Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1956 — Page 1

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SYRIA FETES RUSSIAN HEADMEN ■ W” V : • ■’iw k< Siu* J 0 i jwL ' ; 'S « Lr SX seS Mfe <; PICTURED HERE is the November 2nd reception at the Syrian Embassy in Moscow, held in honor of Syrian President Shukri Kuwatly, then on a state visit to Russia. In the photo (from left) are the three men since reported as having virtually taken over control of Syria—President Voroshilov of the Soviet Union; Premier Bulganin and (right) V. M. Molotov. At Molotov’s right is President Kuwatly.

Report Syria Masses Troops Along Border ! Sources In Turkey Report Massing On Lebanon Border LONDON (UP) — Semi-official Turkish sources said / today in Ankara that Syria was massing troops on the border of Lebanon in another threat to peace in the troubled Middle East. The sources said Syria, backed by a flow of arms and ammunition from the Soviet Union, hoped to force its tiny neighbor into the Communist orbit. - 5 - In Beirut, the Lebanese parliament urged veteran U.N. diplomat Dr. Charles Malek to rtlSh to New York and do his best to salvage the peace in the Mideast and prevent the area fom becoming another Korea. Concerned With Buildup Turkey and Israel were both increasingly concerned with the reported buildup of Syrian armed strength. Israeli sources reported Turkey has itself moved 35,000 troops to the Syrian frontier, including an infantry brigade and an armored battalion. An Israeli army spokesman announced Tuesday night Syrian troops opened automatic fire at noon Tuesday on a public works engineer near Lake Huleh, the first border incident in weeks.. Iraq, a partner in the Baghdad Pact with Turkey, already has warned Syria it will take any action necessary to protect itself against threats to its independdence. Canal Zone Quiet The situation in the Suez Canal Zone was relatively quiet, but charges by Britain, France and Israel that Egypt was planning the wholesale exile of thousands of their nationals increased the tension. Maj. Gen. E. L.M. Burns, head of the UN. Emergency Force (UNEF), set up his first operational headquarters on the banks of the Suez Canal today. British planes flew over Port Said and dropped thousands of leaflets urging the Egyptian populace to return to work and telling them that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser “let you down.’’ Reluctant to Leave Britain and France were reported even more reluctant to pull all of their troops from the Suez Canal Zone and leave to Egypt the task of cleaning out the canal, blocked by more than 40 ships sunk by the Egyptians. Egyptian Municipal Minister Abdel Latif Boghdadi told the United Press his experts expected to clear the canal in less than four months, but he said Egypt would not even permit salvage work to start until the Anglo - French expeditionary force withdraws. Egypt wants to do the job .with U.N. assistance. But the U.N. General Assembly has put Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in charge of seeing that the canal is reopened. Head-on Collision Takes Third Life GOSHEN, Ind. (IB Howard Miller, 19, Gosen, died in General Hospital Tuesday night, the third fatality of a two-car, headon collision last Saturday. Miller was driver of a car which smashed into one operated by Elmo Niccum, 55, Goshen. Both Niccum, prominent Goshen businessman, and Benjamin Chupp, 19, Goshen, Miller’s passenger, were killed outright.

