Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1956 — Page 1

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CHRISTMAS PRAYER > ■ w- own • * w ■v4« < J f-y*■s •■•<?'■ ; ■> KNEELING in the Camp Kilmer, N. J. chapel, Mrs. Simonne Pongratz, 57 year old Hungarian refugee, gives heartfelt thanks to God that she is spending Christmas in a free land. She and others who escaped Iraq Curtain terror participated in worship services conducted by Msgr. Bela Varga, head of the Hungarian National Council in the U. S.

Kadar Regime Asks Loan Os SIOO Million Long Rebellion Has Left Hungary Near Economic Disaster EDITOR’S NOTE; United Press Correspondent Jack Meehan has arrived in Budapest to succeed Russell Jones who was expelled by the Communist Hun- < art an government. Meehan,' no stranger to tight spots, is an Army veteran who was wounded tn the Normandy landings and had several run ins with Communists while covering the Berlin blockade. In recent weeks he has filed several notable dispatches from the Austro-Hun-garian frontier. He is 35 and comes from Freeland, Pa. By JACK MEEHAN United Press Staff Correspondent BUDAPEST (UP)— The Communist regime of Premier Janos Kadar plans to ask the World Bank for a SIOO million loan to help rebuild Hungary and stave off , economic disaster, informed sources reported today, The two months old rebellion has left the nation almost prostrate. Coal production is only a fraction of what the country needs. Industry, without power, is almpst at a complete standstill. Homes are poorly heated if at all and a food shortage is threatened. . Informed sources said the’|longarian government has selected a team of experts to go to Paris to try to negotiate the SIOO million loan from the World Bank, formally known as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. U.S. officials already have expressed disfavor over reports of Hungarian plans to seek a loan. The officials said the United States — the World Bank’s principal sub scriber — wants no part of any move to bolster the Soviet imposed puppet government. S4OO Million Needed In recent weeks Communist sources have estimated the nation will need S4OO million to get the nation functioning again. Other sources predicted the shortage of coal would result in 200,000 unemployed by the first of the year. The Soviet Union has promised huge coal with 100,000 tons already here. But Hungarian industry normally consumes 80,000 tons per day and government officials have warned that coal mines are so badly damaged cannot operate at full peak for months. Disclosures of Kadar’s efforts to ease the economic plight came as Hungary’s battered population postponed their mourning to celebrate their first western style Christmas since the Communists came to power. No Demonstrations There were no demonstrations in Budapest, just lines of people walking to church past Soviet tanks and guns guarding the. buildings shattered in the Hungarians bid for freedom. The streets were cleared, of wreckage but the gaping wounds of the recent battles were still raw. Russian soldiers scooped snow from their hulking tanks for snow battles with Hungarian children. Occasionally there was the growl of engines as the tanks shifted position in the snow, their long slim guns poking toward the ruins. After tiie church services knots of people strolled the main streets, pausing in front of the tanks Continued on Ptte Five

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Ref ugees Observe Christmas In U.S. Home Pageantry, American Dinner CAMP KILMER, N. J. (W — Thousands of Hungarian refugees celebrated Christmas with the pageantry of their homeland and an American style dinner. The Hungarians dressed in gay native costumes staged a Christmas pageant, their first in many years and also the first seen by many of their children. They also attended religious services. Later gifts and toys were distributed and turkey dinners were served with all the trimmings. Along witn tne thousands of immigrants who arrived in Military Air Transport planes during the day and night there also were 21 Hungarians flown fsom Europe in President Eisenhower's private Columbina 111. All heard a special message from the President. Mr. Eisennower’.s message, commending the Hungarians’ “courageous spirit," was delivered by ’ Tracy S. Voorhees, charimah of the President’s Committee for Hungarian Refuged Relief. AH Army interpreter repeated the message in Hungarian and printed copies were distributed. „ A total of 19 planeloads carrying some 1.200 refugees reached the center Christmas day and night. Another 1,750 Hungarians sailed Christmas Eve from Bremerhaven aboard the military sea transport vessel General W. G. Haan. The Columbine 111 four-engined Super Constellation, landed at McGuire Air Force Base with Col. William Draper at the controls. The plane picked up the refugees in Munich, Germany, on orders of the President after carrying Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Londan following his Washington visit. The President's message said the Hungarians’ plight fills “American hearts with deep emotion and with compassion for what you are enduring." i Two Boys Born Here On Christmas Day Vety special Christmas gifts were received by two local famil- < ies at the Adams county memorial hospital Tuesday and two boys, in years to come, will tie probably cheated out of extra birthday gifts since their birthdays will fall on Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill, of Decatur route five, became the parents of a baby boy born at 11:55 a.m. and a son was also born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hirschy, of 1 Decatur route three, at 10:50 a.m. Twa Breakins Are Reported In City Christmas Eve provided no holiday for the Decatur police department, which reported two more breakins to be added to the series under investigation during recent weeks. The first was reported shortly aftbr midnight Christmas morning when a routine check in the police patrol car revealed an open window at Burk Elevator. Investigation showed that nothing was missing, although the safe had been opened and rifled and a desk had been entered. Tools valued at about $240 were taken from 1 Beery Motor Sales on South First street sometime during th« same night. The breakin Was discovered ; Christmas morning and reported to the police, j „■ ' >

