Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 287.

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Arabs Step Up Drive Against Baghdad Pact Accuse Turkey And Iraq As Indirectly Involved In Attack LONDON (UP)— The Moslem world stepped up its campaign today against the Baghdad Pact, and a high Egyptian official accused Turkey and Iraq of being ■ indirectly” involved in the AngloFrench assault on Egypt. The .British troopship Dilwata sailed from Port Said today with 1,835 England-bound troops, the first major batch to leave the Suez Canal Zone. A second troopship, the liner Ascania, was berthed and ready to pick up the second contingent. s? : - ■ Port Said harbor was full of tank landing ships for transporting military vehicles to Cyprus. Port Said itself was quiet with no antiWestern outbreaks. Moscow radio accused Israel of planning to hold on to part of the Sinai Peninsula and said the Western campaign of “blackmail and intimidation” of Syria and Jordan had brought new strain to the Middle East. The Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Desert came under discussion today at the Israeli town of El Arish on the Mediterranean Sea between Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, head of the U.N. police force, and Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israeli chief of staff. Will Demand Guarantees Israel has not laid permanent claim to the Sinai Desert but has indicated it will demand guarantees the peninsula will not be used for Arab suicide commando operations against Israel before aS final withdrawal of Israeli troops is ordered. The British-French withdrawal front the Port Said area was proceeding smoothly and the AngloFrench commanders there assured Burns Wednesday the withdrawal would be completed within “two to three weeks.” They urged no Egyptian troops enter Port Said until the withdrawal is complete. The new Moslem attacks against the Baghdad Pact followed announcement in Washington that the ambassadors of Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran told the United States the recent Soviet-Syrian moves in the Middle East posed; a threat to their “security and integrity.- ’ To Ask More Funds U.S. officials reported that Pres- . ident Eisenhower plans to ask Congress next year for more military funds for the four nations. The four are aligned with Britain in the Baghdad Pact. The United States, though not a member, has supported the pact. One attack on the Baghdad Pact came from Damascus where Syrian Foreign Minister Salah Bitar (Continued on rage Five) Jefferson Club To Meet Monday Night —The Jefferson club will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center and all interested Democrats are invited to attend. Dr. Harry Hebble,, county Democratic chairman, will outline the future plans 'of the Democratic party and a discussion period will follow. The meeting will recognize the newly-elected officers of the club, who are Edward Jaberg, Mabel Striker, Herman Moelling and Elmer Winteregg, Jr. The committee in charge will serve refreshments. “ 16 Pages • a

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Eisenhower Sends Message To Mollet Voices Interest In Healing Rift AUGUSTA, Ga. IIP) — President Eisenhower today sent a message to French Prime Minister Guy Mollet expressing “great interest” in healing the rift that developed between the United States and France over the Middle East crisis. The verbal message was sent to the French prime minister through American Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon from the vacation White House here. Dillon, who has been in this country for a week, conferred with Mr. Eisenhower for an hour at the Augusta National Golf club where the chief executive is vacationing. s The envoy will return to Paris Saturday with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who will head the American delegation to the NATO ministerial council meeting. Dillon brought to the President a message of "warmest personal regards and very best wishes” from Mollet. The ambassador said he was carrying back a similar personal verbal message in which the President expressed “great interest in healing the rift” between the United States and France arid restoring the long-standing Ameri-can-British-French unity. Dillon reported that he believed the French attitude toward not only the United States but the Umted°Nations had improved materially since the dark days of a few weeks ago when the French and the British invaded Egypt against the wishes of this country and the U. N In his conference with the President, Dillon said he was “glad to report that the French have decided to put their complete confidence in the United Nations and follow the desires of the U. N. in regard to the withdrawal from Egypt.” The Chief Executive will have a more extended conference Friday when he meets on the military defense budget with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, Budget Director Percival Brund(Contlnued on Page Five) Associated Choir Planning Concert Church Choirs Os City Form Group Approximately 60 members on the various choirs of the Associatde Churches of Decatur met at the First Methodist church recently to prepare for the first community church choir festival of the- Associated church choir. The rehearsal was the first for the community choir to practice the various numbers which they had been reheasing as local groups. Leland Neuen, of Berne, is . d irector. of the. choir~.- a,-.., .7, Such music as “My God and I”, by Sergei, and Fred Waking’s arrangement of “Onward Christian Soldiers” stirred members of the choir and it is believed that the entire community Will welcome these and the dozen other familiar musical numbers planned for the first concert, which will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Sunday afternoon, May 5, at 3 o’clock. The next rehearsal of the group will be from 7:15 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23. Officers of the Associated choir are Norman Guard, president; Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin, vic£ president; Mrs. Walter Krick, secretary. and Mrs. Stuart Brightwell, assistant secretary. — —

