Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 296

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY RADIANCE • 3< : 5 - ■■ ONLY THE TIPS of the Golden Gate Bridge towers can be seen as a pea-soup tog engulfs the San Francisco Bay area. It helps Old Sol to look like a glistening Christmas tree decoration.

Russia Claims Revolution In Hungary Ended Budapest Reports Fighting is Still . On In Provinces VIENNA (UP) l —Russia said today the Hungarian revolution had ended, but reports from Budapest said Russian tanks, troops and possibly planes were still fighting rebel guerrillas in the wild mountains north of the capital. The Budapest government was reported sending Hungarian strikers to the coal mines today as forced labor in an effort to avert economic disaster, afflT~Ti Budapest broadcast today said 654 went to work in the Matra Mountain mines today. Reports from Hungary said a Soviet "mopping up’’ campaign was in progress in the Beuku Mountains near the industrial cities of Eger and Miskolc, scepe of large-scale clashes for the last week. It was in this area the Communist government announced the first execution of a paTtj’ leader this weekend. Moscow Radio broadpast reported today life had returned to "normar’ in Hungary and said reports to the contrary were “slanderous from beginning to end.” But Radio Budapest itself admitted Communist police were carrying out a widespread search through the mountain area for rebels. Capital Is Tense The government appeared to have the Situation under control in Budapest itself, but the situation there was described as tense. There were indications open warfare was raging or threatening in the Eger-Miskolc area, and unconfirmed reports tn Vienna said the Soviets were using planes to shoot down the rebels.* Reject U. S. Protest WASHINGTON (UP) - Russia today*flatly rejected a U.S. protest against the recent stationing of Soviet tanks in front of the American legation in Budapest. Soviet Charge d’Affaires Sergei R. Striganov said the American complaint of Dec. 6 was “an unjustified attempt to interfere in the relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Hungarian peoples republic.” He also charged that the Hungarian revolt •-was stimulated from the outside.” But he did not directly accuse the United States of stirring it up. The United States had complained that Russia posted tanks before the American legation in Budapest during a demonstration in the streets of th| Hungarian capital. Striganov replied today at a 25minute conference with Deputy Undersecretary tit State Robert Murphy. The Russian told newsmen afterwards: “I declined resolutely this protest since the posing of this question but the Department of State before the Soviet embassy is an Continued on Five Good Fellows Club Previous Total $262.40 American Legion — 10.00 Mr. andjMrs. Harvey Baker 3.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Wil- , liamson -s- 2.®0 Delta Theta Tau Alumna - 5.00 Knights of Columbus 10.00 Tri Kappa — - - 50 00 TOTAL $342.40

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Bermuda Jammed By Hungarian Refugees Bad Weather Halts Planes At Bermuda HAMILTON, Bermuda (UP) — Bad weather over the North Atlantic unexpectedly jammed Bermuda with 1,000 Hungarian refugees this tveekend. But the little resort island took it in its stride. U.S. Air Force personnel and residents of Bermuda teamed together to supply the refugees with hot food, clothing and needed rest. The first three planeloads stayed overnight in some of Bermuda’s luxury hotels. Other planes were grounded long enough to give the refugees a hot meal, a wash-up and a stop at a clothes distribution center hurriedly set up by the local Rotary Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce. Bermuda volunteers worked around the clock for two days gathering and distributing clothing to refugees while the island’s radio broadcast appeals for most needed items—men’s shirts and underwear, infant clothing, and shoes, belts, skirts and blouses. Airman 2.C. Julian Kobaziar of Waukesha, Wis., who speaks Hungarian and is stationed at Kindley Field, handled the language prot> lem on a round the-clock basis assisted by Mrs. Gertraud Gierlinger, a former Austrian and now a civilian employe at the field. Some of the refugees thought they had arrived in the United States until set straight by the interpreters. GELNHAUSEN, Germany (UP> —Eight Hungarian couples who fled their revolt-torn homeland will be married in a mass ceremony Tuesday. Five Roman / Catholic couples will wed in a church in nearby Neuen Hasslau while three Protestant couples are exchanging vows in the refugee camp where they all are housed. American women who have been helping feed and clothe the 600 'Uoutsiiuea oh Page Eignt) Funeral Held’Today For Mrs. I. A. Kalver Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Kalver, 77, well known Decatur woman who died Saturday morning after a long illness, were conducted at 2:30 p.m. today at Zwick funeral home. Rabbi Frederick Doppelt of Fort Wayne officiated and burial was in Lindenwood cemetery at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Kalver, wife of I. A. Kalver and mother of Roy Kalver, had been seriously ill in recent weeks. Junior Mass Band Will Play Tuesday The Junior massed band will present Christmas programs Tuesday at three schools in the county, Clint Reed, director, stated today. The massed band is composed of bands from the Catholic, Lincoln and Northwest grade schools of Decatur, the Junior high, Berne and Jefferson grade and about 200 will take part in the programs, consisting of spedial band numbers, Christmas carpls and > group singing. The massed band will appear at the Catholic school gym at 9 a m. Tuesday, at the Berne school gym at»10 a. m., and at the Jefferson school at 11 a. m. The public is invited to attend. There will be no admission charge.

