Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 288.

BEATING THE PLEASURE DRIVING BAN IN BOLLARD XV I J I \ Yk '* /K LIS ’ ■ * , HERE'S HOW one motorist is beating Holland's ban on Sunday pleasure driving. He has his auto pulled into West Germany, where there4s no ban, by a horse. Then he can fill er up and ptetsune drive to his heart’s content. Town is Zoll. The ban was decreed after blocking of the Suez Canal brought on a gasoline shortage.

Government Os Hungary Warned By Labor Heads Demand Arrest Wave Halted In Warning To Puppet Ruler BUDAPEST W) — Hungary’s labor leaders warned the government bluntly today, there will be "a general strike, bloodshed and a new national tragedy” if -the current wave of arrests continues. The warning came in a proclamation handed to puppet Premier Janos Kadar by the Central Workers Council of Budapest. It was the sharpest denunciation yet of Kadar's new “get tough” policy. The Budapest council was scheduled to meet with Kadar in the late afternoon to get his reply. In toe meantime, the tense captial waited to see what would happen. -- In the uneasy calm, angry knots of men stood talking at street Cotners under the menacing guns of Russian tanks. They were ready for anything following three days of demonstrations. Wholesale Arrests Reported In the severest clash Thursday, Russian and Hungarian police bullets killed two demonstrators and injured scores. Budapest Radio also claimed that two police were killed, but the report was given little credence here. The Budapest council issued its proclamation after 150 merhbers of Budapest factory workers councils were arrested during the night. Police had picked up 50 others the night before. Others arrested in the government's promised crackdown on i "counter-revolutionaries and fascists” included talented young writer Joszef Gati. Gati, seized in the hospital where he was recovering from a severe illness, was released after questioning. As soon as they heard of the arrest: of their elected leaders, workers in a dozen Budapest plants walked out on strike. ‘lt appears that the government has started an overnight hunt against workers councils throughout the nation,” the Budapest council’s proclamation said. Issues Grim Warning "If this continues, we shall lose the only chance of restoring order and creating normal conditions. If it continues, the confidence of the workers will be lost completely. The workers will turn against the government for good and the end will be a general strike, bloodshed and a new national tragedy.” Meanwhile, it was reported that Hungary's hated AVH secret police have returned to power and are carrying out mass arrests in an attempt to end anti — Soviet demonstrations. z Schedule Donors For Bloodmobile Visit The scheduling of donors for the visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile Monday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center continued, today with volunteer staff aides working to fill the schedule. Mrs. Ed ■ Bauer said that about 20 prospective donors are still needed and that any person who wishes to donate blood may contact the local office. Calls may also be made tp the community center Monday, where volunteers will be stationed to answer the telephone. Transportation will be provided for any donor, who needs it. The goal for this visit is 127 pints and every effort is being made to fill the quota since the need for blood is acute. Good Fellows Club Delta Theta Tau .SIOO.OO Berean Class 10.00 TOTAL SIIO.OO v •

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Auction Sale At U Center Saturday First Annual Bake Sale And Auction A tremendous crowd is expected to attend the first annual bake sale and auction at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Saturday afternoon and evening, when funds will be raised by the students of the Reppert school of auctioneering for activities of the building. Between 300 and 400 individual baked goods are expected to be delivered by donors in the oity. In addition almost 100 percent co-operation has been obtained from local merchants and industries in the contributions of new and used