was estimated at *2O million daily if the strike continues. Representatives of the ILA and the 178-member shippers association met Friday with a three-man panel of federal mediators. When the negotiating session adjourned at 5:30 p.m. spokesmen for each side said an early settlement would depend on the other’s attitude. The major issues were the union’s demands that the shippers agree to a blanket contract for all ports instead of negotiating on a port-by-port basis: a guarantee of eight hours’ pay for longshoremen hired for ahy job; limitations on the weight of sling loads, and the employer’s proposal to reduce die size of work gangs.. Tito Is Leader Os East Europe Drive Campaigns For More Liberal Government LONDON (UP)— Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia emerged today as a self-apqointed leader of East Europe’s campaign for more liberal government. An authoritative assessment of Tito’s hands-off-the-satellites warning termed it a blunt challenge to the Kremlin and a declaration of war on its old guard of Stalinists, believed to be led by Soviet former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Tito made his outspoken statement in a speech in Belgrade Sunday, which was reported in the West only two days ago. Significantly, the speech was timed just before the opening of vital talks in Moscow between Soviet leaders and the new chiefs of Poland, led by “Titoist” Communist party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. ' ' Diplomatic dispatches reported today a split in the Kremlin has thrown Russia into a state of “hazardous, makeshift policy.” In an apparent absence of a firmly defined policy, Moscow is steering a “zigzag course” reflecting the nation’s uncertainty about its next moves, die dispatches said. The divided leadership appeared anxious to hold on to Russia’s past military and diplomatic conquests, but there were growing signs of nervous anxiety over the outcome of the current tussle. Behind Tito’s challenge, observers here saw growing Yugoslav anxiety over the increasing influence of the old guard in the Kremlin. - - - • • NOON EDITION

Decatur. Indiana. Saturday, November 17,1956

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Indicate New Terror Reign In Budapest Report Red Secret Agents Conducting Search For Rebels VIENNA (UP) — Soviet secret agents are conducting a house-to-house search for arms and rebels in Budapest and the hated AVH (Hungarian secret police) has resumed activities, reliable reports from Budapest said today. Indications of a new Communist reign of terror coincided with reports of continued defiance of the Soviets and their puppet government on the military and labor fronts. Austrian newspapers said partisan bands still fought Russian troops and tanks along the Czech border and reported the Czech army had intervened on the side of the Soviets. Hungarian workers continued their general strike, ignoring threats, appeals and orders from the Soviet-backed Janos Kadar regime and some of their own strike leaders. Set Forth Demands The reports from Budapest said the revolutionary committee of Hungarian intellectuals issued a manifesto demanding repudiation of the Warsaw Pact and the removal of all foreign bases from Hungarian territory. The manifesto proposed a provisional government be formed from various revolutionary councils under a leader who would command international respect. It suggested that some international force take over the defense of Hungary’s borders . and proposed Hie entire output of the country’s uranium mines be turned over to the international organization for the peaceful use of atomic energy. 1116 output now goes to the Soviet Union. The manifesto said the task of the provisional government would be to stabilize the situation and prepare for formation of a constituent assembly. This assembly would draft a law for free elections in which all parties would participate. Deportations Continue The AVH was reported back on the job despite Kadar’s promise to workers that the detested organization would be abolished. Kadar (Continued On Page Five) Work Is Started On Lake Near Decatur Shopping Area Will Also Be Erected Work has begun on a lake of from three to six acres in extent on ground owned by Stratton Place, Inc., and the creation of a shopping area, John R. • Worthman, president of the concern, said today. The ground is immediately east of Decatur and west of the Stratton Place housing development. A frontage of approximately 600 feet on East street extended, and opposite the Decatur Youth and Community Center, will be made available for the shopping area. Worthman said today he did not know whether the lake would be used for private or public purposes. It is located outside of the city of Decatur. An area about 200 feet back of the Monroe street is to be filled. Elm trees and other trees along the street have been removed. Eough of them could not be saved, he said. Worthman said that present plans propose "that the lake will be located 200 feet from the St. Mary’s River, and the same distance from the nearest residential or business lots. . .The exact nature and size of the lake will depend upon subsoil conditions. Preliminary testing indicated that the bottom would be of a soil making, it possible to hold water.

