Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1956 — Page 1

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# ENJOYING HIS Augustan vacation, President Eisenhower rides with Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as the two played a round of golf at the Augusta National Golf course.

Base Acreage Plan Defeated In Referendum Soil Bank Plan Is Beaten By Farmers In Corn Referendum BULLETIN WASHINGTON (IP> — The Agriculture Department today announced a sharp increase in soil bank payments to farm* ere for the coming year. WASHINGTON (UP)—The 1957 corn crop will be produced under the traditional acreage allotment program instead of the soil bank’s base acreage plan used for the 1956 crop. Farmers in the 24-state commercial corn area Jurned down the base acreage proposal in a referendum Tuesday. A preliminary count in the Agriculture Department showed 'they cast 257,874 votes in favor of base acreages against 163,227 for acreage allotments. The base acreage Adams County Adams county farmers favored the soil bank acreage proposal in Tuesday’s referendum, with 283 voting for this plan, and only 66 for the acreage allotment plan. There were 2,800 eligible voters in the county, with only a small percentage of those eligible casting ballots. proposal needed a two-thirds majority to gain approval. It received only 61.2 per cent. There were 17,745 challenged votes. Even if all those eventually are counted in favor of base acreage k the majority would be only 62.8 per cent. Approve Marketing Quotas In four other referenda Tuesday, farmers approved overwhelmingly marketing quotas for cotton, extra' long staple cotton, rice, and peanuts. Adverse votes in the-big comproducing states of Minnesota, lowa. Missouri, Wisconsin,and Nebraska were chiefly responsible for the defeat of the base acreage plan. Other states which voted against the plan were Arkansas, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Virginia. Opposition to the base acreage' plan by the National Farmers Union (NFU) was believed to be a key factor in the defeat of the pros, posal. NFU officials and members campaigned heavily in Minnesota, the Dakotas, lowa, and Nebraska against base acreages. The acreage allotment plan permits farmers to plant 37,288,889 acres in 1957—a cut of 16 per cent from the acreage allotment set for the 1956 crop before a base acreage program superseded it, The price support for 1957 will be $1.36 a bushel, or 77 per cent of parity. Would Raise Allotments Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinh) has said'he would introduce legislation to raise the acreage allotments in 1957- to 49 million, acres. This would give farmers in the-commercial area a far greater base than the acreage allotment set earlier by Secretary of Agriculture "Ezra T. Benson. Illinois, the largest corn produc(Continu«d on Page Five)

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Government Gears To Battle Merger Merger Is Planned By Steel Companies WASHINGTON (UP) — Both Bethlehem Steel Corp, and the Justice Department today hoped for a quick decision in their coming court fight over Betnlehem’s proposed merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Bethlehem — the world’s second biggest steel company—announced in New York Tuesday it will go ahead with plans to merge Youngstown despite previous Justice Department warnings the merger will violate anti-trust laws. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. announced immediately that the Justice Department will file a civil anti-trust suit in an effort to block the merger. One Os Biggest Mergers The merger would be one of the biggest in American history, creating a corporation with assets totalling more than $2 billion and annual steel output of 24.8 million tons. r - However, the enlarged Bethlehem still would rank well below the nation’s and the world’s larg-, est steel company—the giant U.S. Steel Corp. U.S. Steel’s annual output is 39.1 million tons. Bethlehem currently has a rated steel-making capacity of 19.1 million tons a year. Youngstown—the nation’s sixth ranking steel firm—has a capacity of 5.75 million tons a year. Brownell contends that the merger would bring about a restraint of trade and would tend to create a monopoly. He said the anti-trust laws directed the department to oppose mergers which tend “to create a monopoly." Hope For Quick Settlement Bethlehem' officials countered that contrary to the government’s position the merger actually would tend to stimulate trade in the industry. Justice Department and Bethlehem officials said they hope the government's suit can be quickly brought to court and settled. Bethlehem announced more than two years ago its intention to merge with Youngstown through stock .acquisitions, .Brownell warned against it. Officials of Bethlehem and Youngstown said details of the newly proposed merger have not been worked out yet. They said the plan would have to be submitted. to the stockholders. — —-—I; - INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow warning extreme north portion, freezing rain warning central portion. Two to 5 inches snow extreme north, freezing rain, sleet and snow central portion tonight and Thursday, and rain extreme south tonight, changing to snow flurries Thursday. Turning fold extreme south Thursday. Low tonight around 25 north, 33 extreme south. High Thursday 2530 north, around 35 extreme south. Sunset 5:20 p. m., sunrise Thursday 7:57 a. m. Good Fellows Club Previous total St. Vincent de Paul 10.00 Women of Moose —- 10.00 Total - $153.00