merchandise. Sales will open at 2 and 7:30 p. m. A partial list of donors of merchandise and personal used tore follows: Haftich A Morwtssey. $5 gift certificate; McMillen Feed Mills, Master Mix feeds, eight 25 lb. bags of Dog Burger; eight 25 lb. bags complete rabbit pellets, four 50 lb. bags calf mixer pellets, four 50 lb. bags of Pigets, four 50 lb. bags Calorized pellets, four 50 lb. bags Egg Mash pellets. Hi-Way Service, one pair safety belts; Holthouse Furniture, picture; Lee Hardware, merchandise; Riverside Garage, 5 quarts Opaline oil; Ernest Baumann garage,one wrecker service call (city); Stop Back News Stand, model cruiser, kit; Butler’s Garage, front wheel alignment; Mansfield Motors, merchandise; Schwartz Ford Co., side mirror; Niblick & Co., rubber fatigue mats and throw rugs. Hammond Fruit Market, one 'bushel of apples; Riehle Implement Sales, one used washing machine; Schafer Company, merchandise; Bag Service, bags; Krick-Tyndall Co , power mower; Joe’s Barber Shop, hair cut and shampoo; Decatur Print Shop, desk pad set; Decatur Dry Cleaners, one suit or dress pressed; Corah Insurance agency, five road atlases. Morrison’s Farm Implements, tractor umbrella; Decatur Lumber Co., 11 ft. farm gate; Community Oil, 10 quarts of oil; Bob Workinger Station, one wash job; Knapp’s station, one wash job and one lubrication; Gulf Super station, one lubrication; Burke’s station, one pint Atlas brake fluid; Bob’s Marathon station, one lubrication; Dan Everett, one case BEP motor oil;’ D & T Standard, one gal. Standard liquid gloss; Petrie Oil, two 700x15 Goodrich Lifesaver tubeless tires; Gene’s Mobile,- one oil change; Beavers Oil station, one Schwinn bicycle; Downtown Sinclair, lubrication and wash job; Decatur Auto Supply, Eye-Eze shields; one gallon of ice cream; Schmitt’s Meat Market, ham; Equity Dairy Store, one gallon of olives; Schmitt's Meat Market, slab of bacon; Goodins, ham and crackers; Dick’s Grill, two lunches; Kroger Store, food basket; Wertzberger, box John’s chocolate; A & P, fruit basket; Decatur Industries, Inc., wood novelties; Kent Realty, tie clasps, agate stone; Kiddie Shop, fur dog; Meyers Home Appliances, rug; Ehinger & Kortenber, rug and pillow case; Kaye’s Shoe store, three billfolds; Blackwells, Libby glassware; Klenk's, two roasters; Baber Jewelry, gift items; New(Contlnued on Pa<« Two) INDIANA WEATHER , Rain, posibly mixed with freezing rain north portion, ending tonight Colder tonight. Saturday cloudy and colder extreme south. Low tonight 25-30 north, 30-35 south. High Saturday 32-40 north, 4045 south. Sunset 5:21 p. m., sunrise Saturday 7:53 a. m.

Fear Reprisal On Foreigners In Canal Zone Threats Reportea Reaching Alarming f Proportions Today ’ LONDON (UP)—The Interna- . tional Red Cross was expected to- ( ; day to appeal to the Egyptian gov- ! ernment to prevent any “massa- : ■J ere of Christians” when the last British and French troops leave 1 the Suez Canal zone. ‘ Maurice Thudicum, Swiss repre- ' sentative of the International Red Cross Committee, said in Port ) Said that reports about threats to foreigners were reaching "alarm- * ing proportions” and that there were hints a massacre of nonMoslems was possible. (Nearly LOOO fcrei®i resjdentojjf a , Port Said have announced plans to leave Egypt with the Anglo- . French troops rather than risk r Egyptian reprisals. Several hun- . dred, mostly Cypriots of British ) nationality, plan to remain. ) Note To Nasser Weighed . Thudicum said he was consider- - ing advising Geneva headquarters - to send a personal message to . President Gamal Abdel Nasser, 5 asking him to make a radio appeal . to Port Said Egyptians against 1 anti-foreign outbreaks. ;. Egyptians in Port Said have ’ been opently hostile to the invaders and have refused any co-. . operation. British arrest of five ’ shopkeepers who had refused to ’ open their stores touched off a wave of anti-Allied feelings and brought the city to a complete ' standstill. The five men were re- ’ leased. . Situation Reported Easier The Middle Eastern political sitIraq and said, "We pray to Allah I uation was generally reported that this sister of ours will very ’ soon