Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - April 5, 1949, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Becoming partly cloudy tonight and Low tonight 36. High Wednesday 66. CITY FINAL 5 CENTS NEWS 1600 ON DIAL VOLUME 86 CEDAR APRIL 5, 1949. ASSOCIATED UNITED INTERNATIONAL NEWS PERISH HOSPITAL BLAZE Labor Loses Its Fight in Iowa House Beardsley's Arbitration Proposal Retained in DES MOINES last hope of any major labor un- ion legislation this session of the Iowa legislature died Rutledge Trial On May 2 Before Judge Thompson Odar The first degree murder trial of Dr. Robert C. will be heard before Judge G. K. Thompson beginning May 2. The case was set down for that date today by Judge Floyd presiding judge of the April term of Announcement that Judge Thompson would hear the case came as a surprise to court ob- It had been supposed that Judge as presiding the would hear judge of the I paramount concern in to Judge Philbrick ize closed shops and union the right oi the state and The measure went to senate is of with only two noteworthy changes in the 1947 act which banned closed shops and union The which the senate will receive 1. Set up a system of state arbitration for labor disputes and provide a 30-day period when strikes or lockouts are This a secondary happens that my own personal situation is such that I couldn't at that time give the attention that the case a result I am assigning this cause to Judge Thompson for trial on May 2." The hearing today concerned a provision is the outgrowth of an S motion to tiled by idea advanced by Gov. William Dr. Rutledge's W. J. S. It requires that ana R. S. The defense requested that the trial be set for April 12, or at the I convenience of the Crissman pled that he had not had time to prepare the case and not be ready by April 12. He asked for a May 9 trial the labor commissioner shall be given notice of management Each side shall nominate arbitrators to the who will pick one man from each The two selected will then choose a third arbitrator and the de- cision of the arbitrators shall be 2. Remove from the present law a requirement that a er also get the signed approval of his wife before his employer can deduct union dues from his Tuesday's action was WASHINGTON real test came late Monday when ard H. Crowe was seized in the house 53 to 51, against tona Monday night legalizing union It was the Jon a charge of fleeing with second adverse vote for labor Missing Bank Looter Picked Up in Florida two Lost First Test. 660 from New York's National City assistant manager of the bank's branch at 195 The house 56 to 51, on i was arrested by FBI He the first test vote March been missing since March 27. against legalizing both FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover said shops and union It was tracked down after a been conceded generally since the beginning of the session that labor have a better chance in the house than in the After spending nearly all day discussing various the house finally settled for s test on the one offered by Dewey Goode All except two of the 28 crats voted against the ment and for legalizing union The both of whom voted previously for repeal of 1947 bans on closed shops and union were The 26 Democrats were joined by 25 Republicans on the losing All of the 53 votes on the winning side were cast by Re- Of the two other ab- sent both one voted on each side Reference was made Re- publican division on the on the house floor Rep. A. H. Avery sharply criticized Republican State man Whitney Gillilland for ing the Gillilland had been reported urging Republican house members to something for labor in this session of the Harry E. majority party floor and James G. Armstrong defended land's right to sides in the Gov. William S. in his inaugural ed that the legislature set up a system of arbitration to handle labor While he has not gone on record for or against re- peal of the he has been re- ported as favorable to Arguments The debate often summed up to these arguments against legalizing union It is a matter of liberty for the laborer to ret and hold a Job as he To legalize union shops would be to give labor leaders whip hand as a Authorizing union shops after having banned them and closed shops too in 1947 would be a step To leave the matter be the best for all con- The house should not away what we have and take something we know ing There is such thing as a compromise of bin before the which Goode sought to was described wide search in He was taken into custody in a Hoover said Crowe admitted j taking a of money Victims of Tragedy at Include Ten Babies 111. Fire swept through St. An- hospital early and authorities said 57 sons probably were Ten newborn babies died in one of the worst hospital fires in Another baby was born dead after its mother was injured in jumping out of a The fire started shortly be- fore midnight in the ment the three-story brick first section of which was built 80 years The origin was not A laundry like a ant sent flames ing up through the building with deathly RUINS OF HOSPITAL air view of the hospital at was taken day morning by an Associated Press It shows how flames gutted the rambling old killing many of the 108 At right are two patients who leaped to O. S. and Howard who underwent an tomy only a few hours before the His condition was serious Woman Escapes from Fire Hour Before Birth of Son By Arnold 111. My wife was in labor in the delivery specify any particular Agents recovered from a suitcase in his Hoover of the funds had been recovered and an additional had been Threw Bonds in All he of have been accounted at Anthony's hospital when it caught She kicked the screen out of the window and climbed down a der against a roof off the second I watched her come Then we took her At livery room just above a .It was Flames and smoke were ing out all The firemen put the ladder up June knocked the screen out crawled c. and she started didn't dare onto the Then down the I try to go up after in I was on I ran the three blocks to the I knew she was in When I someone was pushing at