Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 276.

HER FIRST THANKSGIVING OsW ..*? - ' ffiL ■ r ■ ... £ . LIKE THE ORIGINAL Thanksgiving when Pilgrims gave thanks for the sanctuary of American shores, nine-year-old Uda Kaminer, a Hungarian refugee now safe at Camp Kilmer, N. J., eyes a huge turkey and offers a mute prayer of gratitude. Explaining the historic meaning of the American observance is Sgt. James Kovac, an interpreter who greeted the first contingent of refugees to

Refugees From ■ Hungary Pour Info Slates Refugees Stream Through Army Camp Enroute To Homes CAMP KILMER, N.J. (UP)Refugees from Hungary streamed through this gateway to freedom today at a quickening pace that was expected to bring some 500 to America by the weekend,,. Swift processing at this cortmted Army camp sent most of Wednesday’s first planeload on their way to new homes before the second and third groups totaling 148 men, women and children arrived today. Only 18 of the first 60 remained at Kilmer, dubbed “Camp Mercy,’’ Thursday night. With 16 other refugees from Communist terror they ate their first Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, complete with turkey and all the trimmings. Two planeloads of Hungarians were scheduled to reach nearby McGuire Air Force Base this morning. First One Arrives The first, bringing 35 men, 25 women, 11 children and four infants, landed at 3 a.m. Some of the tired travelers .faced another 2,500-mile trip to the Pacific Coast on top of their 4,500 mile journey from Hungary. Others had less than 45 miles more to go. Ferencz Szuecs, 20, and Steven Kapocsi, 27, both found new homes at New Brunswick, N.J., scarcely an hour's bus ride from Camp Kilmer; Refugees who had never heard of Thanksgiving bowed their heads and gave thanks for their escape to freedom before eating traditional Army-style turkey dinners Thursday. • The meal was completed from tomato juice cocktail to candy l and nuts. It began with a blessing by the Rev. Imre Gabos, former pastor of a Budapest Baptist church, who fled with his wife and two of his three children. Given “Historical” Menus Mimeographed menus written in Hungarian were given to each of the 34 refugees seated in a former Army messhall. In them the Hungarians read, most of them for the first time, an explanation of the American holiday. A New Brunswick Hungarian language newspaper sent copies of an issue describing the celebration that has been observed since 1620. “We thank our friends for the blessings that are here bestowed upon us, and for everything that tConlinuoU on note Injuries Fatal To Clinton Pedestrian CLINTON, Ind. (W — Stephen Gemeiner, 79, Clinton, died Wednesday of injuries sustained Monday when struck by an automobile near his home, r • Distraught Mother Slays Son, Self VAN NUYS, Calif. (IP) — A distraught mother fatally wounded her 10-year-old son and killed herself Thursday shortly after rising to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, police reported. Officers said Mrs. Julia Pope Mclrvine, 33, shot her son, David, with a .22 caliber difle and committed suicide the weapon.

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Christmas Season Opens In Decatur Santa Claus Visits Decatur Saturday Santa Claus will make his first official visit of the 1956 Christmas season to Decatur Saturday afternoon, as the Decatur merchants mark the formal opening of the holiday shopping season. Santa will appear personally in n parade through the busmess district at 1 o’clock, with the line of march led by the high school and grade school bands of the Decatur public and parochial schools Under the direction of Clint Reed. Following the parade, Santa will be stationed at the court house, where he will visit with the children and hand out Chirstmas treats. Decatur Boy Scouts will assist Santa Claus. Official opening of the Christmas season in Decatur was marked this morning by retail merchants. Decatur stores are well stocked with the latest in holiday merchandise. the business district is lighted and decorated, and the traditional Christmas tree has been placed on the court house lawn. Local stores will continue their usual shopping hours until Monday, Dec. 10, on which date stores will be open each evening until 9 o'clock until Monday, Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, when they will close at 5:30 p. m. Woman, Daughter Die In Auto Crash JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. <IP> — Mrs. Inez Lee Dokey, 39, Kalamazoo, Mich., and her daughter, Katherine Lee, 12, were killed today when their automobile skidded on snow in front of a big truck one mile north of Henryville on U. S. 31. Mrs. Dokey’s husband, Leo, was following in another auto and watched as his wife's car skidded on the icy pavement into the path of the truck after two wheels slipped off the pavement. Otice C. Cox Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Otice C. Cox, 67, a resident of this vicinity for many years, died at 6:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Bellmont Park. He had been suffering from arthritis for 20 years and his condition had been critical for the past four weeks. He was born in Rockport, Hl., Aug. 22, 1889, a son of John and Elvina King-Cox, and was married to Locia Garner March 15, 1913. g Mr. Cox was a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge and was a retired drag line worker. Surviving in addition to his wife are a brother, Roy Cox of Greenville, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Ruby McDaniel of St. Louis, Mo. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. PdGl D. Parker officiating. Burial will be in the - Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services.