New Crisis Reported In Middle East Suez Canal Salvage Work Is Delayed; Israel Accusation BULLETIN LONDON HF) — An official source in Cairo said today that orders have been given to start clearing the Sues Canal. The source said the instructions were given to United Nations and Egyptian officials on the scene on the basis of an agreement reached between . U.N, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the Egyptian government. LONDON (UP) — A new crisis flared today in the Middle East where Egypt delayed start of Suez Canal salvage work and Israel accused Cairo of stepping up its "policy of aggression." Two top United Nations officials were flying to Cairo from New York to try to speed clearance of the blocked canal, but new exchanges between Israel and Egypt were expected to hamper their mission. Egypt has stated that work will not start until dll Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai desert and the Gaza strip. Israel refuses to return the Gaza strip to Egypt and has hinted it will not give up all the Sinai peninsula. Todgy .Israel accused Egypt of “openly,(stepping up its policy of aggression” with an announced campaign by Fedayeens, or suicide commandos, against the Israeli people. Cites Cairo Announcement Israel said it first sent its armies into the Sinai desert to wipe out the Fedayeen headquarters, a move that touched off war and led to the Anglo - French invasion of Egypt. Foreign Office spokesman Moshe Leshem said fresh* Fedayeen* aU tacks last week and a Cairo announcement of new training tor the Arab suicide commandos was in “defiance” of a U.N. call for ending Fedayeen raids against Israel. The two U.N. officials were Andrew W. Cordier,, executive assistant to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, and Alfred G. Katzin, deputy assistant secretary general. Hammarskjold aslted them to proceed immediately to Cairo. —— Ready to Clear Canal U.N. sources said the decision for Cordier and Katzin to go to Cairo followed receipt of urgent messages from U.S. Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, who is in charge of the canal clearance project, Wheeler told the United Press in Port Said he had placed crews of salvage shipi on “standby orders to start salvage operation at a moment's notice” but indicated there would be some deldy in start of actual work. ■ ' - Israeli Premier David Ben-Gu-rion told the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Tuesday that even to debate a withdrawal from the Gaza strip was “not in the public good at the present time.” To Deliver First Earth Satellites Go To Laboratory Within Next Week DETROIT, Mich. (UP) — The first two launching-type earth satellites, which resemble gold-plated beach balls, will be delivered to the naval research laboratory within a week. Within a year the laboratory is expected to be ready to fire a three-stage rocket which will carry such satellites 300 miles to the edge of outer space. If everything works as planned, the tiny satellite will be kicked out of the third-stage rocket, and spinning at 240 revolutions per minute, will start rotating around the earth every few hours for up to a year. The firing of the first satellitecarrying rockets will be a major event in the international geophysical year — an 18-month-“year which starts July 1. It will also climax the project, called "Operation Vanguard,” announced by President Eisenhower in July. 1955. Russia has announced a similar project. While the U. S. government denies any race with the USSR to launch the first satellite the U. S. firms which have the rocket and satellite contracts feel the competition and each hopes the launching will take place as close to next July 1 as possible. The building of the satellite itself, a 20-inch diameter sphere which will weigh only 2114 pounds when loaded with its delicate reCon tinned on Five