the screen on the de- a.m. she had a a total of i He's our third We have the stolen funds i and 5. My wife's a leyed She's 25. Crowe told Hoover She told me we ought to name that he threw the new baby bonds and securities in the At- i She was the bravest thing I ocean and these only i ever to make the bank officials I was home asleep about mid- The bank had reported that j night when I heard the hospital of Crowe's loot was Hoover's account fleeing from New York City on March 27, 1949, Crowe purchased a new car in on March 28 1949, which he abandoned at St. on April 1. this he stored the car at a local stating it was the property of John Roberts fictitious in Miami who would be out of the country for six car was located by local police in St. Augustine after de- 6UVCJJlulallit, tails of the car had been widely j two posts last broadcast by the FBI Heavy ties overcame Democratic margins in It was a blow to Gov. G. Mennen Williams and CIO bor forces who sought to widen last fall's In two key Re- publican incumbents ran well By retaining the highway commissionership and the super- of public the holds y 5-3 voting edge I was afraid for I didn't know what was going to But she got I was there for I took her to someone's house across the Then we took her The boy was born about an hour after we got Doc Westine came over to see He was there when the baby was My said it's a miracle that everything turned out He said we've had the best luck in the He and my wife are We ought to name the kid Associated Press Wins In Michigan LANSING Republicans swept state offices in Monday's biennial spring elections in igan reversing a Democratic trend which won the governorship and the Bought Another The investigation that lowed disclosed that Crowe chased a club coupe in St. tine for on April 1. He abandoned this car at Daytona claiming he was afraid FBI agents had already obtained information on it. Saturday he rented an apartment at Daytona Beach un- der the name of Richard N. J. Since arriving in Daytona Beach he has spent his time lounging on the beach and in evening while several FBI agents were looking for of followed him to bar agents joined over the powerful state administrative Senate Votes Auto License Rate Hike DES MOINES which would cost Iowa motorists about more a year for auto license plates was passed by the state senate late 26 to 11. The measure goes back to the house for concurrence in a minor amendment before it can be sent to the Listed as one of the raising methods to help finance a 20-year highway construction the encountered stiff opposition in the Earlier Monday a roll call which did not become official only 25 votes for one less than the required by some members as a Points for Arguments in favor of ing union shops were summarized in An lowan be a good on Page 3, Col. 2.) by a member of the Daytona Beach police department and Crowe was Crowe ily admitted his identity and ad- mitted a willingness to return to New York to face Can't Keep The FBI said Friday that 355 of the missing money had come by mail to individuals and to whom the personable Crowe owed A bank spokesman they probably cannot keep the He cited a law which he said could be used to force the creditors to give the money back to the bank's insurance com- Republicans also won in sponsors rounded up an for of Michigan the state board of education and the board of Communists Vow Yangtze Crossing NANKING Chinese Communists their armies declared will seek Tuesday to cross the Yangtze river even if peace talks are The Red statement came as formal peace discussions got un- der way in Peiping between the Communists and the Chinese An editorial of the New China news agency read over the Com- munist Peiping radio will cross the Yangtze no matter whether peace talks result in. any Victorious Red armies are drawn up against the of the mighty river which cuts west to east across center of extra vote and pushed the The 11 senators who voted against it and Augustine and Senators listed as absent or not voting Van Van Walter and Watson of Opposing senators said they ob- to increasing auto license fees and some charged the method of increase was the owners of old Sponsors of the measure said it would mean an average increase of about a year per car The would delay from the fourth until the sixth year of registration the reduction in fees now The fees also would be based on weight of the including bumpers and all The weight is now based on the Board Faces Job of Hiring New Teachers By Loyal The Cedar Rapids board of education meeting Monday night centered on teachers as the school directors faced up to the task of renewing about 400 In the two questions touched off much discussion a little 1. What is the school district doing about weeding out poor 2. Why doesn't the system hire married women Both questions were raised by Douglas He started sion on the first point when Mrs. Dwight Krumboltz presented for approval a list of 371 teachers to given continuation contracts according to the salary Not All Are all on the list are A number one I wouldn't say re- plied of Schools Clyde continued we shouldn't get the pencil and weed out is being done through the educational er Later in the er revealed that a list of the lowest five percent 20 being are the group that need Parker be- cause they are on the list doesn't mean they should be Parker board that un- der the present and dismissals made this the educational committee got into he it was discovered that there was no written record last Ratings of and recommended for be made by the and supervisors a v of Parker got to help the doubtful teacher to identity her on Page 3, 8.) Miss Fern 21, a. nurse who refused to leave the babies and died apparently trying to save Some who perished were old age pensioners in the hospital's charity ward on the top Father Goff said hospital ords were burned and an exact count of dead would be One of the listed j among the dead was Frank engineer who lived next filled the Others died helpless in their some with broken limbs in suspension Fireman Charles Jaycox