Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 291.

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Dulles Renews Pledge Against, Use Os Force Indirectly Rebukes Britain And France For Use Os Force PARIS (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in an indirect but forceful rebuke to Britain and France, told the 15-nation NATO council today the United States still believes force is not the way to solve world problems. He reiterated United States support of United Nations settlement of all international disputes. Dulles made his remarks in a 50-minute speech to the opening private session of the NATO group this morning. It was reported in outline afteawr dra yb ATO N outline afterward by a NATO spokesman. While expressing his faith in moral force, Dulles warned the West it still must maintain its military strength. To further that end, informed sources said outside the council chambers that the United States was ready to pour more millions into Europe. The sources said the United States would offer Britain more millions to keep its military commitments to NATO. Predicts Red Decay ’ Dulles pledged that, as far as the United States was concerned, past differences were considered as being useful only as a guide to the future. He hopefully predicted that forces working on the Soviet Union ultimately would lead to the Communist citadel’s decay. He cited the disarray of Communist parties throughout the world, satellite unrest, and internal pressures inside the Soviet Union as the Vnost important of those forces. ’ But he warned the situation created by those pressures brought dangers to the West along with them. The rulers pf the Soviet, he warned, may take irresponsible external moves in answer to them. He urged his allied partners to put their faith in the United Nations and a solid resolve to live up to its charter. He said it couldn’t do everything—and shouldn’t be expected to — but to destroy it would be disaster. Agree Soviet Threat Continues Italy’s Foreign Minister Gaetano (Continued on Page Five) Operating Loss Is Shown By Hospital An operating loss of $2,491.09 is shown in the November financial report of the Adams county memorial hospital released today by Thurman Drew, hospital administrator. The operating balance at the beginning of the month was $32,654.88. Bills and payroll totalled $19,546.86 and the amount deposited during the month was $17,055.77. Balance on hand Nov. 30 was $30,163.79. The statistical report shows that 162 patients were admitted during fee month and 152 were dismissed. Two' deaths occurred during the month and 29 patients were present on Nov. 30. A total of 65 babies, 35 boys and 30 girls, were born dujring the month. Two infants difed and eight were still at the hospital on Nov. 30.

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Temperature Drop Forecast In State Snow Flurries To Accompany Drop By UNITED PRESS Hoosiers were told today to keep their umbrellas handy and prepare for a fast switch to ear muffs and mufflers. Weathermen said a few showers would dampen Indiana from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River today ■ amid cloudy skies, wind, and L temperatures. But the f mercury was poised far a plunge as low as 15 degrees tonight — , without much of a rise Wednesday. Temperatures will warm to the . 40s upstate today and the upper 40s in central and southern Indi- ■ ana, the Weather Bureau said. , Overnight, they will skid to 15 j to 20 north and the mid 20s south, i Snow flurries will accompany tonight’s temperature drop, forei casters« said, and Wednesday’s warmest readings won’t exceed 25 i in the north and 32 south. Meanwhile, a snow cover ling- ; ered over much of Indiana. South ; \ Bend had one inch on the ground ■ early today. Fort Wayne had two ■ inches. Temperatures tnawed Monday ’ to 44 at Evansville, the warm spot 1 among the state’s big cities. It 1 was 38 at Indianapolis, 35 at South Bend, Fort Wayne and Lafayette. Overnight readings ranged from 31 at Fort Wayne to 38 at Evans--1 ville. Continuing Search For Missing Plane Report Os Explosion Is Promising Lead VANCOUVER, B. C. (IP) — A report of an explosion on jagged Silvertip Mountain in A desolate area of British Columbia gave Canadian air force searchers their most promising lead today on the fate of 62 persons aboard a missing Trans-Canada Airlines plane. Gordon Dowding, a member of ’ the British Columbia legislature, told air. force search master George Sheehan that nine persons at a lodge near the mountain heard the blast Sunday night when the plane disappeared. Sheehan said the lodge guests reported the incident to Dowding when the legislator appeared there about 8 p. m. Sunday. They heard the explosion about 50 minutes after last radio contact with tlie plane. The Royal Canadian Air Force alerted about -10 planes to leave at dawn for Silvertip, a snowcovered 8,500-foot peak. Three Dakotas Canadian C47s searched through Monday without luck and the air force had to cancel an overnight hunt because of clouds. “It’s no use sending them! up,’’ a spokesman said Monday night. Radar contact with the missing plane was lost near Silvertip. If growing fears that 46 men and 16 women died in the crash proved correct it would be the worst air disaster in Canada’s his- ; tory. 1 The entire RCAF base of 500 ! men in Vancouver was short of food and sleep, grimly concentrat- ■ ing on the fight against turbulent (Continued on r*a«e Five) '

