Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1956 — Page 1

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APPARENTLY LAYING down the law, India’s V. Krishna Menon has an attentive listener in Imre Horvath (left), Foreign Minister of Hungary's puppet government at United Nations headquarters in New York. This meeting took place after a surprise move by India in joining Indonesia and Celon in backing a U. N. resolution seeking to get observers into Hungary for an on-the-spot check of conditions.

Report Polio Outbreak Now In Budapest War*Ravaged City Is Now Struck By Epidemic Os Polio Bf JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA (UP)—A polio epidemic has broken out in war-ravaged Budapest, the Communist controlled Budapest Radio announced today. The radio said a polio epidemic had hit Budapest and Debrecent. the nation’s third largest city 100 miles east of Budapest. It also reported the capital was threatened by a spreading epidemic of amoebic jaundice from polluted water or vegetables. The situation is even more critical because of a shortage of soap and detergents, the radio said. The Communist masters had denied early entrance of relief .supplies. Fresh Milk Shortage Budapest Radio said the health of babies and small children is threatened by a shortage of fresh milk in a country torn by starvation since the start of the revolt. The public health situation generally in Budapest is •‘unsatisfactory,” it said. Much of the city itself was rubble from Soviet tanks and guns, and water mains and sewers were broken during the fight between the patriots and the Soviet troops. Budapest Radio said several of Budapest's largest hospitals suffered serious damage in the fighting. The broadcast listed these as the big Rochus Hospital, the Second Surgical Clinic, the Second Women’s Clinic, the Second Clinic for Skin and Venereal Disease and the Institute for Nervous Diseases. The broadcast said the hospitals had to be housed in other buildings until the damaged buildings are reconstructed. Many Schools Closed The broadcast said many schools in the capital could not be reopened because of damages suffered in the fighting, or because of the shortage of fuel. It added it was “hoped” that most wpuld be able to reopen by Jan. 1. The official Communist organ Nep Szabadsag announced today that workers who failed to return to their jobs after the Nov. 10 deadline set by the government would not get paid for November unless their plants were unable to resume operations. Workers who remained on the job during the first week of the revolt, Oct. 24 to 31, will get double pay for the entire month, the paper said. Those who walked out that week will receive ohly normal pay, it added. Reports from Budapest said Hungarian rebels have revived local “revolutionary councils” and are taking over key positions in some provinces in defiance of the pro-Moscow regime. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and much colder with scattered snow flurries this afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy south and central, mostly cloudy with scattered snow flurries extreme north Thursday. Continued cold Thursday. Westerly winds 30 to 40 miles per hour this afternoon and tonight, diminishing Thursday. Low tonight 16-23. High Thursday 27-33 north, 32-39 south. Sunset 5:26 p.m., sunrise Thursday 7:37 a.m. 22 Pages

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Nation To Observe Thanksgiving Day Millions Heading Home For Holiday By UNITED PRESS Millions of Americans headed home today to join their families around well - plenished tables, topped with golden-brown turkeys, in giving prayerful thanks on Thanksgiving Day. Fair but unseasonably cold weather was expected throughout the nation, but only sections of the Midwest anticipated a snow-white holiday. Transportation facilities geared to handle large home - bound crowds. Earlier this month, President Eisenhower —in his annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation — asked Americans to help “the ill, the destitute and the oppressed in foreign lands.” Churches Help Needy Churches and many civic groups followed the President’s cue. Clothing drives were being held by many religious organizations during the holiday to collect used articles of wear for eventual shipment to needy persons across the seas. Heavy highway traffic was expected by safety officials. The National Safety Council hoped the traffic death toll would fall below the 110 deaths that normally occur on a non-holiday Thursday in late November. ♦ The council felt that bad road conditions in the Midwest and Plains states probably would aid in holding down the death toll. * Traditional “turkey day” football games were expected to be attended by many spectators. But the majority of the nation saw a “big gobbler” as the main event of the day. Celebrate at White House President Eisenhower planned to observe the holiday with a family dinner at the White House, the first Thanksgiving to be spent at the White House by the Eisenhowers. At Paris, 111., about 140-foreign students from 40 countries were to spend the holiday weekend with various families. The community’s International Thanksgiving Fellowship invited foreign students studying in the metropolitan area of Chicago. More than 100 families volunteered to’ entertain the overseas guests with huge turkey dinners, special sight-seeing trips, shopping tours, a community square dance and sing, and church worship. A turkey dinner this Thanksgiving will cost the average American family less than 310 for the first time in years. Final Rites Friday For Lawrence Linn Funeral services for Lawrence E. Linn, who died suddenly Tuesday morning, will be held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the residence, 355 Mercer avenue, and at 2 p. m at the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. Ray J. Walther officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. One daughter preceded Mr. Linn in death. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. The casket will not be opened at the church. Friends are asked to omit flowers, but may make contributions to the Presbyterian church building fund or the youth division of the Decatur Youth and Community Center. BULLETIN LONDON (UP) — Former foreign minister V. M. Molotov, an old-line Stalinist, was apopinted tonight to the post of Soviet minister of state control, the Cabinet job responsible for enforcing government policy.

