Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1956 — Page 1

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U.N. Assembly Demands Right Os Observers Demands Russia And Hungary Consent To Permit Observers UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —The General Assembly demanded early today that Russia and Hungary consent by Friday to let United Nations observers onto Hungarian soil. The assembly overwhelmingly J adopted a 14-nation resolution con-1 taining the ultimatum as Secre-tary-General Dag Hammarskjold waited for a reply from Budapest on his request to go to Hungary Dec. 16. Hungarian Foreign Minister Imre Horvath relayed the request to his government after a 20-min-ute conference with Hammarskjold Tuesday night. He had hoped to get an immediate reply but when the General Assembly broke up at 1 a m. EST t6day he still did not have it. Advance Arrangements Hammarskjold also asked Horvath for permission to send Philippe De Seynes, U.N. deputy un-der-secretary for economic and social affairs, to Budapest this Sunday to make advance arrangements for the secretary - general’s visit. The General Assemoiy resumes general debate today. Speakers listed were from Uruguay, Canada, Denmark, Israel, the Ukraine,Hungary, Britain, Guatemala and Syria. The vote on the resolution, which the, -United States co-sponsored, was 54 to 10 with 14 abstentions. The nine-nation Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia opposed it, India and 12 other Afro-Asian nations abstained and Finland joined them. South Africa was absent. Horvath Sets Stage Horvath himself set the stage for Hammarskjold’s new bid to get to Budapest. During the course of the debate on the resolution late Tuesday he announced he was ready to< discuss the matter with Hammarskjold immediately. As Horvath sat down Hammar- ( skjold, who was at tlje podium, accepted the invitation and said he would meet Horvath after the session adjourned. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. persuaded the assembly to adjourn immediately so the conference could be held. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, windy and colder with snow flurries north potion and chance of some showers south portion tonight, Thursday cloudy and much colder with occasional snow flurries. Low tonight 25-30 extreme north, near 40 extreme south. High Thursday 30-35 north, near 40 south. Sunset 5:21 p. m., sunrise Thursday 7:51 a. m. • / *•

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Rydell Reelected District Chairman Boy Scout District Meeting Held Here E. E. Rydell, of Decatur, was reelected district chairman of the south district, Anthony Wayne council, Boy Scouts of America, at the annual dinner meeting of the district, held Tuesday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Other district officers are Hugh Ronald, of Portland, vice chairman; John Flanagan, of Bluffton, executive committeeman, and Sylvester Everhart, of Decatur, reelected commissioner. i Special awards in recognition of ! sei-vices rendered to scouting during the past year were given to Rydell and Oran L Schultz, of Decatur; John Flanagam and Max Groves, of Bluffton; Robert Gillespie, of Portland, and Howard McCune, of Dunkirk. Principal speaker at the meeting was the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church of Decatur, who spoke on ‘The Family unit as a basis,” and stressed the value of scouting in family and everyday life. Lowell Smith was chairman of the meeting, with the address of welcome by Rydell, a progress report by R. L. Van Horn, of Fort Wayne, council executive, and the awards were presented by Everhart. Monmouth PTA To Hold Auction Sale Proceeds Finance Projects Os Group The Monmouth parent-teacher association announced plans today for an auction sale to be conducted by the students of the Reppert school of auctioneering at the Monmouth high school gym Monday, beginning at 7 p. m. Patrons of the school have been asked to donate items ranging from food and fancy . work to hardware and household items for the sale which is being sponsored to finance the P.T.A. projects. A committee of 10 has been appointed to pick up items which cannot be brought to the school by the donor. The 10 include Melvin Crozier, Ervin Fuelling and Milton Hoffman for Union township; Nevin Miller, Robert Carr, True Andrews and Otto Boerger for Root township, and Walter Hildebrand, Edwin Reinking and Clarence Bultemeier for Preble township. A feature of the auction will be a program of entertainment from 7 to 7:30 p. m., after which the sale will be conducted by the Reppert students. Donors may bring their contributions to the gym on the night of the sale or may contact pne of the committee. All residents of the area are invited to attend the auction.