Eisenhower To Ask Injunction On Dock Strike Court Move Readied To Seek Injunction On Crippling Strike WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower prepared today to a Taft-Hartley injunction to halt the crippling Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike. The President interrupted Thanksgiving to invoke the national emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act and set up a fact-finding board to investigate the eight-day old tieup. Board Chairman Thomas W: Holland said he hoped to have a report at the White House by late this afternoon, clearing the way for the government to seek a strike-halting injunction. Court Move Readied Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. was ready to seek the injunction in Federal Court in New York upon receipt of orders from the White House. The injunction would halt the strike for 80 days while the International Longshoremen’s Union and the shipowners try to settle the dispute. ILA counsel Louis Waldman said in New York that the union would comply with any action taken by the government under the TaftHartley Act. Invocation of Taft-Hartley machinery also appeared to have made doubtful that Harry Bridges’ West Coast longshoremen would Join the walkout. The West Coast union scheduled a meeting with Pacific Coast shipowners today at San Francisco in renewed wage negotiations. President Attends Church The President signed the order setting up the fact-finding board shortly before attending Thanksgiving church services. Then he ate Thanksgiving Day dinner at the home of his son, Maj. John Eisenhower, at nearby Ft. Belvoir, Va. Mr. Eisenhower said continuation of the strike would imperil the national health and safety. The walkout has idled 60,000 dockworkers from Portland, Me., to Brownsville, Tex., and tied up 265 ocean-going ships. It is costing an estimated S2O million a day. Holiday Death Toll Is 175 In Nation 139 Persons Killed In Traffic Wrecks CHICAGO OP) — A holiday death toll in excess of National Safety Council predictions grimly closed Thanksgiving Day festivities. The council had hoped the death toll between 6 p.m. Wednesday and midnight Thursday would fall below the 110 traffic deaths for a non-holiday Thursday at this time of year. z l The United Press count for that period showed at least 139 persons were killed intraffic accidents. Thirteen died in fires, two in a plane crash and 21 from miscellaneous causes for an over-all holiday death toll of 175. Michigan and Pennsylvania led the highway slaughter, with 13 traffic deaths each. Illinois reported 11 auto deaths, New York 10, Ohio 9, California 8, and Georgia 7. • The worst single accident occurred on U. S. 36 west of Springfield, 111., where five members of one family died in a head-on collision. ; --r" — Icy and snow-packed highways in some sections of the nation had been expected by safety experts to curb the fatally toll by forcing motorists to exercise extreme caution. But numerous minor skidding accidents were reported in these areas. At Waukesha, Wis., a 17-car pileup resulted when several autos skided out of control and blocked the road. No ine was injured. Thanksgiving was white for much of the northern tier of states from the Rockies to the Appalachians. Snowfall ranged from a few inches to as much as 24 inches at Erie, Pa. Meanwhile a cold snap — replenish by fresh, nippy air out of Canada — knifed across the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Footed traditional Turkey Day gridball fans shivered as they attendiron contests. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with snow south portion early this afternoon and occasional snow flurries extreme north portion this afternoon and evening. Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cold. Low tonight 5-15 above- High Saturday in the 20s. Sunset 5:25 p.m., sunrise Saturday 7:39 a.m. •