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Pennsylvania State Shows Champ Steer Double Victory In , Fat Cattle Show CHICAGO (UP)—Attention at the International Livestock Exposition switched from cattle to swine today. ... Judges prepared to name the grand champion barrow. Also to be selected were swine breed champions, champions by weights and the grand champion pen of barrows. Pennsylvania State University scored a double victory in the fat cattle division Tuesday when “P.S. Tj-oubador H” won the grand championship and “P.S. Eileen Mere,” a junior Aberdeen Angus yearling, was picked as the reserve champion. The double victory marked the fourth time in the 57-year history of the exposition that both the grand champion and reserve champion were shown by the same exhibitor. Previous double winners also were from college herds—twice from lowa State College and once from the University of California. Troubador also was the first shorthorn to take the cattle crown since 1952. Herman Purdy, who showed this year’s champ, also exhibited the previous shorthorn champ at the International Amphitheatre. • Purdy in 1952 raised Ohio’s Leader 11, the grand champion owned by Ohio State University, before he shifted to Penn State. Troubador will have a short reign. Thursday he and the carlot champions will be sold at auction in the Chicago stockyards. Also chosen Tuesday was the grand champion Hereford bull, “Portage Mixer 55,” a 1,650-pound junior yearling owned by Portage Farms of Woodville, Ohio. The corn crowns at the 34th Hay and Grain show, held in conjunction with the exposition, were almost swept by Hoosiers. Walter J. Hartel, 54, Crawfordsville, Ind., won the title of corn king. He previously was chosen corn king in 1947. His winning entry was a sample of Indiana certified 844 D corn. Reserve king was Frank W. Lux, 45, Shelbyville, Ind. (Continued o.i PatJ Five) -/ . ‘ ’ Valparaiso Building Destroyed By Fire VALPARAISO, Ind HP) — Fire swept a three-story brick auditorium building on the Valparaiso fire shortly after midnight and a few hours later only the brick shell remained standing despite efforts of firemen to save the building. Loss was estimated at $500,000. Equipment Shortage Hampers Toll Road SOUTH BEND (IP) — The Indiana toll road is suffering from a shortage of equipment to deal with snow storms, maintenance Supt. George Lutz said today. Lutz said much of the superhighway’s snow equipment had not been delivered and “there have been the usual bugs in some of the equipment.” Brazil Man Killed In Auto Accident BRAZIL, Ind. HP) — Herbert Doan, 34, Brazil, was killed early today when an automobile in which he was a passenger went out of control on Ind. 340 one mile west of here. Anna Katherine Wenning, 32, RR. 4, Brazil, was driving the automobile when it glanced off a guard rail, swerved across the highway and hit a tree.

U.s. Concerned Over Pro-Red Acts By Syria Voices Displeasure On Pro-Red Acts Os Syrian Government By WILLIAM GALBRAITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States has expressed its displeasure over a number of proRussian moves taken by the Syrian government, officials said today. The most recent complaint was registered during the Hungarian revolt when Syria censored all mention of the dramatic uprising from the U.S. information bulletin distributed in Syria. American diplomats in Damascus told the Syrian government such action was uncalled for. Although it has been unable to do anything more than complain orally, the United States has become increasingly concerned about such pro-Soviet moves as these made by Syria: Buying Russian arms, recognizing Red China, relying almost entirely on the Russian news agency Tass for outside news and the censoring of the U.S. information bulletin. Fear Arms Shipments Defense officials fear that Soviet shipment of arms into Syria may be just the beginning of a big flood of weapons into the Middle East Nation. There is special concern in official quarters because the flow is reportedly increasing even though the United Nations General Assembly has urged its members not to ship arms to the Middle East. However, the State Department is gingerly avoiding charging Russia with violating the U.N. resolution. Spokesman Lincoln White Tuesday said only that “the Syrians are getting small arms, trucks and things of that nature fi-om the Soviet Union and have been for some time.” Officials explained that the United States might be leaving itself open to a propaganda attack from the Soviet Union if it were to accuse the Soviets of Violating the U.N. resolution. That is because the resolution refers specifically to barring military shipments to the “area of hostilities,” which technically does not include Syria. Iraq Fears Attack If the United States tried to make a case against Russian arms shipments to Syria, the Soviets could quickly come back with a countercharge that the United States is supplying arms to Turkey, Iraq arid Iran. Authorities said this is one of the complicating factors in U.S. consideration of Iraq's latest appeal for weapons from the United States. Iraq fears that Syria will attack it. Officials are not sure whether Russia's strategy in pumping arms into Syria is designed to buUd Syria into a Soviet base in the Middle East. The United States tends to feel Syria, with a mere 60,000-man army, is not a very solid base for the Soviets. Bunker Is Appointed Ambassador To India AUGUSTA, Ga. HP) — President Eisenhower today named Ellsworth Bunker, retiring president of the American Red Cross, as the new ambassador to India. Bunker was given a recess appointment, subject to later Senate confirmation, to succeed John Sherman Cooper, Republican recently elected to the Senate from Kentucky.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday November 28, 1956

