Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 2.

PREPARE FOR ACTION ON NEW RULES **■ r IK WITH CONGRESS swinging into action after the long holiday, this coalition of legislators meets to plan tightening of anti-filibuster rules and to consult with the Senate leadership to avoid opening-day wrangles on the issue. In the group of eight Republicans and six Democrats are <l. to r. seated) Sen. Charles E. Potter (R) Mich., Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D) N. M., Sen. Irving M. Ives (R) N Y„ Sen. Paul Doubles (DI 111, Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R) N. Y.. and (1. to r. standing) Sen. Jarnos. EJohn Sherman Cbbpef 3»se (R> N. J., Sen. Frederick Pa%n e (R) Maine, Sen. Prescott Bush (R) Conn., Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D) Minn., Sen. Joseph Ciarx, 'Ji.' (D> Pa., Sen. Richard L. Nueberger (D) Ore., and Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R) Calif.

Ike Challenges Soviet Russia Quit Hungary Rejects Meeting Os Big Five To Discuss Disarmament Plans WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower has challenged Russia to make a “significant” contribution to world peace by pulling its armed forces out of Hungary. The President sent his challenge directly to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. He did so in replying to a Nov. 17 letter from Bulganin which called far a five-power '.(Summit Conference” to end deadlocked negotiations on disarmament. Mr. Eisenhower rejected the idea of a meeting on disarmament between himself, Bulganin and the prime ministers of Britain, France and India _ Ta Make Farther Proposals The President said continued negotiations within the United Nations “seem more likely to produce” results and that the United States will make further disarmament proposals there. He also rebuked what he called Russia's attempt to dismiss as a "world’s indignant reaction to the Soviet armed actions against the people of Hungary.”' The President told Bulganin that if Russia wants to make ,“a significant step toward reduction” of world tensions, it should bow to a United Nations resolution and pull its troops out of Hungary. He noted that Britain, France and Israel have abided by U,N. demands to end the Suez fighting and said Russia should follow their example. Take Issue With Statement Mr. Eisenhower also noted that Bulganin’s Nov. 17 letter suggested that the strategic advantage in Western Europe now lies with Russia. — -- "This statement does not seem calculated to relieve international tensions," the President added. "Moreover, I am convinced in the light of my long association with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that it is fully capable of carrying out its mission of collective defense” ok Western Europe. The White House made public the text of Mr. Eisenhower’s reply to Bulganin Wednesday night. Family Os Six Dies In Fire In Georgia JEFFERSONVILLE, Ga. (IP) -J A family of six burned to death today when flames destroyed their home near here/ The early morning blaze killed A. Lucius Ringwood, about 40; his wife, Mrs. Bertha Ringwood, also about 40; and their four children. Police are investigating the fire to try to determine the cause. Church In Kentucky Destroyed By Fire DAYTON, Ky. <m — A mysterious explosion and fire destroyed the First Presbyterian Church here Wednesday night. Authorities said they would investigate the possibility the fire, was deliberately set. Firemen said, however, it was possible that defective wiring may have caused t smoke pocket which set off an explosion.

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Four Breakins Are Reported By Police Breakins In, Near Decatur Four break-ins, two in Decatur/ and two just south of town, alerted all local law enforcement agencies in Adams county early this morning. In Decatur, the Adams County Trailer Sales building on highway 27 was brokeh into early this morning, and discovered about 7 this morning. A window was broken on the north side of the building for entry. The coke machine was unlocked, and money taken from it, and $77.50 was taken from the cash register. The office door was alio forced open, and the desk drawers rifled. The safe was not damaged. At the Decatur Equipment, Inc., Robert Efttng reported that a window was broken out on the east side, and thieves rifled drawers in the office, took a few candy bars, and 25 to 50 cents in change from the candy box. They left through the back door. A possible break-in occurred at the Commercial print shop on South Second street, but it is not believed to. be by the same persons who entered the other four places. The glass pane in a rear door was broken, and a carton and workman’s' apron were stuffed into the opening. Nothing was disturbed, and it is believed that the window was accidentally broken. Thieves broke in Doc’s Car Dock and Tuckahoe Inn at the intersection of Winchester street extended and highway 27 one mile south of Decatur, and stole an estimated $l4O from pin ball machines. The thefts were investigated by state trooper Al Coppes, deputy sheriff Charles Arnold and Decatur chief of police James Borders. Chief Borders investigated to see if the county break-ins were similar to thosa which have plagued the eity police for the past month. Approximately S6O was taken from a pop machine and pin ball machine at Doc’s Car Dock. The thieves entered through a window and left the same way. Two boxes of candy were also missing. The thieves took approximately SBO from a pin ball machine and a shooting gallery machine at Tuckahoe Inn, across the road. The machines were jimmied open, and the cash, boxes removed, and rifled. Damage to the machines was extensive. \ Although the rear kitchen door had been chiseled at the Tuckahoe cers surmised that the break-in occurred through a window. The Inn, and was left wide open, offiscreen was removed, and boxes piled outside, and several fingerprints and smears were found on the window ledge. The screen door in front of the kitchen door had also been cut at the time of entry. The state police, city police, county sheriff’s department are continuing the investigation of the dues left at the scenes of the break-ins. — INDIANA WEATHER Brief period of snow, freezing rain or sleet moving eastward over much of area this afternoon, ending and becoming partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Turning colder again late tonight and Friday. Low tonight 20s northwest to around 30 southeast. High Friday 20s north to the low 30s south. Sunset 5:33 p. m., sunrise Friday 8:06 a. m. 12 Pages