Soviet Leaders In Poland To Sign New Pact Soviet-Polish Pact Signing Scheduled For This Evening WARSAW, Poland (UP)—Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov and Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov arrived here today to sign a new defense pact with Poland. A Foreign Ministry spokesman invited all correspondents to the official residence of Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz at 7:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. CST) tonight "to witness the signing of the SovietPoltah pact.” The spokesman gave no rarther details. Informed sources said that the new pact would spell out the terms under which Soviet troops will be stationed in Poland and their status as visiting troops under Polish law. There was no advance notice of the Shepilov-Zhukov visit. The two Soviet officials flew into Okewcie Airport from Moscow in a special Soviet military plane. Details of the agreement were worked out recently in Moscow when Polish Communist Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka went there at the head of a partygovernment delegation. Gomulka’s mission to Moscow followed his sensational return to power after years in prison as a “Titoist.” The trip also followed sidespread popular demonstrations 1 throughout Poland demanding the I withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Poland. One immediate result was the removal of Russiantrained Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as Polish defense minister. 1 Gomulka on his return from ' Moscow, however, indicated that ' Soviet forces would remain in this country to protect Poland against 1 any possible threat from the West, 1 particularly Germany. It was speculated, however, that Soviet forces in Poland would be regrouped and that the main Red I Army units would be concentrated 1 on Poland's border with East Ger- : many. ' Shepilov and Zhukov were met at the airport by a top government 'delegation including Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki and Defense Minister Marian Spychalski. Report Invitation For Marshal Tita WASHINGTON (IP) — President Eisenhower plans to invite Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia to visit the United States sometime nevt year, diplomatic sources said today. No firm arrangements have been worked out yet and no date has been set. Russia Protests On Airplane Violations United States Is Studying Protest WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States today studied a Russian protest that three U.S. Air Force reconnaissance planes violated Soviet air space south of Vladivostok last week. The Soviet government announced Sunday that S. Striganov, acting Soviet charge d’affaires in the United States, delivered the protest note Saturday. The State Department confirmed receipt of the protest but would not comment on it. In Tokyo, a spokesman for the Far East Air Forces said the command "had no knowledge” of a flight of three 857 jet bombers. “This headquarters has no knowledge of such a flight,” a FEAF spokesman said flatly. The note complained that three American jets of the 857 type flew into Soviet territory on a reconnaissance mission Dec. 11. It implied a threat of action against any future intrusions. “The Soviet government deems it necessary to state that in the event of a recurrence of the violation of the air space of the USSR by American aircraft, responsibility for the consequences of such violation will rest squarely on the government of the U.5.A.,” the note warned. Good weather in the Japanese Sea area precluded the possibility that the U.S. planes were lost and crossed into Soviet territory accidentally, the note said. The alleged intrusion occurred in the general area where other air incidents have taken place between American and Soviet craft, including the shooting down of several U.S. planes.

