Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1957 — Page 1

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FLOODS THREATEN BURNED AREA

STILL TRYING to recover from the damage done by raging forest fires, which destroyed many homes and blackened several canyons in the Malibu, Calif., area, residents sandbag vital spots in the face of a forecast of heavy rains and possible floods. Johnny Henderson is watching his dad, Tad.

’ State General Assembly Will Open Thursday Outgoing Governor Craig To Present Message On Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Sixty-one days of wrangling, haranguing, confusion and hard work begin at 11 a.m. Thursday when the two houses of the Indiana General Assembly are gaveled to order. The gavels will be wielded by the same two men who closed the 89th session in March, 1955—House Speaker George Diener and'Lt. Gov. Harold Handley, president of the Senate. _ . Handley wiU turn the’ -Senirte.. rostrum over to Crawford Parker Jan. 14 when Handley becomes governor and Parker moves up from secretary of state to lieutenant governor. Outgoing Governor Craig presents his state message at 11 a.m. Friday. Handley will present his legislative program to a joint session ' at 11 a.m. Jan. 15. Observers figured his plans wouldn’t kindle too much GOP disharmony—especially since the Republican majority for both houses is 109-41. Seeks to Avoid Fights Handley also has indicated he will not be dictatorial, in an apparent move to avoid the party factional fights that bogged down the 1955 session. The Republicans had a margin of 76-24 in the House until Rep. Wendell Hollingsworth, Anderson, quit to take a federal job. That gave them a 75-24 edge in the House and a 33-17 margin in the Senate, : The Indiana Constitution requires the biennial sessions to end after 61 days. But that normally is ignored at the end of each session when the clocks in both houses are stopped a few minutes before midnight and activities drag on indefinitely. Two years ago, Handley threatened to adjourn the Senate on time, thus leaving Indiana without a budget and forcing Craig to call a special session. But he changed his mind at the last minute. One of the first orders of business in both houses will be selection of committees—which can make or break any bill by action or inaction. The important Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means “A” Committee were named Monday. Maddox Group Head The Senate group, headed by Charles Maddox (R-Otterbein) and the house committee, headed by S. Paul Clay (R-Indianapolis), were scheduled to begin joint meetings today on the 1957-59 budget. Other important committees to be named in each house include labor, where any “right to work" — biH would be sent, education and judiciary. .. . . . .... In the Senate, Republicans reelected John Van Ness, Valparaiso, as president pro tern, and chose Roy Conrad, Monticello, as majority Caucus chairman. Van Ness was a big gun in the antiCraig faction in 1955, and Conrad was a Craig, man who switched sides. Robert Webb, Arcadia, will be GOP House majority leader, and Court Rollins, Muncie, House caucus chairman. Senate Democrats will be led by Matthew Welsh, Vincennes, floor leader, and Eugene Bainbridge, Munster, caucus chairman. House Democratic leaders are Birch E. Bayh Jr.. West Terre Haute, minority leader, and Otto Pozgay, South Bend, caucus chairman.

