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1 Ike Strauss Conference Hints of Atomic Boosts By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH AUGUSTA, Ga. (P) President Eisenhower arranged conference today on top secret spending plans for the Atomic Energy Commission in the fiscal year starting July 1. The President called in the AEC chairman, -Lewis Strauss, to discuss the prospective outlay for both nuclear weapons development and the program for peacetime use of atomic energy. Charter Member Audit Bureau In advance of the parley, White House press secretary James C.

Hagerty told newsmen there would be "no announcement whatever" dealing with the outcome of the session, On hand in addition to Strauss was Budget Director Percival Brundage. Brundage sat in Friday at a hour Eisenhower meeting with Secretary of Defense Wilson on Pentagon spending proposals for the next fiscal year. After that conference, Wilson told newsmen "it certainly looks" as though defense expenditures in the new year will be greater than the 36. billion dollars estimated for this year. Wilson declined comment on reports that the expected hike will add up to about two billion dollars.

On arrival back in Washington, Wilson said the new Pentagon budget was not settled during his meeting with the President, The three services Air Force, Navy and Army reportedly has asked Wilson for about 44 billion dollars. Spending tor such items as nuclear weapons developments and stockpiling of critical materials never has been included in Pentagon budget estimates. And the Atomic commission never has disclosed expenditure for atomic weapons development and production. However, some guesses on outlay in that field range up to two billion dollars. 17 Face Contempt Charges in School Integration Rift CLINTON, Tenn, UP) Sixteen persons made bond pending trial and 17th went to Jail federal court wound up the first phase of its action to halt racial disorders which closed Clinton High School.

Fourteen men and two women from Anderson County have been before Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor in nearby Knoxville in the last two days on charges of criminal contempt of court in the incidents. The 17th, Joe Diehl, farmer, WAS arrested and convicted of contempt for handing out "inflammatory literature. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail. The other 16 were charged with various threats or acts of violence or other activities tending to intertere with integration of Clinton High in violation of a court injunction.

Frank Hermans Dies at Age 80 Frank A. Heermans, 80, a tired Mattoon business man and former city clerk, died about 5:45 a.m. today at his residence, 2816 Western Ave. My, Heermans had been in failting health for some time and spent a period in the hospital about month ago. Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m.

in the Schilling funeral home, Rev. Dr. Horace Batchelor officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove cemetery, Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Mr. Heermans was born in Mattoon June 15, 1876, a son of John E. and Agnes Allison Hermans. He married the former Nellie Lewis of Mattoon, who survives. Mr.

Heermans was former city clerk here, had held state government posts in Springfield and was in the wholesale candy and tobacco business here before his retirement. Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Mary Frances Heermans of New York, son, Lewis, of Cleveland, a sister, Miss Edna Hermans of Springfield and two grandohildren. Snow nice for Christmas, but our Christmas Clubs are even nicer. Open yours now at THE NATIONAL BANK OF MATTOON Member F. D.

I. C. 12-8 Elks Memorial services for our departed brothers will be held at the lodge room at 2 p. m. Sunday, December 9th.

12-8 NEWSPAPER DIVISION UNIV. OF ILL. URBANA ILL. 4-21-57 LIBRARY C600 4-18-56 DAILY of Circulations Hungarians Start Anew In Illinois IlI. (P) five Hungarian refugees have begun building new lives for themselves in central Illinois.

"We have. been slaves for 12 years now we are free," 8 spokesman for the refugees told a crowd of several hundred persons which greeted them in Champaign Friday night. They arrived by train from Camp Kilmer, after a flight across the Atlantic from Vienna, where they had fled following the failure of their bloody fight for freedom against the Russians. Now they will be resettled in the e. Champaign area, Some of those in the crowd which greeted them Friday night joined the refugees in singing the Hungarian national anthem.

Prof: David Lindstrom of the University of Illinois, member of Gov William G. Stratton's refugee committee, said he thought the welcome "demonstrates the difference between this country and another country which would ship you away in cattle cars as A special resettlement committee escorted them to the Inman Hotel, where they will stay until Sunday. They were served a late snack there and then 17-Hungarian-speaking interpreters began interviewing them about job qualifications and interests. The group came to America under the auspices of Catholic ReServices, with the Rev. Edward O'Rourke of St.

John's Catholic Church handling the local arrangements. Father O'Rourke boarded their train at Rantoul and rode in with them to Champaign. Assignment of jobs and permanent housing is expected to be completed by Sunday. Blame Driver In 'L' Fire CHICAGO UP) The dead motorman of an train has been blamed for the electrical flash which turned his crowded, Loopbound train into rolling inferno. Fifty persons were injured.