Four Missing With Plane In Rough Terrain Three Other Plane Wrecks Kill Four Air Force Officers ' By UNITED PRESS Authorities searched today for four men whose plane apparently crashed in a western snowstorm. Three other plane wrecks killed four air Force officers, and a fifth escaped with minor injuries when his craft crashed in a residential area near Ingelwood, Calif. The missing plane, presumed down in rugged country between Boise, Idaho, anad Ogden, Utah, was a twin-engine private craft carrying three, executives of the Boise-Payette Lumber Co. and the pilot. Aboard the plane were John Aram, 43, Boise, company president; Bob Hasberger, 36, Portland, Ore., who was to have assumed presidency of the firm today; A. E. Montgomery, 48, Boise, a company vice president, and I. L. Eason, Boise, the pilot. Four Officers Killed Jet plane crashes at Mansfield, Ohio, and Pickford, Mich., killed four Air Force officers. Lts. Jack T. Estabrook, 25. Lakeland, Fla., and Robert E. Kuhens, 25, Uniontown, Ohio, were killed Wednesday when their T 33 Air Force jet trainer ran low on fuel and crashed near Mansfield. Killed when their FB9 jet fighter crashed near Pickford were Lts. John Edward Cunningham, 24, Tulsa. Okla., and Hobart Walter Garvin, Mi. Hope, W. Va. About 100 persons searched a nearby swamp in the belief the men had bailed out, but their bodies were found late Wednesday beneath the fuselage when cranes lifted the wreckage. House Set Afire At Ingelwood, an Air Force jet trainer plummeted out of control when its fuel tank exploded. It rammed into a residential area, setting a house afire. The pilot, identified as James Glessner, escaped with minor injuries. At Ft. William, Ont., an air search was scheduled to resume today for three Air Force 847 crewmen missing since Friday in the crash of their $1.9 million atomic-bomber. Mrs. Ettie Durbin Dies Last Evening Mrs. Ettie Durbin, 88, resident of Decatur most of her life, died at 5:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Allen county home, where she had lived the past 11 years. She was born in Adams county Sept. 18, 1868, a daughter of George and Helen Glass-Helm. Only survivors are a number of nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m Friday at the Black funeral home,.the Rev William C.-Fel-ler officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. Woman Is Killed When Hit By Auto EDINBURG, Ind. (IP) — Lorene Harrell, 59, Edinburg, was killed late Wednesday when she stepped out of a vehicle into the path of a car on U.S. 31 about two miles north of here. State police said the woman stepped into the path of a car driven by Thomas P. Newett Jr., Indianapolis. He braked his car and it skidded to the roadside and knocked the victim feet.

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United States Plans Massive Air And Sea Lift For Hungarians