be able to shake off the easier, but a dispatch from Da- , mascus said Syrian President Shu- ' kri Elkuwatly accused Britain, nightmare imperialist (Baghdad) ’ Pact which was imposed so forceing an aggressive plot to crush Syria. ’ He paid tribute to the people of ' fully upon her.” c Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, head of the United Nations Emergency Force, returned to Cairo from a Sinai Desert conference with Is- ’ raeli Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan ! and announced the U.N. force was ’ moving 50 kilometers 431 miles) ’ into the Sinai Peninsula. i Taylor Indicted On ‘ Reckless Homicide ! Paul Taylor, 39, of Linn Grove, was indicted Thursday on a reck- .’ less homicide charge by the Allen . county grand jury. Taylor’s indi- ’ ctment was based on an accident ’ May 20 in which Mrs. Jeanette Nevil, 35, of Geneva, was lolled ' when Taylor’s car went out of ’ control on state road 427, 10 miles j north of Fort Wayne. I I. ■ Wounded Pair Still ! In Critical Condition INDIANAPOLIS (W — Two men 1 wounded by a. gunman Wednesday night during an outbreak of violence remained ih critical condition today in General Hospital. Morris Epstein, 47, Indianapolis was shot by James B. Baker, 22, Whitnsville, Mass., during a holdup attempt in his liquor store. Indianapolis patrolman William Be- . aumont, 32, was shot by the gunman in a wild gun battle in a hotel room in which Baker and Indianapolis Police inspector Albert A. Kelly, 55. were killed.

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One Dead, Scores Hurt As Two Chicago EJ Cars Are Swept By Flames

Board Studies Reopening Os Clinton School 16 Segregationists Released On Bond, Face Federal Trial CLINTON, Tenn. (UP)— School board and faculty members confer today on whether it will be safe to reopen the integrated Clinton High School Monday. The school was closed this week because of anti-Negro demonstrations. Fourteen men and two women accused of leading attempts to force Negro pupils out of the school were released under bonds of SI,OOO to $12,000 Thursday. Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor ordered them brought to trial by Dec. 20 after formal arraignmdht Monday on federal charges of violating an injunction against • interfering with school integration. Promise To Abide By Law All promised that meanwhile they would abide by the law and “stay away from the school.” Anderson County school board members said they were hopeful of reopening the high school next Monday. K Principal D. J. Brittain Jr. and the* school bojpd ordered. thL school closed last Tuesday after seven segregationists assaulted a white Baptist minister who helped escort six Negro students into the school. Federal arrests of the 16 segregationists followed. Another Jailed Thursday A 17th segregationist was arrested Thursday and jailed for contempt of court in passing out racist literature in the courtroom during a recess. Joseph Diehl, a Knox County farm er, was distributing antiSemitic circulars, U.S. District Attorney John C. Crawford said. Judge Taylor sentenced Diehl, a white citizens, council member, to 30 days in jail. Diehl's distribution of the paper, entitled "The Coming Red Dictatorship”, was a “wilful attempt to embarrass the court and impede justice,” Taylor ruled. Corn Referendum Plan Clarified Answers By County Agriculture Agent County agent Leo N. Seltenright has come up with some timely answers as to how the corn referendum Tuesday, December 11, will affect farm operations next year. Here is the example used by Seltenright to clarify the alternatives on which the farmer will vote: If farmer Smith has a sod bank com base of 51 acres, his corn acreage allotment would be 37 acres—about 73 percent of his soil bank corn base. If the soil bank corn base program is voted in by a two-thirds majority December 11, and he wishes to participate in 1957, he could grow 43 acres of corn, put 8 acres in the soil bank and receive payments of approximately 90 cents times his appraised yield per acre for the acres thus.taken out of production. Less corn could be grown and correspondingly larger acreages put in