Hungary Work Leaders Defy Kadar Regime Refuse To Fire Idle Employes As Defy To Puppet Regime VIENNA (UP)—Rebellious workers councils are openly defying the Communist regime by refusing to fire idled employes in the nationalized Hungarian factories, it was reported today. The Soviet-backed Janos Kadar regime ordered more than 200,000 workers fired New Years Day. Virtually all of Hungary’s industry has been paralyzed for weeks coal shortages. Reports reaching Vienna indicated worker councils in many plants ignored the government orders. In some instances, they seized factory funds in order to keep employes on full pay. . Show No Mercy It was a risky business. The government has shown no mercy to worker leaders who continue to display any resistance. Hundreds of former leaders of the outlawed regional workers councils were arrested for refusing to kpuckle down to the Red regime. The Kadar regime was reported to have already taken steps to enforce its mass unemployment decree. Orders have been issued to banks to limit withdrawals by factories to their earnings. Previously management was permitted overdrafts to meet wage demands. There were reports that some factories beat the government to the punch by withdrawing all funds from local banks. Provokes Violent Reaction The threat of mass unemployment with its subsequent threats of hunger and cold already has shown signs of provoking violent reaction among the embittered Hungarians! Hungarian police and militia rammed trucks into a crowd of jeering, hooting women Wednesday to crush a flash demonstration against police strong-arm methods in Budapest. The incident in front of a state-run department store was seen as a reflection of the angry mood caused by the mass dismissal orders. Budapest radio, said Wednesday night more than 4000 miners are needed in the national coal mines. It blamed the drastic manpower shortage on the mistakes of the repudiated regime of Stalinist exPremier Matyas Rakosi. Studebaker Funeral Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Jessie M. Studebaker, 80, former Adams county resident, died at 5:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Wells county hospital following an illness of one week. Death was attributed to a stroke. Born in Linn Grove, December 7, 1876, she was the daughter of Eugene and Margaret Simpson Morrow. Her marriage to Barry H. Studabaker, whose death occurred January 19, 1922, took place at Bluffton May 22, 1901. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. R. C. (Helen) Arellano, of Berkeley, Calif-, and two nieces. Miss Margaret Powers, with whom Mrs. Studabaker lived, and Mrs. Mary Jane Zoll, of Bluffton. Services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the Mcßride funeral home in Bluffton by the Rev. Samuel Emerick. Entombment will be in the Morrow mausoleum at the Elm Grove cemetery.

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85th Congress Opens, Civil Rights, Mideast Policy Are Top Issues -2-j a-