Soviet Tanks Open Fire On Demonstrators Dozens Felled By ' Russian Tanks And Hungarian Police BUDAPEST (UP) — Russian tanks and Hungarian police opened fire today on several thousand anti government demonstrators massed in front of Budapest’s west railroad station. Dozens of demonstrators fell before the point-blank fire. It was a bloody climax to a dayof mounting tension which first exploded at 2:30 p.m. on Lenin Boulevard. Anti - government marchers clashed with pro-govern-ment forces and attempted to wrest from them the red flags of ’ communism they carried. There was no immediate indication of the number of casualties I in the two clashes. i - Hungarian army militia support--1 ing the biggest force of Soviet I tanks and armored cars to appear in the city since the Russian on--1 slaught of Nov. 4 arrested dozens i of men and women. s City Steams With Anger t The new bloodshed followed two of demonstrations by the, » women of Budapest. Leaflets scattered in the streets had called for i “mighty” new demonstrations and - another “total” strike today , against the regime’ of Soviet I backed Premier Janos Kadar. Anger mounted over reports that - Sv members of workers councils • in Budapest factories were arrested Wednesday night. At the Danubia textile factory , this morning, some 3,000 workers I were ringed off by Hungarian police backed up by the latest-model . Russian T 54 tanks. As the reports of these actions • spread through Budapest, the city • began to steam with anger. 1 By noon, knots of scowling men ’ had gathered in the streets. Russian tanks and armored cars rushed from their barracks to key ; spots around the city. Then, at 2:30 p.m., some 500 anti - government demonstrators 1 carrying the Hungarian red-white- • green tricolor met head-on with ■ the pro-government group carry- ' ing the red flag of communism. ’ The pro - government group, backed by Russian tanks and Hungarian police, shouted, “We t (Coatlaaed on Pace Eight) I Donors Needed For Bloodmobile Visit 70 Donors Needed j Here Next Monday Mrs. Ed Bauer, county chairman of the Red Cross blood program, announced today that there are still 70 donors needed for the' visit of the bloodmobile Monday ’ at the Decatur Youth and Com-j t munity Center. i At least that many donors must : be scheduled if the local chapter j is to meet its quota of 127 pints j for this visit. Volunteer staff aides are workj ing this week to set up the sched- . ule, which should include nine . persons for each 15 minute period from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and 20 t standby donors. Any person in the area who , wishes Jo- donate blood may coni tact the Red Cross office. Trans- . portation to and from the center . will be provided far any donor who needs it. All types of blood are needed. Mrs. Bauer pointed out that any person in the county who has had blood is free to the recipient, blood can now replace it. Re- ; placing blood will make it possil ble to keep blood ready for the I next person who needs it. [ She reminded local residents s that many persons in this area have received the blood supplied i through the Red Cross program, r She emphasized that Red Cross , blood is free to the recipient r While there is a charge by the I hospital for administering it, there is no charge for the blood itself.

Medical Care For Service Dependents 2 Million Become Eligible Friday WASHINGTON (UP)— Some 2 million dependents of servicemen become eligible Friday for medical care by civilian doctors and hospitals with the -government paying virtually all the cost. The broad-scale medical health plan authorized by the last Congress is designed to insure medical care to military families if . military physicians and facilities are not available. The program is expected to cost at least SBO million annually. It . will be handled through contracts with private health insurance com- ' panies. 11105 far, the Defense Depart- ; ment has signed contracts cover- ’ ing medical care in 42 states, Ha- ! waii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska. Negotiations are still going on for medical care in six states: Texas, Rhode Island, Ohio, Maine, Alabama and Idaho. Under the program, when dependents of servicemen are treat- ; ed by civilian doctors in civilian hospitals, the servicemen must pay the first $25 of the hospital ! cost and the government will pay ’ the rest. The government-paid program will apply mostly to acute mediMcai cst&s requiring hospitalization. ’ The government, however, will I pay the major part of the cost ’ of obstretical care, treatment of . body wounds and diagnostic cases. The government will not pay for t normal dental care, chronic dis- . eases, nervous disorders and rou- ’ tine home calls by a physician. Congress approved the military , medical plan for dependents in or- . der to improve military moral?; Cardinal Mindszenty Tells Os Brutality Relates Unspeakable Brutality Os Reds NEW YORK (UP)—Josef Cardinal Mindszenty said in an interview made public by Look magazine that he suffered "unspeakable brutality” at the hands of the Communists when he was imprisoned in 1948. The Hungarian primate, recently released during the anti-Com-munist uprising, said he once was near death- after 29 consecutive days of “body and soul” torture. “Communist cruelty and obscenity defy the imagination of normal and healthy people,” he said. For days at a time, he said, he was beaten with a rubber hose, particularly on his chest, “because they knew I had a weak lung from childhood.” Mindszenty said he plans to publish memoirs of his captivity and - “bare myself before the entire world” to raise funds for the im- :; poverished Roman Catholic Church 1 of Hungary. I The cardinal has been in refuge tin the U.S. legation in Budapest j since the Soviet onslaught on Buda- ■ pest last Nov. 4: Industry Division Lunch Next Monday The regular luncheon meeting of the Decatur Industrial committee division of die Chamber of Commerce will be held Monday , noon <at- the Decatur Youth, §»d Community-Center. Mayor Robert Cole will'be" the speaker. He will present a progress report on action taken by the city admission to solve the water, electric and sewage disposal problems of Decatur. ' - - ■- -- -i-' Output Os Newsprint Hits Record High MONTREAL (IP) — The Newsprint Association of Canada estii mated today that world newsprint production would reach a record in i 1956. The association said the produo i tion gain would be 7.7 per cent over 1955. For the free world : countries, the association reported > production this year will total . nearly 12,500,000 tons*

