Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1956 — Page 1

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“THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. \ .IN EIGHTS*’ THESE TWO views of this year’s 23rd Christmas lijhts display at Nela Park, GE’s lamp division in Cleveland, show the "Goodwill Tn Men” finale and the "Treasure Island of Giant Toys” display. Other displays in “The Greatest Story Ever Told ... In Lights" pageant dipict typical Yule scenes. Annually some half a million persons drive through the Nela Park “campus” to Jee the lights, on every night from Dec. 8 to Jan. 1.

Baby Kidnaper Found Guilty, Facing Chair ; Angelo La Marco Is Convicted By Jury In Weinberger Case MINEOLA, N. Y. (UP) — Angelo LaMarca and his wife collapsed on hearing a jury convict him of the kidnap-murder of infant Peter Weinberger. The verdict carries an automatic sentence of death in the Sing Sing electric chair. David Markowitz, defense counsel, said he would appeal the verdict to the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany, on Dec. 14, the day set for formal sentencing. The jury composed only of fathers refused to recommend mer- ■ cy in announcing it had found LaMarca guilty of both kidnaping and first-degree murder. Because of this the death penalty is auto- ’ mafic Under New York’* Little ; Lindbergh Law and murder statute. The 31-year-old mechanic, who ' pleaded, inndcent by reason of in- : sanity when he abducted Peter : (Continued rage Five) . I Hungarian Relief Fund Is Now $225 Adams County Goal For Fund Is $6Ol i The Adams county fund on the < Red Cross Hungarian relief project stands at a total of $255, ac- 1 cording to an announcement by 1 Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive di- 1 rector of the local Red Cross chap 1 ter. Os this amount, S9O came from 1 the Berne Community Chest sur- 1 plus fund and $l2B was donated, ‘ through collections at the First State Bank last Saturday. Those who worked at the bank last Saturday were Mrs. Joe Hunt- ‘ er and Miss Fan Hammell. They ‘ were assisted by four Girl Scouts, — Helen Walters, Evelyn Snyder," Mary Eichenauer and Ellen Houk. ft was announced that volunteers | are also at the bank today in an ( effort to collect enough to push > the Hungarian relief fund closer to die $6Ol goal for Adams county. Staffing the bank today are two 1 staff aides and four Girl Scouts. c Individuals who have donated to 1 the fund inclu.de Mrs. H. Baker, 1 Edger Gerber, Earl Fuhrman, Milt s Swearingen, Dianne Linn, Samuel Cottrell, Ivan Hakes, Mrs. T. C. 1 Smith, Emma Mallonee, Mrs. Jes- s se Haffner, Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. J L„ Fruchte, James Kocher and ‘ Grace Lichtensteiger. Infant Killed When Thrown From Auto I RUSHVILLE, Ind. (UP) — SeV-en-month-old Bruce Ward, Arling- < ton. was killed Friday when the i impact of a crash threw him from 2 his mother’s automobile. e Mrs. Juanita Ward told state po- 1 lice her son became restless in r the car. When she tried to comfort t him. she lost control and the car hit a fence along a Rush County i road about two miles west of Ar- 1 lington. < NOON EDITION >

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Dulles On Crucial Mission To Europe Seeking To Repair Unity Os Alliance WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles prepared to fly to Paris today on the crucial mission of repairing unity in the Western Alliance. Dulles planned to leave by plane this afternoon to reach Paris in tjme for a meeting Sunday with the British and French foreign ministers. One of the first questions expected to come up is the British bod French bid for a Big Three “summit” conference. Will Urge Cooperation Hie secretary and Ms top aides hope to convince Britain. France and the 12 other nations that will be attending a North Atlantic council meeting, next week that it is time to forget differences of the past few months and start pulling together again. Dulles teeis a solid Western front is necessary to capitalize on difficulties Russia has been experiencing in Eastern Europe. Dulles will be accompanied at the annual' NATO review by Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and other State and Defense Department officials. However, Sen. Walter F. George (D-Gab President Eisenhower’s special representative for NATO problems, will not attend. Review Begins Tuesday The conference begins Tuesday and will run until Friday or Saturday. an unusually long time for a NATO review session. In the past they have lasted only three days at the most. Experts regard Dulles’ task as one of the most delicate and important of his diplomatic career. European diplomats — particularly British and French — are expected to give him a cool reception because they are still smarting over the tough attitude adopted by the United States toward European problems following he British-French strike at Egypt. Dulles, who returned to his desk only this week after a cancer operation, is prepared to devote full time to the task ahead. New York Newspaper Strike Threat Ends NEW YORK (UP) — The Newspaper Deliverers Union early today accepted a new contract with nine major New York area newspapers, ending the threat of a strike. The union members at a meeting which ran past a midnight strike deadline okayed a contract drawn up by its executive committee and the publishers. Harry Merry Dies Friday Afternoon Harry. L. Merry, 88, of Rome Cfty, former Pennsylvania railroad agent in Decatur, died at 2:45 p.m. Friday at a convalescent home in Columbia City, where he had been since Nov. 10. He had resided at Rome City since his retirement. Surviving are his wife, Myrtle, also confined to the convalescent home, afid one son, Irwin Merry of Evanston, 111. The body was removed to the Foglesong funeral home in Sturgis, Mich., for services and burial

