Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 295.

STRIKE IN THE FACE OF SOVIET MIGHT BfeftkMh jf ; .- i| f^ ,v; * >-—- ■-—** * **"..■■■ .5 ’’’?' - LATEST PHOTO out of war-tom Hungary shows Budapest workers outside a closed street car station as thousands of workers remain on strike in opposition to the Soviet-sponsored regime Os Janos Kadar. Idled street cars can be seen behind the closed gate. ', , . , ~ . -

Hungarians Go Info Trial By Court Martial \ Group Os Rebels Go On Trial Before Military Court BUDAPEST (UP) — A group of "armed counter-revolutionaries” go on trial today before a military court martial. Radio Budapest announced. If convicted, they could face death within two hours unless spared by an "act of mercy” by the court. The broadcast said the rebels were arrested Friday in Kecskemet in southern Hungary. The city lies between Budapest and Szeged. Budapest Radio Friday admitted armed clashes this week between partisans and Soviet troops in northern Hungary r The trial is believed to be the first by military court since the Janos Kadar regime imposed martial law on Hungary earlier this week. The broadcast did not specify the number in the group to stand trial. In announcing the trial. Radio Budapest also broadcast an article published in today’s edition of the Communist newspaper, Nepszabadsag, dealing with the rights of military courts. It said the courts could try only those persons caught'in the act of committing offenses against the martial law decree. All defendants have the right of counsel, it said. Thousands of Hungarians captured during the freedom uprising may be sent to work the coal mines to overcome the manpower shortage resulting from the disappearance of. half of Hungary’s 100,000 regular miners, it was reported. Dramatic political developments also were predicted for Hungary as the Communist regime strove desperately to get the strife-torn nation under control. Reliable sources said the days of Janos Kadar as premier are numbered. He is expected to be replaced possibly within a week by some anti-Stalinist who would be more palatable to the still-defiant Hungarians. Believes Kadar Will Retire A well Informed source said it appears that the Soviets and Kadar now realize it is impossible for a “workers-peasants government” to remain in power without the support of either workers or peasants. "It is now Safe to believe Kadar will retire,” the source, a nonCommunist politician who has close contacts with the Kadar regime, said. The source named Zoltan Szanto and Prof. Gyoergy Lukacs, both supporters of exiled former Pred mier Imre Nagy, as likely candidates to succeed Kadar. Both are veteran Communists, but of the anti-Stalinist circle. They are expected to be brought back shortly from Romania where they were exiled with Nagy three weeks ago, the source said. In installing a Nagy supporter as premier, the government would be going at least part way toward meeting the demands of worker (Continued on Paxe Five) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with rain and fog tonight. Sunday cloudy and J turning colder with snow flurries in north potion. Low tonight 32-40. High Sunday 39 north to mid 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy with snow flurries and a little v warmer.

Decatur Stores Open Evenings for Christmas Shoppers 1 ' .‘ ■ '■' v . ‘ * . •• - • . •• _ . u .. .. . . ... , , •■ ; .. .... ...... ....... .' L- -i - - - : ;■y* .■ *■'

