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TWO DIE, 35 INJURED IN RAIL CRASH *" ' ' ''' &>2<y4gW ; <• -' ■'■ ' ’ ’’ g>? ; s*..Jy ,-W* . <..v '*\J NINE OF THE 14 CARS of the Illinois Central's crack Chickasaw lie strewn along the right-of-way near 'Belleville, 111., following derailment of the train. Two died, and 35 other holiday-bound passengers were injured when the train left the rails at a newly constructed embankment which gave way.

Dr. Otto John Convicted On i Treason Count West Germany High Court Orders Jail Term Os Four Years KARLSRUHE, Germany (UP)— The West German Supreme Court today convicted Dr. Otto John of treason and sentenced the former counter-intelligence chief of West Germany to four years imprisonment. * John was convicted of treasonous disclosure of "false" state secrets and treasonable conspiracy during his 17 toon ths in Commu-nist-dominated East Germany. The court/in sentencing John to four yearsjzln prison, doubled the maximum sentence asked by the federal prosecutor. The year John spent in various West German jails and hospitals during the investigation and trial will be deducted. Arrested A Year Ago John was arrested one year ago today, 10 days later he had been smuggled back into West Germany in the back of a Danish newsman's car. He was former chief of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the West German Republic. John maintained his innocence throughout the trial. But the court rejected his story of being drugged and kidnaped by an agent of the East German secret police. The trial opened Nov. 12. Testimony and summations by prosecutor and defense attorneys were completed last Monday. Prosecutor Max Guede, in summing up for the state earlier this week, urged John's conviction for engaging in a "treasonable conspiracy" and for making antiWestern propaganda statements during his stay in the Communist zone. No Secrets Given Away He admitted John did not get any important state security secrets to the Russians because he said John, did not know any. But he charged John with "fighting in the enemy’s camp in the cold war” by his propaganda press conferences, broadcasts and written statements. Guede said he was willing to accept John’s story that he did not desert willingly to the Communists in 1954. The prosecutor said John “was not a traitor but a weakling who allowed himself to be misused. . The chief defense attorney admitted John made anti-Western statements but contended that John only cooperated with his Red captors in order to secure an opportunity to escape to the West. ' < T NO PAPER TUESDAY Following custom of many years, the . Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Tuesday, Dec. 25, which is Christmas Day. The Democrat will also observe earlier press time Monday, between 1:30 and 2 p.m. to give employes more holiday time. ~ 32 PAGES’™

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Bad Weather Delays Sinking Test Wells Drilling Test Wells Near Stratton Place Bad weather has delayed the sinking of three test wells which may help solve Decatur’s water problem, Ralph Roop, city engineer, said today. The new wells are being, drilled about GO Let deep in land across the St. MaraWnvei rj&r the south end of the Strauon “Place addition. I They will be gravel wells — that is, they penetrate about 60 feet through the earth into a gravel bed. Here ground seepage, purified by filtering, collects. Gravel wells maintain their water level better during the summer when rock wells, less porous, tend to dry up. Decatur presently has seven rock wells. These wells are much deeper, being 40 feet deep. They collect water from veins of soft rock throughout the entire depth of the well. The water seeps into the well more slowly through the rock than througfi gravel. However. it takes a more expensive riff to pump the water from a gravel well. With Decatur using almost a million gallons of water a day, and over a million gallons a day in the summer, it is necessary to maintain several rock wells. At the present time, four of the seven wells are actually in use. Wells are cleaned each winter, when it is no} necessary to run all seven wells continually. The difficulty of getting water is one of thmain problems which keeps many industries out oj Decatur. Huntington, for example, has single wells which produce as much as all of Decatur’s wells combined. Harvesting of corn delayed sinking a gravel test well this fall. Then after the harvest, the ground was too muddy from the fall rains to allow the heavy equipment to be taken to the well site. ' At the present time one test well has been driven. Two more will be sunk in the next three weeks. Then, by pumping water from one well, and watching the height of water in the other twd, the well drillers will be able to tell just how much water can be taken from" the well over a period® of time. The amount of water which can be pumped will decide the type of pump which the city will need for the new gravel well. Layne-Northern Company, Inc., Cont i n ued on Five i Court, Clerk Office To Be Open Monday Judge Myles F. Parrish announced this morning that the Adams circuit court and the county clerk’s office will be open for business as usual Monday and will be closed all day Tuesday, Christmas day. The county commissioners announced Friday afternoon that other offices in the court house will be closed both Monday and Tuesday. a Good Fellows Club Previous total .$511.15 Mr. & Mrs. George Laurent 10.00 Mrr\& Mrs. W. E. Petrie... 10.00 Maryann, Barbara and Frederick Zwick 10.00 TOTAL $541.15

