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ONE OF FORTY-FIVE Hungarian athletes who choose to remain away from their strife-torn homeland, Zsuzsa Ordogh, member of the Olympic Swimming Team waves a sad good-by to team mates leaving Melbourne airport. She is surrounded by Hungarian-Australian friends.

British Force Under Attack By Egyptians Egypt Underground Fighters In Attack On 8-Man Patrol LONDON (UP)— Egyptian underground fighters in Port Said attacked an eight-man British patrol early today with hand grenades and machineguns, injuring one soldiet. Seven Egyptians were arrested. It was the first outbreak of antiBritish violence since the military occupation of Port Said and authorities feared there would be more as Anglo-French troops evacuated the captured city. Tension was rising daily in the port city and there have been increasing report of arms and ammunition smuggled to underground fighters in Port Said. Most foreigners have left in fear of Egyptian vengeance. Five Grenades Thrown The eight-man patrol of the First Battalion of Royal Scots was attacked on the fringe of the native quarters, but the quickthinking soldiers saved their lives by diving for cover when they first heard grenade pins being pulled out. . British officials said five grenades were thrown in the 30 minutes attack and that machineguns were fired at the troops from nearby rooftops. Reports reaching Istanbul said Syria was reinforcing its military t positions along the tense Turkish frontier with troops and new Soviet equipment. The reports from Gaziantep on the Turkish-Syrian border said unidentified jet aircraft, presumably Russian, were crossing the Turkish border headed for Syria. p Syria has accused Turkey, Iraq and Israel of plotting together to attack and regain control of the oil-rich Middle East. The Mideast focus was on Syria where there were reports of a new cabinet crisis. Reports from Beirut said a new multi-party political bloc had been formed and was demanding a showdown with Iraq and other Arab states subject to '‘colonialism.*' Syrian President Shukri El-Ku-watly, believed by some Western observers to be a virtual prisoner of a military clique, was reported discussing the bloc’s demands with Syrian politicians. Harry Merry Rites Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services for Harry L. Merry, 88, former. Decatur resident, who died Friday at Columbia City, will be held at 10:30 a.m.. Tuesday at the Foglesong funeral home at Sturgis, Mi ch. Burial will be in Oak Lawn cemttery at Sturgis. _ * . Mies Bowling Alleys Robbed During Night Thieves entered the Mies bowling alleys sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning, looting two pinball machines and a coin box of about sls. Entry was made by opening a basement window. The pinball machines and the coin box were forced open. The breakin was commixed Sometime after, 10:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a report made to city police, who are conducting an investigation.

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Americans Pause To Pray For Hungarians Eisenhower Urges Americans To Pray By UNITED PRESS Thousands of Americans from coast to coast paused in prayerful meditation today for -the victims of what President Eisenhower called the “brutality in Hungary.” The President made the statement in urging Americans everywhere today to Observe United Nations Human Rights Day by lifting their hearts and their prayers to the oppressed people of Hungary. The peal of church bells at noon sounded the call to prayer in many cities. Flags were flown at half mast in some cities as a day long reminder of the sacrifices made by freedom loving Hungarians. ; “Qn this Human Rights Day,” "the President said in his statement, "it is for each one of us to recognize anew that we are brothers in our Father's house, and each is truly his brother’s keeper. “We cannot shed that responsibility, nor do we want to do so. Let us resolve on this <jay that the world shall never forget what tyranny has done to our fellow man in Hungary.” Mr. Eisenhower’s statement, his most sympathetic to date on behalf of the Hungarians, also said the Soviet terror in Hungary “repudiates and negates” virtually every article in the U.N. declaration of human rights. “That these human rights have been So flagrantly repudiated is cause for worldwide mourning," he said. Among the cities holding special observances were San Francisco, Fort Worth, El Paso, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, Washington and Newport, Ky. New York and some other cities marked the day with special proclamations. A moment of silence was observed in schools in San Francisco, birthplace of the United Nations, Fort Worth and El Paso. San Francisco Mayor George Christopher also asked all residents to join in prayer. Students at Xavier University in Cincinnati wore black arm bands, and the City Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Russia. In Chicago, residents donated an estimated SIOO,OOO for Hungarian relief in a tag day held last week. Flags at Indianapolis were flown at half mast. ______ The United Nations headquarters in New York took time out from considering a motion to condemn Russia to hear a special concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The Scripps Howard newspapers suggested editorially that the day be one of mourning—a day of remembrance of a monstrous crime against the human race. Lewis Smith Named Head Os Prosecutors Lewis L. Smith, Adams county prosecuting attorney, was named president-elect of the Indiana prosecutors association Saturday morning in the business session of the three-day winter conference. Robert Skinner of Lawrence county, last year’s president-elect, assumed the duties of president for the coming year. Other officers are Paul Wever of Vanderburgh, vice-president, and John Jett of Vigo, secretary-treasurer. The association approved a proposal that the next legislature raise salaries of the state’s 85 prosecutors. Smith will serve on the- prganization's legislative committee. His term of the ’ association will begin next winter. *

10,000 Armed Hungarians Are Fighting Reds Freedom Fighters Locked In Battle With Russ Troops VIENNA <W — Some 10,000 armed Hungarian freedom fighters were reported locked in a pitched battle with Soviet troops in the hills north of Budapest today. Reports reaching Vienna said the freedom fighters involved belonged to the “Corvin” legion which has been hiding out in the Gelert and Buda hills since the last uprising. They were believed to be under the command of Maj. Gen. Bela Karoly, one of ousted Premier Imre Nagy’s top military aides. The reports indicated the 10,000 strong guerrilla legion attacked Russian tanks and infantry dug in among the hills after the government of Soviet-sponsored Premier Janos Kadar announced martial law Sunday. There were reports some Russian troops who went into Hungary believing they could fight Anglo-American “Fascists” were sickening of the bloodshed after realizing the brutality of their true mission. The Moscow-imposed Kadar regime finally stripped away the pretenses of democracy Sunday. It clamped martial law on dying) Hungary, and outlawed all regional workers councils. Workers proclaimed a new general strike. All communications with the West were severed by the puppet 'Communist government in at attempt to prevent a new armed uprising. The last time Hungary was cut off from the West was Nov. 4 when Soviet armored forces struck by surprise to crush the fredom revolt and install the Kadar regime. L- s The government crackdown followed a call by the Budapest Workers Council for a 48-hour general strike in all but the most essential industries to begin at midnight Sunday night. The strike was called to protest the mass arrests of labor leaders. The council also appealed to the? ’workers of the world to join in the protest against the Communist oppression. In calling the strike, the Budapest Workers Council which had been negotiating fruitlessly for weeks with Kadar, signed its own death warrant as well as that of the other regional councils. The Hungarian presidential council’s communique announced martial law would become effective at 6 p. m. (noon EST) Tuesday. It listed several reasons for the declaration which would permit a drastic purge of the “coun-ter-revolutionaries . ’ ’ Continue Auction Sale On Wednesday Many Items Unsold At Saturday's Sale A large amount of the merchandise contributed for the first annual Decatur Youth and Community Center auction Saturday at the center, was still left when time ran out Saturday night, so the sale will be continued Wednesday night, it was announced today. In spite of the large crowd which braved the weather to attend the auction and bake sale, many items were not sold. The students of the Reppert schoql of auctioneering will continue the sale, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Clarence Ziner, general chairman of the sale which is sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, ' stated today that many large items hav.e not yet been auctioned. These include electric and gas ranges, Master Mix feeds, a lawn mower and many other miscellaneous , items. Ziner also stated that those merchants who indicated a desire to contribute but were unable to be ready for the Saturday sale can still make their donations for the Wednesday night auction. They are asked to contact the Chamber of Commerce office. It was reported that most of the baked goods were sold Saturday. Mrs. Roy Kalver was in charge of the bake sale. A full report on the sale will be made after the Wednesday night auction. Purpose of the auction is to raise money for operations at the center, which has been operating at a deficit. Many persons and organizations have contributed money instead of items for sale.