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Negro Leader Jailed For Court Contempt Association Turns Over Local Records ATLANTA (UP)— The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reluctantly turned over to the state of Georgia its local records Friday night to free a NAACP leader jailed for contempt of court. J. H. Calhoun, Atlanta head of ! the NAACP, was freed following a brief stay in jail when the NAACP finally permitted state • revenue agents to go over the Negro organization’s Georgia rec- ‘ ords. Calhoun became the first NAACP leader to be put behind bars since a legal crackdown 1 against the organization began in \ Dixie several months ago. Jailed For Non-Compliance Superior Court Judge Dprwood 1 Pye had ordered Calhoun locked 1 up for failing to comply with a 1 court ordas. demanding that the NAACP turn its records over to the state. He granted the local NAACP head a weekend release on the basis of partial compliances with the order. William Strickland, head of the state delinquent tax unit, said after several hours of studying the records that "all the records have ’ not been produced.” However, Strickland said agents will study the records more thor- ' oughly over the weekend so it can be determined whether the NAACP has complied with the court order and Calhoun can be freed from his sentence. J Pye found Calhoun guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, but promised to have the sentence suspended if the records were turned over to the state. Calhoun was taken immediately to jail without a chance to confer with his lawyers. He spent about four hours behind bars before he was released. Continued on Page Five To Demand Driver Training Os Youths To Ask Legislature For Safety Moves INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The 1957 Indiana Legislature will be asked to ban drivers under 18 years old unless they take traffic safety courses, Rep. Phillip C. Johnson (R-Mooresville) said Friday. Johnson, chairman of, the Legislative Study Commission, said the Hoosier lawmakers also will be faced with plans for mandatory periodic vehicle inspection and reexamination of drivers. The commission will study another proposal which would flatly prohibit anyone under 18 from driving, he said. Johnson said other measures to be presented to the General Assembly include a mandatory 10day jail sentence for persons driving under suspension; addition of 150 new state troopers, and the ■ hiring of a state business manager to establish uniform procedures in lower courts. Only 25 per cent of IG-year-old students are enrolled in driving courses, and only 60 per cent of the state’s high schools offer the courses, he said. " • . "Driving training won’t be mandatory in schools,” Johnson said. “But under the proposed law, a person won’t qualify for a license until 18 . . . unless he has passed the course.”

Severe Floods Are Reported , In East Areas t - 100 West Virginia t Families Forced To Leave Homes Friday By UNITED PRESS k A winter storm howled into the ; East accompanied by a 12-inch \ snowfall, stirring up what resi- . dents called some of the worst floods in history. The Weather Bureau forecast a I mixture of freezing rain, sleet and 1 snow to blanket the already-deep 1 snow, and said that morning rains 1 might delay receding flood waters in West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. I More than 100 families in Spent cer, W. Va. were hustled from , their homes and at least one per- ' son drowned ' When floodwaters j spilled over the countryside along » a 100 mile front, which extended j as far north as Pittsburgh. Traffic in snow jammed upstate New York was snarled and a cold : ■ rain which fell late Friday night ' made driving extremely hazard- ■ oqs indirectly causing six deaths. : Five Christmas shoppers were injured when struck by a car in ’ New York City and two policemen were also run down While di- [ recting traffic. Police estimated that some 60 persons were injured in the traffic mishaps. 1 The snow ranged from three inches at Newburgh, about 40 miles north. of New York, to 12 1 inches at Albany, N.Y., and in the Catskill Mountains. ; ' Although ft was warmer in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions Friday, winter could be heard snorting in the distance as the leading edge of an arctic air mags nudged into the Northern ! Plains. The frosty air was detected by temperature drops of up to 30 degrees over a 24 hour period. Cutbank, Mont., reported a midnight reading of 6 degrees above zero. Snow was forecast to fall over the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley and over the Central Plains today. Freezing rain, sleet and snow were expected to make life miserable in parts of the Great Lakes area. Rain continued along the West Coast today, and snow flurries swirled over the Rockies. The rest ' of the country was to benefit from I mostly fair weather today. A freezing drizzle belt soaked areas of lowa, Missouri and Kansas Friday. ■_ - Constellation Limps Into London Safely LONDON (UP) — A Trans-Can-ada Airlines Super Constellation developed mechanical trouble over the Atlantic today and lumped into London Airport with three of its four engines operating. ' The plane carried 58 passengers and eight crewmen. ; Robert Krugh Dies i Early This Morning L Robert L. Krugh, 38, "of Scott avenue, Fort Wayne, died at 4 [ a. m. today at the Lutheran hosr pital in Fort Wayne after a long f illness. He was born in Adams , county Aug. 23, 1918, a son, pt Ernest and Dollie Wells-Krugh. Surviving are his wife, formerly Ruth DeHaven;. one son, Robert i Allen, at home; a brother, Vernon , Krugh, and a sister. Mrs. Marion j Brodbeck, both of Decatur. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

jONLY DAILY NKWBPARKR IN ADAM> COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 15, 1956 — — ——— - .