Resentment Os Egyptians Is Growing Daily Growing Bolder In Open Hostility To Western Nationals , LONDON (UP)—Egyptian resentment against the West increased today faster than Anglo French invasion troops were being withdrawn. Some 750 Italian na tionals anxiously awaited a chance . to get oyt of the country. Italian Consul Count FrancheSet Mareri sent an urgent cable tc Rome asking his government tc send a ship immediately to take home the Italians, who fear re prisals by the Egyptians. Although the Italians played nc direct part in the invasion of the Suez Canal zone, they feared thej may be included in mounting Egyptian mistrust of all Euro peans. Second Request Mareri said his request for help in taking out the remainder of the Italian colony was his second i® the past few days. He said he received no answer from Rome re garding an earlier request that the Italian liner Ascania return to Pori Said to provide transportation tc Italy. Three thousand young Egyptians marched through the streets ol Port Said Friday carrying Egyptian flags and a newly devised liberation banner to which were pinned photographs of President Gama! Abdel Nasser. Silently and slowly thej marched to the city cemetery under the watchful eyes of about 5C armed troops and held a memorial service for Egyptians killed in the canal zone invasion. Natives Grow Bolder The Egyptians grew bolder bj die hour in their open display ol hostility toward the West; Dozens of anti-French and anti-British slogans appeared in huge letters on the sides of walls and buddings. The Egyptian government tried to stem the display of animosity and arrested five Egyptians for threatening foreigners with retaliation Tfbr collaborating with the French and British;' " Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell, commander of British occupation troops, said he will not disclose (Continued On Page Five) Cuban Revolutionaries Ordered Liquidated WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES, NIQUERO, Cuba (UP) — Col. Ramon Cruz Vidalnun launched fullscale operations today to wipe out remnants of a revolutionary band which invaded Cuba to overthrow President Fulgencio Batista. Brig. Gen. Martin Diaz Tamayo, regional commander of the Man-zanillo-Niquero area, said the colonel arrived Friday to take command of the “liquidation proceedings.” ———————— Ossian Man Killed As Auto Hits Post BI don Van Meter, 33, Ossian, was killed Friday night when hjs automobile left a county road east of here and struck a post. State police said Van Meter apparently went to sleep en route home from work. He was thrown from the car and it rolled over and crushed him.

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Decatur, Indiana, Sator day, December 8, 1956