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City Council Approves Pact To Buy Power Indiana-Michigan To Furnish Power For Decatur Use A ten-year contract with Indiana and Michigan Electrical Power company to supply Decatur with 7,000 kilowatts of power an hour was approved Tuesday night by the city council upon recommendation of the board of works. The contract is effective immediately and construction is expected to start soon on lines to connect present I-M lines with Decatur city lines. Frequent breakdowns in the present steam generating plant have led to a dangerous power situation in Decatur, L. C. Pettibone, superintendent of the power plant, said today. A thorough study of the problem by Pettibone, at the request of Mayor Robert Cole and the board of public works and safety, showed that either new units costing between $1,818,750 and $2,700,000 would have to be installed, or power purchased from I-M. The board of public works and safety investigated, and found that at present rates, if Decatur had purchased power in 1955 they could have made $83,895.21 more than the $27,607.75 made by generated power. Decatur will pay $3.50 for 1,000 kilowatt hours for the first 2,500 kilowatt hours; $3.10 per 1,000 kilowatt hours overtg.soo up to 7,000. Decatur must purchase at least 75 percent of the maximum requirement of 7,000 kilowatt hours per month, or 5,250 kilowatt hours. If Decatur averages more than 7,000 kilowatt hours in its three peak days in any month, the new figure will create a new monthly requirement. These provisions were insisted upon by I-M to protect the corporation. At the end of ten years, Decatur may renew its contract on a yearly' basis for 15 more yean. Either party may cancel the agreement on 60 days notice at the end of ten years or any one-year period thereafter. Decatur will immediately start work on a city sub-station on the city lot south of the diesel plant on Short street. Hie Indiana-Mich-igan company has already bought the right of way for its line, and is expected to start work soon./ When the company has purchased land, it will build a switching station outside the city to connect to city lines. Unless an emergency occurs, the steam and diesel plants will continue furnishing electricity to the city until the sub-station, switching station, and connecting lines are completed. This is expected to take at least a year, Pettibone said.‘After that time, the city will continue to generate part of its own power, and use the steam plant as a standby-

Sen. Walter Calls For More Refugees Sees Soviet Soldier Shoot Down Patriot By CHARLES W. RIDLEY United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA (UP)—Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa) called for admission of 17,000 Hungarian refugees into the United States today a few hours after he had seen a Soviet soldier shoot down a Hungarian patriot trying to flee to Austria. Walter, co-author of the Mc-Carran-Walter Immigration Act, visited the Hungarian border at sunrise to watch the flood of refugees struggle across the frontier. He was so enraged at what he saw he appealed for 12,000 more refugees than the 5,000 invited by President Eisenhower. He said he saw a “terrifying example of medieval brutality.” Fate of Man Uncertain “We were standing on the bank of a canal when a man came running down the towpath,” he said. “A shot rang out and he fell. He was about 100 yards away.” Walter said refugees told him Soviet troops had moved in to seal off the border area and that it was Russians who fired on them. Other members of the party accompanying Walter said they did not know if the man shot at was killed. They said a shot was fired as a group of Hungarians walked along the towpath of the canal which forms the Austro-Hungarian border at that point. They said the man may have ducked down into the reeds.

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Decatur, Indiana'Wednesday, November 21, 1956.