Ike Prepares Congress Plea For Authority -Seeks Authority To Use Force If Needed For Mideast Peace WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower today prepared for personal delivery to Congress — probably Friday — his plea for standby authority to use troops if necessary to keep Russia out of the Middle East. - ’ Advance indications were that the Democratic - controlled 85th Congress, convening today, would talk, inquire, and even complain at the need, but that in the end members would vote overwhelmingly to give the President what he wants. Mr. Eisenhower, at a morning meeting with the National Security Council, was expected to iron out last-minute details of the plan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told congressional leaders Wednesday night the exact language of the proposal still was unsettled. -> Attaches Urgency To Request But Dulles, meeting separately with key House and Senate members, left no doubt of what the President Dulles said the President would present a resolution authorizing him to spend up to S4OO million bolster the economies of friendly nations in the pil-rich Middle East and, in event ft became necessary, to use U.S. military might to help them repel Communist aggression or infiltration. Failure to approve the request, Dulles warned, would increase the danger of war. He said the decline of British and French Influence in the area leaves a vacuum into which Russia might be tempted to move. Idea Gains Support Democratic leaders were swinging cautiously to support of the idea. They warned that full hearings will be needed to explore it. They promised to discuss whether fumbling by the Republican administration helped produce the crisis that makes the new "Eisenhower Doctrine” necessary. In private, however, Democrats and Republicans alike were taking (Continued On Pas® Five) Democrats Retain Congress Control Slight Advantage J Held By Democrats WASHINGTON (UP)-The new Congress is Democratic by almost the same margin as the last. The elections last November kept the Democrats in control of the Senate by the same 49-47 margin and gave them an edge of 234 to 201 in the House, or a net gain of two. However, as a result of vacancies created since the election the actual party line-up in both chambers is now slightly different. In the House, post - election deaths of Reps. Antonio Fernandez (D-NM) and T. Millet Hand (R-NJ) has reduced the membership to 233 Democrats and 200 Republicans. There also is one Republican vacancy in the new Senate. It was caused by the decision of Sen.elect Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) to postpone taking the oath of office. Javits is staying on, temporarily, as New York state attorney general in an effort to insure that his successor in that post will be a Republican. ■ This temporarily increased the Democratic margin to 49 to 46 and removed any possibility that Ohio’s new senator, Frank J. Lausche, could turn control over to the Republicans by voting with them on organization. Lausche, elected in November as a Democrat, would not say in advance whether he would with the Democrats or Republicans on organization of the Senate. _

Terrorism label On South Racial Scrap Cross Is Burned At Negro Leader Home BULLETIN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. W - A federal judge In Miami today ruled bus segregation laws of the «tty of Miami and the state -ot Florida unconstitutional. Judge Emmett C. Choate ruled in effect that the U. S. Supreme Court had decided the question in holding that segregation on buses In Montemery, Ala., was unconstitutional. TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (UP)- A cross burning Wednesday night marked the latest violence against the drive to end radial segregation on buses. Bus service was halted again today in this city of 40,000 for fear of more incidents. Police said they turned up no clues in investigation of the burning of a four-foot, kerosene-soaked cross in front of the Rev. C. K. Steele's Baptist Church. / Steele, head of the Negro Inter- ,■ Civic Council which spearheaded the drive to gain a right for members of his race Ao sit where they please on buses, was holding a rally at another church at the time. - . The Tallahassee transit system remained idle by orders of Gov. Leroy Collins because of his fear i that further violence might follow ’ a and rock-throwing outbreak which damaged a Negro Store and four Negro homes two days ago. He ordered it halted Tuesday. ■ /' The South’s fifth attempt to integrate city buses meanwhile got underway at Tuscaloosa, Ala., with the formation of an organization to begin a drive for integration "through due process of law.” r , The Rev. W. B. Smeeley said his Tuscaloosa County Fellowship Continued on Pag* Five J Abandon Effort To Rescue Frenchmen Fateful Decision Made By Parents CHAMONIX, France (UP) — A final effort to rescue two injured and frost - bitten mountaineers trapped two miles high on towering Mont Blanc was abandoned today at the insistence of their parents. Just before the anguished parents made their fateful decision, eight other men had been plucked to safety by French helicopters from the snow-bound wastes of the 15,781-foot mountain, which is- the tallest peak in Western Europe. French authorities had forbidden their men to make any further try to reach French alpinist Jean VinYedon, 24, and his Belgian companion, Francois Henry, 23, stranded by storms on Mont Blanc since Dec. 22. ' 7" ' Swiss mountain rescue pilot German Geiger offered to make a desperate last-ditch attempt to land beside a wrecked helicopter Th which the two men lie helpless. But Geiger said he dropped his plane because the parents of the two young climbers opposed the try due to the risks involved. The decision dooms Vincedon and Henry to. a frozen death. Most mountaineers here believe they already are dead. The last time they were seen alive was Tuesday. Then they were wrapped in chemically treated blankets by would-be rescuers, provided with food and placed in the cabin of the wrecked helicopter. Both were in critical condition. Vincedon was reported so badly frozen he could not move enough to feed himself. The rescuers themselves were forced to retreat from the risky perch where the two then lay, and no one has been able to reach them since. The request by the parents that no more men risk their lives brought to an end a dramatic 13-day effort to save the climbers that at one time had 10 men stranded on the mountain and cost the French government more than half a million dollars. .. C- ......, Z