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11 Killed As Auto Smashes Train Today Auto Crashes Into Train In Arizona Early This Morning PHOENIX, Ariz. (UP)—Eleven persons were killed and a baby critically injured early today when their car struck the Chicago-bound Southern Pacific Golden State Limited, police reported. Southern Pacific reported that none of the passengers on the train was injured. A Southern Pacific spokesman said the train’s engineer wasn’t aware of the accident until a bumper from the wrecked j car fell off the engine unit several hundred yards down the tracks. Officers said wreckage of the car was scattered along the tracks. They said the 11 persons were killed instantly and the small child was found underneath the tangled wreckage. Police said the accident took place at an unguarded crossing as the train was pulling into Phoenix. Several of the victims were believed to have been farm workers of Mexican descent. ’’it was terrible,” a police offii cer at the scene said. “The bodies ' were a mess and bits of wreckage was everywhere. The only identification we could find left in one piece was a torn California license plate.” Officers said the crossing only has a standard sign warning and no signals. The accident occurred at 2:10 a.m. EST and within minutes hundreds of spectators jammed the area. Police combined with sheriffs deputies held the crowd back while the bodies were removed. Following the accident the train proceeded into the Phoenix station. Colder Weather Is Forecast In State Snow Flurries Are Also In Forecast By UNITED PRESS Indiana weather gave little cause for alarm today—just plain cloudy, skies, mild temperatures and a few snowflakes. But the Weatherman said “much colder” temperatures would move in tonight. That meant lows of 15 in the northern third of Indiana and 25 downstate. Temperatures remained mild during the weekend, too, but heavy fog was blamed for the deaths of at least three persons in traffic crashes. The Weather Bureau said today’s temperatures would be no higher than 39 north to 50 south. But the predicted highs for Tuesday were the mid 20s north to near 32 south. A few snow flurries were on tap either today, tonight or Tuesday in the northern two-thirds of the state. Downstate, “light snow, sleet or rain” was due tonight. The mercury thawed to 48 at Evansville Sunday. Other readings: Indianapolis 40, South Bend and Fort Wayne 37, and Lafayette 36. Lows early today ranged in the 30s. A five-day outlook said temperatures will average near or a little below normal. Highs normally (Coatlaaed an Page Kight) Funeral Tuesday For Robert Krugh Funeral services for Robert L. Krugh, native of Decatur who died Saturday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & Son funeral home in that city, the Rev. Arthur Ratke officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral hotne until time of the services. •

Nine Persons Dead In Indiana Traffic Heavy Fog Blamed For Three Deaths By UNITED PRESS Indiana weekend traffic crashes killed at least nine persons, and fog-shrouded streets and highways were blamed for at least three creaths. Mrs. Jennie Yapp, 38, Middletown, was killed when a car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad switch engine on an Anderson parking lot. Four others in the automobile were injured. Mrs. Beatrice Buckman, 25. Borden, died when her car was hit by a Monon freight train north of New Albany. A head-on smashup in the fog killed Maxie Lanie, 30, Francesville, and Robert Howe, 25, Monon, on U.S. 421 north of Monon. Kenneth Shinhan, 22, Greenfield, was killed when his car smashed into a truck which was pulling out of a Greenfield service station in the fog. Gene Cooper, 21, Pennington Gap Va., died of injuries sustained in a three-car collision on Jnd. 32 in Hamilton County. Six other persons were injured. John M. Claeys, 14 months, Warsaw, was killed when an automobile driven by his father, Walter, 25, went out of control on Mid. 19 and hit a tree near Nappanee. The boy's father, mother and sister were injured. Forrest E. Short, 24, Brazil, was killed when his auto went off Ind. 59 near Howesville. An automobile hit and killed S-Sgt. Lawrence Bradshaw, 23, Bunker Hill Air Force Base, »on U.S. 31 north of Kokomo. A woman companion, Bertha Sims, 35, Kokomo, was injured critically. _ w ■ —- Show Employment Increase In City Decatur Payrolls Are Also Higher Industrial employment and payrolls in Decatur, with seven industries reporting, were increased in November over the previous month and the same period last year, according to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce business barometer. - The barometer shows 1,592 employed with a payroll of $570,676. October’s report showed 1,538 employed and a payroll as $517,458. The increase over November, 1955, is almost 1,000 employed and over SIOO,OOO in the payroll. (S, Slight increases are also Seen in electric meters (including rural) and water meters. Telephone (including rural) and gas meters showed a slight decrease from October but more than a year ago. The totals on these were electric meters, 3,938; water meters, 2,548; gas meters, 2,322, and telephones, 6,091. Eleven cases of direct poor relief aiding 28 persons, at a cost of $1,173 were reported during the month. The amount expended is a big jump over the $683 reported in October and the $438 reported a year ago, although the number of persons aided is less than in the other two reports. Only three deaths were reported in the city for the month of November as compared to 60 births. There were 61 births and eight deaths in October and 60 births and nine deaths in November, 1955. ■ j Carloadings in dropped sharply from 2,811 to 733. There were 2,000 carloadings in during November, 1955. Carloadings out also decreased. The past month’s total was 1,568 as compared to October’s 2,132. jPostal receipts totalling $8,013 were an increase ovep October's $7,951 but slightly less than for the same month in 1955. Railway shipments totalled 1,259, an increase over October and identical to the 1955 November report. Continued on Page Five