Millis Named Director Os Stale Budget Handley Appoints Craig Man As New Director Os Budget INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-State Revenue Commissioner Frank Millis, the man who fought hardest to win the Republican governor nomination from Harold Hkndley, today was named by the victor as state budget director in Handley’s new administration. Millis, of Campbellsburg, will head the department that prepares the state’s multi-mHlion-dollar spending program after Handley takes office next month. Handley also told a news conference he chose Darrell Weaver, Bloomington union member, as uiew state labor commissioner, and appointed former State Sen. Edwin Bteaman, Princeton, to replace Millis as revenue commissioner. Millis, a "Craig man” in GOP wars with the “Handley faction,” got solid backing of Governor Craig in the June GOP state convention in Craig's efforts to keep the nomination from Handley. But Handley was nominated on the second ballot. . Observers figured Millis’ appointment, which came as no surprise, was a move at restoring harmony in state GOP ranks. Handley said previously he wanted to forget past party divisions and praised Millis’ long experience in state government. Beaman, who along with Millis will take office March 1, has been executive director of the departments of commerce, agriculture, industry and public relations. Handley praised him for actually heading those activities while Handley was nominally chairman in his capacity as lieutenant governor. Weaver, formerly in the State George Hinkle, South Bend. Hinkle has been termed the “anti-tobor commissioner” by some union officials for his outspoken stand against use of compulsory union dues for political purposes. Weaver was head of labor activities for the Republican State Committee in the November elefc(Coßtlgued Pace Ei<M) Announce Plans For Nehru Will Arrive In Capital Sunday AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP) — The White House today announced’ detailed plans for the state visit to Washington next week by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru wil 1 bewelcomed to Washington Sunday by President Eisenhower. members of the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. On Monday, the President and the prime minister will motor to the Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg, Pa., to spend the day and evening there, driving back to Washington on Tuesday morning m Nehru will make a nationwide radio and television speech from Washington next Tuesday night. He will appear over the television and radio facilities of NBC and CBS and the Mutual radio network from 10:15 to 1030 p.m. CST. Mr. Eisenhower will wind up his vacation here Thursday and fly back to Washington with Mrs. Eisenhower in the afternoon. They have been vacationing at the Augusta National Golf Cub since ftov. 26. While there were teports from abroad that Vice President Richard M. Nixon was expected in Vienna, Austria, this weekend to study the Hungarian refugee problem, the White House announced that Nixon would greet Nehru at the Washington National Airport when the prime minister arrives at noon next Sunday. Nehru and his daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, will be entertained at lunch in the White House Sunday by Mrm and Mrs. Eisenhower. Then the Indian leader will take up residence in Blair House, the historic government guest house across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Following his Tuesday,, night speech, Nehru will have a news conference in Washington Wednesday and entertain at dinner for the Eisenhowers at the Indian embassy Wednesday night The prime minister, flying in the White House plane, will go to New York on Thursday, Dec. 20, for a two-day visit. On the night on Dec. 21, Nehru will fly to Ottawa where he will visit until the night of Dec. 23 when he will take off for London.