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 23,1956

United States Backs Afro-Asian Bloc On Withdrawing Troops

To Withdraw Battalion Os ♦ British Troops Allied Commander Announces Action On Force In Egypt By DANIEL F. GILMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP)—The allied commander in Egypt announced today he would withdraw one battalion of British troops “almost immediately,” but Egypt hinted It considered Britain and France finished as major powers in the Middle East. The Egyptian government newspaper Al Gomhouriya said in Cairo it would guarantee freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal to all nations except Britain and France. However, it did not threaten to bar them from the water-, way. “Anglo-French aggression has put an end to the Suez Canal prob- 1 lem as far as' the two nations are concerned,” it said, “but Egypt, is prepared to give all guarantees; to the rest of the world regarding freedom and navigation” of the Canal. One Battalion To Go J “Egypt from today will nevut recognize Britain and France as two major powers#” the paper said. Gen. Sir Charles Keightley, former British commander in the Suez Canal Zone and now commander -in - chief of the AngloFrench invasion force, flew to Port Said from his headquarters on Cyprus and announced the withdrawal of the British battalion. He said one battalion would be withdrawn “almost immediately” in keeping with the pledge made to the United Nations by British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. He promised to withdraw other forces 1 “as fast as U.N. troops arrive.” Egypt already has rejected AngloFrench plans for a gradual withdrawal, and said if they did not get out at once they faced the possibility of provoking a third world war. Egypt was backed by an Afro-Asian resolution in the United Nations calling for immediate withdrawal „ Fear Nasser Move Britain and France were reported balking at “mass” withdrawal of their troops now for fear that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser would win uncontested con(Contlnued vu P*z-> «lvo) Arveda Schwartz Dies Early Today Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Arveda Schwartz, 57, widow of the late C. W. R. Schwartz and a resident of northeast of Berne, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 6 a.m. today after a long illness. A native of Jefferson township, she was bom March 19, 1899, to Daniel J. and Emma Booker Rumple. She was married first to Virgil Wagner, who died in 1934. In 1935 she was married to C. W. R. Schwartz, who died in 1951, She was ,a member of the Monroe Methodist church. Survivors include the mother; four sons, Gerald Wagner of Angola, Larry R. Schwartz of Arizona, Ernest Schwartz of Berne 1 and Harold Schwartz of Monroe route one; eight daughters, Mrs. Colleen AHmandingeb lot Glenmore, 0., Mrs. Rosalyn Kuhn of Berne route one, Mrs. Ruth Brown of San Antonio, Tex., Mrs. Mary Bahner of Monroe, Mrs. Vera Lehman of Decatur, Mrs. Anna Jane Gilliom of Berne and Mrs. Gertrude Kropa of Speedway; and 22 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Monroe Methodist church, with the Rev. Willis Giehart officiating. Burial wiU be 4a the Riverside cemetery at Geneva. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home to Berne after 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

— Two Ohio Residents Killed This Morning Van Wert Mortician Electrocuted Today Two Ohio residents are dead as /he xesult of an accident which blurred shortly after midnight (WTs morning on U. S. highway 224 about two miles west of Van Wert. O. The dead are Sharon Thomas, 10, of Cleveland, 0., passenger in the only car involved, and David Alspach, 25-year-old Van Wert mortician, who drove an ambulance to the scene. Alspach died of electrocution when he stepped bn a high tension power line which was knocked to the ground when a car driven by Edward Thomas, 43, of Cleveland, slammed into a utility pole. Sharon died of a skull fracture at the Van Wert hospital about two hours after the accident. Her father, the driver of the car, sustained head lacerations and a minor electrical shock, and is a patient at the hospital. Also at tne hospital are Thomas’ wife, Thelma, 39, who suffered head injuries, and two other children of the couple, both in critical condition. Connie Thomas, 15, sustained severe shock and possible internal injuries, and Joseph, four-month-old son of the Cleve(and couple, teceived a skull fracture. Thomas was headed east on a gradual curve when his car dropped off onto the berm and went out of control. It hit a utility pole, knocking it down and dragging down the power lines. The Van Wert man, with his brother, John, who is home on vacation from the Cincinnati school of embalming, brought an ambulance to the scene. They were warned of the “hot” wires but David apparently did not hear the warning. He stepped on the wires and was killed by high voltage. The electrocuted man was a graduate of the Cincinnati school of embalming and of Van Wert (Ooncinuwo or •**«• £lxat) Menial Health Gift Aides Are Announced Name Chairmen For Berne And Geneva Mrs. Lewis L. Smith, co-chair-man with Mrs. Lowell Harper, of the 1956 drive for Christmas gifts sponsored by the Indiana association for mental health in Adams county, announced the names of chairmen ii« Geneva and Berne today. Herman Bixler will handle arrangements for the gift collection in Geneva and his insurance office will be the gift depot for that community. In Berne, Brice Bauserman will be in charge and the depot will be the First Bank of Berne. Others assisting in the collection in various townships and communities were announced previously. The goal of the drive is to collect 700 gifts which will be presented to patients in mental hospitals of the state. All organizations of the county are being asked to cooperate by 1 requesting the gifts from theft members. Depots in Decatur are Wylie Furniture store and the office of the Northern Indiana Public Service company. The gift deadline is De.c. 8, Mrs. Smith has pointed out that any person who desires to' contribute money instead of a gift may do so by mailing their donations to her at Post Office Box 30, Decatur. Literature describing suitable gifts and giving instruction on how they are to be wrapped and tagged has been distributed through the Adams county chapter of the mental health association to most of tire clubs in the county. Any club not contacted which wishes to participate in the project, may inquire tot- information from Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Harper or any of the community and township diairmen.