Hammarskjold Reports To United Nations On Situation In Mideast

; Initial Group t ■ j Os U.N. Force k i Is In Port Said [ First Token Group Os United Nations I Troops In Egypt ‘ LONDON (UP)—The first token group of United Nations police I troops entered Port Said today to , keep peace between Anglo-French forces and the Egyptians. But . noisy Egyptian demonstrators regarded them as just another oc- [ cupation force. The company of 216 Norwegians , of the U.N. Emergency Force ' (UNEF) reached Port Said by 1 slow train from the south in an ’ emergency move to head off friction between the Anglo - French ; forces and the local population. From their reception, however, 1 it appeared the UNEF troops still were a long way from being able i to do their job of supervising thq > Mideast cease fire. ' In a report circulated to the U.N, • General Assembly in New York, : Secretary General Dag Hammar* - skjold said that failure of Britain, France and Israel to withdraw f; their troops from Egypt prevented r the UNEF from taking over its r full task. ... •'T t Cabinets Hold Meetings f The British and French cabinets I met in London and Paris today to review the situation and answer t a demand for a progress report , on their troop moves from Hamt marskjold. There was no announcement i after the British Cabinet meeting. ■ In Paris, a spokesman said: , “France has answered M. Hammarskjold’s questionnaire. It is up to him now to follow his respons- ’ abilities.” Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that Egypt had agreed ! to work out a basis for the main- ’ tenance of the UNEF in its terri- ‘ tory. He also said he was negotiat- ■ ing -with private firms to clear the ! blocked Suez Canal in line with ! Egypt's request for U.N. help in this task. But he said there were problems preventing the actual functioning of the UNEF. This view was underscored by the reception given the Norwegian contingent when it reached Port Said by train from the UNEF base at Abu Sweir in Egyptian-held territory. Crowd Breaks Lines Chanting “Nasser . . . Nasser . . . Nasser," the angry crowd broke through police lines at the railroad station as the Norwegians arrived, (Continued on Page Five)

Grand Jury Called To Session Dec. 4 Jurors Will Make Annual Inspection The members of the grand jury for the November term of Adams circuit court have been called in for their annual session Dec. 4 at 9:30 a. m. at the court house. Notices are being sent to the 12-member panel from the office of county clerk Richard Lewton. The first session will be for the purpose of determining the agenda of the grand jury. A feature of the grand .jury sessions will be the annual inspection of county institutions, including the jail! county home and court house. The grand jury includes Clyde E. Drake, Decatur-Root; Anna Brown, Geneva; - Lester Bricker, Jefferson township; Martin Bultemeyer, Preble township; Ethel Birch, Blue Creek township; Carl Adler, Kirkland township; Glen D. Adler, French township; Leo E. Engle, French township; John A. Myers, Decatur-Root; Jesse Brewster, Hartford township; Glen A. Lautzenheiser, Monroe,, and George C. Daniels, St. Mary’s township.

To Request Bids On City Sewage Plant Contact Engineers To Request Bids The Decatur city council decided unanimously Tuesday night to contact engineers to request bids on building the city sewage disposal plant, which has been ordered built by the state and put off for 11 years. The engineer, Consoer — Townsend Assoc., have indicated that bids could not be made until the state stream pollution board has approved the project and recommended it for federal aid, John L. DeVoss, city attorney, stated. Federal aid between $158,700 and $250,000, depending -D3 federal interpretation of the law, may be given to help build the plant. The plant itself is expected to cost about $529,000, but sewer ducts leading to it from all parts of the city will make the total cost over $1,000,000. Attorney DeVoss explained to tile council that in December, 1945, the state ordered the city of Decatur to build a treatment plant. This mandate was extended to 1948, as building materials were not available. Successive city governments postoned action, DeVoss pointed out, and the present order states that construction must begin by January 1,-. 1957. ■* DeVoss told the council that $14,600 had been received by a previous administration from the federal housing and home finance agency to start engineering work. This money must be paid back to the agency, DeVoss added, according to a letter recently received from the agency. Final plans and specifications were completed in 1954, with a total engineering cost, including repayment of the loan, of $36,102. 07, the council learned. The balance due to the engineering firm is $27,374.30. It was also informed that the McMillan company has agreed to furnish ten acres of land for the treatment plant. Petitions for rural line extensions asked by Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kukelhan and Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Braun were approved. Proof of publication of appropriation of funds was read, in addition to the usual bills. All members of the council were present.

