Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 302

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Pope Appeals Unify Against Soviet Threat Christmas Message Urges Free World To Stand In Unity VATICAN CITY W — Pope Pius XII appealed to the world in a Christmas message Sunday to unite against Soviet threats. He warned against the "fatal errors” on the eve of World War II when each sought his own safety at the expense of others and “in the end all together were engulfed in the holocaust." The Pontiff said he was not calling a “crusade” but “sad reality forces us to set forth the terms of the struggle in clear language . . . if we kept silent, we would have to fear the judgment of God.” The white-clad Pope, speaking from a* golden throne, rebuked the Western powers for their timid approach to Soviet actions in Hungary and endorsed a United Nations force to keep the peace. Hits At Hungary He said any nation refusing to admit U.N. observers—as did the Communist Janos Kadar, government of Hungary—should be "denied the exercise of their rights as U. N. members.” An authoritative Vatican source said today the Pope felt the United Nations should adopt sanctions against Russia as well as the Hungarian government for this refusal. The source said what the Pope had in mind was a temporary sanction rather than outright expulsion of Russia from the United Nations as suggested recently by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano. The 80-year-old Pope, who was elected to the throne of St. Peter only a few weeks before Adolf Hitler’s tanks rumbled into Poland in 1939, made it clear he felt world peace can still be saved. AU Out Effort Needed But he said an all out effort is needed and that free nations must overcome their dissensions, forget individual interests and unite in the common cause against the Soviet threat. In the most forceful of his 18 Christmas messages, the Pope held out th£ picture of the Soviet tanks “sowng death” in Hungary and the Soviet threat to use Continued on Page Five Employes Agree To Take Wage Reduction WASHINGTON, Ind. <W — Union officials today said workers at the United States Rubber Co. plant here have voted to take a ( 25-cent an hour wage cut. The company asked Local 337 of the Rubber Workers Union to take a 30-cent cut so the company wear items. Later negotiations reduced the cut to 25 cents. Union officials said the workers voted 188-187 in favor of the reduction.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Negroes Trying To Integrate Seating Tallahassee Buses Carry Negroes Today TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (IP! — Negroes sat where they pleased on near-empty city buses during early runs today in an attempt to integrate the long-boycotted transit line without benefit of a court decree. Police and city officials awaited the outcome of heavier travel later in the day before announcing 1 whether they would challenge this second mass desegregation , of a city bus line in the deep South. First buses returning to midtown from runs into Negro residential areas brought in handfuls of Negroes sitting in the front, middle and rear sections. They had no white passengers, however. The Negroes decided at a mass .meeting Sunday night to.end their five-month boycott and to try to ride as equals of whites on the basis of a court order ending bus segregation four days ago at Montgomery, Ala. But travel was far below normal because 3,700 Florida A & M Negro students and more than 6,500. Florida State University white students were away for the holidays, along with many of the 5,000 or so state employes. Tallahassee has a population of about 40,000. . When the buses rolled Police Chief Frank Stoutamife W’as still awaiting instructions which he expected to receive from the City Commission at an informal breakfast meeting. Stoutamire declined to say what he would consider to be the "law” in the event of any dispute ovqr seating, but said, "unless there are any complaints I’m not going ' to fool with it.” Tallahassee thus uncertainly became the deep South’s second testing ground for a mass integration attempt within four days. Negro leaders Including ministers, business and professional men decided'aV a mass meeting of the Inter-Civic Council Sunday night to try to match the thus-far successful integration at Montgomery. Monroe Rural Fire Department Meets An important meeting of the Monroe rural fire ’ department is scheduled for Thursday evening at 7.m., in the study hall of the Adams Central school. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss the pur- ■ chase of the proposed new fire truck for this rural community. ; and it is hoped that a decision as to the type of engine, will be reached at this meeting. All members of the organization, and all interested persons are invited to attend. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and a little colder, occasional snow flurries endIng tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Low tonight 25-30, , high Tuesday 35-40. Sunset 5:25 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 8:04 a. m. '