Russians Pour Troop Reinforcements Into Taut Hungary Capital

Hammarskjold To Report To U.N. Assembly Midnight Deadline Passes Without Any Word From Hungary UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (UP)— Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold reports to the General Assembly today on his efforts to secure infofmation on the crushing of the Hungarian freedom revolt by Soviet armored forces. The report is expected to say Hammarskjold has received no official reply from the Janos Kadar regime on his request to visit Hungary Dec. 16. It is also expected to outline measures taken by Hammarskjold to implement the mandate to send observers to other “appropriate” countries to investigate the Hungarian situation. The assembly, in a resolution sponsored by the United States and 13 other countries and overwhelmingly approved early Wednesday, demanded the Soviet Union and its puppet Hungarian regime consent by Friday midnight to admit UN. observers to Hungary. SReneeAt Deadline- ■*< The midhfghf deadline passed without any official word from Budapest or Moscow. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn), a member of the U.S. delegation, said he favored sending Hammarskjold to Moscow but had not made a formal proposal to that effect yet. The Hungarian regime’s continued defiance of the United Nations touched off a flurry of demands for retaliation. The U.S. and 16 other nations called a caucus today to continue work on a new resolution. They hoped to agree on a draft which they could present to the assembly Monday. The delegates were concentraing mainly on way to bar the vote deadlock. Under a formula Kadar representatives from the United Nations. This could be done by a successful challenge of the Communist representatives when r the credentials committee meets. The delegates also were considering ways to make it a condition of membership that the secretarygeneral or his representatives be permitted freedom of travel in all member nations. Philippines In Council In Friday’s session, the U.S.backed Philippines won an easy (Continued on Five) Community Fund Is Short Os Goal Annual Campaign Short Os Quota Edward F. Jaberg. general chairman of the annual fund campaign of the Decatur Community Fund, and Robert Boch, executive secretary, today stated that the drive failed to reach the announced goal so $13,400. The total in cash and pledges received to date is $12,447.11, , wMch is $952.89 short of the goal set in the annual budget. The total received in cash up to Nov. 29 was $10,070.41, and pledges totaled $2,376.70. ’ The report by divisions, inclyd- j ing cash and pledges, follows: t Retail, business and profession- j al, $4,109.94. Industry, cash, $3,388; industry . employes, cash and pledges, $3,- t 853 01, a total of $7,241.01. . School teachers, $246.50. j Women’s organizations (18), . $258. , Lodges and clubs (5), $65. Individuals (by mail), $425. Monmouth high school, $22.03. Teenage drive, $30.13. City employes, $49,.50. Jaberg and Boch expressed their thanks today to all persons who contributed to the drive and also to all solicitors. Any persons missed during the campaign may still make donations to Boch at the bank.

Budget Parley Is Scheduled By Ike Bomb Development Budget Under Study AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)-President Eisenhower scheduled a conference today to determine how much the federal government should spertd in the 1958 fiscal year on atomic and hydrogen bomb development. The Chief Executive planned a budget session this morning at the Augusta National Golf Club with Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission and Budget Director Percival BrundThe 1958 AEC budget will contain funds not only for development of weapons, but for spreading the peacetime applicatiorvpf nuclear knowledge across Pn e world. Strauss arrived Friday night and was scheduled to talkk with the President and Brundage in the early forenoon. Brundage attended a Defense budget conference here Friday with Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who flew back to Washington after the meeting. . Wilson said before leaving that an increased defense budget appears likely for fiscal 1958. The current budget is $36,300,000,000 and it has besn reported teat the 1958 fiscal figttre-may-go, up to S3B bflllon. Wilson estimated in October a possible $1 to $3 billion increase for next year but said today he was "not prepared to talk about figures.” He said that foreign developments, such as the Middle East crisis, and increased costs at home play a part in arriving at the budget, but "I don’t think international events affected it too much.v First Aid Class To Meet Monday Night Dr. John Terveer To Speak At Meeting Dr. John Terveer will discuss ♦the care of the injured at the meeting of the Red Cross first aid class Monday evening at the Decatur fire station. A question and , answer period will follow the dis- ( cussion. i - Dr. Joe Morris is instructor for the course and is being assisted by Gerald Durkin, chairman of the Adams county Red CrosS first aid program. After the first of the year, clas- . ses in standard and advanced I first aid will be organized by the Red Cross. Any person interested in taking these courses may contact the Red Cross office or one of the following instductors — Dr. Morris, Mrs. Roger Singleton or Durkin. „ j Those who are taking the cur- s rent course are Mrs. Wilbert ( Thieme, Mrs. Lester Painter, c Mrs. Jack Everett. Mrs. George f Stalling, Lois Kraft, John Stucky, Mrs. Joseph Call, Grace Lichten- { Steiger, Mrs. Eva Ruhl, Mrs. Paul £ Wiseman, Mrs. Otto Baker, Mrs. s Jack Rayer and the Rev. L. T. < Norris. ( ■ ; j Three Youths Killed t In Two-Car Smashup J ' WASHINGTON, Ind. (UP) -•« Three youths were fatally injured Friday night in a two-car smash- 8 up on Ind. 58 in Odon northeast of < here. Charles Herbert O’Maley, 17, 1 and Thomas Douglas May, 19, £ both of LooGootee, were dead on arrival at Washington Hospital. ‘ Donald L. ’Barley, 20, Elnora, died J about six hours later in the hos- ‘ pital. , * • i _ . < INDIANA WEATHER s Cloudy with occasional snow today, warning of possible freezing rain Fort Wayne south to Columbus. Sunday considerable cloudiness and continued rather cold. Low tonight 26-30. High Sunday in low 30s. Outlook for 1 Monday: Generally fair and a j little warmer. r