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 26, 1956

United States Counts Over 700 Fatalities In Deadliest Holiday

Ike And Nixon In Conference On Refugees Expect Eisenhower To Ask Congress To Provide Haven WASHINGTON (UP) —President Eisenhower is expected to ask Congress to make the United States a haven for mbre refugees —not only from Hungary, but from other Communist-controlled nations as well. A highly placed informant reported this in advance of a conference on the refugee problem today between the President, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and other government leaders. Nixon, who returned Monday from a first-hand inspection of refugee camps on the AustrianHungarian border, went to the White House to make recommendations” to the President for further U.S. aid for Hungarians who fled Communist brutality. “Must Do More” Others invited to the conference were Tracy Voorhees, special presidential assistant on Hungarian refugee problems; Director 1 John B. Hollister of the International Cooperation Administration; Deputy Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers, and Deputy Undersecretary of State Loy Henderson. Nixon told the nation in a special radio-TV broadcast Christmas night that the United States has opened its doors so far to 21,500 Hungarians, “and we must do more.” "They are fine people, and they are incredibly courageous,” the vice president said. “They have helped to expose Communism for the-failure that it is.” He described the Hungarian revolt as “the end of international Communism.” May Expand Program Nixon did not say specifically what else he thinks the United States should do for Hungarian (Continued On Page Five) Hungarian Relief Fund Overi73O Goal Is Exceeded, More Funds Needed A total of $731.23 has been contributed to the Red Cross emerency Hungarian relief fund, according to a report released today from the Adams county Red Cross office. Although the goal of $6Ol origin-, ally set for this county has been exceeded, the drive will be continued since the need for food, clothing and medical supplies for Hungarian refugees increases every day. The Red Cross fund report shows that SSO was donated by the Berne Lions club, S4O by Bethany Evangelical United Brethren Church and tiie Associated Churches of Decatur, and $23.20 by the First Christian church. . Individuals who have contributed from one to ten dollars include Nelle Winnes, Robert’ August, Mrs. Robert Garard, Mrs. Neva Ross, Earl Geyer, Roy Runyon, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Finlayson, Mrs, Edth Bailey and many an- , onymous donors. Much additional money is needed. according to Mrs. Wanda Oelberg of the local Red Cross. It is sent from the local Red Cross office directly to national headquarters as soon as it is received.It will purchase the basic necessities for the thousands of Hungarians who are pouring into Austrian refugee camps seeking freedom from Communist oppression. The original quota must be exceeded in every chapter if the needs are to be met. The, Red Cross and other relief organizations are pledged to give all the assistance necessary to the Hungarian people. Through the international Red Crossit has also been made possible to take relief items directly into Hungary for those who have remained behind.

New Brain Trust On Russian Economics Speed Soviet Union To Industrial Goal MOSCOW (IB — A new sevenman “brain trust” began mapping today an economic program aimed at eliminating admitted mistakes and speeding the Soviet Union to its avowed goal of industrial superiority over the United States. The government, in a major shakeup of the top economic planners, Tuesday fired First Deputy premier Maxim Z. Saburov as chairman of the State Economic Commission. Saburov, who had held the post since 1953, retained his high cabinet rank. To replace him, the presidium (cabinet) named 52-year-old Mikhail G. Pervukhin, an industrial troubleshooter who has held a number of important posts in state industry, government and the Communist Party. Like Saburov, Pervukhin Is a member of the presidium and a first deputy premier. ; Saburov.came under heavy criticism during the recently-conclud-ed meeting of the Central. Committee of the Communist Party for the failure of industry to meet quotas of the current five-year-plan. • ,x_: • The State Economic ’Commission is charged with short-ranie plan--1 Vdagi The-State Planning Commission maps long-range plans. The latter commission also came in for citicisims. The reshuffle followed disclosure that while overall production was increased 11 per cent in 1956 over the previous years, quotas in such vital industries as metal, cement, timber and coal were "unfulfilled.” Concern over the shortcomings was indicated by the announcement that the party Central Committee devoted its five-day meeting to economic problems. The meeting held behind closed doors in the Kremlin ended Monday. Consider Plan On Purchase Os Site Donors Considering Proposal On Site A proposition terminating the first phase of the Greater Decatur fund drive for the purchase of an industrial site is being considered by the donors to the campaign. The general financial committee is recommending that an offer to purchase the rear approximately 35 acres of the Scheimann property on South Thirteenth street be accepted immediately at a price of $26,500, with a five year option by the group to purchase the remaining frontage at $17,000, .making an eventual total if necessary of the original agreed upon price of $43,500. This will enable the group to hold the ground needed for industrial expansion and give additional time for the eventual purchase if it is necessary. The financial committee believes this to be the largest intact industrial site within the city limits and possessing the necessary railroad, truck, and utility services and facilities required by industry. At the last meeting of the Greater-Decatur fund, it was decided to purchase the ground regardless of action by any industries now considering Decatur as a possible site. The question as to whether to purchase part of the area now is being decided By a postal .vote of the donors. The site to be purchased under this plan will consist of all the industrial area and will be bounded on both sides by railroad tracks. It will be connected to South Thirteenth street by Patterson street, which is paved. The additional area, facing on the highway consisting of two tracks and divided by Patterson street, can be purchased separately under the terms of the proposed five-year option. The buildings are located on the area to be optioned. The drive is now short only (Continued on .rage Five) I