New Snags Are Developing In Clearing Suez Egyptians Refuse To Accept Salvage Crews From Britain PORT SAID JUP)—New snags developed today in United Nations efforts to begin clearing the Suez Canal. «. Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, the U.N. salvage chief, had hoped to begin actual clearance today but was faced with Egyptian refusal to accept British salvage crews. Wheeler, after conferences with Egyptian officials, ordered one group of salvage vessels today to El Qantara through a passage already cleared by Anglo - French salvage workers. Need Further Negotiations But actual work appeared to depend on further negotiations with Col. Mahmoud Younes, head of the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority, and Tewfik El-Dib, director of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said. (United Nations sources said Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold remained in close touch with the situation. He stayed at his office all day Sunday in hopes of straightening out the snag over use of the British salvage vessels. (The U.N. sources said Wheeler had run into a series of delays and was anxious to use the British salvage vessels to make up for lost time, but they thought the issue would have to be solved by Hammarskjold and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.) City Happy The city of Port Said was deliriously happy with formal takeover by the Egyptian army and the beginning of the withdrawal of United Nations Emergency Forces from the area. Plans called for the U.N. troops to be removed within 48 hours but the Egyptians said they could spend Christmas in Port Said if they wished. Some already have begun withdrawing to the S i n a i Peninsula after the Israeli forces, but about'l,Boo remain. Lt. Col. Walter Lundquist, chief of staff of the UNEF who entered Port Said to supervise the withdrawal, said the troops would cross the Sinai Desert in three main columns after the withdrawing Israeli army. Singleton Resigns As Deputy Sheriff Roger Singleton Ta -? - Leave Post Jan. 1 The resignation of Roger Singletoh as deputy in the Adams county sheriff’s department was announced today by sheriff Merle Affolder. Singleton’s resignation will be effective Jan. 1. A member of the department for the past year, he expressed regret at finding it necessary to resign. He explained that the resignation was- necessary since Central Soya company has notified him that his leave of absence can not be extended, and that unless he returns to the company, it will be necessary for the company to clpse down the option on his house which Singleton bought while employed at the company. The fiveyear option will not be up for another year and a half. Sheriff Affolder had high praise for his deputy and regrets that he will lose the services of Singleton, who has proved highly satisfactory in his work as deputy sheriff. Affolder announced today that, although several interested persons have been interviewed, no appointment has been made to fill the vacancy in the department that will be created by Singleton's resignation. —■ . Hearing Is Held On City Fund Transfer The city’s request for a $3,000 transfer within the current street department budget was approved today by state tax board field representative, George Gable. Gable, representing the state tax board, met with Mrs. Miriam Hall, clerk-treasurer, and John DeVoss, city attorney, in the county auditor’s office this morning. No local citizens appeared to offer objections to the transfer. The transfer of funds will allow the city to buy a riew chasis for its nine-year old garbage truck. Each item of the street department budget is figured separately. A surplus existed in item 4, while item 7, property, from which’ the chassis must be bought, didUnot contain enough funds for the purchase. The transfer will allow the city to buy the chasis during this financial year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 24, 1956

Nation’s Traffic Toll Climbing Relentlessly Toward Holiday Record

i Nixon Returns From Visit To Austria Today l Declares Hungary Fight For Freedom i Blow To Communism WASHINGTON (UP) I Vice Pres- ‘ ident Richard M. Nixon said today . Hungary’s fight for freedom has J handed international communism “a mortal blow from which it can- ; not recover.” Nixon made the statement to re- ’ porters at Washington National ‘ Airport on his return from Austria where he personally inspected the plight of Hungarian refugees. He : returned convinced that America “must do more” to help the refu- ■ gees. | “I am convinced, as a result of < a first hand study of the situation i that the courageous peoples who ] fought for freedom in Hungary i should be considered a problem only to the Soviet Union,” Nixon 1 said in a prepared arrival state- 1 ment. < “As a result of their sacrifice, < international communism has suffered a mortal blow from which it i cannot recover. It has been ex- j posed as a gigantic failure. .For < 10 years the Communists had complete Control of Hungary. They 1 concentrated their efforts on the 1 intellectuals, students and the < workers. However, it was these 1 three groups who led ,the revolt ’ against them.” 1 Can Do “Full Share” Nixon said he will make specific j recommendations to President Ei- s senhower before Jan. 1 on ways in < which-the United States can do i its “full share” in helping the 1 refugees from Hungary find new homes. i Nixon was met at the airport by < a delegation of top government of- i ficials. But he reserved his biggest j smile for his-wife,-Pat, and his i two daughters, who burst through I the crowd to greet him a few 1 minutes after he stepped off the 1 plane. His 10-year-old daughter, Patri- 1 cia, shouted: “Hi, daddy” as Ni- 5 Continued on Pa?e Five c Good Fellows Club 1 Previous total —...5541.15 £ Mr. & Mrs. George Buckley 5.00 Nelle E. Wianes .. 3.00 f Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Knapp 5.00 , A Friend 5.00 J A Friend .... 1.00 . Change in Boxes 5.25 r ' 11 t TOTAL $565.40

Hungarian Refugee Is Happy To Be In U. S.