Report Polish Students And Police Clash Mass Demonstrations Against Reds Staged By Polish Students WARSAW (UP) — Hundreds of Polish students clashed with police and troops in anti-Soviet demonstrations Monday night in the western Polish city of Stettin, Radio Warsaw said today. The students smashed windows in the Soviet consulate, tried to force their way into the building and overturned streetcars as barricades as they beat off workers militia units called to quell the riots. , Warsaw Radio said army troops finally were sent into the battie to put down the demonstrations. Warsaw Radio said the youths were “hooligans” and that they struck to the accompaniment of drunken singing and provocative shouts. L But a later broadcast admitted the street brawl reached the dimensions of -a “mass demonstration” agains the Soviet Union. The demonstrators pushed streetcars on their sides—as the Hungarian freedom fighters had done—and fought from behind them when workers militia units rushed to the scene from nearby shipyards. “Serious clashes” resulted. The tough shipyard workers were no match for the students and it took the armed might of the army to quell them. “The Hooligans attacked police and shouted provocative slogans,” the broadcast said. . A group of demonstrators tried to demolish the windows of the Soviet consulate in downtown Stettin and tried to force their way into the building. “Many hooligans were arrested and all those guilty will receive serious punishment.” The broadcast said dockyard workers and soldiers eventually dispersed the demonstrators. Stettin also Szszecin i» a Polish city of about 200,000 some 80 miles northeast of Berlin. It is an important rail junction and Baltic port. Bloodmobile Quota Exceeded Monday 132 Pints Os Blood Are Collected Here The quota for Monday’s visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile was exceeded by five pints, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Adams county Red Cross chapter, who said that 132 points of blood were collected. ' The complete list of donors who appeared Monday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center,, where the bloodmobile was located, will be announced later this week. Physicians who worked as volunteers on the bloodmobile staff throughout the day were Dr. G. J. Kohne, Dr. John Terveer. Dr. Norval Rich, Dr. A. H. Girod, Dr. John Carroll, Dr. Harold Zwick and Dr. James Burk. Registered nurses who assisted were Margaret Eiting, Mrs. Betty Feasel, Mrs. Florence Aurand, Mrs. Burdette Custer, Mrs. Wilbert Fuelling, Mrs. Charles Gauck, Mrs. Harold Keller, Mrs. Mary Golfer and Mrs. Harold Hoffman. Staff aides were Mrs. Frances Monahan, Mrs. H. P. Engle, Mrs. W. E. Brant, Mrs. Max Kreps, Mrs. T. C. Smith. Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. Henry Krueckeberg, Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer and Mrs. Hersel Nash. The canteen was staffed by Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. Ed Reinkingand Mrs. Alva s Buffenbarger. Mrs. Dan Tyndall of the Welcome Wagon and Mrs. Ruth Railing served on the motor corps to provide transportation for donors. » INDIANA WEATHER Cold wave warning extreme northern Indiana. Much colder weather spreading over state this afternoon and tonight, reaching near cold wave conditions In extreme north portion by Wednesday morning. Snow flurries likely extreme north portion by, Wednesday evening. Snow flurries likely extreme north portion tonight and early Wednesday. Elsewhere mostly cloudy with chance of a few showers extreme south this evening. Windy tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight near IS extreme north to the 20s south and central. High Wednesday in the 20s north to the. lower 30s south. Sunset 6:21 p> m., sunrise Wednesday 7:56 a. m.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 11, 1956