U.S. Shrugging Off Khrushchev's Blasi Seen Combination Os Vodka, Frustration WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States is shrugging off Soviet Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev's latest anti-Western tirades at Moscow receptions. " The bitter words are being credited by U.S. officials to merely a combined attack of vodka and frustration over Soviet reverses in Eastern Europe. Khrushchev gave out last weekend with one anti-Western tirade at a reception honoring Polish officials at the Kremlin and another at a reception at the Polish Embassy. U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen and other Western diplomats walked out of range as Khrushchev stormed about “intrigues of imperialists” in the Middle East and Hungary. The walkout let the Russians know how the Western diplomats felt. But the State Department doesn’t think the incident worth carrying any further. That is what World War II and the cold war have done toward toughening the hide of international diplomacy. Harsh and insulting language no longer cuts as deep as it once did. v-In years not far back the reaction would have been sharper. Old style diplomacy probably would have called for a protest, envoys would have Men ordered home for “consultation” and diplomatic relations might have been cut.

India Urges UN Secretary Visit Hungary Asserts Hungary Should Allow Visit • From Hammarskjold UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— India said today that United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarksjold should be permitted to enter Hungary immediately to report on conditions in the revolt torn country. Hammarskjold promptly told the General Assembly his offer to go at once to Budapest—rebuffed by Russia and its Hungarian puppetstill stands “firm.” Minister of State V.K. Krishna Menon hinted that India might be seeking a conciliatory role in the Hungarian crisis. He said that thej moment the Budapest regime accedes to the U.N. request to admit observers, “we would be prepared to send someone suitable for this purpose.” Two Resolutions Considered India, with Indonesia and Ceylon, is sponsoring before the assembly a resolution “urging” Hungary to admit U.N. observers. When the assembly first called for such action on Nov. 9, India voted against the resolution and Indonesia and Ceylon abstained. Also before the assembly, which hoped to vote on both measures today, was a Cuban resolution which carried strong backing from the United States*and called on Russia to halt immediately its deportation of free Hungarians into the Soviet Union. “Our position,” Kreshna Menon told the assembly, “is that the government of Hungary should (Continued on Page Five)

Plan Committees On Fund Campaign Plan Completion Os Industry Drive Ten select committees are to be named by the financial committee of the Greater Decatur fund raising group, to complete the solicitation of Decatur businesses, it was decided at a meeting of citizens held Tuesday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Approximately half of the prospects have been contacted and approximately half of the fhoney necessary to purchase the Scheiman property has been raised, pledged or promised. A check of the committee reports Tuesday night indicated that some committees had reported contacting each of their prospects and one committee, which solicited contractors, had 100 per cent success. Some of the committees had apparently not been active and had no reports. Members of the general finance committee are Fred Haugk, Clark J. Smith and Herman Krueckeberg. They expect to meet this week and select 10 new committees from among the present contributors, who will make another drive next week. Dates and details of this are to be announced later. Accident Victim Is Taken To Hospital Norbert Cable, about 30, of Bellmont Park, who was injured in a one-car accident on the Piqua road Ttiesday morning, was taken from the Adams county memorial hospital Tuesday to Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne for further treatment. Cablets condition is reported fair. He sustained severe bruises and lacerations about his entire body, mouth injuries and multiple fractures to his lower left leg. The car, which went out of control and hit a bridge abutment, was damaged extensively.