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Elkhart Attorney To ♦ Head Prison System Meyers Is Appointed By Governor-Elect INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Paul L. Myers, Elkhart attorney, was slated today to replace Hugh O'Brien as chairman of the Indiana State Correction Board. Gov.-elect Harold Handley announced Myers' appointment at a news conference Tuesday and said two of the three members of the Indiana Public Service Commission also would be replaced. Myers, former member of the State Prison board of trustees and parole board, was named to O'Brien’s 111,000-a-year job as head of Indiana’s prison system. Handley said PSC chairman Warren Buchanan, Rockville, agreed to remain as commission chairnaan "atmy request" until MfcrehtS. He also appointed Garland G. Skelton, Indianapolis, and Ira L. Haymaker, former Democratic state chairman, to the PSC. Handley reappointed Ralph Howard, Greencastle, and Democrat Arthur Campbell, Indianapolis, on the three-man correction board. ~ He also replaced COl. Frank R. Kossa, Jeffersonville, as state selective service director and said he knew nothing of reports that Frank Millis had refused to accept appointment as state budget director. Appointed By Craig O'Brien was appointed by Governor Craig four years ago. His job has been the center of frequent controversy, although he claimed Indiana has moved up from near the bottom of national prison system ratings to one of the best. Myers, a Dunlap native, has practiced law since 1927 and was a county prosecutor from 1940 to 1943. He was a member of the prison boards in 1949-53, and has degrees from Columbia University and New York University Law School. Handley said Myers is "evidently dedicated to the work because he’s giving up a lucrative law practice." He wifi take toe job when Handley becomes governor Jan. 14. Handley named Lt. Cd. Wayne E. Rhodes, Brazil, to replace Kossa’s assistant. Handley said Kossa would remain on active duty and “be taken care of” with another assignment from Washington. PSC Members Resign None of the Correction Board members submitted resignations, but toe PSC members did Handley said. Besides chairmen, correction board members get 310,500 a year, and PSC members 39,000. On rumors that Millis, state revenue commissioner, would not accept his appointment as budget director, Handley said: “If that were true I think he'd come and talk to me about it.” Millis was Handley’s No. 1 opponent for the GOP nomination last June. Observers regarded his appointment a? a move at rertoring party harmony. Handley also answered charges that he ignored a promise to handle all patron a g e through county chairmen. The ousted park superintendent and lodge manager at Brown County State Park claimed Handley ignored the pledge since they had organization backing. Handley said the pledge did not apply when a state-wide agency, like a state park, is involved. He said he would continue to handle patronage through county chairmen in toe case of highway jobs, license branches and other "jobs of a lesser nature." But he admitted the fact that William Sayer, Craig’s former (O»*«*aeaa •• Pws* ***•)

Yemen Reports Aerial Attacks From British Communique Denies Yemen Border Is Crossed By British LONDON OF) — The Aden government announced today that "regular and irregular” troops of the Yemen had attacked villages in toe British protectorate and that RAF jet fighters had strafed them. A dispatch from Aden said cannon-firing Venom fighters were called in to "assist local security forces and Beihani tribesmen to repeal the attackers who during past weeks have become more persistent in their unprovoked attacks.” A communique denied that RAF planes had crossed the Yemen border, 10 miles from the northwestern district es the Aden protectorate. In Bonn, Germany, toe. Yemeni charge d'affairs, Abdel Rayman Aboaydany, said Tuesday night British planes had attacked Yemeni towns and that his government "will be forced to call on volunteers” to fight the British. Moscow Radio today accused Britain of “aggression” and said the attacks "shows that the Suez lesson has been lost upon some British circles." It said “British monopolies are trying to grab the riches of the Yemen, especially oil.” In Port Said, Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler said today Egypt was slowing down clearance of the Suez Canal by imposing restrictions on toe number of salvage vessels he could use. The Foreign Office here, meanwhile, announced that Britain has approached United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold pn the possibility of resuming negotiations with Egypt over the Suez Canal’s future. Cairo reports have indicated i that Egypt would reject evsn in- • direct contact with toe. present ■ British and ' rrtyndi' jgcwfwnincnttß \ 1 over toe canal. However, they in- ■ dicated a readiness to pursue discussions through the U. N. The retired American general who is in charge of the United Nations salvage job** said in Port Said as result of toe Egyptian “quota” he was sending home the British salvage vessels Spencer and Uplifter. Another indication of growing Egyptian toughness