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Negro Pupils Return Today In Tennessee No Racial Trouble Reported As School At Clinton Reopens CLINTON, Tenn. ®) — Negro and white pupils returned to the same classes again today at integrated Clinton high school without a single incident. The school had been closed since last Tuesday because of fresh racial distqrbances, including the beating of a minister who escorted Negro pupils to the school. At Knoxville, 20 miles to the east, Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor arraigned 16 persons accused of instigating racial trouble at the school in violation of a federal injunction. All 16 pleaded innocent and Taylor set their trials for the week of Jan. 28. w Defense attorneys moved orally to have the “whole proceeding” dismissed on grounds<that charges are “so indefinite that we don’t know how to defend the qase.” The lawyers also asked for separate trials, a matter that could drag the cases beyond the closing of the school for summer vacation next spring. Approximately 700 white pupils, almost full enrollment, came to school in good humor—and without the catcalls and jeers with which they had greeted the Negroes almost daily since school was integrated in August. At a packed assembly shortly after school opened, the pupils listened soberly while a county official explained that they could be prosecuted—and their cases turned over to the FBl—if they started again such things as “messing up lockers” and using “filthy language” in connection with the Negroes. Judge Taylor gave the defense until Jan. 12 to file written motions backing up their pleas that the cases be dismissed. Thomas P. Gore, first cousin of Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), represented the defendants who included two women. Gore told the court a number of prominent southern state officials would join in as attorneys for the defense. He named Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook of Georgia, Atty. Gen. John Ben Sheppard of Texas and Atty. Gen. Jack Gremillion of Louisiana. “This is the most important case coming up in these men’s lives,” Gore said in arguing for separata trials. Mrs. Elva Kaufman Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Elva Kaufman, .76, who made her home with a daughter, Mrs. William Roberts, in Root township, died, at 11 o’clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been taken earlier Sunday morning. She had been ill since October and seriously ill for the past week. She was born in Omaha, 111., March 6, 1880, a daughter of John R. and Safronia Pierce-Davis. Mrs. Kaufman was* a member of the Methodist church at Willshire, O. Surviving in addition to the daughter are her stepmother, Mrs. Mamie Davis of Bono, Ark.; three grandchildren, and three brothers, Alfred Davis of Detroit, Mich., Clark Davis of Orrville, Calif., and Everett Davis of Fort Wayne. Two sons, one brother and one sister are deceased. Fuperal services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Carlyle Seiple officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Crops Referendum In Nation Tuesday Determine Type Os Government Control (UP) — Farmers vote Tuesday in 34 states to the type of government controls on 1957 crops of corn, cotton, extra-long staple cotton, rice, and peanuts. iThere will be separate ballotings for each crop. , Agriculture Department officials ' said upwards of 3 million farmers ’ are eligible to vote. Conceivably, some farmers could vote in all k referenda if their farms produced ' all the affected crops. , The corn referendum covers 894 j counties in 24 states and is Expected to draw the heaviest vote for , a single crop. Farmers will decide whether the national base acre- ’ age program will be in effect. t If two-thirds or more of the ’ farmers voting favor base acre- ) ages, that program will be in effect for 1957. If more than onej third favor acreage allotments, that program will be in effect. r Balloting in the 21-state cotton > belt, the 13-state rice area, and , the 16 states producing peanuts t commercially will be on the question of accepting marketing quor tas. At least two-thirds of those t must approve | quotas if 2 tiuey are to be continued in effect ' for the various crops. Whether quotas are approved or , disapproved, acreage allotments > will remain in effect as a condi- - tion of eligibility for price support i and acreage reserve participation - in the soil bank. s Under the corn base acreage program, farmers will be allowed ; to plant 51 million acres. If they ; put an acreage equivalent to 15 - per cent of their farms’ .soil bank » base acreage’ in the soil bank and - comply with jather requirements, - they would be eligible for price j supports of $1.31 a bushel, or 77 - per cent of parity. The acreage allotment set for 1957 is 16 per cent under the 43,- ' (Continued on Page Five) ‘ Service Station Is I ’ Robbed Early Today Attendant Slugged Following Robbery ) The Hoosier Pete service station E at the junction of U- S. highways 224 and 27 was robbed early this ) morning by an armed robber, and the attendant, Floyd Mcßride of • Decatur, was slugged. The robbery occurred at 2:10 a m. when the man entered the station, pointed a gun at Mcßride and demanded money. Mcßride complied by giving him the money in the cash drawer, amounting to $132.60. The robber then directed McBride into the men’s room, where he hit the station attendant over the head and left. Mcßride reported the robbery to city police and i he was taken to the hospital for treatment. His head injury was not serious. 0 Mcßride stated that he did not see a car. He described the man as about 27 or 28 years of age, about, about 5’11” tall, weighing from 175 to 180 pounds. He had light brown curly hair and was wearing a green, belted jacket and overalls. ’ A similar robbery was also reported at Van Wert, 0., early this morning when a Standard service station was robbed of about $45. The man left the Van Wert station on foot and no car was seen by the attendant there. The description of the Van Wert robber was identical to that of the one who held up the local station. \ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy south and central, mostly cloudy extreme north tonight. Chance of light snow extreme northeast sections -tonight. Windy and somewhat warmer tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 24-30. High Tuesday 38-44 north, 45-49 south. Sunset 5:21 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:56 a.m.

