Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 279.

Report Executions, Trials Continue In 1956 Hungary Revolt

Barney Wertzberger , Dies Last Evening Bernard C. (Barney) Wertzberger, 80, well known retired Decatur businessman, died at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Murphy, 1228 West Monroe street. 11l for six weeks with complications, he had been removed from the Adams county memorial hospital to his daughter’s home Wednesday evening. Mr. Wertzberger was a barber in Decatur for many years before entering the confectionery business. He retired several years ago from the confectionery, now Operated by his sons. A lifelong resident of Adams county, he was bom in Union township March 20, 1879, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wertzberger, and was married to Clara Rumschlag Oct. 14, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Wertzberger celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1953. Mr. Wertzberger was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, Third Order of St. Francis, and the Knights of Columbus. Surviving are three sons, Francis and Richard Wertzberger, both of Decatur, and Bro. Maurice, CSG, Gates Mills, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Mary) Murphy of Decatur, and Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Coffee of Downers Grove; and 11 grandchildren. One son, Raymond, one brother and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 6 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. The rosary will be recited by the Third Order of St. Francis at 7 p. m. Sunday and by the Holy Name society at 7:30 p. m. Sunday.

World Court Backing Urged

dent Eisenhower will ask Congress to strengthen the World Court by giving up this country's power to veto consideration of any case involving the United States. Such action, he said, would place the United States in a better position to urge other countries to agree to wider participation of the court. Then, he indicated, the world would have a more effective means of coping with and preventing such “brutal uses of force” as the Communist displayed in Hungary and Tibet. Eisenhower announced his intention in a letter to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) Thursday. z Asks Clause Repeal Specifically, he said he again would ask Congress “on an ap-

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Albert Kohls Dies In Home In Mexico

William F. Kohls has received word of the death of his brother, Albert Kohls, ip Durango, Mexico. Mr. Kohls had resided in Mexico since graduating from college as a mining engineer and for the past few years has been superintendent of a copper mine in Somberette. The burial was at Durango. Local Man's Mother Dies This Morning Mrs. Sarah D. Davis, 79, who resided two miles south and one mile east of Mendon, 0., died at 1:30 o’clock this morning at Gibbons hospital in Celina, O. She had been ill only a few days of heart trouble. She was bom in Elida, 0., Sept. 25, 1880. Survivors include four sons, Ivan Davis of Decatur, Forrest Davis of near Mendon, Wilbur Davis of Celina, and Floyd Davis of Payne, O.; a daughter living in Mishawaka; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and a brother, Dory Sawmiller of Spencerville, O. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but final rites will be held at the home, with burial in Mt. Zion cemetery. Friends may call at the home after 7 this evening. Mrs. Ella Studebaker Dies At Mishawaka - Mrs. Ella Studebaker, native of Berne, died Thursday at her home in Mishawaka following a year’s illness. She was a daughter of Pete Ashbaucher, former Adams county sheriff. Surviving are two daughters, living in South Bend; two sons, who reside in Mishawaka; two sisters. Mrs. Homer Goodin and Mrs. Lil Burroughs, both of Decatur, and two brothers, A. R. and Ed Ashbaucher, both of Decatur. Funeral services and burial will be at Mishawaka Saturday.