16 Arrested In Tennessee School Scrap i 16 Segregationists Are Charged With . . Federal Violation KNOXVILLE. Tenn. (UP)—U.S. ’ marshals today arrested the last j of 16 segregationists charged with interfering with integration of Clin- , ton High School in violation of a federal court order. Marian Nell Currier was picked up at Clinton and was to be brought here for arraignment. Six of the accused segregationists were arraigned Wednesday night. The other 10 faced arraignment later today. The swift roundup of segregationist troublemakers encouraged the, Anderson County School Board to begin planning the reopening of the high school, which was closed Tuesday to stop a wave of violence. Officials hope to have the ; school's 700 students, including l nine Negroes, back in class Mon- - day. The federal warrants cited a i variety of anti-Negro activities . ranging from picketing the school . to intimidating,‘ waylaying and 1 beating nine Negroes who enrolled t at the previously all-white school f in September. All 16 are charged with violating r an injunction issued by U.S. Dis- . trict .Judge Robert L. Taylor dur- . ing integration riots at the school last September prohibiting antir Negro demonstrations. Will Reopen School U.S. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. ordered the crackdown on an appeal from the Anderson County School Board which closed the school two days ago to halt a new wave of violence. The board Wednesday night announced it hoped to reopen the school Monday. Marshals brought in the last carload of segregationists Wednesday night from Clinton, 20 miles south of here. They all wore handcuffs. Judge Taylor told the defendants they could get a speedy trial if they desired or could “take a while to prepare a defense.” Charged With Lawlessness U.S. Dist. Atty. John C. Crawford said he was prepared to (Continued On Page Five) Ask Sale Items Be Delivered Friday Hold Auction Sale At Center Saturday Clarence Ziner, general chair- 1 man of the auction which will be ' held Saturday afternoon and eve- J ning at the Decatur Youth and ‘ Community Center, has announced that anyone who has an item 1 to contribute to the sale is asked ' to deliver it to the center by ' Friday. 1 If the item is too large to be delivered by car, the donor may call Lowell Harper at Bag Service and transportation will be arranged. The auction, to be held with a bake sale, will be conducted by the students of Reppert school of auctioneering beginning at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p m. , , ■ , Proceeds of the auction, which ' is being sponsored by the Deca- ; tur Chamber of Commerce, will go to finance activities 'and projects of the Community Center, 1 which has been operating „at a 1 deficit. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, occasional drizzle north and central portions tonight. Colder north . and central portions tonight and northeast portion Friday. Scattered showers extreme south and drizsle changing to rain north and central Friday. Low tonight 35-42 north, 42-50 south High Friday around 40 extreme north to 60s extreme south. Sunset 5:21 p. m„ sunrise Friday 7:52 a. m.