came from Cairo where the government announced it would not enter direct or Indirect negotiations with Britain and France over the future control of toe canal. However, Abdel Kader Haten, (Coßtißßea BB Pace Five) Poland Announces Wide Concessions Farmers Are Given Wide Concessions WARSAW, Poland (UP)—Poland today announced sweeping concessions to its farmers and replaced the minister of agriculture with Edward Ochab, former head of toe Polish Communist Party. The Central Committee of the Communist Party announced the sweeping concessions to farmers, including a partial return to free enterprise. The government announced that Minister of Agriculture Natoni Kuligowski was being replaced by Ochab. Ochab was party secretary until toe Oct. 19 meeting of the party’s Central Committee when he was replaced by Wladyslaw Gomulka in the .revolt against Stalinism. Since then Ochab has been a member of the political bureau of the Party’s Central Committee and still remains one of the party’s top officials. B The major concession was that peasants should be free to work, sell, lease or buy land acquired through legacies or family division of estates and to “observe the principle of the free transfer of property rights in land." ;i , Individual or cooperative land acquired under agrarian reform also may be disposed of in the same way, the party said. Other concessions announced included: 1. Reduetion of land tax on larger farms from 40 to 48 per cent in toe upper brackets. 2. A one-third reduction (about. 630,000 tons) of planned grain purchases of quota deliveries from the 1957 harvest. 3. Grain prices to be raised by an undisclosed amount. 4. Extension of social insurance to hired farm workers. 5. Permission for new settlers in toe western (former German) territories to increase their farms to (CmMbwC Pane

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UN Committee Urged To Probe Soviet Action .. -gp,-. . United States Asks * Committee Named For Hungary Probe UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. W — The United States urged the United Nations today to establish a committee to investigate Russia’s supresslon of the revolt In Hungary so toe “valiant Hungarian people will not think they have been forgotten.” U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told toe General Assembly it must hope that “the Soviet rulers dW see that what they have done in Hungary was, not only morally indefensible, but a total failure.” 1.,; Emilio Nunez-Portuondo, the Cuban ambassador who repeatedly has called for sanctions against Russia and expulsion of the puppet Hungarian regime from the U.N., announced that he would not vote for a resolution introduced by the United States and 23 other countries to establish toe fact-finding committee. • “The sad and unhappy reality,’' Nunez-Portuondo told the 80-nation assembly, “is that the government; of Moscow has been given tacltlji a sort of immunity license to make a mockery of all our resolutions . . to constitute a committee as proposed in this resolution is like sending the case of Hungary to eternal sleep.” Irish Ambassador Frederick H. Boland, presenting the resolution in behalf of the 24 hours sponsors, called for establishment of a fivenation committee to uncover the truth about toe Hungarian revolution and expose Russia’s claims of a fascist revolt as "a dreary and threadbare fanstasy.” Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kunetsov replied. He said the "normal situation” had been restored in Hungary and the “inspirers of the new raising of this question do not conceal their alarm caused by the counter(Caatißßetl ob Pare Five) Legislators Begin State Budget Study House And Senate Committees Meet INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A group of Indiana legislators, who will have a lot to say about whether the proposed 790 million dollar state budget for toe next biennium goes up or down, met today to get acquainted with their work. Members of the House and Senate committees which will be concerned with studying the budget before it reaches the floor of the Legislature for action convened for an "orientation” session. There was disagreement among them as to whether the budget proposals could be slashed from record-b reak in g levels that threaten to wipe out the state general fund surpluses unless new taxes are levied or old ernes increased to raise more money. Rep. S. Paul Clay (R-Indian-a polis), chairman of House Ways & Means “A" Committee, and Sen. Charles Maddox (Rotterbein), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said they thought it could be cut. But Rep. Laurence Baker (IV Kendallville), chairman of the State Budget Committee, believed that it would be increased with the passage of bills creating new ways to spend state funds. “I’ve never seen a budget when it didn’t show an increase over what toe budget committee recommended,” Baker said. Budget director Robert King siad legislatures nearly always increase rather than cut state budgets. Clay said he hopes to see it reduced. Maddox said Hoosiers are quite tax conscious now and to raise the budget would "just not be good politics or legislation.”