the soil bank, using s6it conserving practices on the, acres thus taken .out of production. Or, he could grow 51 acres of corn, place 8 crop acres in the conservation reserve for three or more years, and receive conservation acreage payments of approximately sll per acre. In either of the two above cases, ..he would receive price supports of $1.31 per bu. Com acreage allotments have been in effect since 1949. If onethird or more of those voting vote to retain corn acreage allotments, farmer Smith could grow not mote than 37 acres of com in order to receive price supports of $1.36 per bushel He could plant his other crop acres to soybeans (Continued on Five)

Indiana Democrats To Retain Skillen Remains Chairman Os Indiana Party INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Charles Skillen Thursday kept his job as Indiana Democratic Chairman, t Skillen, elected to this third twoyear term last May, survived a '•vote of confidence” during the first state committee meeting since the Democrats were beaten soundly in the Nov. 6 election. At the meeting, Skillen offered to ' resign. Fourteen of the 22 members of the committee were present or represented by proxy when Skillen was unanimously endorsed in a voice vote. First District Chairman Griffith Rees, Gary, made the confidence motion and 3rd District Chairman Marshall Kizer, Plymouth, seconded the motion. Talk Os Replacing Skillen Talk of replacing Skillen usually popped up before each meeting of the 22 district chairmen and vice chairmen. It was no secret several members were dissatisfied with SkilUen’s leadership. In fact, he kept his job early in the campaign only after a compromise ‘ with governor candidate Ralph ‘ Tucker over promoting state can- ■ didates. . , Skillen said he ottered to resign »at previous meetings. Any differences in the party were evidence of "democracy” in the state [ organization, he said. ♦ • * Second District Chairman Wil- ; liam Shaw, Knox, and his vice ’ chairman, Mrs. Paul Jameson, Valparaiso, resigned from the state committee. Shaw, who quit to become a minority member of Gov.-elect Harold Handley’s new state conservation commission, said new 2nd District officers will be elected next week in a meeting of county chairmen at Winamac. Skillen named a three-man legislative planning committee to discuss with minority members of the 1957 Legislature the" Democratic program. Riser On Committee Committee members are State Senator Kizer; Rep. John Stacy, Lawrenceburg, 9th District chairman, and Sth District Chairman Elmer Hoehn, Jeffersonville. Allen Dale, who resigned as state party publicity director effective Jan. 1, told the committee it should eliminate his job and instead retain services of an* advertising and public relations firm. Some committee members said Skillen’s vote of confidence was "uncalled for” and "out of order,” since he was elected to' a term expiring May, 1958. Defense Budget Is Presented To Ike r —— Secretary Wilson Presents Budget AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP) — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson presents the defense budget to President Eisenhower today for decision on how deeply military spending requests should be cut. The Defense Department is expected to propose spending slightly more than 38 billion dollars in the fiscal year. starting next July. Wilson flew here from Washington accompanied by Asst. Secretary of Defense Wilfred J. McNeil. Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Budget Bureau Director Percival Brundage. They were scheduled to spend most of the forenoon in the President’s cramped little office above ■ the golf professional’s shop at the Augusta National Golf Club. Their job was to reach agreement on the billions America will spend next ! year in operating a military establishment that may mean the dis- • ference between success or failure . in countering Soviet expansion i plans. The) expected proposal of a 38 , billiol dollar budget would be 2 . billion more than in the current 1 fiscal year. But it is far less than an estimated 48 billion dollars that the armed services originally thought they needed.