Nixon Winding Up Visit To Refugee Camps Vice President To Return To States After inspection f SALZBURG. Austria (UP)-U.S. Hi-je President Richard M. Nixon winds up his whirlwind visit to Hungarian refugee camps in Austria today with a brief tour of Salzburg, birthplace of composer Wolfgang Mozart. Nixon arrived in Salzburg short-’ ly after midnight and drove directly to the home of U.S. ConsulGeneral Gerald O’Connor, where he caught a few hours sleep before starting out on the last leg of his three-day tour of refugee installations. The first stop on the vice president’s busy morning schedule was at Glasenbach, one of the oldest refugee camps in the Salzburg area. During the days of Adolf Hitler’s third Reich the camp was used as a training center for the dreaded SS secret police. Refugees Await Fate In recent weeks it has been used as a mercy camp for refugees from Soviet oppression in Hungary while they await permission to enter other countries. .. Salzburg Gov. Josef Klaus and members of his cabinet warmly greeted the smiling U.S. vice president when he arrived here by special train from Vienna. He will return to the United States Sunday byway of Munich. Nixon said he plans to inspect the Camp Kilmer, N.J. refugee reception center immediately after returning to the United States. Before leaving Vienna, Nixon expressed high hopes for more American assistance for the 145,000 refugees from Communist Hungary. Calls It Great Problem "The magnitude of the (refugee) problem is so great that the efforts of all the free nations and the United Nations organizations must be substantially increased, both insofar as the number of ref-_ ugees and the amount of assistance are concerned,” he said in a brief speech. “To meet the demands of the situation on one country, not even the United States is able to do all that must bg done. However, I am convinced that the United States must do more than it has already done in order to contribute adequately our share in meeting the problem which has been created for Austria by the bravery and fortitude of those who haye (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Verl Stingely Killed In Accident Mrs, Verl Stingely, 49, of near Rochester, was fatally injured in a two-car collision on U. S. 24 halfway between Peru and Logansport Friday afternoon. Her husband, brother of Dr. Ray Stingely of this city, is in a hospital with serious injuries, and Henry Wolf, Logansport businessman, was critically injured. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday for Mrs. Stingely.

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Last Os Anglo-French Invasion Forces Pull Out Os Egyptian Soil

Coal Miners In Hungary Defy Kadar Regime Demand Kadar Quit If Full Production Resumed In Mines VIENNA (UP)— An ultimatum from defiant Hungarian coal miners appeared today to have put puppet Premier Janos Kadar on the spot. The miners demanded that Kadar resign as prime minister if he wants full production in the coal mines resumed. The lack of coal and the resulting power shortage has kept Hungarian industry idle even though most workers have returned to their jobs. Three-Phase Ultimatum - Reliable reports reaching Vienna said the miners sent the Communist government a three-phase ultimatum. They demanded: 1. The immediate resignation of Kadar. 2. The withdrawal of Soviet occupation troops to their pre-revolu-tion positions. 3. Arrangements for free’ elections. The miners’said they would increase production by stages as each of the demands are met. Problem For Kadar Observers said the ultimatum was a problem Kadar could not solve by mass arrests, deportations or military trials. Nearly half of Hungary’s regular 100,000 miners have vanished — most are * Continued on Pa«e Five Shelve Request For Geneva School Loan Money Shortage In .State School Fund INDIANAPOLIS (W — The 1957 Indiana Legislature, already expected to be knee-deep in money matters, faced an additional financial problem today — how to bolster the shaky school loan fund. Officials from 6 Hoosier school districts were told Friday their requests for $3.4 millions in loans were at least temporarily shelved for lack of funds, _ —-— - The State Common School Fund Building Commission, Governor Craig and State Treasurer John Peters pointed out no additional loans could be made without the fund losing $1.5 million in interest from investments in government bonds. The matter needed more study, said Craig, and may be tossed into the lap of the legislature. “We’ll do the best we know how, and as quickly as we can," said Craig. . , ® Peters said $30.5 millions of the fund is invested in long-term bonds and $10.6 millions has been loaned to schools. “I don’t think I have any right to sell the bonds at a loss,” he said. Schools now must rephy money borrowed from the fund at 4 percent interest. The projects, some of them including gymnasiums, were: Monroe Twp., Delaware Co., $480,000; Wabash Twp., Adams, $325,000;<> South Central Consolidated School Building Corp., Harrison, $415,000; Boonville-Boone Twp., Warrick, $1,150,000; Troy Twp., Perry, $225,000, and Turkey Run District, Parke, $845,000.