Evacuation Os Port Said Is Slowed Today Reprisal Attacks By Egyptians Feared As Battle Aftermath PORT SAID. Egypt (UP)—Britain and France slowed their evacuation of Port Said today to recover from a weekend of violence in which a “merciless” attack on Egyptian suicide commandos killed at least 100 persons. The United Nations Emergency Forces (UNEF) took over most of Port Said but some 5,000 heavilyarmed Britons and 2.000 French troops held strong positions in the debarkation area in fear of new reprisal attacks by the Egyptians. The British reported a series of 26 raids by Egyptian commandos during the past few days, climaxed by the ambush slaying of a British major. The attack by British tanks and infantrymen Saturday night and early Sunday followed the latest incident. mew Crisis Looms x A new crisis loomed tonight, (5 p.m. EST), the deadline for U.N. acceptance of Anglo-French salvage fleets with their crews. If no acceptance comes by then, the .salvage fleet is expected to sail and let a partially rafted blockship sink back to the bottom of the canal. Egypt has agreed to the use of the British and French salvage vessels but only if they are manned by other nations. Britain and France have refused and gave the United Nations until midnight tonight, local time, to decide. The Anglo-French troops spent the night inside a barbed wire perimeter encircling the European quarter of the port area to prevent a recurrence of attacks. U.N. patrols in white jeeps moved through the tense city. Troops Fired On Danish. Swedish and Norwegian troops were fired on this weekend and returned the fire, but U.N. officials said they believed the U N. men were mistaken for British despite their blue helmets and white jeeps. No casualties were reported in these incidents. U.N. officials predicted the An(Uoutlnued on Page Five) ~ ■ Karl Bradtmueller Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Karl Bradtmueller, 65, lifelong resident of Adams township, Allen county, died at 10:45 a. m. Sunday at the Park view memorial hospital, Fort Wayne, where he> was taken after suffering a stroke Saturday at his home. Mr. Bradtmueller was a member and deacon of the Martini Lutheran church, the township Farm P ’ • New Haven Equity exchange atiu the Wayne Co-op. He is survived by his wife, Anna; three daughtres, Mrs. Marion Driscoll of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Frank Sudduth, at home, and Mrs. Herbert Marbach of Decatur; three sons, Norman of Hoagland, Elwin and Karl, Jr., of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; four "brothers. William and Fred, both of Fort Wayne, Julius of New Haven, and Wilbert of Allen county, and four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Geerken, Mrs. 'John Hemsoth, Mrs. Matilda Witte and Mrs. Erwin Schaperall, all of near Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at E. Harper & Son funeral home at New Haven and at 2 p. m. at the Martini Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto A. Marschke officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today.