Record State Budget Os 783 Million Dollars Is Unveiled By Committee

Hungary Makes Amnesty Offer To Refugees Offer Amnesty To 92,000 Refugees On Early Return VIENNA (UP) — Hungary’s puppet government offered an amnesty today to the 92,000 Hungarian refugees from Communist terror if they return to their homeland by the end of this year. The offer was broadcast over Budapest Radio to a nation still crippled by a bitter general strike. The 4,housands of refugees crammed into emergency camps in Austria received the offer cynically, with no thought of accepting it. Radio Budapest, citing the government organ Nep Szabadsag, said the amnesty law had been approved by the government df Soviet - sponsored Premier Janos Kadar. It said the text of the decree would be published “shortly.” Kadar obviously hoped to play on the traditional homesickness of Hungarians who have left the land of the Magyars. Most of the refugees in Austria were anxious pot to move too far away in hopes they could return if conditions change in Hungary. Refugee Surge Continues But the surge of refugees into Austria continued. In the past 24 hours, another 4,800 crossed the Austro-Hungarian frontier. At the same time. Radio Budapest kept broadcasting reports of the alleged return to work of striking miners and factory workers who have kept thp country tied up economically for weeks. The radio said 90 per cent of the workers had returned to the iron mines at Rudabanya, but due to lack of power the miners were producing only one-tenth of the normal 1,200 tons a day. The radio also claimed that 92,491 miners went back to work in the Tatabanya coal mines west of Budapest. Coal was the major need of the nation’s crippled industry. Without it, the factories remained idle (Continued on **a«« Five) Eisenhower Names New Education Head Tennessee School Man Is Appointed AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)—President Eisenhower at his vacation headquarters here announced today the appointment of a new federal commissioner of education. Dr. Lawrence Gridley Derthick of Chattanooga, Tenn. Derthick received a recess appointment subject to later confirmation by the Senate. ’> Mr. Eisenhower also selected a new administrative assistant, Jack Z. Anderson, a former Republican member of the House from California. Anderson is being added to the White House staff to aid the President on farm problems. Mr. Eisenhower planned to be in his temporary office on the edge of the Augusta National Golf Course early today to receive late reports from Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. on the tightening situation in the Middle East. Hoover was expected to report to the President by telephone from Washington. Derthick was picked to succeed Dr. Samuel M. Brownell, brother of the attorney general. Samuel Brownell resigned Sept. 1 to become public schools superintendent at Detroit, Mich. Derthick is now superintendent of public schools in Chattanooga. He is a native of Hazel Green, Ky., aad has served for a number of years in Nashville, Tenn., and Chattanooga school systems. The appointment of a Southerner as federal education commissioner was certain to arouse a degree of adverse comment among Eastern members of Congress because of the continuing fight in the South over school segregation.

Nationwide Phone Strike Threatened Walkout Slated At Midnight Tonight •’ NEW YORK (UP)—Negotiators for long distance telephone operators and maintenance workers go Into a final round of talks with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. today. A union membership vote authorized a nationwide strike at midnight if no agreement is reached. A company spokesman said “some progress” had been made Tuesday night in talks with the Communications Workers of America. But Elaine T. Gleason, chief negotiator and president of CWA, said there was no progress. Bargaining talks, which began Nov. 5, resume this morning. The contract between the AT&T and CWA expires at midnight. ‘ Union locals in the 48 states, representing 25,000 workers, voted 3 to 1 Tuesday night to give the CWA negotiators power to call a strike any time after midnight, a union spkesman said. The issues include wages, working conditions and administrative procedures. Details of union de-' mands have not been disclosed. Present wages vary from section to section, a company spokesman said. Beginners’ wages for operators range from S4O to $48.50 a week and the maximum is s6l to $67.50, he said. He said starting pay for maintenance craftsmen varies from $42 to $52 a week, with a top scale of SB7 to sll4. The company spokesman said AT&T made a “goal” wage offer a week ago, and increased it Tuesday. He said he believed the two sides were “not too far apart” on the,wage issue. If the union calls a strike, supervisory personnel will man the long distance switchboards, and equipment working, a company spokesman said. Seek Reduction In Auto, Truck Taxes /Manufacturers In Reduction Appeal WASHINGTON (UP) — Auto manufacturers pleaded today for tax relief for persons buying new automobiles and trucks. Cars and trucks are among the few products still subject to taxation at the record high Korean War level. The manufacturers complained to a House Ways and Means subcommittee that the automotive tax is “discriminatory.” They noted that the heavy taxes imposed during the Korean War on mink coats, jewelry, cosmetics and other items have since been scaled down. The views of the Automobile Manufacturers’ Assn, were outlined by Robert E. Bryar, Studebaker - Packard Corp, official in testimony prepared for the subcommittee, which is studying proposals for revamping excise taxes. Excise taxes are levies imposed on the manufacture, sale or consumption of products in this country. Regardless of from whom they are collected, they generally are passed on to consumers. Bryar said that on new automobiles retailing for about $2,000, more than SSOO of the purchase price consists of tax. He said $146 of that is federal excise tax. He said this tax falls heavily on farmers, low-income families and the 5,600,000 persons living in cities and towns which have no street cars or buses. He proposed that the excise taxnow fixed at 10 per cent of the manufacturer’s sale price—be lowered to 3% per cent on automobiles and 5 per cent on trucks and buses. He also urged that the tax on automotive replacement parts be cut to 2% per cent from the present 8 per cent. >■- There appeared to be almost no chance that Congress would do this. INDIANA WEATHER Continued cold with scattered snow flurries tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 18-25. High Thursday around 30.