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Savage Street Battles Break Out In Budapest And Hungary Provinces

Soviet Union Charges U.S. Intervention Charge Apparently Countercheck For The United States BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. --- (W—The Security Council today unanimously recommended election of Japan to the United Nations. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— Russia charged the United States today with "intervention” in the domestic affairs of Iron Curtain countries and “subversive activitities against these states.” The charge apparently was a propaganda countercheck against the United States. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov asked the General Assembly to consider the item as the assembly neared the voting stage on a 20-nation resolution calling on Russia to “desist forthwith” its intervention in the affairs of Hungary. The resolution also condemns Russia for its brutal repression of the Hungarian freedom revolution and urges the Kremlin to get its troops out of Hungary immediately. Kuznetsov titled his item: “Intervention by the United States in the domestic affairs of the people’s democracies and subversive activities against those states." Another resolution before the assembly calls on Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to go to Moscow if necessary to seek a solution to the Hungarian problem. The resolution is sponsored by India. Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia. A third measure, sponsored by (Continued on Page Four; Attempted Break-in Reported To Police An attempted break-in was reported to city police this morning by William Bowers of Lee Hardware store. Bowers stated that sometime last night or early this morning, the rear door jot the building was jimmied and the window in the door was cut with a glass cutter. Entry was apparently not made. Girl Scouts Plan Christinas Caroling Girl Scouts And Brownies Invited Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, program chairman for the Decatur Girl Scout association, has announced that «a Christmas caroling party is planned by the Girl Scout council board of directors for Saturday. AU Girl Scouts and Brownies of Decatur are invited to attend. They will meet at the court house at 2:30 p. m. where they will sing carols under the direction of Clint Reed. They wiU then be divided into two groups. Troops 5,8, 21, 27, 22, 26, 1,3, 4, 23, 15 and 20 will go to the county home to present a concert of Christmas carols. Troops 6, 19, 18, 10, 11, 24, 2,7, 17, 25' 13, 12, 14 and 28 wiU go to the Adams county memorial hospital to carol. The leaders of each troop wiU be responsible for the transportation of the girls to the county home and hospital. ... .L After the caroling, the boatd members wiU serve refreshments at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. At this party, each troop will present a special Christmas tree ornament for the center’s tree. Hie party will be concluded at 4:30 p. m.

First of 15,000 Refugees Arrive 199 Hungarians In Arrival By Planes McGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. (UP)—The vanguard of 15,000 Hungarian refugees to be brought to this country by a military mercy air-sea lift landed here today. They were told by a representative of President Eisenhower: “You are among friends.” The 199 Hungarians, first to arrive under the massive “Operation Safe Haven” ordered by the White House, landed in four silver planes of the Military Air Transport Service. The Hungarians were happy and excited, but some were a bit worried about the future. As each refugee filed from his plane before the base terminal building here, he was greeted personally and handed a printed statement by Tracy S. Voorhees, President Eisenhower’s representative and personal coordinator of the -Hungarian refugee program. “You Are Among Friends" It said, in part: “Acting on behalf of President Eisenhower: , Welcome to tfye United States of America. ♦ “You have come among friends. You are the vanguard, and as such i the representatives of the many I thousands of brave Hungarians to i whom President Eisenhower has i offered asylum under an emergen- . cy provision of our immigration laws. “The American people axe . stirred by your courage and by (Continued on Hute Four) ; Cliff Brewer Named C. Os C. President Elected President Os Business Group Cliff Brewer, manager of the G. C. Murphy store, was elected president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce for 1957, at the regular monthly meeting of the board ’ of directors Tuesday night. He succeeds Bob Heller in the office. Brewer has been an active ' member of the retail division and ' once served as chairman of this ‘ part of the Chamber organization. He is now a member of the board of directors, representing the retail division.- < i Joe Kaehr was re-elected as one of the vice-presidents. Tom Alwein, manager of the Central Soya company plant in Decatur, was elected as the other vice-presi-dent, replacing Dr. J. M. Burk, whose term as a director expires this year. Ferris Bower, proprietor of the Bower Jewelry store, was elected treasurer, succeeding Adolph Kolter, whose term as a director also expires this year. The appointment of an executive secretary, the position held for several years by Fred Kolter, is made at the February meeting of the board of directors. Preliminary plans for the annual meeting were made Tuesday night and Glen Hill and M. J. Pryor were named co-cttairmen of the event. Progress of the Greater Decatur fund drive was discussed and it was announced that the first phase of the program will be completed this year. Warning Issued Os Inclement Weather By UNITED PRESS Heavy snow—up to 5 inches of it—threatened to engulf extreme northern Indiana tonight and Thursday and the Weatherman said freezing rain and sleet would hit the. middle of the state. A "heavy snow warning” from the Weather Bureau said snow in the extreme north would pile up 2 to 5 inches on the ground while other icy fbrms of precipitation splatter the state’s midriff.