Russia's Communist Pariy Leaders Meet Report Leadership Os Kremlin Split LONDON (UP)— Russia’s Communist Party leadership met today in Moscow to take stock of its policies which have produced unrest in Russia and the satellites and open rebellion In The Kremlin’s "collective leaT'syship” was reported badly split tel the issues but a United Press .Moscow dispatch said no major changes were expected in the party leadership. Western observers said Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, leader of the “deStalinization” program, and Vyacheslav M. Molotov, former premier and foreign minister, were at odds. But they said Khrushchev’s job appeared safe for the time being since Moscow did not want to admit to the world there was anything but harmony in its upper echelon. Some observers have hinted that Molotov was in the ascendancy again. Nevertheless a stormy session was predicted. Some old-line Bolsheviks like Molotov were reported to blame Khrushchev’s "de-Stalin-ization” policies for the nearrevolt in Poland, the unrest in other satellites and the rebellion '■ in Hungary. The official Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported only ; Sunday an “unhealthy state of mind” existed among Russian students at Leningrad and it was believed the Communists would crack down sharply to bring the students in line. The Soviets also have admitted unrest recently in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, and reports from inside the Iron Curtain have told of anti-Soviet riots in Poland, outbursts in Albania and growing displeasure in East Germany with the Communist regime. Anthony f den Back In British Saddle Eden Facing Tough Questions In House LONDON (UP)—Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden returned today to the House of Commons to take up active leadership of the country. He faced barbed questions on the Suez adventure and a storm of protest against gasoline rationing. Party whips (disciplinarians) worked throughout the week end to assure Eden of receiving a rousing and "spontaneous” cheer from the Conservative Party to mark his first appearance in Parliament since he took a three-week rest cure in Jamaica. One of his first questions in Commons was the barbed inquiry from Laborite Emrys Hughes asking him "what proposals he has to appoint an official historian to write the history of the armed conflict with Egypt.” Other members of Parliament asked 44 questions about gasoline rationing which started today for three months as result of blocking of the Suez Canal and halting of the flow of oil from the Middle East. Under the rationing scheme, first since the end of World War 11, each Briton will be limited to six gallons of gasoline a month. But rationing was announced three weeks ago and the chief criticism by Britons was the slowness of the United Nations in getting the canal cleared again. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and much colder tonight with chance of rain changing to light snow or sleet extreme south portion. Snow flurries likely extreme north portion tonight and Tuesday. Tuesday partly cloudy and colder. Low tonight 12-18 north, 18-23 south. High Tuesday 22-26 north, 25-30 south. Sunset 5:22 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 8:01 a.m.

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Many Problems Os World To Be Discussed Hopeful Some Os Differences May v Be ironed Out GETTYSBURG , Pa. (UP)—President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India arrived at Mr. Eisenhower’s farm here today for informal man-to-man talks on a broad range of problems. • They drove here from Washington in a White House limousine with an escort of Secret Service guards, newspaper reporters and photographers. Shortly before 10 a.m. CST, the motorcade from the White House pulled slowly into the well kept grounds of the spacious Eisenhower farm where the chief executive and Nehru will Spend today and tonight in secldfeion. They will return to Washington Tuesday. The nine-car caravan made the trip from Washington in just under two hours. President Eisenhower, in a big government limousine, drove from • ' the White House to Blair House—the official guest house just across Pennsylvania Avenue—and picked ' up Nehru at 9 a.m. Nehru emerged ' from Blair House just as the PresiF dent drove up. The President got out of the car ■ to welcome Nehru and shake hands 1 with him. They were due to reach ‘ the Gettysburg farm about 11 a.m. There, away from the pressures I and pomp which customarily surround a visit of the head of a fori eign government to Washington, they will exchange views on such subjects as the Hungarian crisis, the Middle East dispute, U.S. recognition of Red China, U.S. military alliances, colonialism and dis- / armament. Only Second U.B. Visit Diplomats of both countries hope the President and Nehru, heads of the world’s two largest democracies, can narrow some of the differences that have separated their nations on a * number of international issues. Some look for a new U.S.-Indian understanding. Nehru, his visit to the U n i t.e d States long delayed by the President's illness of last summer, arrived in Washington aboard the President’s personal plane Sunday afternoon. In setting foot on American soil for only the second time, he said that he considered it a privilege to confer with Mr. Eisenhower “at this rather important and even, perhaps, critical moment in history.” . ' He drove immediately from the airport to the White Hoube for lunch with the President. Mr. Eisenhower almost ran down the White House steps to greet Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi. First Meeting Since '49 "This is an event to which I have long looked forward,” the President said. “It is a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this landto this house.” It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since 1949 when Nehru received an honorary degree at Columbia University, which Mr. Eisenhower then headed. After lunch with the President, the Indian prime minister conferred with Secretary of; State John Foster Dulles for more than an hour, attended a reception at the Indian Embassy and dined Sunday night with Chief Justice Earl Warren. Continued on Page Five sww