Guerrilla Gangs Fire On British And U. N. * Ml* f ' Troops At Port Said ~ * 'W 1 * , .... .y,. __

France Calls In Allies On Persecutions To Discuss Alleged Persecutions Against Citizens In Egypt UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —France summoned its Western European Allies today to a meet? tag to discuss alleged persecution and expulsion of British and French nationals from Egypt. The meeting was scheduled for Monday when the U.N. General Assembly convenes after a rare weekend recess. The French delegation claimed its 8,000 resident nationals in Egypt have been ordered but of the country by Tuesday. It was anxious to get the matter before the General .Assembly before the last British and French troop are withdrawn from the Suez Canal zone. A spokesman for the U.N. Emergency Force in Port Said said “French,slowness” had caused a slight delay in the Anglo-French withdrawal. There had been some earlier indications that the withdrawal would have been completed by this weekend. A French spokesman said France W as becoming “in cr easin g-i ly concerned” over reports the Cairo government was beating, jailing and expelling Frenchmen from Egypt. Britain and Israel have made similar complaints in letters to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the General Assembly But neither has taken the initiative to push for full debate on the issue before the world organization. —. —_—... France had planned to ask for a priority meeting of the assembly Friday. But after consultations with Hammarskjold and other delegations they postponed action pending the outcome of the Monday meeting with the other West European delegations. Huber Appointed Safety Director INDIANAPOLIS OT — Governor Craig Friday appointed Albert E. Huber, Indianapolis, as Indiana Traffic Safety Director. Huber has served as acting director since Dec. 1 when Joseph L. Lingo resigned the $10,300 a year job to take a traffic consultant position in Florida. , Huber previously was Lingo’s assistant. Wisconsin Boy Dies Friday From Cancer Christmas Moved Ahead For Child MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. «P» — A 6-year-old boy who celebrated Christmas nine days ago because his parents wanted him to have “just one more" died Friday in his home of cancer. When Dale Nadwocki’s parents set the calendar ahead, well wishers responded with the gift he wanted most—five baby pigs. The boy has been seriously ill for some time and weighed only 30 pounds at the time of his “early Christmas.” Dr. John Dewerth of Menomonee Falls said the boy “went suddenly." The story of Dale'S’ fatal illness and his wish for a baby pig brought him presents and cards from many parts of the nation. Instead of a single pig, he reseived five, one of them complete with a pedigree. A Baraboo, Wis., woman sent him a collection of toy pigs. The party was a great success that developed into an elaborate affair complete with Santa Claus and a group staging Christmas carols.

Request Os Federal Funds Under Study State Board Studies Sewage Plant Needs Decatur’s request for federal aid ta building its $1 million sewage disposal plant and connecting sewers is now being considered by the state stream pollution board, city attorney John L. DeVoss said today. Under federal law, Decatur may receive federal funds amounting to 30% of the cost, or $250,000, whichever is less. However, it is now yet certain whether or not the .cost of the connecting sewers will be included. Hie state and federal agencies concerned will decide this point. Decatur has applied for funds available ta federal fiscal year 1957, which expires June 30, 1957. During that period Indiana will receive $1,027,400 of the SSO million Congress has appropriated to aid anti-water-pollution buildings. The problem of the disposal unit has been a thorny one for Decatur, attorney DeVoss admitted, since the state of Indiana originally mandated the city to build a unit 11 years ago. The project has been postponed several times since then, because of the Korean war and shortage of construction materials, and the reluctance of city administrations to tackle the problem. 1 t The stream pollution board is now considering Decatur's problem in competition with the other cities of the state. The board will decide on the basis of a point system the pollution abatement needs and financial needs of each proposed project. The decision of the board will be given to the public health service about- January 30, 1957. Decatur may receive up to $158,700 aid, if the connecting sewers are not included in the cost of . the project, and up to $250,000 if they are included. There are eight needs totalling 10 points under the stream pollu- ; tion board’s grading system, and Decatur is expected .to score at least six points. Those affecting , Decatur’s system are: public health hazard, 1 point; public water supply affected, 1 point; industrial water supply affected, 1 Continued ’on Page Five Service Station Bandit Arrested May Be Linked To Decatur Robbery The capture of a man and woman at Bellefontaine, 0., early Friday morning, may result ta the clearing of the armed robbery of a Decatur service station several days ago. The couple, Marjorie E. White, . 32, and George H. Wheatly, 41, ] both of Lima, 0., are being held ‘ by Bellefontaine police • after their ‘ arrest following an armed robbery , of a service station there. Officials report that the man ! answers the description of the armed robber who entered Deca- j tur and Van Wert, 0., service stations several dhys ago. Floyd ’ Mcßride, attendant for the local Bonded Gas station, was slugged , in the robbery but not .♦ injured seriously. Bellefontaine police said that . the Lima man entered a downtown station and robbed the at- ' tendant Frank Kerns, of S4O. He called the police immediately as? J ter the man left on foot. The ‘ police there chased the couple for 1 five miles and the pair finally . surrendered ta front of a ready- ' mix concrete plant. It was reported that the couple was ta a stolen car registered to ] O. G. Fisk of Lima. Police chief James Borders, ac- ’ companied by sheriff Merle Attolder and Mcßride, will go to 1 Bellefontaine Monday with officials from Van Wert to question the Lima pair on their connection with' the local robberies.