Two Railroad Workers Dead In Explosion Locomotive's Fuel Tank Explodes In Northern Indiana MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. HP) — Two railroad workers were killed and seven injured today when a diesel locomotive fuel tank exploded as they tried to remove the charred bodies of three men killed in a fiery fail crossing collision 15 hours earlier. The second explosion occurred as railroad wrecking crews used welding torches to cut apart the twisted metal of twin diesels and a gasoline transport truck which crashed and burned late yesterday. It hiked the death toll in the accident to five. The second blast killed George Marquardt, 56, LaCrosse, Ind., and Otto Herman Keehn, 48, Wanatah, Ind. The injured were rushed in ambulances to Doctors Hospital at Michigan City. Tank Hurled 40 Feet Authorities said a fuel tank on one of the wrecked locomotives blew up while rail employes swarmed over the fire-blackened debris, trying to clear the blocked rails and salvage the bodies of the earlier dead. The tank, described as a container about two by 10 feet in diameter, was hurled 40 feet into the side of a derailed boxcar by the force of the explosion. The injured were identified as Howard Hileman, 50, Michigan City, very critical; Richard Acton, 22, New Buffalo, Mich., serious; Herschel Bell, 37, Carl Korlock, 51, and Emory Craft, 37, all of LaPorte, Ind.; . Carl Boniface, 49, Hartford, Mich., and Floyd Hyska, 40, Michigan City. Boniface and Hyska were in St. Anthony’s hospital, the others in Doctors hospital. Acton said all the dead and injured were standing some distance from the locomotive while two other workmen cut at the metal with acetylene torches. The workmen who were wielding the torches were uninjured, he said. •• Chunks of the exploding fuel tank and parts of the damaged locomotive were hurled into a group of workmen prying away wreckage nearby, inflicting all of the casualties. The gasoline truck rammed in-, to the 65-car train Tuesday after(Contlnu»d On Pare Five) Work Stoppage At General Electric Employes Sent Home By Work Stoppage Employes of the Decatur General Electric plant were sent home today following a work stoppage in the flange assembly section. The stoppage has so far affected only the first shift workers. The stoppage, which was termed “illegal,” started at 7 a. m. today by 10 employees of the flange section. Cause of the stoppage was a disagreement about a piece price standard on a new job. Because of the stoppage, most Os the first shift employes had to be sent home at 9:30 a. m. ’ A company spokesman pointed out in a statement to the Decatur Daily Democrat that the company has always shown its willingness to negotiate with the union provided the employes remain at work. The spokesman stated that the company officials will not discuss the grievance until the employes participating in the illegal work stoppage return to work. Vernon “Spec” Hebble, president- of U. E. local 901, which is the bargaining agent for local G. E. employes, declined to give any statement this morning until further study of the situation.