propriate accsion” to strike from an international agreement the requirement that America must decide for itself when a case involving this country falls within the court’s jurisdiction Humphrey had written the President seeking his support for a resolution to repeal the clause. The reservation was authored years ago by Sen. Tom Connally (D-Tex.). The President said that elimination of it now would "contribute to the greater effectiveness” of the court. "One of the great purposes of this administration,” Eisenhower said, "has been to advance the rule of law in the world, through actions directly by the United States government and in concert with the governments of other countries.” Cites Defense Pacts He said the United Nations and U. S. defense pacts with other free world nations have provided a "powerful deterrent against international law-breaking” but this was not enough. The President cited Hungary and Tibet as examples of how a stronger World Court could have come into action if it had held jurisdiction. Eisenhower also stressed in his letter the importance of devising effective means of controlling and reducing armaments. "Success in this quest will bring great security to all countries and lift the threat of devastating nuclear conflict,” he said.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, special U.N. representative on the Hungarian question, reported today that trials and executions resulting from the 1956 freedom revolt in Hungary still are being carried out Munro, in a formal report to the Geneal Assembly, said Russian troops remained in the country with an assurance by Hungarian Prime Minister Janos Kadar that “the time will come when Soviet troops will be withdrawn.” Both the Hungarian and Soviet authorities, Munro said, had refused him permission to visit Hungary in his capacity as a U.N. representative and had returned his correspondence to SecretaryGeneral Dag Hammaskjold without reply. “That the present report continues the theme of previous reports is entirely the responsibility of the Hungarian authorities,” Munro said. "No response has been forthcoming such as may reasonably be expected of a member of the U.N. organization concerned to promote the purposes of the organization and to act in accordance with its principles. .. "It would seem reasonable to regard agreement by the Hungarian authorities to a visit by myself to that country in my capacity as U.N. representative as the indispensable preliminary acknowledgement on the part of Hungary of its willingness to fulfill its obligations as a member of the United Nations.” Five prison sentences were Match 24 and April 1 to defendants charged with conspiring to overthrow the “People’s Democratic State order,” according to the Hungarian telegraph agency, Munro reported. v On Oct. 17, a Hungarian spokesman told western newsmen in Budapest that sentences had been carried out in connection with alleged crimes committed during the 1956 revolt, he said. Ten death sentences were reported and eight executions were'said to have been performed on or about Aug. 13Some 26 prison sentences were reported. “In February and March,” Munro's report said, “the trial took place of a large group of young people accused of, according to the statement of an official Hungarian spokesman on 13 March ’political crimes committed in 1958.’ As to the sentences imposed definitive information is not available.” Fred J. Walther Dies This Morning Fred J. Walther, 87, longtime employe of the Decatur Casting Co., died at 4:30 a. m. today at his home, 931 North Fifth street. He had been bedfast for the past two weeks. He was born in Shandon, 0., Sept. 17, 1872, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Walther, and was married to Mary C. Pieper Nov. 22, 1892. His wife preceded him in death March 29, 1957. Mr. Walther moved to Decatur in 1929 from Hamilton, 0., and was employed by the Decatur Casting Co. until his retirement in 1952. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Harry (Lillian) Young of Decatur; one son, Robert Walther of Hamilton; two grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Louis Printz and Mrs. Charles Neville, both of Bellview, Fla. One son, four daughters, two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Harold J. Bond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, Friends may call at the ftmeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services.

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Immediate Tax Cut Urged For Americans WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U. S. Chamber of Commerce today urged an immediate tax cut for all individuals and corporations to help stabilize the dollar and promote economic growth. The business organization .said the revenue loss could be offset by a temporary across-the-board sales tax. The chamber said the tax reductions are “vitally needed.” It threw its support behind two House bills which gradually would trim the lowest individual tax bracket from 20 to 15 per cent and the highest from 91 to 47 per cent. Other rates would be reduced on a graduated scale. Corporate income tax rates would be cut from 52 to 47 per cent, with some modifications in depreciation allowances, capital gains, estate and gift taxes. The House bills, proposed by Reps. A. Sydney Herlong Jr*. (IlFla.) and Howard H. Baker (RTenn.), would provide a gradualtax reduction over a five-year period. The immediate revenue loss would be about $3,500,900,000. The chamber said the reductions would stir up so much new business activity that they would soon increase the government’s revenue- It said the tax burden would be more equally distributed and incentive would be provided for business to expand and to eut.Wevet, is dim. The administration has given no indication it will seek reductions next year and the Democratic leadership in Congress has made it clear it will not press for cuts until the administration says they are appropriate. ' < Two Children Die From Meningitis INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Two children died of meningitis in Indianapolis hospitals Thursday. Paul Clements, 7, Indianapolis, died at Methodist Hospital 10 hours after he was admitted, and Virginia Jervis, 14, Zionsville, died in Riley Hospital after a three-day critical illness.