Virgil E. Gunlock, chairman the Chicago Transit Authority Board, said that results of preliminary investigation placed "the blame of the accident on the motorman." Daniel Cullen, the 47-year-old motorman, perished in the blaze. Some 300 Evanston suburbanites were aboard the four -car train headed for Chicago's downtown district when a tongue of flame suddenly flashed from the head of the train through "the first coach. All the coaches were of wooden construction and were about years old. The CTA said Investigation dicated that Cullen failed to the power as his train switched from overhead trolley to the third rail.

This reportedly created electrical arc which set the lead car aflame. The fire described by one passenger as being like flames "shootre-ling from flame-thrower" curred as the train approached Howard Street station on city's north limit. Goheen Chosen Princeton Head PRINCETON, N. J. (P) quick-minded 37-year-old sor here is to be the new president of Princeton University third youngest in the school's year history.

He is Robert F. Goheen, Indiaborn father of six, who was named Friday to succeed Dr. Harold Dodds when he retires next at cage 67. The surprise choice of the sistant classics professor Princeton's own ranks came year and half of canvassing possible presidents among the tion's outstanding educators. Mattoon Retail Stores open Monday nights, Dec.

10-17 for your shopping convenience, 12-10 Open House Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 at 1505 S. 3rd St. Don't miss this new larger National Home. No down payment for qualified veterans. Moore and Moore.

11-9tf of Meeting Regular meeting Monday, December 10th at 8 o. m. Free lunch after meeting. 12-10 JOURNAL-GAZETTE EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1956 Member Associated Press All Phones 5656 Price 7 Cents Dulles Flies to Paris NATO Meeting As West Seeks Friendship Renewal By PRESTON GROVER PARIS UP) Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pushed into renewed spirit of cooperation by events in Hungary next week open what may be their most dynamic meeting. The session begins Tuesday, bringing together the ministers of foreign affairs, defense and finance of the 15 nations.

It will provide the setting for the first meeting of British, French and American foreign ministers since the Suez campaign which threatened to split the organization wide open. But the three members, once SO widely divided with France and Britain on one side and America on the other, have begun the healing process SO actively that one highly placed figure in the organization predicted: "It will be the love match of the year. The lovers are goirig to confess their faults, kiss and make up probably more, warmly than ever before." For the past two years NATO has shown signs of pulling apart at the seams. Many members, calmed by the smiles of the Kremlin, wanted to cut their defense expenditures. Russian cannons and tanks in Budapest changed all that.

"Members who were reluctant before are now remembering how much security the Atlantic Pact gives a member represesentative, said. The biggest 'event is the expected meeting of Secretary of State Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Forelgn Minister Christian Pineau. It has not definitely been decided when or even whether they will meet as a Big Three. Possible important developments during the coming session include: 1. Agreement on a better method of consultation before any member makes a move which might affect the others.

2. Agreement on extending the area of interest to include the Middle East. Agreement on extension of a large scale radar warning net similar to that across North America, but with its most active segments in West Germany. Election of a new secretary general to succeed Lord Ismay who has asked, this time insistently, to be relieved by next April. 5.

Action on the report of the three-man appointed. last year to suggest ways of improvpolitical consultation among the members: Set Damage At $2 Million In Fire at Church CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (P) roaring fire, which police believe may have been the work of an arsonist, destroyed the stately 44- year-old St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church early today. Damage was estimated more than two million dollars.

At the height of the spectacular three-alarm fire the roof and walls of the granite edifice collapsed in an inferno of sparks and flame. Four firefighters were swept from ladders by the falling wall. Three were hospitalized. Destroyed in the church, regarded as a showplace of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, were priceless religious objects and stained glass windows and a $20,000 organ. Letters Issued TUSCOLA, Letters of administration have been issued to Russell Hackett and Miss Faye Hackett, son and daughter of the late Elrah Hackett whose will was admitted to probate in Douglas County Court Friday.

The estate lists $2,000 personal property and $97,000 real estate. Reds, Catholic Church Make Peace MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY Cooks Mills Christmas Party Cooks Mills Grade School dren presented their Christmas program Friday night. Under the direction of Miss Shirley Moore the children sang eight selections. Shown are children from grades three through six who formed a cross as they sang "Cathedral Gloria Gal- Journal Gazette Photo Warren Mends lagher, Peggy Helm, Penny Ad-. ams, Tony Buser, David.