- - - ■ - , Philippines || Wins Seat On U.N. Council Wins Place Over Czechoslovakia On : First Ballot Vote UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— , The Philippines, with the backing of the United States, won a first • ballot victory over Russian-backed Czechoslovakia today for a place . in the United Nations security , council. The Philippines received 51 votes to 20 for Czechoslovakia. Single votes were cast for Afghanistan, Spain and Yugoslavia. The Philippines will take its seat on the council Jan. 1. The election was to fill a one year unexpired term occasioned by the resignation of Yugoslavia in accordance with an agreement reached . last year to break a 36-ballot deadlock between that country and the Russ Balked at Formula Under a formula worked out by ' Chile’s Dr. Jose Maza, then presi- _ dent of the assembly, the Philippines and Yugoslavia drew lots to decide which should be elected to ’ the council. Yugoslavia won the * chance drawing and, under the ' formula, agreed to resign after ' serving only half the two-year term. * Yugoslavia last month an- , nounced its resignation from the > council as of Jan. 1. But Russia proposed Czechoslovakia for the i seat, which originally was allotted t to "Eastern Europe” under a . gentlemen’s agreement reached in r London in 1946. Russia announced that if Czechof Slovakia did not win the one-year term, it would block plans w .in- ■ crease the council’s membership ’ from 11 to 13 members. This was : an open threat to South American ■ and Asian countries who hoped to gain additional representation in the enlarged council. Consider Hungarian Problem Western delegates, meanwhile, explored all possibilities of further . action against Hungary in view of its refusal to admit Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold for an inspection visit. The puppet Budapest regime had • until midnight tonight, under terms of a General Assembly resolution passed Tuesday, ip agree to accept United Nations observers for an on-the-spot investigation. No new resolution was expected until the beginning of the week. But the United States, in consultation with its Western partners, had considered plans ranging from a call for Hammarskjold o go to Moscow for discussions on the Hungarian situation to a proposal for a "memorial” to the victims of the uprising in Hungary. Emil Bain Dies Al Hospital Thursday Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Emil Bain, 77, of 310 North Third street, died at 10:30 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following a month’s serious illness of complications. s.,'-. He was born at Mt. Etna Nov. 27, 1879, a son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘ Charles Bain, and had resided in , Decatur for the past three years. He was married in April, 1905, to . Alice Hertel, who preceded him , in death. The only survivor is a son, : Myles R. Bain, of Columbus, O. . A brother, James Bain, preceded , him in death. [ Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at I the Gillig & Doan funeral home, ! the Rev. Ray J. Walther officiat- ; Ing. Burial will be in Woodland I cemetery at Van Wert, O. Friends : mat call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Guided Missile Is Reported Missing Pilotless Bomber Missing After Test WASHINGTON (UP)— A guided intercontinental missile that escaped control after being fired from Florida was reported mfesing today, possibly in the Brazilian jungles. Air Force officials said the mile an hour missile — named the ’ Snark and designed as a nuclear > weapon — presumably did not ‘ carry a warhead of any kind. The missing Snark was test- ! fired Wednesday from the joint ' Defense Department-Air Force test center at Patrick Air Force ’ Base at Cocoa, Fla. Destination Unknown The Defense Department Issued a brief statement shortly before ■ midnight Thursday night announcing that the missile escaped from • control at its "scheduled turnaround point and proceeded to a 1 destination yet unknown.” “We don’t know where it is,” a ‘ Pentagon spokesman said. He said he could not confirm or deny published reports that the Snark was seen flashing over the Brazilian jungles 2,000 miles from its base. However, he said the missile ’ presumably has crashed either in ’ the ocean or some remote land “ area and Brazil was a good possihility ■■■■ ■ . r Brazilian diplomats here said they had heard nothing about the missing Snark. ’ The Pentagon spokesman said ' he had no information regarding , plans to search for the missile ex- ] cept to say “We always try to * get them back.” i Not The First Lost He said the Air Force has lost a number of Snarks in tests from ’ Florida. ' ’ ' ■ The 72-foot long Snark—a sleek, red pilotless bomber designed to ’ carry an atomic warhead over in- ’ tercontinental