Charges Nagy, Other Leaders Have Vanished Yugoslavia Charges j, Deposed Leader, 42 Others Are Missing i VIENNA (IP) — Yugoslavia [ charged today that deposed Pfe- : mier Imre Nagy and 42 other Hungarians vanished after they left asylum in its Budapest embassy with a safe conduct guarantee from the Hungarian regime. The Hungarians had not reached their homes today despite an agreement between Belgrade and the Moscow-backed Hungarian government that they would not be arrested, a Yugoslavia spokesman said. Foreign Undersecretary Dobrivoje Vidic warned the Hungarian charge d’affaires in Belgrade that any interference with the missing Hungarians would be regarded as a grave violation of International law. Nagy, who became premier one month ago today, and several members of his short-lived antiRussian government fled to asylum in the Yugoslav embassy on ’ Nov. 4 when Russian troops in- . vaded Budapest. Yugoslavia negotiated a ’ safecoqduct for them Wednesday with 1 the puppet successor government ’ of Soviet-sponsored Premier Janos ; Kadar. Group Seen Thursday The 43 Hungarians — who in- , eluded former Ministers of State ’ Geza Losonsi and Ferenc Donat, as well as 15 women and 17 chiL ’ dren — were last seen Thursday when they boarded a bus provided by Kadar’s minister of public se- ; curity, Ferenc Muennlch. The bus was to deliver them to their homes, but Yugoslav protests delivered today in Belgrade and Budapest said they never got there. The bitter protest coincided with a new attack on Tito by the Soviet communist newspaper Pravda. It accused him of trying to supplant Russia as leader of the Communist world. Woman is Fatally Burned In Home LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UP) — Authorities said today Mrs. Dorotha W. Mansfield’s death of burns in her home Wednesday was accidental. Mrs. Mansfield, 43, wtys found dead when her 8-year-old son came home from school for lunch. A coroner’s report said it appeared she dozed while smoking a cigarette. Jay Minger Dies Al Bluffton Thursday Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Jay Minger, <56, a native of Adams county, died at noon Thursday at his home in Bluffton. He drove a milk truck in the rural areas around Bluffton until retiring some time ago. Mr. Minger was a member of the Apostolic Christian church near Vera Cruz. Surviving are the widow, Edith; one "daughter, Mrs. Walter Claghorn, Jr., of Elwood; three grandchildren; two brothers, Aaron Minger of Craigville, and John Minger of Sabetha, Kan., and five sisters, Mrs. Gottlieb Runner, Mrs. David Strahm, both of Sabetha, Mrs. Jesse Wilcoxson, Mrs. William Strahm, both of Craigville, and Mrs. Robert Rose of Dayton, O. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Sunday at the Jahn r Goodwin and Reed funeral home in Bluffton and at 1:30 p. m at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Samufl Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be In the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. this evening until time of the services." i