/ 16 Bombs Are Exploded In Oil Fields Bombs Are Exploded In Anglo-American • Fields In Kuwait LONDON (UP)— Saboteurs exploded 16 bombs early Tuesday in the Anglo-American oilfields at Kuwait, setting fire to one oilwell and damaging pipelines, dispatches from Bahrain reported today. It was the first serious outbreak against the West since the end of the Suez fighting. Kuwait police began an investigation but said no arrests had been made. Other attacks on oil wells, gas pipelines, power station and a water distillation plant were unsuccessful, but tanker loadings were suspended and strict security precautions were set up. A foreign office spokesman said the sabotage had not affected the overall production in Kuwait, Britain's biggest oil suppliers. Kuwait is an independent Arab nation under British protection and is located at the head ot the Persian Gulf. It supplies 60 per cent of Britain's oil. Set Up Headquarters Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, head of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) flew from Cairo today to Port Said to set up headquarters in the tense city. The independent Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said in Cairo the UNEF would take over Port Said formally on Saturday. The newspaper said Egyptian forces expected to enter the city on Christmas Dey to’take over from the U.N. police. Israel meanwhile left unanswered the question of its total withdrawal from the Sinai Desert and there were no indications it would balk at turning over the entire area back to Egypt on grounds a riew war might break out if it did. Israel Lodges Protest Walter Eytan, director general of the Israeli foreign office, told United Press correspondent Eliav Simon in an interview that Israel would ask the UNEF to remain in the Sinai Desert until a peace treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt. At the same time Israel said it had protested to U.N. Secretary (Oonnnueo or Slant; Kitson Announces Tax Distribution November Payment Os Taxes Reported _ Frank Kitson, county auditor, today announced the distribution of November taxes to the various tax units of the county. A total of $734,185.20 was distributed. This is money paid by taxpayers in the November -installments. Largest single amount went to the Decatur public schools, which received $129,132.98. The BerneFrench school corporation received $56,689.47 and Adams Central got $93,759.87. The four civil city and town corporation distributions included Decatur, $67,200.29; Berne, $17,819.47: Geneva, $3,774.91, and Monroe, $1,691.30. The county welfare department got $21,508.61; -county hospital, $5,866.01; Geneva public library, $876.98; Berne public library, $3,455.04, and Decatur public library, $7,625.31. The state’s share totalled $32,999.94. Distribution to townships included Washington, $1,590.82; Wabash, $28,388.51; Union. $14,360.35; St. Mary s, $20,484.64; Root, $31,817.19; Preble, $18,795.63; Monroe, $1,305.01; Kirkland, $882.62; Jefferson, $14,642.02; Hartford, $lB,033.901 French) $889.15; and Blue Creek, $12,229.17.