Decatur Plans For Christmas Holiday Suspend Business Here For Holiday A last minute scurry of shopping in Decatur today and Monday will lead up to the quiet observance of Christmas in family gatherings and church < services Monday evening and Tuesday. Retailers reported a heavy increase of “last minute” shoppers. The stores will remain open until 9 p. m. today and until 5:34k p. m. Monday. Christmas Eve services are planned by Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. First Methodist church and the First Presbyterian church at 11 p. m * Monday/ 1 The Zion Lutheran church will have childfen’s vespers at 7 p. m. Monday. Christmas Day services to begin at 9 a. m. are also planned at the Lutheran church. St. Mary’s Catholic church will observe the birth of Christ with a solemn high mass at 5:30 a. m., to be followed by eight other masses. _ Most other churches of the city will have their Christmas services and programs Sunday with no special services planned for Christmas DayAll places of business, including retailers and offices, will, be closed TGesday, which is an official holiday. Offices in the county court house with the exception of the court room and clerk's office, will also be closed all day Monday. The county extension office will be closed both days and the office of the license bureau will be closed at noon Monday. The post office, which has been handling a record volume of mail during this Christmas season, will be closed Christmas Day. Special delivery mail will be handled on the holiday and Christmas packages will also be delivered on the morning of Christmas Day. Confesses Setting Two Churches Afire Avowed Sympathizer Os Reds Confesses TRENTON, N.J. (UP) — An avowed Communist sympathizer admitted to police who arrested him Friday-night—he—set two church fires “because I hate religion and Communism means truth.” Theodore Pravda, 35, an unemployed factory worker, said he set fire to the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church Thursday night. There were no serious injuries in either fire. Pravda said he recently changed his name from Johanese Boychuck because “Pravda means truth.” Pravda is the name of the official Soviet newspaper in Moscow. Second Recent Arson Arrest The churches (were fired only two days after Elber C. Lucas, 40, a parttime handyman, pleaded guilty to setting four church fires last Sunday and a $3.5 million blaze last March that destroyed St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral and rectory with a loss of three lives. Detectives who were waiting for Pravda in his home said they had traced him through a license number of a rented car he used on the night of the fifes,. The Rev. Michael Zaparynuik noted the number after chasing the arsonist across the yard of Hedy Trinity Continued on Page Fiv»

Record Death Toll Is Feared Over Holiday Bad Weather Mars Opening Days s os Holiday Weekend By UNITED PRESS The Christmas holiday weekend, marred by unpleasant weather, is expected to produce a record slaughter on the nation’s highways. The four-day festive weekend got off to a dreary, start. The eastern half of the was shipuded in a mass"of fog, drizzle MWrlrcezing rain. . / The Kansas City Weather Bureau issued a special bulletin of a potentially severe storm that could produce serious weather conditions for the Midwest. A total of 660 traffic deaths has been predicted by the National Safety Council for this year’s holiday, which began at 6 p,m. Friday night and will end at midnight Tuesday. Should that forecast be realized, it would set an all-time record for the Christmas holiday. By 7,:3q a.m. CST today. <t least 50 persons were dead from accidents. Three of these deaths were caused by fire, and one resulted from a 17-year-old youth’s 100-foot tumble down a mountain side Friday night. All the rest died in traffic accidents. Railroad stations were jammed, and in many stations holiday passenger traffic was snarled after airports were closed by fog. The fog was so thick in the East that two airplanes got lost on airport taxiways in New York City before coming to safe stops. In Windsor Locks, Conn., a plane couldn’t find its way to the hangar on a lighted field. Although the plane stretches some 100 feet long and is 30 feet high, control tower Continued on Page Five Mrs. James Sheehan Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Matilda M. Sheehan, 73, died Friday at her home on rural route 3, Decatur. She had been ah invalid for eight years. She was born in Monroeville and lived there until 20 years ago. Mrs. Sheehan was a member of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are her husband, James; three sons, Kenneth of Columbia City, Thomas of Decatur, and Wendell of Milan, Mich.; five grandchildren; two brothers, William Smith of Monroeville, and Harvey Smith of Fort Wayne, and four sisters, Mrs. Emma Sheehan of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Lucy Headstiene of Monroeville, Mrs. Goldie Mohr of Conwar, R.F.D., and Miss Frances Smith of Monroeville. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville, the Rev. Lawrence Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Monroeville IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home in this city after 7:30 O’clock this evening. Sunday, the body will be returned to the Marquart funeral home, where friends may call after 3:30 p.m.