Drenching Rainfall Throughout Indiana Snow Flurries And Colder Predicted By UNITED PRESS The day before Thanksgiving dawned damp and dismal in Indiana today as a soaking rain preceded cold temperatures and snow due on the holiday. Hoosier areas from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River got perhaps their most thorough statewide drenching in about 12 weeks as rain swept the state. Snow flurries were forecast for all except the “pocket” area around Evansville this afternoon, tonight and Thursday, with the mercury due to fall into the 20s tonight and to hover just below and just above freezing while Hoosiers are feasting on turkey. The rain exceeded an inch throughout the state, and approached two inches in some spots. By 7:30 a.m. today, Fort Wayne had reported 1.79 inches in a 24hour period. Other cities which officially recorded more than an inch were Indianapolis, Lafayette, Evansville, Winchester, Anderson, Noblesville, Martinsville, Shelbyville, Seymour, Petersburg, Bluf.fton, Warsaw, Kokomo and Crawfordsville. Lowest total precipitiation for the period was South Bend’s .65 of an inch. Snow already was falling there at 6:3Q4uin. High temperatures Tuesday ranged from 53 at South Bend to 64 at Evansville. The mercury dropped to lows ranging from 34 at Lafayette to 40 at Fort Wayne and Evansville during the night and still were falling this morning. ’ Highs today were expected not to exceed the 30s. The temperature will drop to a range of 22 to 25 tonight and climb only to 30 to 38 Thursday. The five-aay outlook indicated temperatures will average 4 to 8 degrees below normal for the period Thursday through next Monday. Normal maximums are 45 to 53 and normal minimums 29 to 33 this time of year. “Colder Thursday, a little warmer Friday, colder Saturday and a little warmer again Monday,” the outlook gaid. “Precipi(Continued Five)

Santa Claus Visits Decatur Saturday Will Make Official Visit To Decatur Santa Claus will make his first official 1956 appearance in Decatur Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock in a parade headed by four local bands. He will also take Christmas orders personally from the children. High school and grade school bands from both the Decautr public and Catholic schools will participate in the parade under the direction of Clint Reed, band instructor. Following the parade, Santa Claus will be stationed at the court house, where he will visit with the children and hand out Christmas candy. The Boy Scouts are planning to help in conducting the crowd past Santa Claus. The official Christmas opening of the Decatur merchants will begin Friday. Decoration of the streets with the usual Christmas lights and the installation of the giant Christmas tree on the court house lawn will be completed before then. Stores will begin staying open on Thursday afternoons in December and will be open each evening through the Christmas season after Monday, December 10. The merchants have agreed to close their stores at 5:30 o’clock on Christmas eve. Jack Gordon is chairman of the Christmas committee of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Other members are Mart Sprunger, Kenneth Shannon, Frank Lybarger and. Bob

Egypt Agrees To Maintain U.N. Forces Asks UN Approve Secret Talks With Leaders Os Egypt UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold reported today that Egypt has agreed to work out a basis for the maintenance of the United Nations Emergency Force In its territory. He reported also that he was negotiating with private firms to clear the blocked Suez Canal in conformity with Egypt’s request for U.N. assistance in the task. His dual reports, circulated to the General Assembly, left unanswered the questions of how long the U.N. police force would remain in Egypt and how soon the British. French and Israeli forces would withdraw, from Egyptian territory. Asks Assembly Approval He asked the General Assembly for immediate approval of his secret talks with the Egyptian government in Cairo and the 79 nation world parliament was expected to act Thursday in a Thanksgiving Day session. Hammarskjold’s report referred to the assembly’s resolution of Nov. 7—two full weeks agowhich demanded the immediate withdrawal of British, French and Israeli forces which had fought their way into Egypt. U.N. sources refused "either to confirm or deny” reports from other authoritative sources that Hammarskjold put four pointed questions to the three powers Tuesday. They were?, . 1. To what extent has any Withdrawal from Egypt taken place? 2. What are the plans for withdrawal? 3. Why has there been no- progress—or such little progress—in complying with the assembly’s tions? 4. What is the opinion of the three governments of the state of compliance with the cease fire? Calls for "Clarifications” The "initial activities” of UNEF, Hammarskjold reported to the assembly, “are determined by the fact that, as yet, no withdrawals have taken place in compliance with the resolutions of the General Assembly tit Nov. 2 and 7, 1956.” “I shall report to the General Assembly on this matter as soon as I receive clarifications from the governments concerned,” he said. He gave the assembly copies of an agreement between him and the government of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in which both pledged good faith in sending and receiving the U.N. police force. The agreement said it was the intention of Egypt and Hammarskjold “to proceed forthwith...to explore jointly concrete aspects of the functioning of UNEF, including its stationing and the questions of its lines of communication and supply.” Promises Another Report Hammarskjold’s report emphasized that the General Assembly itself, in its resolutions setting up UNEF, had stipulated that the force could operate in Egypt only with the consent of the Egyptian government. He promised another report to the assembly on the organization, functioning and. supply of UNEF “as soon as the initial stage Is passed” in the operation. This appeared to indicate that UNEF would remain in Egypt for a considerable period. —— r

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