” - Kefauver Loses Bid To Committee Post Passed Up Tuesday For Sen. Kennedy WASHINGTON (UP)—For the fourth time, Sen. Estes Kefauver tp-Tenn) has lost out to a senator wife less seniority in his bid for e coveted seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kefauver was passed up Tuesday in favor of Sen. John F. Kennedy ' (D-Mass) to fill the only current ‘ vacancy on the committee. 1 Kennedy, Kefauver’s unsuccess--1 fill rival for the Democratic vice- * presidential nomination last year, 1 has been in the Senate for four > years, Kefauver for eight The time-honored seniority role ' for doling out committee assign- - ments is cracidng up among Sen- ’ ate Democrats. Thus, the Senate : Democratic Steering Committee voted 14-0 to give the foreign re- : lations seat to Kennedy, despite Kefauver’s senior claim, in maks ing a new set of committee as--1 signments. j Republican senators, who, en- ’ force the seniority rule much ’ mote strictly, expected to com- : * During the four years that Sen. >. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas has 1 been Democratic floor leader, the party leadership has been bending 1 the seniority rule. Johnson has I fcMgbt for a policy tikt every ►(■Democratic senator, even * fresh--5 mta, should have at least one • “good" committee. Kefauver, who had not waived } his seniority, said he was disap- ’ pointed. ‘‘Of course, I do not blame Sen. • Kennedy for trying to better this 1 position,” he said, ‘‘but I am inter- ■ ested to learn that seniority is a • rule that may or may not be ap- ! plied by the Senate leadership in * deciding the rights of senators.” i Kennedy would succeed, former ’ Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga) on the foreign relations group. The ' steering committee named 89- : year-old Sen. Theodore Francis I Green (D-RI) to succeed George i as chairman of the committee. First Aid Courses Are Planned Here Plan Two Courses On Advanced Aid The Red Cross chapter today announced plans for two 12-hour courses in advanced first aid to begin the last week of January. The courses will include two extra hours on atomic fall out and burns,* in addition to the regular advanced instruction in first aid techniques. Instructors for the courses will be Mrs. Roger Singleaon and Dr. Joe Morrjs. Gerald Durkin is chairman of the Adams county . Red Cross first aid program. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local Red Cross, stated that both courses would be completed in time for those who complete it to enroll in an instructors’ course, which will be held March 25 to 29 at Auburn under the direction of Robert Hotop, Red Cross field representative. All persons who have completed the standard first aid course offered by the Red Cross during the past three years are eligible to enroll in the advanced course. Class hours will be determined by the members of the two courses at thetr inftiai meeting. The date for the initial meeting will be announced later. Any person who wishes to enroll in the advanced course is request«Uto.contact Durkin, one of fee instructors, or the local Red Cross Office. 111 " Indiana weather Freezing rain or snow north and rain sooth tonight. Rain changing to snow Thursday. Colder north tonight and over state Thursday. Low tonight 18-25 extreme northwest to 35-40 extreme southeast. High Thursday 22-30 north, 30-40 south; fetmet 5:» p.«., - rise Thursday 8:00 a.m.