Negro Leader's Home Blasted By Dynamite - Five Persons Hurt As Home Smashed By Dynamite Blast BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UP)—A dynamite blast smashed a Negro leader's home and injured five persons Tuesday night on the eve of the South’s third bus integration showdown in less than a week. A minister who was injured slightly by the blast renewed his integration ultimatum to the Birmingham City Commission. The Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth said that unless the commission acts at its regular meeting today Birmingham Negroes will stage the South’s biggest “voluntary” integration attempt in history. The explosion also injured Shuttles worth’s • wife and two children and a visitor. Charley Robinson. 59. It caved in the living room roof and damaged several nearby homes in the Birmingham Negro residential area. Claims Laws Voided Shuttlesworth held, as did Negro leaders at Tallahassee, Fla., that local bus segregation laws were voided by the U.S. Supreme Court decision voiding a similar law at Montgomery, Ala. The Tallahassee Inter - Civic Council announced Tuesday night that Negroes will continue sitting where they please on city buses although the City Commission declared segregation laws still in | force. . , Shuttlesworth, pastor of the Bethel, Baptist Church, and chairman of the Alabama Christian Movement for Christian Rights, said he will not abandon his demand for bus integration in Birmingham despite the bombing. “If I had been lulled then someone else would have taken my place, he said. Continued on Page Five -nry- —' — Mrs. Calvin Hamrick Dies Monday Night Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Florena Hamrick, 72, wife of Calvin .Hamrick, died at 9:22 p.m. Monday at her home, one and one-half miles north of Salem, following an illness of six months. She was born in Monroe township Feb. 11, 1884, a daughter of Joseph and Ardimiss Stalter-1 Wolfe. She was first married to Enos Osterman, who died in 1939. Her second marriage was to Calvin Hamrick Aug. 7, 1950. Mrs. Hamrick was a member of the Willshire United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to her husband are five gons, Harlan R. Osterman of Dayton, 0., Rolla E. Osterman of Decatur route 4, Robert L. Osterman of Fort Wayne, Ray G. Osterman of Monroe route 1, and Enos Osterman of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Ray Cheevers of Chattanooga. Tenn., and Mrs. William Lummer of Aurora; 20 grandchildren; one great-grand-child; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Ge- B neva Taientire of Mansfield, 0., Mrs. Lois Brandenburg of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Nellie Book of Rockford, 0., Mrs. Charlene Dailey of Decatur route 6, and Mrs. Ruth Sudduth of Decatur; four brothers, Charles Wolfe of Ossian, George of Fopt Wayne, William of LaGrange, end Lloyd of Maybe, Mich., and three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Schmitt of Carleton, -Mich.,' Mrs. Ethel Andrews and Mrs. Chested Howard of Decatur. One son preceded her in death. •Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Willshire United Brethren church, the Rev. Chester Hirschy officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Indiana's Holiday Traffic Toll Is 18 Multiple-Fatality Wrecks In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Four multiple - fatality wrecks and adverse driving conditions boosted Indiana’s Christmas holiday traffic death toll to at least 18 today. Four persons met death Tuesday—Christmas—but three of them were injured earlier in the Yuletide period. In addition, four members of a Gary family Were among five 'Arsons killed in one of the nation’s worst crashes, south of Springfield, 111. The worst Indiana crash occurred at , Gary on Christmas eve, snuffing- out the lives of Victor Zark, 37, Gary; his wife, Evelyn, 36, and their son, Victor, Jr., in a two-car headon collision. The only outright fatality Tuesday' occurred west of Richmond in the waning hours of the long holiday period that began Friday night. Lloyd Fry, 50, Lafayette, was killed in the two-car smashup on U. S. 40 west of Richmond, and Mrs. Bertha Lee Hams, 23, Marion, Ohio, died "today of injuries suffered in the same wreck. Four other persons were injured. Police said Jesse Harris, 32, Marion, Ohio, the other driver, lost control when his car hit a slick spot and spun into Fry’s path. John B. Payne, 36, Tabor City, N. C.; Jasper Avery, 51, Martinsville, and Robert E. Bishop, 35, Connersville, all died Tuesday of injuries suffered previously during j the holiday period. Siyne was injured in a two-car sion on U. S. 52 near Lafayette Saturday. Avery was involved in of Morgantown Monday night, and Bishop was fatally injured shortly after the holiday period began Friday night when his car hit a bridge and a row of trees along a county road west of Connersville. Also Monday night, Cylde Crow, 49, Peru, was killed in a headon collision of two cars on U. S. 24 west of Peru. Clifford L. Conger, 20, Peru, one of four injured, died today in Peru's Drake Memorial Hospital. The other dual fatality accident occurred in Spiceland early Saturday. Killed when their car hit a utility pole were Edwin P. York, 41, and Raymond Norris, 42, both of New Castle. (Continued on Page Six) Crazed Gunman Kills Two In Cleveland Bus Driver, Young Woman Are Killed CLEVELAND (W — A crazed guman fatally shot a bus driver and a young woman in a wild bus terminal shooting spree today before he was killed in a hail of police bullets. Five bystanders were wounded in the crossfire between police and the unidentified gunman. The man had been ordered off a Greyhound bus for allegedly molesting the 18-year-old woman he killed minutes later in the Cleveland terminal. •* Georgiann Kartzke, 18, Fort Eustis, Va., and bus driver Leo Almerico, 49, Cleveland, were dead on arrival at Charity Hospital. The assailant then ran into the terminal where he wounded five persons before he was shot and killed by police Sgt. Michael Sirkot and Patrolman Michael Barrett. None of the five shot in the terminal was in serious condition, police said. Miss Kartcke had complained to several passengers and the driver on the bus that the assailant had been annoying her, witnesses said. They said the driver hadthe girl sit in front of him and told the assailant to leave her alone or get off the bus. Witnesses said the assailant then whipped out a colt .32 automatic and fired at Almerico and Miss Kartcke before getting off. r