Policeman, Gunman Are Slain In Battle - Wild Gun Battle In Indianapolis Hotel INDIANAPOLIS (IB — An Indianapolis police inspector and a gunman he sought to question about a liquor store shooting were shot to death Wednesday night in a wild, close-range gun duel in a downtown hotel. Inspector Albert A. Kelly, 55, second highest ranking officer among city police, died early today less than two hours after James Bennet Baker, 22, Whitinsville, Mass., was riddled by police bullets and died in his hotel room. Patrolman William Beaumont was critically wounded in the battle and liquor store clerk Morris Epstine, 47, was shot critically in a robbery attempt 20 minutes earlier. Kelly, Beaumont and Sgt. Edward L. Clark went to Baker's room after receiving a tip that a man answering the description’ of the bandit had entered the York hotel Kelly and Beaumont went inside the room while Clark guarded the door. After searching Baker the officers began searching the room and Clark moved inside. “The guy suddenly grabbed a gun and began firing,” Clark Kelly and Beaumont w e r’e felled, and Beaumont continued firing after he slumped to th? floor, Clark said. Baker, his body riddled with bullets, died almost instantly. Clark was not wounded. Epstein told police the bandit entered his store, ordered a bottle of scotch, then pulled a gun and began firing when Epstein’s wife, Zelda, 47, appeared from a back room. Mrs. Epstein said the youth glanced at her for a moment, then ran from the store without taking anything. Kelly’s wife, Elizabeth, was involved in an auto accident enroute to General Hospital to be at the bedside of her dying husband. (Continued on Page Five) Frigid Storm Moves South And Eastward Highways Glazed By Freezing Rain By UNITED PRESS A frigid storm front nudged southward and eastward today, glazing highways with freezing rain and dumping up to two feet of snow in parts of Montana. A flurry of traffic wrecks and at least one fatal highway accident were blamed on the storm. A plane carrying three businessmen and a pilot apparently was forced down in a snowstorm between Boise, Idaho, and Ogden, Utah. An Arctic air mass, that invaded northern sections of the nation early this week, pushed eastward to cover an area from Idaho to Lake Michigan and southward through Missouri and Oklahoma. Snow storms hit several western states, accumulating to about 1 inch in the Dakotas, 4 inches in Wyoming, 2 inches in parts of Wyoming and up to 2 feet in the mountainous areas of Montana, Utah and Idaho. A freezing drizzle made highways treacherous along the Southern edge of the cold air mass from'“TMißSOUfi" nbfthehstivard" to lowa. At Everett, Wash., a car skidded on an icy road into the path of a train traveling 70 miles per hour, killing Tom Landon, 16, and injuring three other occupants of the car. Numerous other wrecks occurred in the storm belt, one of them injuring 17 persons when a Greyhound bus rammed headon irito a tractor-trailer truck near Truckee, Calif., during a snow storm. Early morning temperatures hit record highs in some sections south of the cold front with Chicago recording a top of 62 Wednesday for an all-time high and Muskegon, Mich., recording a record 51 degrees.

Bring 15,000 Refugees To United States L Largest Peacetime i Movement Os Kind 1 In World History • AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)—The White ’ House announced today that within ■ a matter of days this country will ’ begin a mass air-lift and sea-lift • to bring 15,000 Hungarian refugees ) to America by the end of the year or shortly thereafter. : The refugees, in addition to the ■ 6,500 now being moved by air : through the Intergovernmental i Committee on European Migration, : will be moved from Bremerhaven and Munich, subject to the expect- - ed approval of the West German i government. r The White House said the comr bined air and sea lift will be the : largest peacetime movement of its kind in history. Plans for the • combined lift will be handled by • the Defense Department. • Os the 15,000 refugees, about i 5,000 will be brought to this country aboard three Navy transport i ships. The first vessel is sched- .. tiled to sail from Bremerhaven bee tween Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, the i second ship about a week later e and the third ship a week fbllow- ' ing. * "■ ‘ ’ .. ' ' About 10,000 refugees will be sped to the United States by Air Force and Navy planes operating t through the Military Air Transport 5 Service, which also may contract I with private companies for additional air-lift flights. ’ The White House said the air lift from Munich would begin within the next few days at the rate i of 200 a day, with the number . progressing by about 100 a day t until it reaches about 500 a day. - "This should make possible the ■ movement out of Austria of most s of the refugees who are coming s by air by about the end of the . year or shortly thereafter,” the White House statement said. The bulk of the 6,500 original refugees were being admitted to this country under refugee act quotas, but the 15,000 will come in under the so-called parole provision of the immigration and nationality act. (Continued on Fa*e Five) Seek Remnants Os Explosive Cores Continue Probe Os Blast In Brooklyn NEW YORK (UP)—Authorities sought remnants of explosives today to determine if tons of detonating fuses stored on a Brooklyn pier caused the sls million blast Monday which killed 10 persons. Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr. said a waterlogged bill of lading found Wednesday showed 1,950 cartons containing 37,000 pounds of cordeau, an explosive, had been on the pier. He said experts believed the high explosive core of the fuses, pentaery - thritetetra - nitrate (PETN), might have caused the explosion. A diver was to search the waters of New York Bay surrounding the wrecked pier today for evidence of the explosives. detonating h«,es. deserfto.. as the type used in commercial blasting, had been on the pier since Nov. 28. The cargo was en route from the Ensign Bickford Co., of Simsbury, Conn., to the Coast Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Traverno, Calif. I &3FT W fes&L : v® rJN ~JN 9 • ' '■ rC'W'-;

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