UN Takes Up Divided Korea Problem Today Take Up Problem Despite Opposition Os Russia And India UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (UP) —The General Assembly’s main Political Committee takes up the perennial problem of divided Korea today despite objections by the Soviet Union and India. The United States and its Western Allies were expected to move for adoption of a report calling for continued U.N. assistance to the , Republic of Korea and a continuation of the 1953 armistice agreement pending a full political set- ' tlement. i The Political Committee put the Korean question at the top of its agenda late Wednesday, to be followed by disarmament, Algeria, [ Cyprus and West Irian (West New Guinea). / Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister ' V. V. Kuznetsov insisted that dis- ‘ armament be discussed first and ; the Korean question be placed last on the agenda. 1 But U.S. Ambassador Henry • Cabot Lodge Jr., apparently mind- ‘ ful of President Eisnehower’s lab- ’ jest letter to Soviet Premier Ni- * kolai Bulganin on the question, ' said the United States would not i be ready to discuss disarmament 1 until next week. He favored placing it second. ’ Indian sources said their delegac tion wanted postponement of the ’ Korean discussion because it could ‘ i not get instructions from New Deli hi soon enough on how to handle their end of it. I The Republic of Korea governi ment has charged that India permitted some of the prisoners of war it held following the Korean war to return Jo Red China and North Korea but not to South Korea. India has claimed it sent all such POWs where they wanted to go. Canadian Pacific Railway Is Struck Half Os Canada's Train Service Cut MONTREAL, Que. (UP) — The . coast-to-coast operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway, were tied up today by a strike of 2,800 ; firemen. Picket lines were honored . by all other operating employes. The strike cut off half of Canada's train service and in some . points threatened isolation and possible food shortages. Residents . of remote communities in northern Ontario, particularly, geared for a tough time and hoped for an easy winter without much snow, which would make roads impas- . sable. Airlines stood by to bring out i extra equipment usually called into service only at peak travel periods such as Christmas and other i holiday weekends. The Canadian > Trucking Assn, promised to "see ' the nation through" and give priority to’ food, medical supplies i “and other urgent priority shipments essential to human life.” ! The CT A represents operators of t 75,000 public vehicles and 845,000 ’ privately-qwned trucks. 1 Ontario Was the first of several ’ provincial governments to anJ nounce plans for emergency ships rnents of food and other supplies by truck where hecessary. Prime Minister Louis St. Lau- ' rent, who spent the holiday in 1 Quebec City while his cabinet aides tried unsuccessfully to per- } suade the Brotherhood as Loco- ’ motive Firemen and Enginemen to 1 call off the strike, listed the rail 1 dispute as the top item for discussion at the cabinet's first 1957 meeting today. The strike began ! Wednesday afternoon. 5 The strike issue centered around ' the use of firemen on diesel trains. 1 The railway contended that fire- ■ men-helpers were unnecessary on 1 yard and freight diesel locomotive (Continued on Five) ' ' ?. ’’ . ~~ ' f