Editor’s Note: For three weeks United Press Correspondent Russel Jones was the only American reported in battered Budapest. He was ordered out of Hungary on Dec. 5 after 37 days of reporting on the efforts of the Hungarian people to throw out Soviet troops and establish a free democratic .government. Jones and his Hungarian born wife are now on \ tour of the U.S. By RUSSELL JONES United Press Staff Correspondent CAMP KILMER, N.J. (UP) — Bela Szabo, late of Rakoczi Avenue, Budapest, and now of barracks. No. 2120 of this old Army camp, has one dollar in his pocket and he doesn’t intend to spend it. But this will be the happiest Christmas he ever spent. “My Christmas presents came early this year," Szabo said. “They were the smiling faces of the young men who stand behind the counter giving us food. “They were the boys laughing and joking in the kitchen and in the streets. They were the soldiers shouting as they unloaded the beds that went into oilr room. been so long since I heard anyon'i laugh.” • Chat In Mess Hall Szabo talked to me as we kat in tfie mess hall where he, his pretty wife; Suzanne, and their

Father Os Four Is Beaten, Murdered Michigan Man Is Slain Last Night YPSILANTI, Mich. (UP) — A port Huron, Mich., father of four who drove to Willow Run Airport to pick up relatives for a Christmas reunion was robbed and beaten to death Sunday night in a parking lot across from the terrninal. La Verne W. Wegener, 41, a St. Clair County agricultural agent, said before he died that he was bludgeoned by a pair of “quite young” hoodlums. The attack occurred when Wegeher entered the huge parking lot after greeting his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard F. Miller. The couple flew in from Detroit Lakes, Minn., for the holidays. Wegener’s wife, Lois, stayed with her parents while her husband went for the car. She was stunned when her husband, partially slumped over the wheel and his head covered with blood, pulled up at the terminal. “I ran to the car and the folks followed with their luggage,” Mrs. Wegener said. "When I saw him slumped over the wheel and covered with blood, I nearly fainted.” She quoted her husband as saying: -Two men hit me with a pipe and robbed me. They Were quite ypung.’t t , State police said Wqgener was beaten with a “heavy, blunt instrument" Although he was able to drive his car out of the lot, Wegener died within minutes after he was admitted to University Hospital at Ann Arbor. Detectives said their only suspects were two men who twice stopped at a service station west of Ypsilanti. They said one of the men appeared to have blood on his clothes. o “The men didn’t have any money when they stopped at the station earlier in the evening,” a spokesman at the Ypsilanti state police post said. “They returned a little more than an hour later and did have money. The station attendant, however, failed to get their car's license number.” Mrs. Wegener returned to Port Huron and told her four children, who range in age from 2 to 14, of her husband's fate. “He so wanted the children to have a nice Christmas,” she sobbed. Wegener, who holds a master’s degree in dairy production from the University of Minnesota, was a native of Bertha, Minn. Mrs. Wegener, h*r parents and the four children are scheduled to leave tonight for Bertha, where services will be held “sometime after (Continued on r'age Five)

daughter Martha, aged 2%, were eating. Anna, their 4-month-old daughter was sleeping in the barracks: “I don’t have any presents for the children or my wife,” he said, "but I’m not going to spend the dollar I was given. It’s the first one I’ve ever had, and I want to keep it as a token of the new and good life we will start here in this ' wonderful country of yours.” ( Szabo arrived here on Dec. 21 < after fleeing their shell wrecked i home on Nov. 30. A radio engineer ] who was employed in Hungary’s , only radar factory, he hopes to , get similar work in this country. “I was one of the elite,” he said. , “With 2450 forints (about $220) a , month, I got more than twice as • much as most workers. “But, even so, we couldn’t cele- . brate Christmas last year. ( Worked' Last Christmas ( “The ‘peace loans’ took most of ■ my Salary, and the only thing we 1 could afford to mark the day was a little cake for little Martha. • “Because our factory had a *So- ‘ cialist competition’ I had to work ’ anyway. “Last Christmas was like every r lftKfF r day—gray, dismal and joy- • less.”. ' Today Szabo’s eyes opened wide as he read a translation of the • Christmas menu — roast turkey with dressing, shrimp cocktail. Continued on Pass Five