Demands U.N. Censure Russ Hungary Move United States, 16 1 Other World Powers Joining In Demand UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —United States and 15 other world powers join today in a demand that the United" Nations condemn Russia for “depriving Hungary of its liberty and Independence.” The resolution placed before the General Assembly calls on Russia to agree to withdraw its military forces from Hungary under U. N. observation and “desist forthwith” from any forfh of intervention in Hungarian affairs. The resolution was originally sponsored by the United States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, El Salvador, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden and Thailand. Chile, Peru and the Philippines added their names to the resolution late Sunday, and more countries were expected to be added today. Fourteen nations demanded last week that Moscow and Budapest admit U. N. observers to Hungary to study the situation in that embattled country. They set Friday midnight as a deadline for an answer, but the deadline passed without a reply from the Soviet government or the Hungarian puppet government of Premier Janos Kadar. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia refused permission to U. N. observers to survey the Hungarian situation from the borders of those two countries. Austria granted permission, and nd reply was received from Romania. U. N. sources said they believed some governments were reluctant to be too critical of Russia or Hungary for fear of reprisals from Budapest. They said the Kadar regime could make such reprisals (Continued On Page Five) Mrs. Wanda Scherer Dies At Indianapolis Mrs. Wanda Scherer, 73, native of Adams dbunty, died Saturday in an Indianapolis hospital. She was bom hqre Dec. 9, 1882, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Barnett - Weldy, and graduated from the Decatur high school in 1901. She was married in 1909 to F. A. Rayan, who preceded her in death. She was later married to John Scherer, who is also deceased. « Surviving are two children, Dorothy of Indianapolis, and Joe of Washington, D. C.; a stepson, Marion Scherer, and a sister, Mn, Fannie Brandt. Funeral services will be held in Indianapolis at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Charles €. Snyder Dies At Portland Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Charles C. Snyder, 86, of New Corydon, died Saturday night at ’the Jay county hospital in Portland after a lohg illness. He had been hospitalized for the past week. Mr. Snyder Vas a member of the Methodist church at New Corydon. Surviving are his wife, Annie; three daughters, Mrs. Edith Foster of Dayton, O„ Mrs. Indianola Case and Mrs. Nina Miller, both of Decatur, and four sons, Ralph Snyder of Geneva, Ernest Snyder of Crestline, 0., Clarence and Raymond Snyder, both of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. BUrial jgill be in Riverside cemetery at Geneva. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. -

12 Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic Three Youths Dead In Worst Accident ' - By UNITED PRESS Indiana traffic smashups, some of them on highways transformed into icy death traps by snow and sleet, killed at least 12 persons during the weekend. The worst crash killed three Loogootee youths on Ind. 58 near I Odon Saturday.pight. Victims were . Thomas Douglas May, 19; Charles Herbert O'Maley, 17, and Donald , L. Barley, 20. Police said Barley and May, his , passenger, were thrown out when their car crashed with O’Maley’s. ; Barley ran a stop sign, police said. Paul Murphy, 29, Logansport, , and his wife, Helen 24, Myere killed Saturday night when a car in 1 which they were riding collided , with a big truck on U. S. 30 west of Fort Wayne. Dwight Heisler, 24, Plymouth, and Thomas Martin, 45, Wabash, were killed Saturday in two accidents when their cars skidded on slushy roads into utility poles. Martin’s car overturned. -Martin lost control on U. S. 24 ' west of Huntington. Heisler, who was delivering newspapers, skidded near Walkerton. As his car , spun, he was thrown out ‘ Raymond Harrison, 7Q. Indianapolis Salvation Army lieutenant, ' was killed Sunday night when he was hit by a car as he crossed an Indianapolis street enroute to church services. The driver, John ‘ R. Smith, 18, Indianapolis, told • police he did not see Harrison in time to stop. In acciaenis at two Indianapolis intersections Saturday, Paul Deckr er, 50, Indianapolis, and Clarence , D. Shoemaker, 33, Indianapolis, ’ were .killed. Decker was thrown out of a pickup truck in which he was riding I when a car hit the truck and . knocked it into another auto. Po- ; lice