Divers Probe For Clues To Brooklyn Blast Underwater Crater Probed For Clues To Deadly Blast NEW YORK (UP)—Divers probe an underwater crater today for clues to the Brooklyn pier explosion that killed 10 persons. Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr., said a team of experts who examined the wreckage Tuesday concluded that the blast could not have been caused by any Os the pier cargo listed on manifests. Col. Joseph A. Petrolino, ordnance chief for first army headquarters, said the explosion was a “high-order detonatioh." He said the blast which tore a hole downward through 14 inches of asphalt and steel - reinforced concrete of the pier’s deck had the force of two 4,000-pound World War II blockbuster bombs. Gouges Out Crater The explosion, which followed a fire, blasted a 75 by 100-fbot hole in the reinforced pier and gouged a crater in the floor of New York bay, 35 feet under water. The experts agreed that the highly flammable cargo known to have been on the dock — paint, shellac, celluloid, carbide and other combustibles — could not have produced the single, instantaneous blast which was felt 20 miles away. Cavanagh hinted that the blast, which caused an estimated sls million damage, might have been caused by an illegal shipment of mislabeled munitions or explosives. FBI Investigates “If the drums in the cargo on the pier exploded there would be a series of explosions that would go up, not down,” he said. “Something unknown to the steamship company or to the dock workers must have been .on that pier.” Military authorities, the FBI f and various city agencies also int vestigated the possibility sabotage , caused thedisaster. The tenth victim, an 8-year-old • boy, died Tuesday of multiple fractures and internal injuries received when he was bowled over by the blast, which injured some 400 persons. Amendment Passed To Milk Ordinance Brings Conformity With Indiana Law An Amendement to the present milk ordinance, which will bring it into conformity with present state law, was passed last night by the Decatur city council. The amendment defines grade A milk and milk products, and specifies that the current SSO license fee for selling milk in Decatur be extended to all milk products, or to any precessing plant operating here. The amendment was passed at the request of state health officials, who conferred recently with Mayor Robert Cole and city attorney John De Voss. An ordinance approving a contract made recently by the board of works with the Sun Oil company for oil for the diesel plant until September 30, 1957, was also approved. The board of works reported that the bid accepted was the best of six bids received. A resolution asking that $3,000 in the street department fund be transferred from item 4 of the budget to item 7, the property item of the street department budget, so that a new chassis for the city’s 9 years old garbarge truck may be purchased, was read and approved. The approval of the state board of tax commissioners must be received after the transfer is advertised. Petitions for electric line extensions by Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Fairchild, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hurst, of Root township, and Mr, and Mrs. Walter C. Berning, of Allen county, were accepted and referred to the light and power committee. 1956 Traffic Toll Is Above Previous Year INDIANAPOLIS (IB — The 1956 traffic death toll in Indiana was running per cent above last year's through last Sunday midnight, provisional totals released by the state police revealed today. There were 1098 fatalities this year compared with 1031 for a corresponding period in 1955. Twenty-eight persons were reported killed last week compared with 37 the week before.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 5,1956