Cole, Joyce Hance, Rex Young, Anita Tripp, Terry Baker, Darlene Dorris, Bobby Davidson, Barbara Graham, Marie Smyser, David Tripp, Vickey Eaton, Leoda Ozee, Anna Borntrager, Anne Clark, Paula Lee Martin, and Mary Otto. Kidnaper of Weinberger Child Condemned to Die MINEOLA, N. Y. UP) Jury of 12 fathers Friday night condemned Angelo LeMarca to death in the electric chair for the kidnap-murder of 32- day-old. Peter Weinberger.

The jury found the swarthy auto mechanic guilty of kidnaping and first degree murder. 101st Year LaMarca's knees wobbled when he heard the verdict. Two court attendants grabbed him to keep him from sagging to the floor. The defense built its case around temporary insanity plea. It claimed LaMarca, 31, was 8 normai, hard-working husband and father until last spring when burden of mounting debts drove him out of his mind.

In that unbalanced state LaMarca embarked on the kidnap plot, the defense said. LaMarca tried but failed to collect $2,000 ransom. The defense asked mercy for LaMarca. But Dist. Atty.

Frank Gulotta, the prosecutor, called LaMarca a scheming, cold-blooded criminal and demanded of the jury: "What mercy was shown baby Peter when he was left in that woods What mercy did he show then?" The jury was out for six hours and 24 minutes before returning its verdict ending the month-old trial. The defendant -admitted taking the baby from the patio of the Westbury, N. home last July and abandoning him a short while later in a Long Island honeysuckle thicket a few miles away. Police found the child's Aug. 24, the day after the FBI seized LaMarca.

Trial Judge Mario scheduled the sentencing for Dec. Reports Theft John J. Smith, of 621 Broadway, reported to police at 12:20 a.m. today that his car was stolen from a parking place on N. 12th St.

The car. was stolen sometime between 6 p.m. and midnight, Clark said. Car keys were in the glove Test Rocket Climbs 125 Miles Today WASHINGTON (P) -Naval and civilian scientists blasted a Viking rocket dubbed first test rocket of the earth satellite program" 125 miles into the air early today. The Defense Department said the rocket reached a peak velocity of 4,000 m.

p. h. before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean about 180 miles from the launching base at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Newsmen watched the huge 45- foot rocket, 13th in the Viking serles, from vantage point four miles away. One reported it "rose slowly and almost silently into the air," leaving "a glowing bright pink trail" as it picked up Firing took place at 1:30 a.

m. Force Missile Test Center at PatThe launching site was the Air rick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral. The department said the rocket was fired to test instruments and gather information to be used later in the launching of the earth satellite planned for the 1857-58 International Geophysical Year. It was built for the Navy by the Glenn L. Martin Co.

of Baltimore. Staley Executive To Speak in Mattoon The Mattoon Civic Garden Club is inviting all interested persons to hear K. J. Maltas, A. E.

Staley executive, speak on "Soybeans and their By-products," at BurgessOsborne Auditorium, Monday afternoon at 2. The talk is part. of the civic project activity of the club. A special invitation is extended to members of the Farm Bureau and the Home Bureau of the county, many of whose members are interested in the raising of soybeans. Maltas, manager of the grain division, will tell the producers something of the processes used by his company in preparing the beans for market, in many forms.

Mrs. W. H. Roney, president of the club, will preside at the meetling. By COLIN FOREST followed the elevation of Wlady- The announcement listed these WARSAW, Poland (P) Po- slaw Gomulka to leadership in the main points in the state-church land's new anti-Stalinist, Com- Polish Communist party.

agreement: munist government and the Ro- The joint commission worked for 1. Restoration of religious eduman Catholic church hierarchy four weeks to settle the state- cation to grade and high schools today announced a broad settle- church dispute. The restoration of for children whose parents request ment of their differences includ- religious education was a top de- Permission- for: chaplains to ing restoration of religious edu- mand by the church for any agree- it. cation in state schools. ment.

in and prisons. work hospitals joint communique sald the The commission communique 3. Establishment of governchurch expressed full support for said the government wants to end ment commission to arrange for all strengthening government the activities Polish. aimed People's at all the hindrances to full freedom the return. of exiled priests and of religious life, adding: nuns to the western territories Republic and uniting a result of changes in pub- which Poland took over from the energies of all citizens for the lic life aimed at establishing le- Germany after World War II.

common "As out gality, justice, peaceful coexist- Recognition by the church good. The agreement was worked by established after the release morality and the restitution of voice in church appointments. It joint state-church commis- ence, the strengthening of social that the state has theoretical sion of Stefan Cardinal Wyazynski, wrongs, the Catholic episcopate was understood, though not that writ- the Catholic primate of Poland, Oct. will extend to the government the ten in the agreement, veto 28. He was kept under house at- church's "full understanding for government promised not to rest for three years.