Clinton Softool Scheduled To Reopen Monday Tennessee School Slated To Reopen, Negroes To Return CLINTON, Tenn.. (IPI — Negro students indicated today they will return to the integrated Clinton High School when it reopens Monday after a week’s shutdown be' cause of racial strife. Strong precautions were being planned to prevent further molesting or intimidating of the nine Negroes among more than 700 students. The Anderson County school board assured the Negroes they will have police protection. County Attorney Eugene L. Joyce said the text of a federal court injunction against interference with the right of the Negroes to attend the school will be read to the entire student body at the school reopening. A Dramatic Event “We want to dramatize this thing — let them know it’s coming, down like a wet tent on everyone,” Joyce said. The board threatened to expel students caugtjtjharassing the The board said it will “funnel information to the FBI and Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor” concerning any pro-segregation acts which could be considered in violation of his injunction. The FBI has begun a wide investigation into anti-integration activities in this hot-spot of racial disorders. It was keeping 72 persons, including 15 to 20 students, Under surveillance. FBI Attitude Switch The FBI told Sheriff Glad Woodward last September it would not enter the Clinton school integration issue. However, Joyce said, events of the past week have shown a "change in the FBI attitude.” Police Chief Francis Moore told the board meeting Friday that officers would be on hand to arrest anyone found loitering around the school Monday with no business there. "I assure you there will be not one outsider interfering with students returning to school,” Moore said. ’ ■ Items For Auction Obtained By Pupils Accept Challenge By School Seniors Begun by a challenge given to the students of Decatur high school, the members of the senior class Friday initiated a successful drive to obtain additional items for the Community Center auction. The auction and bake sale, conducted by the students of Reppert school of auctioneering and sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, is being held this afternoon and evening at the center to raise money for the center. Although the seniors thought they would win, they challenged the other classes to give them a contest in collecting items fbr the sale. _ . ■ The students of all classes responded enthusiastically with bicycles, bird cages, records, books, balls and ball gloves, book ends, radios, a-cash register and many other articles. The victors in the contest were the juniors, followed closely by the seniors who are credited with the idea and the promotion of the project. It was reported that almost two truck loads of items were donated by the students to the sale. / Henry Fillmore Dies In Miami, Florida MIAMI (UP) - Henry Fillmore, 75, famed marching band director and- composer, died here Friday night of pneumonia.