Anglo-French Invasion Forces Start On Mass Withdrawal In Egypt

New Spirit Os Revolt Fanned By Hungarians Tension Reported Running High Over Government Stand BUDAPEST (UP)— Hungary’s desperate but defiant millions edged dangerously close today to a new armed uprising. The new spirit of revolt was fanned by realization that the Soviet backed Janos Kadar regime had no intention of granting the the key demands of the workers. Tension was running high and Western observers said Thursday could be a fateful day for Hungary. Unsigned leaflets distributed in the streets called for a new armed uprising against the Communist oppressors. They gave no date for the attack but set Thursday for a mighty demonstration. Resistance Mounts The threat of open resistance by armed rebel bands hiding out in woods and hills in the provinces mounted daily. Strong bands were reported in the Mescek Hills near the coal and uranium mining center of Pecs in southern Hungary. Radio Budapest Tuesday night urged the people to ignore the call for Thursday’s demonstration. “Those who spread such rumors,” the broadcast said, “are trying to push Hungary into anarchy and to prevent the Kadar government from starting negotiations with the Russian government along the lines demanded by the people.” Demand Return of Nagy Among other things, the workers are demanding the return of Imre Nagy as premier, free elections, freedom of the press and withdrawal of Russian troops. Worker leaders and the Kadar government have been negotiating for four weeks without result. In recent days, the government has adopted an increasingly tougher attitude and there were signs it may be moving to wipe out the gains made by the workers in their fight for freedom. The government struck another blow at the “freedom” organization by decreeing the dissolution of the revolutionary councils. The councils were formed spontaneously during the revolt. Retailers Discuss Future Activities Monthly Meeting Is Held Here Tuesday Bob Tracy, Louis Jacobs and Harry James were named on the committee to make plans for dollar day to be held in February, at the regular monthly meeting of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Tuesday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. A preliminary discussion was also conducted as to whether to continue holding the spring festival as a carnival type of event. A proposal that a barbecue, style show and merchandise fair might be held in place of the former festival was considered. Bob Lane, who will take over as retail chairman in January, stated he will make his committee announcements for other sales events and special promotions at the first meeting next year, which will be moved up to the second week in January because of New Years Day. Contributions of funds by a local industry to the retail division was noted and it was determined to itemize this amount in a special report to members. BULLETIN BERLIN (W — Russian guars blocked the passage of a U.B. military convoy from Berlin to the West today for the first time since the Soviet blockade of the encircled city r ended in 1949. ...

Stolen Auto Crash Ends Youth's Flight Celina Youth Held Here After Wreck An accident just outside the city limits of Decatur on U. S. highway 33 halted the flight of an Ohio youth from St. Mary's, 0., in a stolen car. At about 3 a. m. today, police officer Grover Odle, in his routine patrol of the city, noted a speed- . ing car. He started to pursue ’ the vehicle, which traveled east ’ on Mercer avenue at a high rate . of speed. ’ The car, driven by Charles A. , Puthoff, 18, pf Celina, 0., route .two, failed to negotiate the curve at the city limits on U *S. 33. I The vehicle went out of control, . hit dnd knocked down a six inch ~ tree and then crashed into a utility pole. i The car was totally demolished 1 by the crash and Puthoff was ; taken to the Adams county me- ' morial hospital for treatment of lacerations on his face. In the routine check following the accident, sheriff Merle Affolder learned that the car was own--1 ed by Robert Albright of St. ! Mary’s 0., and that it had been ; stolen earlier last night. Puthoff, in a statement to the ‘ sgid that • he -and a Iriend were involved in ■ an attempted breakin at a service 1 station in St. Mary’s. Puthoff was frightened away from the station ’ by the approach of investigating ’ St. Mary’s policemen. He then ’ stole the Albright car and fled _ the city. t The companion, Cletus Stoepfel, • 18, also of Celina, hid in the station and was apprehended there by the officers but Puthoff man- ; aged to get out of the Ohio area > into Indiana. He told the local , investigating officers that he had decided to head for Florida just ■ before the accident occurred. After spending the night at the (Continued on Page Six) Truant School Boy Sent To Institution School Attendance Laws Are Stressed A local boy has been committed to an i/istitution as the result of chronic truancy, according to a report from the office of Mrs. Mildred Foley, Adams county attendance officer. Judge Myles F. Parrish, in juvenile proceedings, ruled that the boy should be sent to the institution in the hopes that he could be encouraged to finish his high school education. Die boy, who is under the age of 16 when he could legally quit school, has a long record of absences and previous attempts to improve his school attendance” have been fruitless. Judge Parrish re-emphasized that the aim of the juvenile court is reformation and rehabilitation rather than punishment. Mrs. Foley stated that several other youngsters under 16 years of age in Adams county are showing poor attendance at school and she added that if there is no improvement in the near future, similar juvenile proceedings would be filed against them. She urged parents to‘recognize their responsibility in sending their children to school’at least until they are 16 in complance with the Indiana statutes governing education Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Omer Clarke, mother of Mrs. Donate A. Norquest of Decatur, died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Fountain City. Mrs. Clarke had been ill for a year, and had been bedfast for several weeks. In addition to Mrs. Norquest, she is survived by her husband, 1 one other daughter, Mrs. Clyde Hinshaw, ot Fountain City, and six grandchildren. The funeral will be Thursday afternoon at the Fountain City Friends church.