Ike Calls In Top Advisers To Conference Clears Away Work Before Arrival Os India Leader Sunday WASHINGTON (W — President Eisenhower today called in more than a dozen top advisers to clear away work before the visit of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. )f *- Nehru will arrive Spnday at noon from London aboard the President’s plane, the Columbine 111, for a four-day visit. Vice President Richard M. *Nixon will meet him at National Airport and escort him immediately to the White House for the beginning of vitally important talks certain to affect future U. S. relations with Asia. The President planned to be at his desk this morning shortly after breakfast for one of his busiest Saturdays in months. He called in Budget Director Percival Brundage and other aides for a morning meeting to discuss next year’s legislative program. He also Scheduled morning meetings with Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. Postmaster General Arthus S. Summerfield and Director Allen Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hie President planned an afternoon conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles about the results of the NATO council meeting in Paris. Dulles and Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson were scheduled to arrive from Paris aboard separate planes early this aftrenoon. Dulles planned to go directly to the White House to report to the President. - - Mr. Eisenhower spent much time Friday conferring with Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. and other officials about plans for Nehru’s visit. Sen.-elect John Sherman Cooper R-Ky., former U. S. ambassador to India, told Mr. Eisenhower the U. S. stand against Mideast aggression has opened the possibility of a “new era” in this country's relations with India and ether Asian nations. Mrs. Sarah Kalver Dies This Morning Decatur Lady Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Sarah Kalver, 71, well known Decatur lady, wife qf I. A. Kalver, of 422 North Second street, died at 10:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for the past two years and critical for the past three weeks. She was born.in New York City, ried to I. A. Kalver Dec. 6, 1898. Jan. 18, 1879, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Ziv, and was marMr, and Mrs. Kalver observed their 58th wedding anniversary 10 days ago. Mrs. Kalver had lived in Decatur since 1900. She was a member of Beth-El church at St. Petersburg, Fla., and the Order of Eastern Star. Mr; and Mrs. Kalver had spent the wintry in Florida for the past 20 years. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, Roy L. Kalver, who now operates the Adams theater, started by his father; three grandchildren; ’ three brothers, Gus, Aaron and William Ziv, all of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Lena Neiman, also of Chicago. One son preceded her in death. The body was refnoved to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Nehru Doubts Russ Action In Mid-East' Angry Criticisms By British Press LONDON (UP) - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today he did not think there is any “serious danger” of Soviet interference in the Middle East. Nehru arrived here today by air from New Delhi on his way for talks with President Eisenhower in Washington. He ran into angry criticisms by Britain’s conservative press which also had some harsh words for the • United States. Asked about British fears of Soviet penetration ip the Middle East, Nehru replied: “I don’t think there are any serious dangers of any kind if approaches are made peacefully rather than with fear in our minds. Solution will be forthcoming.” Nehru said he would meet with Prime Minister Anthony Eden before he takes off for New York tonight. Eden, who returned Friday from a three-weeks rest in Jamaica, was at Chequers, the country residence of Britain’s prime minister. Nehru said he did not know what subjects he would discuss with President Eisenhower. But he said he was not going as a “mediator” between Communist China and America. On the question of relations between Peiping and Washington, Nehru would say only; “I should be very glad if tension is relaxed between them.” ' Two Old Magazines Quitting Business Heavy Financial Losses Reported NEW YORK (UP)— Two of the nation’s oldest magazines, Collier’s ' and WOMAN’S Home Compan- 1 ion, are going out of business. Heavy financial losses was cited as the reason for the suspension, 1 announced Friday night by Paul j C. Smith, president and chairman of the board of the Crowell Collier Publisher Co., which publishes both magazine. The decision was made at a meeting of the company’s board of directors, which had been called to decide the fate of Crowell-Col- i lier’s last two magazines. Collier’s, founded in 1888, will be suspended after the Jan. 4 issue. Woman’s Home Companion, start- ! in 1873, will cease publication with ' the January issue. Smith said the magazines lost “over $7.5 million” this year. The company, a successful book publisher, will have a loss of about ; $2.5 million,” he said. Gardner Cowles, president of Cowles Magazines, Inc. which pub- : lishes LOOK Magazine, said an ( agreement had been reached with ’ Crowell-Collier to take over obligation for unfilled subscriptions for Collier’s. In addition, he said, his firm is ' acquiring the magazine title “Collier’s." Each subscriber to Col- 1 her’/will be offered the choice of Look or any one of several other magazines. “Any subscriber requesting a ' cash refund for the unexpired portion of his Collier’s subscription will receive a refund check,” . Continued on Page Five Two Indiana Sailors Drowning Victims HONOLULU (UP) — The navy Friday identified two sailors who drowned in separate accidents as Indiana residents. Lowell N. Butler, 22, Ligonier, Ind., fell from a landing at Pearl Harbor and drowned Thursday. He was a crewman on the carrier Lexington. Seaman Albert Walters, 28, Elizabeth, Ind., fell from a whaleboat last Sunday. He Was a crewman on the destroyer O'Bannon.