His releaselthese aspirations" appointments in the church. TE Rebels Hit Red Troops By RICHARD KASISCHKE -BUDAPEST. (P)-Definite word! was brought today that bands of rebel guerrillas are waging hitrun warfare on Russian troops from mountain hideouts in southern Hungary. There have been numerous -reports of continued fighting around the mining center of Pecs, but until now they were impossible to confirm. Communication with Pecs is cut off.

Today an unimpeachable Hungarian source disclosed that at least 1,500 rebels are harassing Soviet occupation forces from the Mecsek Mountains, near Pecs and not far from the Yugoslav frontier. But the informant said he believed the Mecsek rebel forces were the last still holding out. Just for the Record; U. S. Had a Surnlus WASHINGTON 'P) For the record, the United States ended the fiscal year last June 30 with surplus of 553.403.69 The Treasury Department announced the final figure Friday after taking into account belated reports of receipts and expenditures.

The total was nearly 130 million dollars below that estimated last July, when the figure was put at $1,754.000,000. Both receipts and expenditures exceeded the earlier timates, but the spending figure showed the greater in, crease. Senate Group Blasts ILWU HONOLULU (P) The U. S. Senate Internal Security subcommittee is on record today as declaring that Harry Bridges International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union "are in a position to choke off island supplies." Harry ILWU president, in a statement, charged that the subcommittee headed by Sen.

James Eastland (D-Miss) had as its purpose. to fill the record to block statehood" for Hawaii. Eastland "is on the record that AS long as there is an ILWU there is no statehood," Bridges added. The committee issued statement, After completing six-day hearing Friday, saying it found "Communists acting in concert in present-day conspiracy to further Soviet purposes in these The committee suggested "more use of the immunity statute to break the wall of silence the Communists erect." It also advocates lengthening the statutes of limitation "in cases where evidence against Communists is essential for prosecutive action." Mother of Local Resident Dies Mrs. James S.

Henegar, 85, of Tuscola, mother of Mrs. V. L. Dulgar, 104 Westview Drive, died at 8 p. m.

Friday in Jarman Hospital, Tuscola, She is survived by her husband, James; a son, Harley of Tuscola; five daughters, Mrs. George Monger of Tuscola, Mrs. C. R. Higgins of St.

Louis, Mrs. Charles Weber of Shelbyville, Major Georgia E. Henegar of Washington, D. and Mrs. Dulgar.

Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the Waddington funeral home, Tuscola. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 1. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

To Cost- Pop ST. LOUIS (P) -In the future it's going to cost Pop when Junfor tears things, up. The Board of Alderman Friday approved an ordinance making parents liable for damage done by youths under 18 who are convicted of malicious destruction of property, They can be required to pay up to $500. It Costs No More to have the benefit of our wide experience in settling your Estate. Make your Will and name our Bank as Executor or Trustee.

CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK Just West of the Subway Bridge 12-8 Moose Dance Saturday, December from 9 to 12 p. m. Roy Ellis orchestra. 12-81 Fight TB With Christmas Seals This indicated the Russians have succeeded in wiping out some 2,000 college students that. had been waging guerrilla raids from the Satoraljahly region, north of Miskolc, until at least 10 days ago.

"It is true that the revolutionaries in Pecs killed the Russian commandant about two weeks! the Hungarian informant said. "This is true although" our Budapest newspapers and radio were forced to deny it. "The Russians can't wipe these freedom fighters because they can't find them. "They hide in the forests and they are supported by a rebellious local population. Around the Russians are getting a taste of the same kind of partisan war-ing fare they waged against the Get Imans in World War Rain, Freeze Hits Mattoon; Streets Slick Mattoon citizens huddled closely, to home today as freezing rains glazed streets, highways, sidewalks and caused minor.

power disruptions. A total of 1.48 inches of precipitation has fallen in Mattoon in the past two days. Ninety-two hundredths of an inch since- midnight fell in the form of sleet. A .55 of an inch rain turned to ice early this morning following wet Thursday night which netted 1.20 inches. Street Supt.