State Traffic Toll Is Climbing Steeply 11 New Fatalities In 18-Hour Period By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s 1956 traffic death toll, which swept past the 1,000 mark this week, climbed steeply today with at least 11 new fatalities within an 18-hour period. The state’s worst accident in more than five weeks. killed five persons between Columbus and Seymour on U.S. 31 Friday night. It was the worst wreck since 10 persons were killed Oct. 10 near Muncie when two automobiles collided for the highest toll in Hoosier history in an accident involving only passenger cars. Dead were Brice Wilson, 38, and Orville Burton, 30, Louisville, Ky., and Misses Alvadeen Rollins, 22, Judith Slump, 22, and Ruby Hickey, 19, Indianapolis. Other fatal accidents between Friday noon and 6 a.m. today occurred near Cayuga, Washington, Mitchell, Frankfort and Elwood. Trains were involved in three of title six deaths. Homer Doyle, 39, Montgomery, and his 3-year-old daughter Rita were killed when their automobile was struck by a train at Washington Friday. Frederick Seal, 71, Newport, was killed near Cayuga Friday .when a train Mt his car. John Paul Burton, 17, president of the Mitchell High School senior class, was killed in a collision of . an automobile and two trucks Friday night near Bedford. Donald Lee Taylor, 19, Marion, was killed when his automobile and a truck collided near Elwood, and T.D. Cline, 42, Frankfort, was killed when his automobile went out of control near Frankfort in accidents early today. County Councilmen Approve Requests . '• . .. Hold Final Session Friday And Today County councilmen, in their final session of 1956 Friday and today, approved all requests for additional appropriations and transfers of appropriations requested by several departments of the county government. The approval included the transfer of $4,554.95 from certain items in the county general fund to other items in the fund for the auditor, treasurer, sheriff, superintendent of schools, county agent, coroner, court house, county Ijome and county commissioners. Also approved was the transfer of $4,000 from the gravel road fund, stone and federal aid, to the gravel road fund for trucks. The hospital request for $6,223 in appropriations for various items was also approved by the council in its final session with Frank Kitson as county auditor and ex-officio secretary of the council. The approved transfers and appropriations must now be submitted to the state tax board for further study and approval. Before the state board approval is given, a public hearing will be held in the office of county auditor Kitson at a date to be announced later. Nine Persons Killed v In Colombian Blast BOGOTA, Colombia (UP) — Police believed today an accidental ignition of fireworks powder caused an explosion which killed nine persons, including six children. The blast levelled- the homes of three workers in the Barrio Ingles distant of Bogota Friday. Police said powder being used to make fireworks for Christmas and New Year’s holidays .apparently was touched off. ’. * " INDIANA WEATHER Partly dandy and t BWe warmer tonight and Sunday. Law topight 28-32. High Sunday about 50. Increasing Cloudiness Sunday night and rain Monday. -fc-

Cuba To Seek Resolution To Condemn Reds Western Countries Angered At Russian Action In Hungary UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)Western anger at Soviet “mass murder” in Hungary and the deportation of thousands of young men to Siberia neared the boiling point today. Emilio Nunez-Portuondo, head of the Cuban delegation, said he will introduce a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly Monday charging the Soviet Union with genocide (mass murder) and demanding the Soviets stop herding free Hungarians to Siberia in retaliation for the Hungarian uprising. Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., gave U.S. approval of the Cuban effort Friday and said the United States would “fully support” U.N. action if the Soviets send volunteers to the Middle East. Policy Debates Interrupted The assembly interrupted a parade of policy debates when Hoover, statin® jr for the recuperating Secretary 6f State John Foster Dulles, asked that the Hungarian ' situation be taken up immediately. Only six of 79 nations had presented their policy speeches, which usually fill the first few days of ! each annual assembly session. Hoover told the assembly the United States “cannot remain si- , lent while Hungarian men, women and children are forcibly deported” by the Soviets. “That is why the U.S. believes that the assembly must take an immediate initiative to meet this tragic situation,” he said. Tells of Shocking Reports “Soviet forces have not been withdrawn. We now hear shocking reports that the barbarism of mass deportation is being inflicted on the Hungarian people ... “The secretary general’s request for admission of U.S. observers into Hungary has been rejected. This means we must redouble our support of his efforts. At the same time, we must give urgent consideration to the next steps the U.N. can take.” He strongly urged “appropriate action” if Soviet “volunteers” are sent to the Middle East. Hoover said the use of Soviet (Continuea on Fa.g« Slxj Heart Attack Fatal To Raymond Becher Resident Os Near Decatur Stricken Raymond O. Becher, 59, farmer residing one mile south and onehalf mile west of Decatur, died at 9:30 o'clock this morning at his home following a heart attack. He became ill earlier this morning while sawing wood "at the home of his son-in-law, Paul Longsworth, and died shortly after returning home. He was born in Mercer county, 0., July 20, 1897, a son of Jacob and Mary Kettring-Becher, near Chattanooga, and had lived in Washington township the past 16 years, moving here from the Berne community. He was married to Clara Fogle July 27, 1918. Mr. Becher was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga. 'n Surivlng in addition to his wife are* three daughters, Mrs. Paul Longsworth of Washington township, Mrs. Lester Haines of Decatur and Marjorie Lou, at home; two sons, Norman Lee Becher of Berne and Raymond, Jr., at home; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Ed Becher of Bremen and James Becher of Portland, and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie B. Wilson of Willshire, 0., and Mrs. Harley J. Reef of Berne.— The body was removed to the Zwlck funeral home, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Young Mother Asks Mercy Os Romania Pleads For Safety Os Young Daughter BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (IP) — A young mother who fled the Romanian Embassy with her family appealed today for mercy for an 11-year old daughter still in Communist hands in Romania. Mr. and Mrs. Georgs Coman and their two boys were granted political asylum by the Argentine government and placed under protective custody. But fear that her daughter, Maria, in Bucharest would suffer for their actions was uppermost in Mrs. Coman’s mind. “Don’t let them do anything to her,” she pleaded tearfully with Argentine authorities. “Please get her free.” Romanian embassy officials held the Comans’ 9-month-old son, Lucian, hostage for 10 hours Friday in an effort to force his parents to return, but eventually surrendered the little boy to Argentine officials. Mrs. Comans appealed to the Communists in Bucharest to yield her daughter to Argentine representatives there. “Please tell the world we want our daughter safely turned over to the Argentine legation in Bucharest, so she can join us," the 29-year-old mother said. The break came while Comas, his wife and their two children were being escorted from the Embassy to drive to the airport to be returned to their Communist-dom- ' iriated homeland. Coman, an embassy chauffeur, had been convicted by a Communist kangaroo court of becoming “to bourgoise” and ordered “deported” to Romania. Coman, 31, pulled a pistol which he had slipped from the Romanian minister’s desk and started to run with his four-year old son Gig toward a policeman. He shouted to his wife to follow with nine-months old Luciano. Their cries and struggles against the Communist escort brought police, and a huge crowd of Argentines, on the run. While the police asked questions, a Romanian, official darted from the embassy, grabbed the baby from Mrs. Coman’s arms and ran back inside. A few minutes later, a maid appeared and seemed to offer the baby back. Mrs. Coman moved toward the embassy doors and men leaped out and dragged her screaming inside. A short while later, she climbed onto a second-story window ledge and clung there until rescued by Argentine workers. The Argentine government demanded and won the release of (Continued on Page Six) Annual Drive For Clothing To Needy Bishop's Drive To Open Here Sunday The annual bishop’s Thanksgiving relief drive to collect clothing for needy areas of the world will be conducted in St. Mary’s Catholic parish in Decatur next week. The, Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz has appointed the Rosary society to take charge of the clothing drive as has been done in past years. The drive extends officially from Sunday, Nov. 18, to Sunday, Nov. 25, but anyone desiring to donate clothing may take it to the auditorium of Decatur Catholic j high school from now until the drive closes. Members of the Rosary society .will” sort the clothing and pack it for shipment to a central warehouse. From there is will be sent to needy families all over the world. Similar clothing drives are being sponsored in every Catholic parish of the United States. The appeal is for warm, wearable clothing suitable especially for cold weather. A request is- also made for blankets and serviceable shoes and boots. All members of the parish are being urged to participate by donating good, used clothing. , »