distances—has been 1 fldwn over distances of 2,000 miles. '■ <■■■-—-■ ■ Anthony Eden Wins Vote Os Confidence Wins Confidence On Mid-East Policies i LONDON (UP)—Sir Anthony Eden will remain Britain’s prime minister and lead the na1 tion in an all-out drive to restore a sound economy weakened by the Suez Invasion, Conservative Party 1 sources said today. Fifteen “Suez Rebels” abstained ' Thursday night when Eden won ! a vote of confidence on his Middle ■ East policies, but political sources 1 said the Conservatives would treat the revolt as one that has fizzled and continue to back Eden. It was believed Eden’s stand was strengthened by U.S. Vice President Ri'chard M. Nixon’s declaration in New York Thursday night that it is vital for the United States to aid Britain in the “financial plight” the nation suffered as a result of the Suez crisis. R. A. Butler, Eden’s deputy and stand-in while the prime miniser recuperates in Jamaica from “severe overstrain,” left no doubt 1 Eden planned to stay on as leader : of Britain and the “Conservative ! Party. “The. first person who would f wish to-face the music is the prime minister himself.” Butler . told Commons before the vote. The . “music” was a divided party, and i the need for Labor Party coopera- . tion in the task of rebuilding Briti ain’s torn economy. r In the voting, a Labor Party censure motion was defeated by 327 votes to 260, a government i majority of 67. Some of the rebels abstained on a Conservative Party motion backing Eden, and the vote was 312 to 260, a majority of only ’ 52. Though it was an out-and-out re--1 volt announced in advance, the i Conservative Party “whips” or disciplinarians were able to keep I most of the dissident Conservatives in line.

Fire Sweeps Through Two Wooden Cars Believe Explosion Touched Off Fire, Killed. Motorman CHICAGO (UP) — Fire swept through two wooden cars of an elevated train crowded with suburbanites bound for work early today, killing one person and injuring scores. It was the second major accident on Chicago’s elevated railway system in five weeks. Authorities believed an explosion touched off the fire and electrocuted the motorman before the flames spread back through the lead car of the Evanston special bound for downtown Chicago. Persons waiting on the Howard - Street platform at the northern boundary of Chicago stfid the car was burning when the train passed that station. It halted at the next stop south. Panic swept through the cars. _ Terrified passengers smashed windows and jumped out on the catwalk. Some, injured, lay there i While others, in a state of shock, --ta 1 wandered to the street. “There were people jumping everywhere, onto the tracks,” Said I Friedman, 40, Wilmette, said. “The • ’ first car was all in flames.” At the Cook County Morgue, the i dead man was identified as motor- : man Daniel Cullen, 47. Sixteen injured were taken to St. > Francis Hospital, about a mite away in nearby Evanston. Edgewater Hospital was alerted to care for others. Traffic on the elevated line was halted as power was turned off in the accident area. Thousands of persons who ordinarily use the line to reach their jobs in the Loop or elsewhere in Chicago were delayed in reaching their destinations. ' Chicago Transit Authority officials said they were told that the train, southbound from Evanston, was supposed to have halted at the Howard Street station, just north of the accident scene. Instead, they said, it proceeded past the station, and came to a halt north of the Jarvis station, at he poin where the fire broke out. On the night or Nov. 6, a North Shore and an elevated train collided at the Wilson Avenue station. Eight persons died and scores of others were injured. Wilson is about three miles south of the site of today’s accident. Chicago Transit Authority officials said the fire broke out aboard the first car, a wooden one, and spread to the second. They described the»equipment as a fourcar train of wooden and steel coaches mixed, and estimated 400 persons were aboard. With a half-hour after the accident, police asked the Edgewater Hospital if it could take “a dozen burn cases.” By that time, St. Francis Hospital said that it could take no additional injured. The owner of a hardware store near the accident scene said a woman, bleeding and without shoes, told him “I saw people lying in the aisles.” Sol Levinson, proprietor of the hardware store, said another passenger who did not give his name told how he wrapped his topcoat around his fist and broke a window, then helped his wife through the opening. She suffered a cut Levinson said that for a time flames were “three or four stories high” abovd the coach. Firemen put up ladders along the elevated structure to battle the blaze.

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