Budapest Is Locked In Ring Os Steel; Hungary Is Paralyzed By Strike

Hungary Walks Out Today On U. N. Assembly To Stay Out Until Hungarian Question Taken Off Agenda ' UNITED NATIONS, NY., (UP)~ Puppet, Hungary walked out of the United Nations General Assembly today. It said it would stay out until the Hungarian question is taken offthe agenda. Imre Horvath, foreign minister of the Russian-supported Budapest regime, led his eptire delegation out of the assembly at the start of t|iis morning’s session after a brief statement from the rostrum. The assembly was debating a resolution sponsored by fee United States and 18 other countries which would condemn Russia fox; its brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt and call on the Soviet Union to get its troops out of Hungary under U;N. observation. Horvath told the assembly its "continued efforts to intervene in the internal affairs” of his cpuntry was "incompatible with the sovereignty” of Hungary. •* “The Hungarian delegation,” he said, “came here to discuss fundamental international problems.” Still A Member He made it clear; that the Budapest regime was not withdrawing from U.N. membership. But he said they would remain out of the current 11th session of the General Assembly as long as the Hungarian situation is on the agenda. Horvath led his colleagues into the delegates’ lounge. There he and his aide, Endre Sic, told newsmen their further plans still had to be discussed. The 18-nauon resolution rejects Afro-Asian amendments that would cancel outright condemnation of the Soviet Union, informed sources said today. The sources said the United States and its 16 co - sponsors would use only one phrase from amendments suggested by India, Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia. That phrase notes’ the “overwhelming demand of the Hungarian people for the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the cessation of foreign intervention” in Hungary. Criticizes Menon The 17 nations decided in a caucus Monday night to add the phrase to their own resolution rather than substitute it for two paragraphs as suggested by the (Continued On Page Five)-. George Auer Speaks At Lions Meeting . General Electric Manager Is Speaker George Auer, manager of the Decatur General Electric plant, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Auer spoke on “Automation," stating, “automation is continuous automatic production, an extension of mechanization, and it is .an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary process.” The<G. E. executive gave several examples of such changes as from the kitchen match to the present lighters, and in the washing machine category, as well. He indicated that there is an increasing demand for the skilled and the trained engineer. “And, in spite of increased automation, employment in the electrical industry has doubled since 1939.” A number of slides were shown to pictorialize the talk. J. Clark Mayclin was chairman of the program, and Merlin Seiling presided in the absence of Harry Schwartz, president. -■•-■ Glenn Hill, announced that the club's annual Christmas party for the children, scheduled next Monday, Dec. 17, will begin at 6 p. m., and reservations must be made with Boger Gentis at once

Half Billion Dollar Loan Fpr Britain Money Advanced By International Fund WASHINGTON (ffl — Financialbailing Britain received a halfnhion dollstr shot in the arm today from the International Monetary Fund. - • ■The fund also authorized a standby supplement of $738,530,000 that Britain may purchase in foreign currencies with pounds sterling any time in the next year. Both moves—announced by the fund Monday night—are designed to help Britain meet its financial crisis caused by the blocking of the Suez Canal during the AngloFrench military strike in Egypt. The fund announced it agreed to allow Britain to withdraw $561,470,000 "to add to the monetary reserves of the United Kingdom to meet payment requirements.” The money was placed at Britain’s “immediate disposal.” A fund spokesman said the money advanced to Britain is the most the fund has ever advanced to any of its member countries. • However, Rep. Wayne Hays (DOhio), a House Foreogn Affairs committee member, said Monday it would be “tragic” to ask U. S. taxpayers “to compensate for the lack of administration policy in the Near East" by financing a nfew foreign aid program. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) senate appropriation committee member, appeared cool to Britain’s request that the United States waive an $Bl million interest payment this year on old debts. McClellan said he would “want assurances” that Britain would not work against the Unit- . ed States in the United Nations before voting for the waiver. Menial Health Gift Drive Is Completed Quota Os Gifts Is Exceeded In County A successful drive for Christmas gifts for patients in mental institutions has completed by the .Adams county chapter of the mental" health association, according to an announcement by Mrs. Lewis L. Smith and Mrs. Lowell Harper, co-chairmen of the project. The quota of 700 gifts, set for Adams county this year, was exceeded, they stated. They announced that in addition to the gifts received from clubs pnd individuals throughout the county, $121.25 in money was donated and gift wrapping paper was also contributed by local merchants. * The work of completing the wrapping and packing the. gifts was done Monday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center by nine volunteer workers under the 'direction of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Harper. The nine who assisted were Mrs. Richard Mailand, Mrs. William Goerger, Mrs. Walter Thieme, Mrs. Arthur Koeneman. Mrs. Leland Ripley, Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, Mrs. Raymond Edwards, Mrs. William Chirsten and Mrs. Guy Koos. Gifts were' delivered from the Decatur depots to the center through the cooperation of the Northern Indiana Public Service company. Eli Stucky of Geneva, county chairman of the mental health association, delivered the Geneva and Berne gifts to the center. The gifts will be taken to the Fort Wayne State School Wednesday. The Bag Service has donated the truck for delivery of the gifts.. The gifts will be distributed to the patients at their annual Christmas party, which will be held next Sunday. Officers of the local mental health association and those in charge of the gift drive project today expressed appreciation for ! the fine cooperation of Adams coufity residents in responding so ■ well to the appeal which is plan- ' ned each year to provide extra ’ Christmas joy for the patients in (Continued on Page Five)