Plan Roundup Os Tennessee Trouble Makers Attorney General Brownell Warns On School Interference CLINTON, Tenn. (UP)—A mass federal roundup of segregationist trouble makers was expected to begin here today. Clinton High School was closed Tuesday after segregationists beat a young white minister who escorted Negro students to the newly integrated school. Violence erupted again Tuesday night with a dynamite blast in a Negro neighborhood at nearby Oliver Springs. In Washington, U.S. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. warned that the government would prosecute “all persons” trying forcefully to prevent Negroes from attending Clinton High, the first state-sup-ported school in Tennessee to attempt integration. FBI Agents Move In It was the strongest federal move yet to back up the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 and 1955 school , desegregation rulings. School au- ; thorities here received the action ’ with obvious relief. , It was reported FBI agents had ' targeted as many as 18 persons ’ for arrest by this afternoon in con- ‘ nection with organized molestation ' of the Negro students and at- ! tempts to intimidate their parents. : J __ ...... U.S. District Judge Robert L. 1 Taylor at nearby Knoxville, was expected to act today on a request f from federal Dist. Atty. John C. Crawford to order arrests. He took the request “under advisement” Tuesday night. Tavern Dynamited Police said three to five sticks of dynamite were tossed from a speeding car Tuesday night into the front yard of a white beer tavern operator, Owen Long, 32, at Oliver Springs. Die blast tore a (Continued On Pace Five) Ralph 0. McMillen Is Taken By Death Former Official Os Central Sugar Co. Ralph O. McMillen, 65, a resident of Van Wert, 0., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in a hospital at Fort Lauderdale following a year’s illness with cancer. The former general farm manager of the Central Sugar company of Decatur, he was well-known in this community. A native of Van Wert county, he was born Sept. 6, 1891, to the late Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMillen. He was a teacher and a farmer before becoming associated with the Central Sugar company. He has been retired for many years. He was a member of the Van Wert First Presbyterian church, the Elks lodge and the Willow Bend country club at Van Wert, and was a 32nd degree Mason. He was a graduate of Culver Military academy and lowa State University. Surviving are the widow, Elizabeth; a daughter, Mrs. James Barrett of Hendersonville. N. C.; two brothers, Dale W. McMillen of Fort Wayne and Lewellyn M. McMillen of Versailles, Mo., and three sisters, Mrs. C. S. Fergus of Van Wert, Mrs. Rush Richison of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Leßoy Hansel of St. Petersburg, Fla. The body will be returned to the Alspach funeral home in Van Wert, where friends may call from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Van Wert, the Rev. H. G. Griffiths officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery at Van Wert. The family Has requested that friends omit flowers and offer donations instead to the Ralph McMillen memorial fund of the Van Wert county hospital. '