Britain And France Reject Red Request Join Eisenhower in Refusing Conference LONDON (UP)- British Prime Minister Anthony Eden today joined France in rejecting “in the present circumstances” a Soviet request for a five-power disarmament conference. Eden’s action, announced by the Foreign Office, followed the lead set Wednesday by President Eisenhower and matched by a similar French rejection today in Paris. A Foreign Office spokesman said Eden’s rejection of a five-power conference was contained in a note sent to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and released here today. The five nations suggested by Russia were the Soviet Union, Britain, France, the United States and India. The action was announced as Eden met with his cabinet for the first time this year to seek answers to dangerous challenges to his own leadership at home and to Britain’s leadership abroad. Political sources reported Eden fully determined to serve out his term, which has four years to run.* But two perilous issues faced Eden as he met his ministers for the first policy-making session of the new year: 1. The Eisenhower plan to fill the Western vacuum in the Middle East without waiting for Britain to mend its shattered influence. Many Britons consider the U.S. initiative as a move against British oil interests. 2. The underground Conservative Party rumbles against Eden as prime minister. The original Suez intervention angered many of his middle-of-the-road supporters The sudden withdrawal from Egypt stunned right-wing Conservatives who had cheered the invasion. Woman, Five Children Die In Flames Today READING, Pa. TO —jA Woman and five children of pre-school age were burned to death today when a flash fire swept a one-story frame home at nearby Temple. The dead woman was the grandmother of two of the children and the aunt of the other thlY*. 7 : Firemen said it was believed the children were in bed when the fire broke out. They said the fire apparently started from a kerosene stove, which -may have been leaking. Record Business By U.S. Slock Markets 38 Billion Dollars Done During 1956 WASHINGTON (UP) — | The nation’s stock markets did a record 38 billion dollars worth of business last year, the Securities & Exchange Commission reported today. It also reported that it uncovered a record amount of fraud. The Stu, wmch Keeps tabs on stock issues to prevent the fleecing of gullible buyers, made the statements in its 22nd annual report to Congress for the fiscal year that ended last June 30. During the year, the SEC said, $31,100,000,000 in new securities were registered for public sale. This was the largest amount in the commission’s history and $2,000,000,000 more than in the preceding year. The value of securities traded on stock exchanges during fiscal 1956 was 38 billion dollars, the report said, more than double the figure for fiscal 1953. Stockholders included 8% million Americans, about 2 millicm more than five years ago. -- The SEC said “the tremendous economic activity of the country" led invariably to a record amount of “fraud, deceit and manipulation in the sale, purchase and trading of securities.” Dishonest dealers and promoters, it said, found a ready market in the “guliibflfty of the public.”

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Defflftrafcln Rule As 85th Congress Opens Gvil Rights, GOP Middle East Policy 1 Have Top Priority BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UP) —• Sen. Frank J. Lansehe (D-OMa) voted wit* Na party today fa the Senate's first organisation test of the new Congress, The vote appeared to assure Deane cratie control of the Senate. WASHINGTON (UP) - The Democratic controlled 85th Congress convened today to wrestle with civil rights and U.S. policy in the Middle East These were the top priority issues as the Senate and House met , at 11 a.m. CST to start a session in which they will act on proposals of President Eisenhower’s . second Republican administration. The opening of the new Con- ; gress' first session found some , Senate Democrats nervous about I the Intentions of Sen.-elect Frank ’ J. Lausche of Ohio. Lausche was i elected as a Democrat but refused » in advance to say whether he . would vote with his party or with the Republicans on organization of I. It - the derate. ’ There were reports that Sen.elect Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) B might take Ns seat today instead . of next week, as he originally ’ planned. If that is so and if 5 Lausche throws in with the Presidents party, the voting division t between the two parties will be . 48-48 with Republican Vice Presldent Richard M. Nixon breaking the tie. , .. d; 4 In advance of today's session Senate Democrats picked veteran Sen. Carl Hayden (Ariz), new “dean” of the Senate in seniority, for president pro tempore to suci ceed retiring Sen. Waiter F. • George (D-Ga). i Senate Democratic Leader Lynr don B. Johnson (Tex) was reelected and Sen. Mike Mansfield - (D-Mont) was elected whip to I succeed defeated Sen. Earle C. Clements (D-Ky). Other nomination/ by the Demo* > crats included Felton M. (Skeeter) • Johnston for secretary of the Sen* > ate, Joseph C. Duke tor sergeanti at-ar ms, and Robert G. Baker for secretary for the majority. All are incumbents. GOP Picks Saltonstaß Senate Republicans elected Sen. Leverett SaltonstaU (Mass) chairman of their conference, which is made up of all GOP senators. He succeeds Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (Colo) who did not run for reelection. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-IU) was selected to succeed SaltonstaU as Senate GOP whip. The whip will act as assistant to Senate GOP Leader William F- Knowland (Calif). X X * Threat Os Freezing Rain For Indiana Moderating Trend Tonight, Friday By UNITED PRESS An abrupt change in weather prospects cast the threat of freezing rain and sleet over upper portions of Indiana today as temperatures moderated. Forecasts of dry weater in northern Illinois were changed suddenly when “considerable i freezing rain” feU there this , morning. — 4 “We may get some of the same in this area late ttds afternoon . and tonight,” the Indianapolis weatherman warned, emphasising this wasn’t a prediction, but might turn into one if the right conditions prevailed. The temperatures feU to lows i ranging from • above zero at ! Goshen to 18 above at Evansville i this morning. They were schedul--1 ed to rise to highs fSßgihg from ’ 30 to 38 this afternoon, 4rop to (CoaMaqsd «•