Report NATO Not To Yield To Turk Pleas Turkey Expressed Fears Os Growing i Soviet Influence LONDON (UP> —The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will not yield to Turkish pleas for a linkup with the anti-Communist Baghdad Pack to protect the oil-rich Middle ; East from Soviet penetration, informed sources reported today in Paris. Turkey has expressed fear of growing Soviet influence in neighboring Syria and attached so much importance to the threat it sent Premier Adnan Menderes to the Paris NATO meeting. Turkey is a member of both NATO and the Baghdad Pack whose other members are Iran, Pakistan, Iraq* and Britain. The pact was severely shaken by Britain's intervention in Egypt, and Turkey feels it needs strengthening. Brings Pressure On U.S. Turkey, backed by the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact, still is bringing pressure on the United States to join the pact in view of thfe stepped up Arab campaign against the alliance. Syrian Foreign Minister Salah Bitar described the pact as a "tool ! of imperialism to weaken Arab unity” and accused the member countries of plotting with Britain, i France and Israel against Egypt. He said Anglo-French planes and ■ fleets used the facilities of the Baghdad Pact Moslem nations in the attacks against Egypt. ~ — Iraq meanwhile showed increasing concern over the ouster of its troops from Jordan. Official sources in Baghdad said the government was not satisfied by the Jordanian excuse that the “international crisis” was over. Situation Still Tense The situation in the Port Said area remained tense and British officials feared new attacks against British Nationals as more and more troops pulled out of the Canal Zone. Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell, commander of the Allied forces in Egypt, complained officially to Maj. Geri. E. L. M. Burns, head of the United Nations Emergency Force, that Monday’s ambush of eight British soldiers was a deliberate violation of the cease fire. British patrols in the city were D. E. Kitson Dies At Montana Home Native Os County Is Taken By Death D. E. Kitson, 71, a native of Adams county, died Monday at 7:30 a. m. at Miles City, Mont, where he had resided for many years. He was a brother of Adams county auditor Frank Kitson. Death, caused by a heart attack, came after an illness of about four years. Born in Washington township, he was the son of Daniel and Sarah Kitson. His wife, Ella, survives. He was a barber by trade but was retired for several years. Surviving in addition to the widow are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Labree and Mrs. Virginia Smith; two brothers, Charles and Frank, both of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Johnson of near Decatur and Mrs. Mary Corn* thwaite of Springfield, 111. Also surviving are six grandchildren. According to word received here Jay relatives, funeral arrangements have not been completed. Associated Churches Meet Thursday Night The Associated Churches of Decatur will have a meeting Thursday evening at_7:3o o’clock, at the Zion Evangelical and -Reformed church. All members are urged to attend.