Tenement Fire Kills Mother, Four Children • Seven Persons Dead In Hospital Fire In Minneapolis MERIDEN, Conn. (IF — Police searched today for a group of boys believed to have started a tenement fire which killed a mother Ind four of her children. Fire officials said neighbors reported they chased the youngsters out,of the basement of the fourstory brick building where they had been playing with matches. The general alarm fire broke out late Sunday night, suffocating the five victims and sending four other members of the family to a hospital. One was in critical condition. The gaily-decorated Christmas tree in the victims apartment and the gifts beneath it were untouched by the flames. Two hundred persons were evacuated from an adjoining theater. Dead were Mrs. Eulalia Rios, 39, and her children Gladys. 17, Eddie 3. Eddie Nelson 4, and Isabelle, 6. A medical examiner said all five suffocated. Hospitalized in poof condition was Edward, 5. The father, Luis, 41, anotherson Jose, 19, and a brother of Mrs.* Rios, Alberto Moralis, 23, were listed in "fairly good" condition. Asst. Fire Chief Walter Sadowski said firemen were delayed by a train. “It was less than a minute because it was a fast passenger train,” he said, “but it could have been serious if it had been a freight.” There are eight grade crossings in the heart of this city which is on a main New York-to-Boston line. Hospital Fire , MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (IF — Defective wiring on a Christmas tree set off a fire in Doctors' Memorial Hospital Sunday that killed seven persons and critically injured six others. Seventy-nine patients were in the hospital Sunday when the gayly dceorated tree exploded in flames and set the lobby aifire. Dense clouds of smoke billowed through the five-story building, trapping patients in their rooms. Firemen blamed the blaze on defective wiring on the tree. They said most of the victims died of asphyxiation. Killed were Mary Balliet, 48; Ella Mullin, 82; Mrs. Lydia becken, 85; Carolyn Vale, 72; Mrs. Sara Stone, 59; Clarence O. Green Continued on Page Five’ 21 Persons Killed In Italian Crash Two Americans Are • Among Plane Dead ' MILAN, Italy (UP)—Two Amer’ican girls who had planned a Christmas surprise for their parents were told today their mother and father were among 21 persons killed When an Italian airliner crashed and burned in the Italian Alps Saturday. Alpine search parties found the charred wreckage in seven feet of snow today. Among the dead were Mr. and Mrs. Harris Gray of Atlanta, Ga., and Greenwood, Miss., who were flying to Milan to spend Christmas with their daughters— Connie, 14, and Pamela, 5. The girls remained in the family’s. luxurious apartment during the weekend in care of friends who cut off radio and television broadcasts while 400 men climbed through the mountains in search of the msising DC3. The plane took off Saturday from Rome’s Ciampinio Airport en route to Milan. It disappeared over the Italian mountains and snowstorms hid it until today when a team of mountaineers found the wreckage.