14 Inches Os Snow DumpedOnColorado

United Press International The tail end of a Thanksgiving Day snow storm blew into New England today, but weathermen said it would be much calmer than the storm that dumped 14 inches of snow in Colorado. Light snow was reported falling early today from the Midwest through New York, but most amounts averaged only one to two inchesThursday’s storm buried Boulder, Colo., under 14 inches of snow, then dropped three inches around the lower Great Lakes, five inches in lowa, eight inches in North Dakota and ten inches in the upper Great Lakes. The snows began to die out as they neared the Atlantic Coast, but still had enough punch to bring six inches to western New York state. Several fatal holiday auot crashes were blamed on snowslicked highways, two men were killed when their plane crashed in a snow storm near Kiowa. Colo., and seven drivers, blinded by blowing snow, were involved in a seven-car chain-reaction crash near Conway, in the Texas panhandle. A biting cold wave which dipped temperatures as low as 15 below zero at Grand Forks, N.D., spread today from Canada to the Mexican border of Texas and Arizona and invaded Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. The' cold air was expected to push into West Virginia and Alabama today.

Japs Protest Revisions In U.S. Treaty TOKYO (UPI) — Thousands of leftist demonstrators smashed through a police barricade and stormed the Japanese Diet (parliament) today in protest against the revision of the United StatesJapan security treaty. Unofficial reports indicated at least 416 persons injured. Police indicated at least 30 policemen and an undisclosed number of demonstrators were hospitalized. An estimated 6,000-7,000 demonstrators formed a human wedge to drive through the policy barricade and snlash down a portion of a huge steel gate around the Diet compound. The opposition Socialist Party, which has been bitterly opposing the treaty revision, issued a statement expressing “regret” that the demonstrators had entered the Diet compound. Police finally battled the mob back and by early evening it had dwindled to about 2,000 milling around the edge of the compound. Most of those remaining were students who continued to sing and shout slogans opposing the treaty revision. The Tokyo demonstration was qne at aperies of. nationwide ral-. lies staged by the Gommunisttihged General Council of Japan Trade Unions (Sohyo) to protest the new treaty. Sohyo said half a million students and unionists were on the march in Tokyo, Osaka and 650 other places in Japan. The police, however, put the figure at 125,000. Recalled At Capital Plant INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —The Indianapolis Chevrolet plant said today it would recall to work Monday more than 1,500 workers, all that remained of those laid off because of the steel shortage. More ‘ than 500 workers were recalled previously.

On the edge of the snow belt, freezing rain fell from Louisiana into'Ohio and Pennsylvania. Bowling Green, Ky., reported a 1.79inch rainfall in six hours. Western skies were mostly sunny for Thanksgiving, but hundreds of holiday travelers were stranded in California when fog shrouded the Los Angeles and Long Beach airports. Snow was forecast today for northern Ohio through New England, with rain south of the snow belt through the mid - Atlantic Coast states and into the Southeast. Snow flurries were predicted over the Great Lakes and northern Mississippi Valley. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with scattered snow flurries this afternoon and tonight with locally moderate to heavy snow likely extreme north. Saturday partly cloudy and continued oold with snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 17 to 27. High Saturday upper 20s extreme north to 30s south. Sunset today 4:23 p.m. ' c.s.t., 5:23 p.m. c.d.t Sunrise Saturday 5:44 a.m. c.s.t., 7:44 a m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and continued cold with scattered snow flurries mostly over northern half of state. Lows 17 to 25. Highs mostly around 30.