Kadar Starts pew Campaign , Os Terrorism J. . . Indictments Open . Terror Campaign r On Intellectuals t BUDAPEST (UP) - DictatorPremier Janos Kadar opened a . new campaign of terror against . Hungarian intellectuals today by indicting 11 patriots for publishing ' and distributing free newspapers after the Nov. 4 attack by fee , Soviet army. Two of the nation's better-known . writers were among the 11 accused , of “counter - revolutionary activi- > ties” by publishing ar distributing ; the paper. The two writers also , were accused of inciting a Dec. 4 ’ demonstration by Hungarian wom- . en against Russian tanks. Simultaneously, the Workers Council on the powder keg industrial island of Csepel in the Dan--1 übe south of Budapest announced ' it was resigning in protest against ’ interference by the Kadar government. ‘ The Workers Council at fee 3 sprawling Bejolannis electrical ; plant also was reported to have » resigned, and other Budapest work- ' ers councils were expected to fol- ' low suit. f • The resignations were in protest ■ against attempts by Radar’s Reds . to infiltrate and seize control of “ the councils that sprang into being *" to run the nation’s industries during and after the revolt. ■ Indictment of the 11 Intellectuals s was announced in today’s issue of - the official government newspaper 1 Nep Szabadsag. ’ . * The newspaper, quoting the pros--1 ecutor’s office, said journalist Cyula Obersovszky edited the “flr legal” newspaper Igazsag (Truth) 1 during the revolt. It said writer * Jozsef Gali edited the newspaper (Coat laved oa Pace Five) j _ — k Parking Meter Fund $11,323.50 In 1956 Decatur’s parking meters grossed $11,323.50 last year, Mrs. Mir-, iam Hall, city clerk-treasurer, reported today. The parking meter money is used to pay two policemen’s salaries, besides the usual parking meter; repair and expenses. Mrs. Hau reported that a balance of $4,980.78 has been built up in the fund, as of December 31. This money may be used by the , city council by appropriation, or may be retained as an operating , balance in the 'Separate fund. Mrs. Don Arnold Is Taken To Cleveland Former Local Lady Long 111 With Polio A former resident of this/ city, ’ Mrs. Don Arnold, now of North Manchester route two, who has been a polio patient at the Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital since Aug. 13, was transported by airplane to City hospital at Cleveland, 0., Tuesday, encased in an iron lung. Mrs. Arnold became ill with polio a short time after the family moved from Decatur. Her respiratory system was affected by the disease. She was transferred to the-Cleveland Rospital because feat hospital has a respiratory and rehabilitation center. / The plane which flew fee former Decatur woman to Cleveland was a military air transportation service plane with a crew of 12, which included a medical team. 1 The flight was arranged through ' the cooperation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis 1 and the air transport service. It was the first time feat such a service has Jjeen utilized in Fofe Wayne. The Arnolds were residents of Decatur while Arnold was coach and teacher at Adams Central J high school. They have two dill- i dren, David, 7, and Vickie, 4.

Protest Egyptians Deportation Os Jews four Protests Made By United States WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States has protested at least four times to Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser against Egypt’s deportation of Jews, officials disclosed today. The latest protest was made to Nasger last week in Cairo by U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare, who has been arguing against antiJewish activities in Egypt for more than six weeks. The State Department believes that more than 4,000 Jews already have "left” Egypt since the attack on Egypt by Israeli, British and French forces. Most of these were deported. But some left Egypt on their own initiative, believing that they would have to do so sodner or later anyway. Egypt's pre-invasion Jewish population was estimated at between 40,000 and 45,000. Egypt had tolerated and respected its Jewish citizens for many years. Most were middle class bankers and merchants. During the .last two weeks or so, officials said, there have been indications that' Nasser may be "slowing down” on recent antiJewish moves. Orders for some deportations habe been reversed following appeals, and some Jews being deported have not had* their . property sequestered as was jhe ; case earlier. * ; Officials said the United Stater ‘ would be “alarmed” so long ai ’ any Jews are being uprooted anc ousted from Egypt far unjust reasons. ; Nasser insisted from the begin- , ning that there was no massive deportation of Jews. He acknowledged that some Jews were being ’ deported for “specific reasons.” But arrival of nearly 1,000 Jews in Italy this week confirmed the suspicions of officials that more Jews are being ousted than Nasser wants to admit. Symphony Concert Here Next Monday Third Concert For Music Association