Red China's Leader Will Visit Poland Conference Planned After Moscow Visit LONDON (UP) — Poland announced today that Chiriese Communist Premier Chou En-lai will visit Warsaw immediately after he meets with top Communist leaders in Moscow earjy in January. Chou announced in Karachi, Pakistan, that he was cutting short ? his Southeast Asian tour to rush f back to Peiping for consultations 1 before flying to Moscow. 1 In a news conference in Karachi, . Chou side-stepped a question as* to - whether his forthcoming visit to ; Moscow had any direct connection - with southeast Asian views of Sor viet intervention in Hungary. He said the question was “a very com- ; plicated one." ; Chou also referred to the subject • of the 10 Americans still held by i Communist China. He said their . release was being held tip because the United States failed “to keep ; her side of the bargain." He charged there were many . Chinese in American jails, and that the United States had “released only one and he was apmental case.” Chou’s rem s apparently dashed hopes for an early release of the Americans.- 'v Chou’s impending visit to Poland j was announced both by Ij-adio Peiping and the Polish government. 1 A Chinese Communist Foreign % Offjce communique broadcast by . the Peiping Radio said the Warsaw government invited Chou "in ■ order to strengthen further the friendship and the fraternal cobperation” between the two coun- ‘ tires. ' The Polish government news • agency announced the Red Chinese I leader would .arrive here in the i middle of January.” k ; It gave no clue to the exact purpose of the talks. But observers ’ in Warsaw ppintedkout Chou’js ..visit apparently was timed to coincide with Poland’s first elections under ‘ the liberal new regime of Titoist ■ Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. The elections are scheduled t for Jan. 20. ' * Moscow Radio had announced i Sunday that the Red Chinese ■ premier and foreign minister i would go to Moscow for talks beginning Jan. 7. i Parts Os Nation To Have Holiday Snow Blanket Os Fog Is Dispersed By Snow By UNITED PRESS Cold air and up to 4 inches of Klux Klan.” He added that he headed toward the New England states, already coated by a hazardous glaze of ice from freezing rains. Icy roads were blamed for numerous traffic wrecks in New England, and weathermen warned road conditions would get worse as the new storm approached. The snowfall promised a White Christmas for sections of the upper Mississippi Valley, the northern Great Lakes region and the entire northern tier of states from the Rockies to New York. Elsewhere, however, weathermen foresaw little possibility of snow during the next two days. A special weather release predicted mostly fair weather in the southern half of the nation Christmas day. Skies will be “rather cloudy” in parts of the East and very cloudy ,in the Midwest as a result of a new storm disturbance. Fair ,cept for rain along the West, except for rain along the north Pacific Coast. The colder weather dispersed a fog blanket thatj had delayed transportation during the weekend and forced cancellation of plane flights between the East and Midwest. The snow in the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes was heaviest In northern Wisconsin and parts of Michigan where 2 to 4 inch accumulations were reported.

Six Cents

Highways Os Nation Taking Terrific Toll « - Safety Council Head Pleads With Drivers To Cut Down Record By UNITED PRESS The nation’s traffic death toll climbed relentlessly toward a Christmas holiday record today, , and safety experts warned it fs , “increasingly evident” their estlipate of 660 fatalities will be surpassed.* Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said the toll going into.the second halfof the four-day holiday is running ahead of estimates. He pleaded with motorists for a "drastic improvement” in their safety habits. A United Press survey at 11 a.m. EST, showed 411 persons killed in traffic. Another 23 were killed in fires, 7 were killed in plane crashes and 44 died in miscellaneous accidents for an overall total of 485 killed. California’s traffic toll was the worst among the states with 41 killed, Illinois followed with 33 and Texas was third with 27. 1 Dearborn said the words "speedIng, has been drinking and.failed , to see” are recurring again and ‘ again In the mounting reports of accidents in all parts of the na- ’ tion. “Is it asking too much of every . decent person to take a pledge to . deliberately slow down in traffic during this Christmas season and not to take the wheel if he has i been drinking?” he asked. Dearborn said the toll could be • cut in half if motorists exercised a bit of “courtesy, thoughtfulness and consideration.” One Crash Kills Five The council had 660 ' persons would lose their lives \sh . the highways during the long holi- . day. During the three-day Christ- ' mas period last year, the council I reported 609 persons killed in traffic for the previous record high holiday fatality toll. United Press figures were higher than the council’s totaling 621. One of the worst traffic crashes killed a family of five in a twocar collision near Clark, S. D. Bad weather contributed to the high weekend traffic count, with fog, freezing rain and snow blanketing various parts of the eastern half of the country. Airlines were forced to cancel flights to many Eastern and Midwestern points, and railroads and bus lines reported a heavy rush of business due to the slippery, murky weather. Investigating Death Os Terie Haute Man TERRE HAUTE, (W — Authorities today were investigating the death by “non-corrosive poison” of Edward M. Cowman, 38, president of Cowman Bros, and Co., a flower firm. Cowman died in St. Anthony’s Hospital at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, about four hours after police reseived a mysterious phone call asking them to send a ambulance to his hdfae. When the ambulance arrived, Cowman appeared to be in good health and even climbed onto the stretcher under his own power. Hospital Contract To-Yost Construction Yost Construction company was awarded the general contract for the hospital addition with a bid of $258,100, the Adams county memorial hospital board announced today. Yost was one pf six contractors bidding for the addition. The board will meet Thursday to sign all of the contracts. Haugk was awarded the $96,177 heating and plumbing contract, and Hattersley of Fort Wayne received the electrical contract with a bid of $53, 135. Eight contractors bid on the heating and plumbing job, and four bid on the electrical contract.