Find Diplomat Dead, Appears Suicide Victim NEW YORK (UPI) — A dog barked and the winds stirred the fallen autumn leaves along a woodland bridle path. In this rustic, peaceful scene a tall, graying Danish diplomat, who two years earlier had let flutter from his hands atop the United Nations Building the charred bits of a list he burned to protect families of Hungary’s freedom fighters from Communist reprisals, was found dead- * In his right hhnd was the pearl handled .25 caliber pistol he had bought years ago for protection from Nazi intrigue. There were powder burns around the small, round hole in his right temple and a suicide note tucked into the breast pocket of the onceneat blue suit. Dismissed from Post Pvol Bang-Jensen died at 50. a year and one-half after he had been dismissed from a high administrative post in the U.N. for refusing to turn over to the world organization a list of 81 Hungarian names. He had gone to Austria in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising to make an official U.N. investigation of the revolt that left a mark on history. He brought back the story of the uprising from 81 refugees, but he refused to give their names to the U.N. in fear their relatives or friends still in Hungary would face reprisals. He was fired for insubordination, and when he destroyed the list the secret names were locked in his memory. Bang-Jensen was not a man to give up easily, although his dismissal from the U.N. cut him off from the diplomatic field in which he had excelled for 20 years. He had spoken opt against suicide. Discouraged About Treatment “This is a senseless, useless sort of thing,” he had told his American wife, Helen Noland Bang-Jensen He and his wife continued to Jive in the nine-room, two-story 'home at Lake Success, N. Y. with their five children after his dismissal. “He had no choice about the list and he had no regrets,” his wife said. “Perhaps this is an old-fashioned code of honor.” But he was discouraged about his treatment at the UN. He took a job with CARE, an international relief agency at less than half of his $17,500 yearly U.N. salary. Monday he left home for the CARE office and disappeared. Deaths From Faulty Heaters Increases MINONG, Wis (UPD—The number of deaths from asphyxiation blamed on “Thurm” heaters had climbed to at least 13 today. Edwin W. Marks, 47, and his sons, Eldred, 17, and Wayne, 15, were found dead here in a trailer heated by a “Thurm” gas heater, I officials said. Previously, 8 deaths in Michigan and 2 in New York were listed and I authorities in several states' issued f warnings about danger from a model of heater manufactured in Elkhart, Ind.

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Traffic Toll 146 On Holiday

United Press International Thanksgiving was marred by a traffic toll of 146, figures showed today, which means that 56 more persons were killed on streets and highways than could be expected on a normal November day. The National Safety Council does not make estimates in advance of the Thanksgiving toll because it is a one-day affair, but said that during a 30-hour period this time of year 90 persons would be killed in traffic. However, the United Press International counted 146 dead in the period beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The overall toll of violent death was 188, which includes 11 killed in fires, seven in airplane crashes and 24 in miscellaneous mishaps-Twenty-one of the traffic victims died in California. There were 10 traffic deaths in New York, 10 in Pennsylvania and nine in Ohio. Eight persons were killed in Michigan and seven each in Oklahoma and Florida. Snow covered much of the nation and in many homes Thanksgiving dinner was perfectly normal because cranberries were on the menu. Old fashioned turkey dinners were spiced by old fashioned cranberry sauces tagged with a

Moonshot Failure Is Disappointing i_ . . i

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — American space scientists today swallowed the disappointment of their Thanksgiving Day moonshot failure and pushed ahead with plans for the next U.S. moon probe. Informed sources said another payload already was available but that no specific vehicle had been chosen for the attempt to orbit the moon. It could be another Atlas-Able, ’ biggest rocket ever built In the free world, but an Air Force Thor-Able or an Army Juno II appeared more likely. Hie next “ideal” time so a moonshot would be a four-day period around Christmas when the moon makes a comparatively close approach of 221,000 miles from earth But sources indicated a mid-January date might be more feasible. U.S. space emphasis meanwhile shifted to an expected mid-De-cember launching of a Thor-Able to hurl a sun-satellite toward the orbit of the planet Venus. That probe will carry a transmitter capable of radiating signals back to earth from 50 million miles in space. It was a 98-foot Atlas-Able that was aimed toward the mcon Thursday in an effort roughly equivalent to hitting a fly in the left eye with a rifle at a distance of six miles. The bullet was a 372-pound ball of electronic equipment tucked away in the rocket’s bulging top. M

new-fangled government seal of approval. Discovery that some cranberry crops had been sprayed with a possible cancer - producing weed killer had sparked fears that cranberries would be taboo this Thanksgiving. But government inspectors worked day and night to clear thousands of pounds of the little red berries in time for display on grocers’ shelves and consumption a ro u n d Thanksgiving tables. I Much of the nation had a white Thanksgiving. A snow storm swirled out of the Rockies to dump 14 inches on Bcilder, Colo., then moved eastward to western New York state with fluffy levels up to a % foot. Thanksgiving, which began 338 years ago with the pilgrim fathers of Plymouth, Mass., reached the nation’s western frontier — about 5,000 miles away — with Hawaii’s gala statehood celebration. , Although the 50th state’s official admission was to be celebrated today, Hawaiians touched off the festival a day early with a solemn memorial service in the crater of a dead volcano overlooking Honolulu.

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