said Shoemaker failed to stop ’ for a red light and a big truck. Eldon Van Meter, 33, Ossian, ’ was killed Friday night on a conn-, ’ ty road east of Huntington. Police said Van Meter apparently fell as(Continued on rage Five) Delmas Bollenbacher Has Top Com Yield Tim Ringger Tops In Junior Contest The county extension office announced today that Delmas Bollenbacher of Jefferson township had the high five-acre com yield with 153 bushels per acre. Next high yields were Ben Mazelin and Mrs. Delmas Bollenbacher with 150 bushels.per acre, . ... In the junior five-acre contest, Tim Ringger had a yield of 158 bushels per acre,-with Gary Ringger next on his yield of 151 bushels per acre and Patsy Bollenbacher next with 149 bushels per acre. Following is the list of members and yields in the adult five-acre project: Ralph Berning, 93 bu.; Mrs. Delmas Bollenbacher, 150; Delmas Bollenbacher, 152; Hugo Bulmahn, 136; Holman Egly 131; Helen Egly 132; Elmer Franz, 131; Ben Gerke, 126; Alfred Grote, 88; Martin Habegger, 96; Elmer Isch, 100; Joe L. Isch, 123; Robert Isch, 116; E. Johnson, 125; Ezra Kaehr, 126; Eli Kipfer, 131; Arthur Koeneman, 106; Merle Kuhn, 91; Ben Mazelin, 150; Raymond Ringger, 140; Leland Ripley, 121; Ervin Schuller, 128; David J. Schwartz, 140; Eli Schwartz, 111; L. Reuben Schwartz, 120; Ernest Sommer, 109; W. Sommer, 122; Franklin Steury, 124; Edgar Thieme, 88; Harold Moser, 105. .. . ~ Junior five-acj;e yields — Patsy Bollenbacher, 149; Leo Busick, 107; Larry Busick, 109; Arnold Gerke, 120; P. Isch, 118; Ted Kipfer, 123; Roger Koeneman, 110; Mike Leh, man, 118; Harry Mazelin, 135; Roy Mazelin, 32; Dwight Moser, 90; Phillip Moser, 102; Gary Ringger, 151; Tim Ringger, 158; John Rumple, 137; Bill Rumple, 127; John Sommer, 113; Mike Thieme, 126.

May Be Worst Air Crash In Canada History Several Americans Reported Qn Board Missing Airliner . VANCOUVER. B. C. (UP)—Seventeen aircraft were pressed into a desperate search today for a Trans-Canada Airlines North Star as fears mounted that it may have plunged to its doom in one of the worst disasters in Canadian aviation history. Sixty-two persons, including 59 passengers and a 3-member crew, were aboard the four - engined Montreal-bound plane, which was presumed to have crashed sometime Sunday night in the snowchoked Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. A TCA spokesman said that if all 62 died it would be the greatest toll of any air crash in Canada’s history. Several Americans were known to be aboard. Names from the passenger list were trickling out of TCA offices in Montreal, headquarters of the airline. Among them were those of Mrs. A. A. Kafouri, Portland, ----- Ore., J. E. Henderson, Issaquah, Wash., and two American football players Mario DeMarco and Mel Becket. Another American passenger aboard the aircraft was Mrs. L. C. Burt, San Francisco. Gordie Sturtridge and Ray Syrnyk, two other football players, were also listed. AD four were members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of Canada’s Western Conference. Becket and Sturtridge played in, the annual Egst-West Shrine allstar professional game here Saturday. Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue personnel working ’round-the-clock investigating a number of reports about the plane, including one that said lights had been seen on a mountain about 50_miles southeast of Vancouver near the possible crash scene. TJiey held little hope, however, that ttie reports had any basis in fact. RCAF air-sea rescue headquarters said the plane would have run out of fuel by 1 a.m. PST. Last radio contact was made with the plane over Hope, B. C., about 100 miles east of here. The pilot, Capt. Allan Jack Clarke, 35, of Winnipeg and Montreal, had reported the loss of one engine over Princeton, V. C., and was limping back to Vancouver. Over Hope, he asked for permission to descend from 14,000 to 8,000 feet because ice was forming on the wings. Given permission, Clarke estimated his arrival time at Van- — couver at 7:38 p.m. PST Sunday night. Minute? later, radar and radio contact with the plane were lost. (Conttnued on rage' Five) Herter Is Appointed To Succeed Hoover WASHINGTON fIF — Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall does not believe the appointment of Christian A. Herter as undersecretary of state signals any basic change in Ui S. foreign policy. Hall also said Sunday that he wouldn’t be surprised if Vice President Richard M. Nixon were given additional responsibilies by President Eisenhower. But he refused to speculate on Nixon’s rule ip -the 1960 GOP presidential race. n/ ©Aw c» for i .. / - ■ ■ -- >

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