John C. Fryman and crew of 11 workmen were busy before noon today clearing broken limbs from streets and intersections. The rain froze on the limbs and sent them hurtling to the ground in, all sections of the city. Police today reported no accidents but said streets and highways are "extremely The freezing conditions ex throughout Central and Northern Illinois, snarling traffic in Champaign, Chicago and other points. Central Illinois Public Service Co.

reported "minor power distribution troubles" but no general power failures. But the Illinois Consolidated, Telephone Co. WAs troubled throughout the night by the broken limbs falling on lines. Several crews worked within three mile radius of Mattoon repairing the damage. The crews reported minor communication troubles in several areas.

An eight-party line to Humboldt, however, has been out all morning. Fryman said his crew began Apr plying salt and cinders early today to bridges and intersections. He keeping his entire farce on the job. The rain, falling heavily, turned to sleet and coated the entire area with a thin film of ice. DENVER (P) Snow drifted down today on half a dozen Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states from a slow- moving storm, leaving bitter cold in its wake.

Freezing drizzle from the same weather system stung parts Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Snow extended from southern Wyoming through Colorado western Kansas and western braska and into northern New Mexico. Police Checking Clue In Hit-Run Collision Police, today said they are still investigating two strips of chrome as a clue to a hit-and-run accident Dec. 5 on N. 15th St.

A car owned by Mrs. Nona Nigh, 601 N. 15th was damaged at about 1:29 m. while it was parked at her home. Police have established that the car was hit by a blue car heading south.

They withheld the accident from publication pending an investigation; SANTA'S HELPERS 13 shopping days to CHRISTMAS By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (P) Seeretary of State Dulles flies to Paris today with the evident intention of assuring Western European leaders that the United States will do everything possible to help them surmount their current financial crisis. How much help can be given will depend largely on Congress, both branches of which are making intensive new studies of the foreign aid concept. The formal purpose of Dullest trip is to attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty NATO Council. The council is scheduled to re view the over-all Allies defense program, against Soviet might and also to consider ways of increasthe cooperation of the NATO powers on international political issues.

An additional major concern of and other foreign ministers attending the session will be to try to restore Allied unity and closer working relationships among by the (France. their United The disagreement unity States, was Britain over shattered and "the British French attack on Egypt. Attending the meeting along with Dulles, but traveling separatewill be Secretary of Defense Wilson and Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey. The trip will be Dulles' first diplomatic mission since he underwent successful cancer operation early last month. Dulles is described by, associates as feeling it is of the utmost importance to rebuild solidarity of the Western alliance and restore to oil-short Europe the economic strength which is necessary to provide a sound basis for military strength.

For this reason he belleves it is important that the United States help its Buropean allies both to solve their economic problems and to carry the burden of armament which is their responsibility in the NATO system. Attend Band Clinic Three Community Unit 2 School District music instructors attended the Mid-West Band Clinic held Wednesday through today at the Hotel Sheraton, Chicago. They are Richard Foster, Obed Henderson and Wayne Shelton. The Weather Mattoon: Temperature 11 a. m.

35 GREATER MATTOON AREA Cloudy today and Sunday and continued cold with mixture of snow and freezing rain today and tonight. High today near 130, low tonight mid 20s, high Sunday near 30. ILLINOI9 Freezing rain and sleet warning central portion. Some sleet and freezing rain will spread rapidly eastward through the central portions of the state today gradually changing to snow late this afternoon and early tonight ending later tonight. Rain extreme south today changing to sleet or snow tonight.

Snow northern third of state today except little or none extreme north. Sunday partly cloudy north mostly cloudy south continued rather cold. High today 25-32 north and central 32-36 extreme south. Low tonight 18-28 (north 28-34 south. FIVE DAY FORECAST Temperatures will 5 to degrees above normal.

Normal maximum is 37 north to 48 south. Normal minimum is 25 north to 30 south. Rather cold early in period with warming Monday and Tuesday. Precipitation will average one-quarter to one-half inch. Rain in the extreme south tonight and Saturday and more general rains late in period.

Yesterday's Temperatures High Low Mattoon 42 30 Albuquerque 56 Atlanta 71 Bismarck -13 Chicago 34 Cleveland 61 Denver Detroit Fort Worth 72 36 Helena Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee 31 21 New Orleans 80 57 Yesterday's Precipitation This This Yr. Last Yr. 6 Yr. Year To Date To Date AVg 36 30.97 37.35 37.11 Mattoon Skies. Sunrise 7:04 a.

m. Sunset 4:19 p. m. Moonrise 10:29 p. m.

Moonsouths 7:13 a. m..