Chinese Alien Is Ordered Deported Hope For Release Os American Prisoners WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States has deported to Red China a Chinese alien serving a manslaughter sentence in a New York state prison, administration officials disclosed today. The deportation was arranged as part of extensive U.S. efforts to prod Red China into releasing of 10 Americans held in Chinese jails on false chages. Two other Chinese aliens serving swinces in a California prison also wjU be deported soon to Nationalist China. Th| jtoree deportations resulted ftolhl C&nfcmmist Chinese charges that the Uniled States is holding Chinese ditizens in this country against their will. ’ In an effort to prove the falsity of the charges, the U.S. agreed to let the Red Cross survey all Chinese alien prisoners jailed in this country. "Our purpose was to eliminate any possible pretext the Communists might have not to release Americans they hold,” one official told the United Press. Twenty-four Chinese aliens serving prison terms were interviewed by „ the Red Cross. They were given their choice of completing their jail terms or going to Red China or Nationalist China. Only three chose to leave prison. Officials identified the prisoner deported to Red China as James Lew. He was serving a 7% to 20year sentence for manslaughter in Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N.Y. Lee was deported Oct. 29. He travelled to Hong Kong by ship and already has crossed the border into Red China. Uniled Stales Lends Brifain SSOO Million Help Solve British Financial Problems WASHINGTON — The United States is lending Britain SSOO million to help solve British financial problems caused by the Suez crisis. The loan—officially a "line of credit” —is available to the British on demand any time in the The U. S. Export-Import Bank agreed to the loan Friday. The move was the latest in a series of U. S. efforts to help Britain solve the financial difficulties created by the blocking of the Suez Canal and cutting of oil pipelines during the Agio-French strike into Egypt. The International Monetary Fund with U.'S. approval already has authorized withdrawal of $1.3 billion by Britain. So far Britain has used only some of it. Britain needs the dollars to buy U. S. oil now replacing oil that normally comes from the Middle East. The bank loan and fund withdrawal were two of three U. S. financial aids suggested earlier this month by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Mac Mil on Pa-ge Five INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight with occasional fog and drizzle. Sunday rain. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 36-44. High Sunday 42-60. Outlook, for Monday: Considerable cloudiness and a little cooler.

Ends47-Day Occupation Os Egyptian Soil UN Salvage Fleet Stands By To Begin Suez Clearing Task LONDON (UP)-The last anglo French troops pulled out of Port Said, Egypt, today, ending a 47day occupation that plunged relations among the United States, Britain and France to the lowest point in decades. The Anglo - French attack oil Egypt also created economic* emergencies throughout Western Europe as a result of the closing of the Suez Canal. The last 1,000 “beachhead” troops began marching out of the tightly guarded waterfront perimeter into transport ships at 4:15 p.m. (8-15 a.m. CST). Danish troops of the United Nations “police force” covered the .withdrawal from the ground, while AngloFrench planes circled overhead. Ten destroyers covered the flanks of the withdrawal against any possible last-minute Egyptian attack. — ■■' > To Clear Canal During the day, U.N. troops were called on several times to disperse Egyptian crowds sighted by reconnaissance planes sent up from the carriers lying off Port Said. A U.N. salvage fleet was standing by, ready to start clearing the blocked Suez Canal as soon as the withdrawal was complete. United Nations Emergency Forces, moving in on the heels of the withdrawing of British and French troops took over control of Port Said and the canal zone. A strong force of Egyptian police were helping to maintain order. It marked the end of the AngloFrench invasion of the Suez Canal, triggered by the Israeli offensive against Egyptian forces in the Sinai Desert. An official British report listed ■ 2,750 casualties, including 650 killed, during the hostilities. British casualties were 21 killed and 112 wounded. There has been no announcement on French casualties. Exchange Os Prisoners One of the last obstacles to the completion of the withdrawal was eliminated Friday through the exchange of prisoners of war. Egypt turned over 473 British canal technicians and the Anglo-French returned 236 Egyptian soldiers and 130 civilian captives. A UtN. spokesman in Port Said said agreement had been reached that work on reopening the canal would start immediately after the withdrawal of the last British and French troops from Port Said. Four German salvage ships sailed down the canal from Port Said to El Cap Friday, the first vessels to enter the waterway proper since the beginning of the hostilities.

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