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Highways Take Frightful Toll For Christmas Deadliest Holiday Weekend In Nation History Recorded By UNITED PRESS The nation counted more than 700 fatalities in its most deadly holiday weekend on the highways. The npmber was far above the National Safety Council’s estimate of 660 for the Christmas holiday period. The previous holiday high was 609 set during last year’s three-day Christmas weekend. Council officials sought to determine the cause of the high death count, but for the present ascribed it primarily to the fact that motorists were out in overwhelming numbers. They estimated 7 billion miles were driven by motorists in the United States during the weekend. At 11 a.m. CST the United Press count showed 707 dead in • traffic. Other mishaps likewise took a toll during the holiday weekend whiqh began at 6 RJB. Friday and ended at midnight Christmas. . They included 48 in fixes,'.AJn. plane accidents, 130 In rniscrilaireW accidents for to ’overall*' total of 894. High Above Normal • A similar four-day non-holiday period at this time of year would be about 420 dead, the council has said. * California led with 73 dead on the highways; Illinois had 55, five of them in a single crash on Christmast day; Ohio had 40 and Texas had 41, New York 36, Michigan 36, and North Carolina 31. “We honestly believe traffic enforcement has been very good,” said Council President Ned H. Dearborn. “You can’t look at the newspapers or listen to the radio and say that drivers were not given plenty of warning. -“But there were tremendous numbers of persons on the highways.” i : Plan Safety Meeting U.C. Felty, Ohio highway safety director, said the toll in his state was not as bad as last year, but "it’s all uncalled for. We just trusted that people would use better judgment, but I guess they just don’t.” Gov. Averell Harriman of New York invited mayors and police chiefs of 76 communities to a traffic safety conference at Albany Jan. 18, noting continued high fatalities despite the efforts of officials. Robert L. Sheldon, New Jersey State Traffic Bureau director, said that his state’s total was seven less thafcn, last year's holiday figure and said "limited access highways because of their engineering give us safer driving conditions.” There , were no accidents on the highways to which he referred, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway. One of the worst holiday accidents killed five persons and injured six others seriously Tuesday in a two-car head-on collision on U. S. 66 near Springfield, DI. Clutches Toy Pistol One of the victims, 8-year-old Ernest Evans, was found clutching a shiny new cap pistol he received for Christmas. A tow truck had to pull the cars apart before the boy’s body could be extricated. Three persons were killed when a car plunged over a 400-foot cliff near Montrose, Calif., after striking a boulder which had rolled onto the highway. The car was demolished. Three teen-agers were killed in a fiery crash near Bedford, Mass., Tuesday, and six other persons were killed in triple-fatality ■ wrecks near Juneau, Wis., and Dayton, Ohio. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight with occasional light snow north and east portions. Thursday partly cloudy. Not much change in temperatures. Low tonight 24-30, high Thursday 32-36 north, 3842 south. Sunset 5:27 p. m., sunrise Thursday 8:84 a. m. , ..... - ,