Two Death Sentences Commuted By Craig Mrs. Opal Collins Saved From Chair - INDIANAPOLIS ®) — Hie death sentences of two cenvicted killers, one the first woman ever sentenced to death in Indiana, were commuted late Monday by Governor Craig. The killers are Mrs. < Opal Collins, 25, Hammond, who admitted shooting to death her paraplegic husband, his mother and two sisters, and Elmer J. Flowers, 44, Terre Haute, convicted <if slaying his estranged wife. Both were scheduled to die in the state prison electric chair at Michigan City Feb. 15. In other cases of commutation of death sentences all legal recourse had been exhausted, but Flowers’ and Mrs. Collins’ appeals were pending. Craig ordered Flowers removed from death row at the state prison. Mrs. Collins, who had been sentenced for slaying one of the girls, already wax given the same treatment as other women “lifers” at the state womens prison here. "The action taken has no bearing on belief or disbelief in capital punishment,” Craig saidin a statement after the double ’commutation. ~ ’"Hie people of Indiana have never destroyed the life of a woman,” he said. “I fear if they did they would later be ashamed • of it.” “If we qre to learn more about the social deviate and the emotional mental makeup of those 1 who perpetrate heinous crimes it will be necessary that we have--1 some to study, and destroying them will prevent us from having ’ the best at hand to study for in- ’ formation.” Craig did not commute the sen- ' tence of Leslie Irvin, confessed (Continued on Page Five) Jury Selected For Circuit Court Trial State Os Indiana Seeking Property Eleven men and one woman of the November term petit jury were impaneled Monday in Adams circuit court to hear the complaint for appropriation of real property by the state of Indiana against Robert and Estella Rice. The complaint concerns a right-of-way over a portion of land owned by the Rices, which is sought by the state for U. S. highway 27 north of Decatur in Adams county. The jurors, selected after examination by counsel for both sides, are Elmer. Affolder, Paul Krueckeberg, Lillard Fawbush, Albert Ewell, Glen W. Adams, Richard C. Everett, Kenneth Beer, Howard R. Bluhm, Harold Barger, Elizabeth Butler, Richard A. Briggs and William Bau- ' man. The defendants in the case are being represented by Custer and Smith, local law firm. Attorneys for the state are Frank X. Haupt and Jack C. Daw of the attorney general’s office in Indianapolis, and Severin H. Schurger, local attorney. The trial went into its second day today with Judge Myles F. Parrish presiding. Up to this afternoon, no witnesses had been called to testify although several are under subpoena. A similar case, the state vs. Mary Hobrock; for a right-of-way ' along U. S. 27, is slated to begin next Monday in Adams circuit 1 court, and is also scheduled for trial liy jury. Good Fellows Club ' Previous Total — ..SIIO.OO Pocahontas Lodge 5.00 A Delt 100 Mr. and Mfs. Walter Koos. 1.00 American Legion Auxiliary 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson 10.00 A Friend --—I.OO $133.00

Hundreds Os Soviet Tanks Ring Budapest All Os Hungary Is Paralyzed By Worst Strike In History VIENNA (UP) — Hundreds of Russian tanks locked Budapest in a ring of steel today. All Hungary lay paralyzed in the grip of one of the most complete strikes in history. Refugees reaching Austria said the tanks stopped all movement in or out of the capital when the strike started officially at mid*, night (5 p.m. Monday CST). There were no reports of the tanks being in action although in many regions localized clashes broke out between defiant workers and Hungarian police. The Russian tanks and armored cars sealed off the huge iron and steel complex on Budapest’s Csepel Island. Patriot pickets outside the plants served notice they would fight any attempt by the Russians or police to penetrate into the factories. The government-controlled Budapest Radio indicated clearly the strike was the worst to date in Hungary, making it about the most complete walkout of all time. Search for Hidden Anu The radio admitted: 1. Bail transport was at a standstill. 2. The postal service was paralyzed. 3. Factories were idle “because the workers are afraid of counter- - revolutionary elements on strike.” Gas and electricity services, however, continued to function. The broadcasts made no mention of martial law scheduled to go into effect at 6 p.m. (11 a.m. CST). Announcement of the decree first was made Sunday and was last mentioned in a 7 a.m. broadcast Monday. At the same time, police continued their methodical search for hidden arr As. Under the martial law decree, persons caught with weapons after 6 p.m. were subject to instant death. But there was no sign that the freedom fighters were handing over their arms. Reports reaching Budapest indicate the striking workers no longer considered it only a 48-hour walkout. Workers in various parts of the country were quoted as saying the strike would go bn until the hated puppet government of Premier Janos Kadar turned off the police state oppression. Main Highway Sealed Radio Budapest continued its futile calls to the workers to return to their jobs. The radio said no trains at all arrived at Budapest central market this morning. It also, said there was “no fuel at aU” in southern Hungary and that hospitals had coal for only two or three days.” Meanwhile on the Austro-Hun-(CoßtluueS o« Page ifilskt) Muncie Youth Killed In Two-Auto Crash MUNCIE. Ind. API — Charles Bradburn, 19, Muncie, was killed Monday night in a two-car crash at the intersection of two county roads three miles west of here. Bradburn was thrown from his car when it was hit by an auto driven by the Rev. Floyd F. Reading, 24, Muncie. Rev. Reading and his four passengers were injured. State police said Rev. Reading , admitted he failed to heed a stop sign.

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