Plans for the Jan. 14 concert to be presented by the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra ai the Decatur high school gymnasium, were discussed at a meeting of the board of directors of fee Adams county civic association Tuesday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The doors of the school will open at 7:15 p. m. Monday for members of the association. No single session tickets will be available to nun-members. The concert begins at 8 p. m. BMDts to ..permit the general membership to vote for fee board of directors for the coming year will be distributed to members attending the Monday night concert. They will be asked to vote for the board, which will include 38 members. The 38 members of the board will meet Sunday, Jan. 20, at 2 p. -m. at the Community Center for the purpose of electing officers and making plans for the membership campaign, which probbaly will be scheduled in March. Students of Decatur Catholic high school will serve as ushers for the Monday night concert. Members of the present board' will Five) Former Huntington Judge Found Dead HUNTINGTON, Ind. M — Garl G. Bonewitz, 71, former, judge of Huntington Circuit Court, was found dead of a heart seizure in his automobile Tuesday. Coroner Paul Gray said Bonewitz, a Huntington attorney since 1913, apparently died hours before he was found at the wheel of his automobile parked along a street. Bonewitz served as judge by appointment from 1942 to 1943 following the death of the elected judge. He was" a Democrat

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Substitute Is Offered Jo Ikef Mid-East Plan - Proposed 34-Word i Substitute Offered > By Democrats Today - WASHINGTON (UP)—A proposed ’ 34-word Democratic substitute for "President Eisenhower’s Middle r East resolution drew cautious support on Capitol Hill today. But 3 Speaker Sam Rayburn said he has r not endorsed it Rayburn said the substitute was 1 submitted to him by a “very prom- ’ inent man” formerly high in fee 1 government, He said it was nei- " ther former President TrUman nor * former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. 1 Speculation centered on former 7 Air Force Secretary Thomas K. c Finletter as * likely author. 5 Mr. Eisenhower has laid before ■ Congress a resolution affirming 5 United States interest in the security of the Middle East and sper cifically authorizing him to use 1 American military forces, if necese sary to defend any Middle East " nation which seeks our help in ree sisting Communist attack. The ad- “ ministration resolution also would s empower him to grant about 800 T million dollars in U.S. military and ‘ e economic aid to Middle East pa- _ tiWre over the next three years. » “Pretty Sane Approach” The proposed substitute only by d inference would authorize the President, on his own. to use force in fee area. It would make no menl" tion of economic aid. It simply . e would state America’s interest in * independence of the Middle East g nations and her determination to s use force if necessary to maintain e e Rayburn said the proposal, and the letter he got along with it, struck him as a “pretty sane approach” to the problem, though “not necessarily better than the President’s.’’ He said he was having copies made so the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which today continued its hearings on the President’s proposal, could study it. “J haven’t endorsed anything,” Rayburn emphasized. There was no immediate public comment by the administration on . the proposed substitute. 4 > Some Cautious Comment 8 But top administration officials - promptly dispatched two aides to s the Capitol to see Rayburn. s Rayburn reportedly assured i them, as he <fid newsmen, feat he r had not embraced the proposal I Committee members expressed interest in the substitute and one, i Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-OMo>, - said “I’m 100 per cent tar. it’ . Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark) said J the proposal appeared to have , merit but that he thought it could - be improved by including addlttoni al matter, such as reference to 1 the United Nations. . Democratic committee members generally were cautious in their ’ comments, pending receipt of the : proposal from fee speaker. Repub- " Roans were inclined to view it dim- ’ ly. , “I think it would be disastrous,” said Rep. John M. Vorys (R-Ohlo) ’ “because it would make every ’ border scrap a question at vital ’ interest to fee United States without saying a word about fee Com- ’ munist menace.” 1 Professor Emeritus i ALYo!? ,«J» Tuesday NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UP)-Dr. Charles Edward A. Winslow, 79. professor emeritus of public health at Yale University, died Tuesday night at Woodruff Center State Hospital. Winslow founded fee Department of Public Health at Yale in 1915 and served as its chairman until his retirement in 1945. He had been a Yale faculty member ' for 30 years. BULLETIN LONDON (UP) —Prine t Minister Sir ARthoay Eden resigned today.