Would Accept _ Modification Os Ike's Plan Sweeping Proposal For Disarmament Submitted By Reds MOSCOW (UP) — The Soviet government today expressed readiness to accept a modified version of President Eisenhower's aerial inspection plan for disarmament control. The Soviet government sent a proposal for a sweeping disarmament program to President Eisenhower, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, French Premier Guy Mollet and Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru. It said it is now ready to accept aerial inspection with a radius of 800 kilometers (496.8 miles) of areas where the principal armed forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact countries are stationed. The sttement included the most sweeping proposals for disarmament yet made by the Soviets. It was given to foreign correspond- . ents at a specially-summoned news conference at the foreign ministry. “ The Soviet government indignantly denied the reported concentration of Soviet forces in Eastern Europe for aggressive reasons. “If the Soviet Union actually had the aggressive intentions ascribed to it, it would utilize the circumstances recently developed to attack the armed forces of the Atlantic bloc and could materialize the military objectives ascribed to it in Western Europe even without using modern nuclear and rocket weapons,” it said. “It could be said frankly that at the present time in Western Europe a strategic situation has developed which favors the Soviet armed forces even more than was the case at the end of World War II when the fully mobilized and armed Soviet armies could have established themselves in the whole of Western Europe if the Soviet Union had that objective.” Reasserting the Soviet policy of “peaceful coexistence,” the statement said, “The Soviet gov(Continuea on Page Six) Say Rokossovsky To Head Defense Pad Ex-Defense Leader Os Poland Choice MOSCOW (UP) — Persistent reports in diplomatic circles today said resigned Polish Defense Chief Konstantin Rokossovsky will become commander-in-chief of the “ Warsaw Pact Communist Defense Alliance. A dispatch from Warsaw said Rokossovsky left there Friday and traveled to Lignice, the headquarters of Soviet forces in Poland. He was dropped from the Polish Communist Party leadership earlier this month. Rokossovsky would succeed Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, as head of the Communist Alliance, according to the reports circulated here. Rokossovsky already was deputy commander of the Red alliance. Until Wednesday Rokossovsky was the Polish defense minister. Konev presumably would re- _ sume an important command in the Soviet army, the reports said. Polish Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka meanwhile was reported to, have reached the decisive stage in his Moscow talks with Soviet leaders. But Polish sources said no final communique was expected before Sunday or Monday. Stevenson Planning Carolina Vacation CHICAGO ((TO) — Adlai E. Stevenson leaves mis Weekend fora' vacation in the Carolinas, exact location unknown. A promised statement from the defeated presidential candidate on his political future was delayed.

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