said about 12 patients jumped from At least one of these was killed and several Police estimated that at least 15 persons in all were injured in Expectant Mother Mrs. Wenton 22, who was in a delivery room annex waiting to have a jumped from a second floor She suffered a broken back and Her baby was born dead an hour Much of the interior of the building Hours after the flames were put firemen were digging through the debris and carrying bodies to an The Rev. John J. pastor of St. Anthony's connected with the said the best estimate of the number of persons in the building at the time the He dashed into the flaming building in an attempt to save his a patient on the second Only The fire destroyed the only pital in this town of which lies 180 miles south of Chicago and 75 miles southeast of Patients were taken by bulance to hospitals in ing The operating room in a rate wing was tha only section of the building left Residents of the neighborhood ran into the building and carried out some Joseph Br u mme whose 12, was in the hospital with a broken groped through the smoke-filled corridors in a fruitless search for fire started was 134. These included 108 three a Miss Mary and 22 check lists showed that 57 and 20 nuns Miss Kessler died in the The dead included the Rev. C. C. chaplain at the and two Sisters tina and Also among the dead was Bus Drivers Vote For New Contract Cedar Cedar Rapids bus riders were assured of uninterrupted service for the next 12 months when members of the bus drivers union voted early Tuesday to accept a pay and sign a new contract with City City Lines drivers voted on the company offer between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The votes were counted at a midnight meeting of the The to 34 to accept the The pay which brings the scale to cents an hour plus a pension ar- rangement started last will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1949. The new contract will run to March 31, 1950. Pegler Sues To Halt Dog Barking TUCSON Howling and barking of four dogs has so dis- turbed Columnist Westbrook ler that he has brought suit for an injunction to stop the He also seeks damages from the owners to the extent of Joining with Pegler are Mr. and Hamish McLaurin and Mrs. Defendants are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. The complaint says the Fowlers have permitted the dogs to howl and bark at all hours of the that the animals are allowed to roam at will and have invaded the estates of the Air Force Tells Bomber Orders WASHINGTON The Reds Linked to Atom Positions WASHINGTON An engines and is de- 31 check has signed for a announced Tuesday that it is ordering 36 additional range bombers and five more high-speed jet It has canceled an order for 43 diverting money to the new The built by is powered with six con- FBI ern state university whose father is a Communist working in an atomic energy research This disclosure was made by FBI Chief J. Edgar He also reported that a leading bio- chemist who applied for work in the Atomic Energy Commission was a Communist party along with his a half dozen a. dozen of this type of placed in strategic could do parable harm to the security of this Hoover Today's Index 17 3 Crossword 17 3 S Editorial Features 8 Farmr 18 19 Movies 9 11 Sporta 4 Ada Women's 16 With the new the air force will have about 160 de- livered or on The classed as a light holds the trans- continental speed Powered with six it is rated at above 500 miles an with a radius of of over 800 The air force now has two B- 47's, and has 10 production els on The new orders bring to 17 the total number ordered or Disregard Cost of Pensions WASHINGTON The American Legion Tuesday called on congress to make cost a consideration and pass a multi-billion veterans Before the house veterans com- received new sion cost estimates running up to 77 Legion Spokesman John Thomas Taylor don't think you should em- cost as against To demands the committee for Legion cost Taylor re- figures cause is con- got so he then the smell of burning flesh got He fainted and was carried from the nurses and volunteers broke into a storeroom for spread them beneath dows outside and pled with patients to Orville 111., a patient on the first was going to get a drink of water when a nurse told him the ing was on He leaped from a window to Patients rescued from the flames were carried to neighboring homes and to a first aid station set up in a garage and boiler room 100 yards to the rear of the main Nuns Administer Catholic sisters assigned to the hospital administered first William a commercial said he saw three women leap from the top He could not get close enough to the flames to learn whether they were Witnesses said they could hear explosions inside the and state police said they were ether tanks going Firefighting apparatus from six surrounding towns hastened to the Witnesses said they were hindered by low water sure in the and there was a 15-minute delay ting streams of water playing on the burning It was it would be many before any accurate count could be made of the The flames finally were brought under control after more than three but firemen said the job of searching the debris for bodies would be Sister one of the nuns on night said the fire was discovered shortly after one nun smelled She immediately called the pital the fire the She said she ran to the aid of but whole hall waS in Buddy 30, said he helped catch about a dozen who jumped first and second floor was just he could hear all those poor ple in there shrieking for but I just couldn't get to Sobbing It was a scene of wild Sobbing relatives were thwarted by the raging O. S. a patient on the first said a came in to give him a When she tried to the door opened on a Both jumped from the window and were Sister Ella head of the hospital said many babies were discharged Monday and a infants were in the when the fire broke The on the second was the first ward engulfed in Some older children were on the third A 11, ly operated on for a heart was thrown by his father from a Both escaped without serious