Moforman Is Blamed For Chicago Crash Four Probes Opened In Elevated Crash CHICAGO (IB — An elevated train accident which left one person dead and 50 injured, the third such mishap over a three-month period, has stimulated at least four separate investigations. A coroner’s inquest was opened today into the death of the train motorman, who apparently was electrocuted in his cab while the wooden-car train careened through a station Friday. , The police department, the Chicago Transit Authority, and the City Council Committee on Local Transportation have also scheduled investigations. Although most of the passengers in the rear cars were evacuated in orderly fashion, occupants of the lead car, almost completely destroyed by flames, were panicstricken as they clawed at doors and smashed windows to escape. CTA officials blamed the dead motorman, Daniel Cullen, 47, for the accident. CTA General Manager Walter J. McCarter said it appeared that Cullen switched ihe train from overhead trolley powef to an electric rail without first pulling a lever to cut off the engine’s electricity. Last Noy. 5, eight persons died nd almost'gg®- were injured when an elevated train plowed into the rear Os a suburban train. On that occasion, also, the CTA blamed the motorman. Another wooaen train was gutted by flames Sept. 18, a few blocks south of where Friday’s accident took place. Lioness Breaks Out Os Cage, Mauls Boy Courageous Father Battles Lioness GARDEN GROVE, Calif, (ffl — A courageous father said today he tried with his bare hands to pry open the jaws of a large African lioness which mauled his 11-year-old son after breaking out of its cage. "The lion sank its teeth into my boy’s knee clear to the bone,” the father, Elwood Tranholm, of Wilmington, Calif., said. “I stuck my hands into the animal’s mouth and tried to make him let go, but I wasn’t strong enough. Tranholm said he pounced on the lioness like an animal himself Friday night when the beast savagely bit and clawed his son, Erian. He said the lioness broke out of its cage by bending the steel bars “like they were paper.” After mauling the boy and also clawing the father, the lioness raced across a crowded thoroughfare, terrifying pedestrians and motorists. The boy was taken to Orange county hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. He was clawed viciously on the head and side and bitten severely on the knee. Doctors said his condition was fair. The beast broke out during an African lion act being staged at the Breitfeller Sales auto lot as an advertising attraction. The animal’s trainer, George E. Fraser, 27, cornered the lioness in a parking lot 12 minutes after its escape and managed to slip a rope noose over its neck. He begged deputies not to shoot the beast becuase of its value. The lioness was put in a stronger cage. Tranholm, who was released from the hospital after treatment for clawing described as “not serious,” said the incident occurred while his son was helping him work the spotlights for the show. The father had been hired by Fraser. Fraser said he saw the youngster, pressing in close to watch the act, reach down and touch the twitching tail of the three-year-old lioness. The animal spun around, Fraser said, and gripped the boy’s legs at the knees with both front paws, then broke out. rt —- - . •.■.

bangers Os Hew Uprising Hang , Over Hungary ■ Infantry Convoys t Rumble Into City , As Tension Mounts 1 BUDAPEST (UP) — Soviet ! troop reinforcements poured into ’ tension ridden Budapest today. The 1 danger of a new armed uprising by Hungarians hung ominously ov- • er the nation. • Only a sudden about face by the 1 Janos Kadar regime seemed capa- ” ble of averting new bloodshed. And Kadar was getting tougher every 1 day. ' Truck convoys of Russian infan- ‘ trymen rumbled into this shattered capital city to reinforce the arm- ’ ored garrisons. Hungarian police 1 and militiamen were on an around . the clock alert. ‘ Crackdowns Intensify Feelings One mass demonstration and ' more shooting by Soviet tanks and 1 the blue-uniformed police could set off the powder-keg. Feelings, alJ ready, running high against the So- ‘ viet-backed government, were In2 tensified by a crackdown on labor , leaders. 1 The Central Workers CottncU <A ® Budapest angrily protested the ar- ' rests to Kadar and demanded he I broadcast his reply over the radio 1 by 8 o’clock Friday night. The hour passed with no word from ■ Kadar. [ The council warned that if the ’ arrests did not stop, “the workers will turn against the government for good an d the end will be a general strike, bloodshed and a new national tragedy.” “Anything can happen now,** one worker leader said grimly. The Hungarian Communist Party made new overtures to the workers. According to a Radio Budapest broadcast heard in Vienna, the Provisional Central Committee promised negotiations with - the Soviet Union for complete > equality for Hungary. It did not ' say when the negotiations would i begin. Kadar has maintained they ■ would come only after “peace and i order” is restored. Some 200 workers’ representa- ' tives have been arrested in the s past two days. At some factories, ■ the reaction was immediate—- ■ workers walked out. They gathered in angry mobs in the city streets until dispersed by police. Tempers exploded in several instances but no shootitjg was re- ■ ported. The most serious incident ; was touched off when a Russian armored car crew arrested a youth hanging up a workers council poster in Karl Marx Square. A crowd of some 100 Hungarians collected. But the Russians smiled and said they would release the youth. Then they roared away with him. Moments later 30 Hungarian policemen carrying submachineguns and dubs charged into the square and scattered the crowd. Anti-Soviet and anti-government sentiment was fanned by recurrent reports of the continued mass deportation of Hungarian students by the Russians. Protestant Students Seized One report said the Russians seized several sgidents from the Luther House Protestant institution two days ago. When the Russians took the students to a Budapest railroad station to ship them out, the stationmaster went to the Soviet kommandatura to protest, this report said' The budapest workers council, which claims it represents about 65 per cent of the Hungarian labor (Continued on Page Flv»)

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