Six Are Sworn To Grand Jury Service Plan Inspection Os County Buildings Five men and one woman were impaneled for service on the grand jury for the November term of the Adams circuit court in proceedings Tuesday in the court room. The six are Anna Brown of Geneva, Glen D. Adler of French ; township, Clyde E. Drake of De- ’ catur-Root, Carl Adler of Kirkland township, Leo E Engle of French township and John A. Myers of . Decatur-Root. Judge Myles F. Parrish, who presented instructions to the jury, 1 appointed Myers to serve as foreman during the grand jury sessions. Die court had earlier appointed Tice Baker as bailiff for the jury. In their first session the jury issued a request for a secretary 1 and Miss Romaine Raudebush was named to serve as secretafj) during the subsequent sessions. No dates were determined for the future sessions of the jury but it is expected that they will meet after Christmas. I As is tne custom in Adams - county, the November term grand i jury will make the annual inspection of county buddings and will 1 file reports with suggestions of I changes or improvements on the - county institutions. i Individuals are also invited to - appear before the grand jury to • request investigations if they so desire. Any person who wants to . present anything to the jury may 5 contact prosecuting attorney Lewt is L. Smith or sheriff Merle As- . folder. t All sessions of the grand jury ’ are secret. The jury has the power to return indictments in cases where they feel that their invesi tigations have shown violations i (Continued on Fane Four) I ■ County Contracts Awarded By Board Contracts Awarded For County Supplies County auditor Frank Kitson has announced the awarding of contracts for county supplies in 1957 as decided By the board of commissioners in a continuation of a special session Tuesday. Bids on pipe and sewer supplies, were filed by Armco Drainage and Metal supplies company, the Logansport Metal Culvert company, and Young and Greenwait. All three bids were identical and the commissioners accepted all of them, ruling that the supplies could be purchased from any one of the three companies. A similar ruling was made in the case of bids on grader blades which were submitted by Flech Miller company, Mac Allister company and thej American Steel and Supply corporation. All three were accepted. Several companies will share in the six-month contracts for gas, oil and kerosene supplies. Bids on this group of county supplies were submitted by D. A. Lubricant company, Beavers Oil company, Harry Knapp of National Oil and Gas company, Petrie Oil company and the Marathon Ohio Oil company. The contracts were awarded as follows: gasoline to the Marathon bid; diesel oil fuel to Wilbur PeJ trie, motor oil to D. A. Lubricant company, and the grease bid to Harry Knapp. Both bids on the sand and gravel submitted by James Lybarger and by Yost Construction company were approved by the commissioners. Two bids on the stone contract, filed by Meshberger Stone corporation and W. Karsh Stone company, were approved and the Meshberger company was awarded the contract for blacktopping. Goodyear Service Store was awarded the contract for tires. Other bids on this item were submitted by Herman Dierkes, the Highway Garage, and Jack Baumgartner

Report All Os Troops Leave In Two Weeks ►■• . • Moslem World Now Seeking Ouster Os Premier Os Iraq 1 French invasion force began a mass withdrawal today from 1 Egypt. The Moslem world turned ; to Iraq in an effort to force the downfall of pro-Western Premier Nouri El-Said. i Informed sources in Port Said , said all of the 11,000 Anglo-French • troops will leave Suez within two weeks. The big foreign colony in ■ Port Said was showing signs of • panic as anti-Western feelings increased. British authorities said 2,500 of , their troops would be removed during the day. The French were ‘ expected to be carrying out their withdrawal in a similar fashion. . British Show Distaste British military authorities showed their distaste for the withc drawal by nicknaming it "Operation Harridan.*’ Webster’s defines i harridan as a worn out strumpet. 1 Egyptian troops were reported - moving into the Sinai Desert be--1 tween Israeli troops and Yugoslav >f armored forces of the United Nae tions Emergency Force. There was no explanation of the Egyp--3 tian troop movement. 3 An Egyptian source at Abu 3 Suweir said "some Egyptian 3 forces’’ had moved into Sinai. He r refused to specify where they were . or their mission. The main body of . the Egyptians" pulled back west of the canal at time of the Anglor French invasion. Some 70 Yugoslav troops also [ have crossed the Suez Canal into . the western edge of the Sinai i Desert and sent out reconnaissance patrols toward the Israeli lines. The main body of the Yugoslav battalion was still waiting to cross the canal. Sheikh Abdel Rahman Tag, rector of the 1,000-year-old El Azhar University in Cairo, the principal .theological insitute in the Moslem world, called for action against Iraq. Split Sharpens His appeal climaxed an Egyptian press and radio campaign against the Iraqi government and sharpened the split in the Moslem Middle East. It coincided with new alarms. A well-sourced report today from Ankara said the four Moslem members' of the Baghdad antiCommunist Pact will meet again in Ankara later this month to plan joint strategy against the campaign. They are Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. Britain is the fifth member of the pact, which (Continued on Pace Four, William Bushnell Dies At Huntington William H. Bushnell, 86, former resident of Decatur, died about 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Huntington county hospital shortly after suffering a heart attack at his home in that city. He was a member of the First Methodist church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a member of Co. B. 160th volunteers of Indiana during the Spanish-American war, enlisting in Decatur. Surviving are his wife, Mary, and a* number of nieces and nephews, some residing in Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the First Methodist church in this city, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Robbins funeral home in Huntington until time of the services.

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