Six Cents

Egypt Denies Responsibility For Violence Violence Mounting On Withdrawing British, French PORT SAID (UP) - Egyptian guerrilla gangs armed with rockets, hand grenades and machine guns attacked British and United Nations troops Friday night and early today in hit-run raids that killed at least two persons. Egyptian gunmen fired on Norwegian and Swedish troops of the U.N. “police force.” It was their first attack on the U.N. troops. A British announcement said the U.N. forces “returned the fire,” but no casualties were reported on either side. The Egyptian government disclaimed any responsibility for the mounting campaign of violence against withdrawing Anglo-French forces. A Cairo communique demanded that Port Said be handed over to Egyptian authorities at once. In one attack, four rockets were fired at the headquarters of the Sth British Tank Squadron. One British officer was wounded and some damage was inflicted oa headquarters installations. Two Egyptians were killed and 14 injured in other attacks. One. military official said the evacuation is running behind schedule because of French transport difficulties. Danish Col. Cail Engholm, commander of all U.N. Emergency Force troops in Port Said, said the Anglo-French withdrawal is running far behind schedule. Evacuation of the occupation troops originally was scheduled to be completed today, but Engholm said “E-Day” can now be expected “sometime before Christmas.” He said he understood the delay was caused by an unexplained tieup of French transport facilities. Five Days Behind Other sources predicted the evacuation will be completed sometime between Dec. 18 and Dec. 20, indicating the operation is running from three to five days behind schedule. Engholm said he expected a detachment of Finnish troops to arrive in Port Said today to take its place beside Danes, Norwegians, Swedes and Colombians already stationed here. He said arrival of the Finnish detachment will boost the number of UNEF soldiers in Port Said to 1,800, and he expects arrival of another 200 Emergency Force troops by the time the Anglo-French evacuation is completed. The UNEF area commander said British authorities may admit from 300 to 400 Egyptian policemen to Port Said a few days before the last British troops withdraw to help keep order among the civilian population. —- Shops Closed In Defiance The streets of Port Said were almost deserted today and all shops remained closed in stubborn defiance of occupation troops. The loosely-knit Egyptian underground organization has shattered a few buildings with bombs, including one on the Rue De Vlngttrois Juillet, where UNEF headquarters is located. There also have been armed attacks on British patrols.

NOON EDITION J [ WgfcOT ®W @H®O«T&A£ &M£