Craig Commutation Os Sentence Scored Deputy Prosecutor * Lashes At Governor GARY (UP)—A deputy prosecutor who helped convict the first woman in Indiana sentenced to death said Tuesday Governor Craig's commutation of her sentence “sets a new and undesirable precedent.” Chief-Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Floyd Vance said Craig "insulted the intelligence of the jury and ot every official connected with the case” when he granted clemency to Mrs. Opal Collins, 26, Hammond. Craig annoqnced Mrs. Collins’ reprieve late Monday. Vance, along with Prosecutor Metrol Holovachka, directed the case against her. She admitted shooting down her paraplegic husband, his mother and two young sisters. Craig said the people or Indiana “have never destroyed the life of a woman...l fear if they did they would later be ashamed of it.” Holovachka disagreed with Craig’s decision but said ‘‘it was in his authority.” The Rev. William Adam, Lowell, who baptized “Mrs. Collins in Lake County Jail and started commutation proceedings, said the reprieve made him “very happy because Mrs. Collins will be an influence for the good.” She was convicted in Lake Criminal Court Oct. 26. Unrest In Russia And Satellites Communist Party Paper In Warning. LONDON (UP) — The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda warned today that remnants of "alien ideology” were fanning unrest in the Soviet Union and its satellite empire. There were reports of another anti-Com-rriunist demonstration in Poland. A Pravda editorial broadcast by Moscow Radio said, “There is no basis in our- country for the appearance and growth of alien ideology. But there are still some remnants of it and these,may grow stronger if not resolutely rebuked.” Only Tuesday Lithuanian Communist Party boss A. Snechkus disclosed that unrest was sweeping that tiny country absorbed into the Soviet Union with Latvia and Estonia. He said reactionaries have “begun to raise their heads” since the Hungarian revolt. Hungary was in the midst of a third wave of killings. East Germany was believed on the verge of revolt. Anti-government demonstrations were reported from Albania. Romanian students have been warned against anti-government activities. Tuesday Warsaw Radio announced that "hooligans’.’ attacked the Soviet consulate at Stettin, battled “workers militiamen” and troops and chanted anti-Soviet slogans. Reports from Poland today said students marched in the streets Tuesday at Gliwice to demonstrate their solidarity with Hungarym No incidents were reported. In Warsaw posters appeared on the streets appealing to the populace to care for Hungarian children reported arriving there today. Students distributed leaflets saying “Save the Hungarian Children.” However the Polish Red Cross said no children were arriving and said the action was a provocation. Pravda called today on “all media of idological influence—art, science, literature, the press, party propaganda and agitation—to develop idological work among the masses even further, to fight against the rotten moods and rehashing of foreign propaganda and imbue the people with intransigence towards the “bourgeois ideology?’ /

Soviet Troops Pound Patriots In Bloody Move | Massive Effort To Stop Nationwide Strike Os Workers VIENNA (UP) — Savage street fighting broke out today in Budapest and the Hungarian provinces. Reports reaching Vienna indicated the Soviet army was attacking the rebel patriots in a massive effort to end Hungary’s nationwide strike against the puppet government. The Hungarians had prayed for a miracle to save them from another round of bloodletting in their struggle for freedom but the miracle did not come and fighting resumed today. Soviet armed forces and Red Hungarian militiamen had been alerted for Instant duty and needed only a word of command to launch a new massacre. Reports filtering through to Vienna from silenced Budapest said bloody clashes were taking place . wherever the new Red police of puppet Premier Janos Kadar at- ’ tempted to make the strikers re- ;■ turn to work. f i But the reports indicated the fighting had not yet reached the > scale ot another all out uprising. The crunch of mobile artillery and mortar fire kept tense Budapest awake through most of the night. And in the hills to the north Russian infantry and tanks closed in on 10,000 partisans who began shooting even before a presidential committee declared martial law and outlawed the regional workers . councils on Sunday. Machinegun fire rattled sporadically from the Gelert Hills, a ; villa-specked outcrop within the • confines of western Budapest. It . was believed Hungarian police and . militia and not the Soviets were i attacking the freedom fighters in > this area. The clashes continued despite the heavy punishment by military trib- > unal that is to be meted out under > the martial law which went into . effect Tuesday night. The martial , law provisions could be stretched . to affect anybody who did not ao- - tively support the regime. The entire nation was under military rule. The life of every Hungarian man, woman and child, was at the whim of Soviet-backed Premier Janos Kadar. Kadar appeared determined to go to any lengths to crush the resistance of workers who paralyzed the nation in the most complete national strike in history. Show No Mercy Kadar warned his government would show no mercy toward “counter-revolutionaries.’’ The de- - scription could be applied to anyone who defied orders to return to work or took part in any other anti-Kadar demonstrations. Hungarians could expect little mercy from the summary military I courts set up under the martial law decree. Those captured with weapons after military rule was clamped down Tuesday faced in- ; stant death. But the workers and freedom , fighters showed no indication of backing down. Reports reaching Vienna from Budapest indicated the workers no longer considered - it a 48-hour walkout. Workers were said to be determined to stay out indefinitely if the Kadar regime refuses to change its “iron Continued on Page Five ho) fcm iCrwwiup —— . ?

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