Speaks Monday wK. H J ; ■- Jjjjj E. C. Schroeder Police Examiner To Speak Here Monday Decatur And Berne Lions To Meet Here First Detective Sgt. Edwin C. Schroeder, examiner of questioned documents for the Indiana state 1 police, will be principal speaker at a joint meeting of the Decatur and Berne Lions clubs Monday. ’ The meeting win be held at the . Decatur Youth and Community ’ Center at 6:30 p.m. Arrangements tor his appearance in Decatur were made by Sheriff Merle Affolder. The guest speaker , is a noted handwriting expert and is a 21-year veteran of the state police. He has appeared as a witness in court and as a lecturer beI fore law enforcement groups in . -many parts of the country. He established the first fraudu- , lent check fife in Indiana in 1940. The file currently contains the handiwork of more than 2,800 bogus check artists, who annually victimize hundreds of Hoosiers of thousands of dollars. Records show, however, that forgery is not as profitable as it was before the state policeman began his collection of forgers’ specimens. The state police department and other enforcement agencies .and officials contribute to and make use of the information. These include city and county police in Indiana and other states. A former document examiner for the U. S. treasury department, Sgt. (Coatlaued oa Pave Hickt) Eden Is Flying To Jamaica For Rest Conservative Party Faces Tough Crisis LONDON (UP) — Ailing Prime Minister Anthony Eden files today to Jamaica for a long rest, leaving the fate of the divided Conservative Party and perhaps his own political future in the hands of his deputy, R. A. Butler. A crisis within the party, shaken by lack of a concrete policy in the Middle East was postponed at least until the return of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd from his mission to the United Nations. Only assurances there will be no sellout in Suez kept the crisis from growing into a full-scale revolt within the party. Butler, appointed by Eden to lead the government during his illness, worked feverishly Thursday night to keep 50 rightwing rebels from revolting. Butler, majority leader in the House of Commons, said, “We are not prepared to withdraw from Suez until we consider the U.N. policy force is competent to discharge the task which the General Assembly has given it to do.” He was joined by -Chancellor of the Excehquer Harold Mgc Millan in urging the rebels to refrain from any drastic measures until they have received a full report from Lloyd. But there was no Immediate indication as to when Lloyd was expected to return from New York. He was scheduled to speak in the General Assembly today.

Bloc Demands Withdrawal Os Foreign Troops U.S. Supports Bloc Despite Opposition Os Britain, France UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (W — The United States, over British and French opposition, today sup* ported a demand by 21 nations of the Afro-Asian bloc calling for all foreign forces to get out of Egypt at once. With British and French leaders expressing reluctance to quit the Suez Canal Zone until the United Nations emergency force has completely taken over, the Assembly headed into a new word storm with the possibility of a lengthy debate delaying a vote until Sat* urday. At the same time, an odd'poliiical pairing, in view of recent debates here, brought the United States and India together as co-' sponsors of a resolution empowering Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to press his negotiations for full employment of the U. N. emergency force in the Middle East and to proceed with the work of clearing the Suez Canal. The United States will vote for the Afro-Asian "get out now” resolution directed against the Anglo-French and Israeli forces, but will not appear as a sponsor. Britain and France were sure to oppose the measure. Britain's acting prime minister R. A. Butler opposed withdrawal of any forces l itil the U. N. police force had taken ovej completely in the battle area. ... Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd, informed British quarters said, was prepared to hold out against withdrawal until full freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal for all countries had been guaranteed, as was specified in the assembly's original cease-fire and withdrawal resolution. The United States was not retreating in its insistence that its western allies quit Egypt immediately. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. consulted with President Eisenhower in Washington, but their talk brought no new de* velopment in American policy. Rather, it confirmed the stand taken by the United States here since the outbreak of hostilities in Egypt. Hammarskjold, in two reports to the assembly, requested broad powers for these purposes and disclosed that he was negotiating with Danish and Dutch firms for the salvage operation. Overwhelming votes on both resolutions were expected. But whether the vote could be taken at today's meeting appeared to depend largely on the outcome of other issues. Some sources feared the entire question of the United Nations participation in the Middle East would become bogged down in a debate on an Afro-Asian resolution calling for the withdrawal of British, French and Israeli forces "forthwith” from Egypt. The U. N. Mideast debate thus far has been fairly peaceful, but observers feared recriminations form all sides once the Afro-Asian group formally introduces Its resolution in behalf of Egypt. Hammarskjold's report to the general assembly Wednesday said the presence of British, French and Israeli troops in Egypt prevented the emergency "police’* force from fully taking over the tasks assigned to ,jt by the assembly.

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