U.S.-Britain Split Grows Over Policy Grove Warning By British Official LONDON (UP)—Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd warned today that only the Communists gain from what he termed the “acute difference of opinion” between Britain and the United States over Mideast policy. This split seemed to be growing, as evidenced by newspaßt* editorials sharply critical : of the United States interference in British internal affairs and the action of a group of 120-odd Conservative members of Parliament in adopting a resolution declaring that the U.S. attitude grgvely threatened the Atlantic alliances. It was so dangerous that Acting Prime Minister R.A. Butler called a Cabinet meeting to try to restore Conservative Party unity and to avert a formal break with the United States over the Mideast. Lloyd returned from the United States, where he attended the current General Assembly sessions of the United Nations, with a grim report of the state of Anglo-Ameri-can relations. He indicated there still was no sign of reconciliation, despite President Eisenhower’s statement Tuesday that the Suez crisis had not weakened or disrupted the Anglo-French-American or North Atlantic Treaty alliances. Asked to comment on the President’s statement that the present dispute is only “an incident,” Lloyd told newsmen at London Airport: “There is no doubt we have got to get our policies in the Middle East more closely aligned. The people who are gaining from the present situation are the Communist powers.” Lloyd added grimly that he “hopes” the present situation Is “only an incident." The foreign secretary returned to a Britain highly aroused over what many Britons consider an American double cross against the trans-Atlantic alliance. More than 120 Conservative members of Parliament signed a resolution Tuesday night attacking the American stand in the United Nations, where the United States voted with Russia and against most of the NATO powers in a demand for immediate withdrawal of Anglo-French-Israeli troops from Egypt. Handley Says Gas Tax Boost Certain Asks Millis Remain In Administration INDIANAPOLIS W) — Gov.elect Harold Handley said today he has asked Frank Millis, his No. 1 opponent in the Republican race for the governor nomination last June, to remain in his administration when he takes office in January. Handley also told his first postelection news conference that an increase in the state gasoline tax is certain and he believes the proposed 783-million-dollar state budget is “awfully high.” Handley said he would begin appointing department heads next week and he “obviously” will not keep many of his fellow Republicans who served under Governor Craig, a GOP factional foe. Millis, state revenue commissioner, was given all-out Craig support in the June nominating convention. But repeated “stop Handley” moves by Craig failed. Handley said he asked Millis to stay, but he would not say ip what job. Millis "promised to let me know this week,” Handley said. “What’s happened in the past is all forgotten as far as I’m concerned,” Handley said. The -governor-elect said ‘h e hadn’t had a chance to look at the budget submitted today by the State Budget Committee, but the 783-million dollars sounds “awfully high.” Handley said his legislative experience indicated there is a “lot of water” In the budget prepared by bi-partisan budget committee appointed by Craig. I

Warns Indiana Must Find New * Income Source State Agencies Ask Over Billion First Time In History "i iII JtOMINGTON, Ind. (UP)— Indiana State Budget Committee today unveiled a record 783 millicm dollar state budget for the next two years and warned Indiana will go deep into die red unless it finds new sources of income.. Budget director Robert W. King told an annual government conference at Indiana University that state agencies for the first time in history asked for more than a billion dollars. The four-man budget committee, in its recommendation to the 1957 General Assembly cut that amount by 273 million dollars. If the Legislature follows past custom it will trim the committee’s figure even further in appropriating money to run the state for the two fiscal years beginning July 1, 1957. The budget for the 1957-59 biennium was 109 million dollars more than the $673,750,000 approved by the 1955 Legislature for the current two years. King said the recommended budget, based only cm the “current level of operations,” would 1 wipe out the state general fund surplus and put Indiana spending more than. 38 million dollars “in the hole.” > The proposal took into account no new taxes and provided increases for only a few fields of , government It included no salary increases for state employes, but set aside 5.8 millicm dollars for faculty sgl- ' ary increases at the four state colleges and universities. The committee estimated ths state surplus, at one time near 80 million dollars, would dwindle . to 37.9 million at the end of the current fiscal year. “We should mention that the Tax Study Commission recommends that our working balance should not fall below the 30 million dollar mark,” King said, “so this budget will require an additional 68.5 millicm in revenue.” “No across-the-board cut is possible without cutting back the services that are now provided to our citizens,” he said. Should the General Assembly accept that view, some form of new taxes would be inevitable. Frequently mentioned are a 25 per cent increase in the gross income tax and a 2-cent increase in the gasoline tax. Besides faculty salary hikes, the budget calls for a 22.7 million dollar increase over the current appropriation for state school tuition and transportation aid, addition of 70 new state police troopers, 8.6 million more for colleges to provide for additional enrollment, 1.7 million extra for ’ Indiana University Medical Center and Purdue University agricultural Station, 1 million for college libraries and scientific equipment and $900,000 for improving college curricula. The budget set aside 28.8 million dollars for college construction, not including 3 million for the Medical Center. A total of $1,615,000 was approved for construction at medical institutions, $5,938,000 at mental institutions, and $1,841.000 at penal institutions. The college allotment was the same as requested. King said a 25 per cent gross income tax increase would yield about 65 million dollars, still below the 68.5 million he said would be needed to keep the sur(Continued on Page Five)

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