Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - August 8, 1949, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Fair and hot through low tonight about 70; high day 95-98. CITY FINAL S CENTS NEWS 16M ON DIAL CIS 11 VOLUME 211 CEDAR AUGUST 8, 1949. ASSOCIATED UNITED INTERNATIONAL NEWS DR. GETS Acheson in Refusal of Turns Down Stopgap Armed Aid Pending Alliance WASHINGTON Secretary of State Acheson Monday re- a proposal by Sen. denberg that con- gress provide only stopgap arms aid to Western Europe until next Acheson told the who has been a leading supporter ofj the bipartisan foreign such a course would be little more than a In an obvious reference to Aches an told the senate eign relations and armed dealing with the forces with j which we are you gain no I advantage by assuming an We must deal in The sooner we fill the vacuum military weakness in the better it will be for our own Vandenberg contended that a d m i n i arms program sets a pattern forj military defense of Western Eu- rope before the council to formed the North Treaty has come into being set up a defense committee make military He complained the United States is going ahead without suiting its North Atlantic He said he favors instead an terim program which will show I clearly that this country to furnish but will not elude further joint Acheson said the United States is open to attack as never before because Western Europe's de- fenses are a soft inviting Soviet Russian Acheson have set their course against the arrangements charged by the United Nations for preservation of world Only immediate American military assistances to free nations can offset this he YEARS Good Behavior Could Reduce It to 30 Parole Also Possible By Loyal Dr. Robert C. was sentenced to 70 years in the penitentiary Monday noon for the second degree murder of Byron C. his wife's Less than an hour after Judge J. E. Heiserman the 28-year-old St. Louis baby doctor was on his way to the state penitentiary at Fort He Judge Heiserman told the impassive a term of approximately 30 Iowa law automatically re- duces the sentence by about the judge and with honor time the term is further Rutledge now is under the jurisdiction of the Iowa Board of which can release him as it sees Dr. Rutledge's father plans to Photo by Don ANGULAR SYDNEY on hand at Linn county courthouse in Cedar Rapids Monday morning for the of her husband for drew curious stares from a er and baby who were waiting on a bench outside the Photo by DR. ROBERT Q. young St. Louis pediatrician convicted of the murder of Byron C. Hattman in a Cedar Rapids hotel last walked with head eyes almost following his sentencing Monday morning to 70 years at hard appeal to the Iowa supreme set Rutledge's appeal at which is less than the bond he was under since his conviction last May 28. The announcement of the 70-year sentence brought a murmur from the crowd in the hot A woman's exclamation of was a Long Rutledge stood before the judge with head slightly bowed as erman passed but he made no show of Sydney the doctor's wept habitual although he has been convicted of a serious act. told the the said to story of what It consisted by and large of the defense of That theory was rejected he of he defendant was left with case of intentional murder with malice With those preliminary the judge then passed the 70-year Following Ihe at Rutledge was whisked from The the judge the courtroom and returned to the must be a long county after left for Fort Madison at I Coat Shields Boasts Made by Hunt Told At Probe of 5 Percenters WASHINGTON the plan was to have plane parts state of Iowa sweltered Monday State To Swelter Airliner by Small Plane but Lands in Safety Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids and the entire New England valued at that declared defense is still in But our said Monday that James surplus and then sold for a the some of the hottest weather of European allies today do not told him that Maj. Gen. ton to a syndicate Hunt the military capacity to hold that ry H the President's The shield behind which we e marshaled our forces to strike de- was one of his He told Grindle blows for the common cause est which no longer blood boil if Grindle testified at the senate they knew about that the United States 5 percenter inquiry that Hunt also Grindle said Hunt also told him is open to attack on its own him he and did go to he could see Jess former to a greater extent than the White House at any ever war assets administrator and now Today's Index Comics 8 Crossword 9 Daily 8 Deaths 8 Editorial 6 Farm Foto 4 Inez 5 Marion Movies 9 9 Sports 7 Want Women's Features It was Grindle's head of the government's new about Hunt's activities in General Services ington that led to the ever he He took the stand after i A Hunt i and again tary of Defense Johnson promised White House parties had the inquiry group that he will help been in nls The p.m. temperature ing in Cedar Rapids was 94 de- The weather Bureau said no re- lief was in sight for Tuesday and predicted the mercury would range into the upper 90's While the state sweltered the weather bureau gave only the northwestern area some hope for Thundershowers were predicted for that section tonight Tuesday night and rid of unscrupulous men Grindle said the matter of re- prey on both business and the White House came up the course of one 0{ his talks i he told him Vaughan informed Hunt there was no i reason why another client of j Dorothy Draper of should not have the Grindle said while he was rior decorating negotiating with the Hunt then went on to ment by peddling Grindle said Hunt told have only one thing to and that is My influence is based on ray and that is The bureau saw no chance of showers in the eastern half of the state until Wednesday The latest heat wave is uled to begin breaking up according to the weather with Thursday clearing and HOFFER WASHINGTON dent Truman Monday signed a jter officer told him lie was die that there was appropriating to working on reason why Grindle should a grasshopper invasion for plane a contract for woodwork in threatening crops in the West and Grindle quoted Hunt as renovation of the White I MILWAUKEE A small private plane ripped into the wing It looked like we might He was in a bank and couldn't and the wing tips of the two planes The small plane flashed out of I didn't see what happened to Fragments of plane were over from the crashed near a garbage disposal It was said to have narrowly missed a The collision took place but not the front residential of a Capital Airlines with 231 possibly have seen aboard but Capt. Jackj toward us turn Bolick brought his loaded ship safely to a landing he said was The Cessna which crumpled several feet of the right wing of the killing its Arthur 33, a veteran of air said he never aw the small Witnesses said buzzing did not appear to have been they had taken off from Maitland field a short before the accident and was cling the plane with 20 sengers and three crew members was approaching nearby Mitchell field to The airliner was en- route from Norfolk and had taken off from a short time Raymond Grand a had been watching this small plane for about a half-minute and it was obvious that he didn't see Pronouncement of sentence came after a recess of 10 utes following a hearing of more than an hour from counsel for both Defense Attorneys R. S. Milner and W. J. grover and County Attorney William Crissman and his David Rutledge was called before the where he stood and was arraigned on the indictment last March 28 following his surrender on March 23. Asked if he had any legal cause why sentence should not be Rutledge I Judge Heiserman then asked if had any statement to to j which Rutledge have No Heiserman then made inary remarks to the my Heiserman verdict is amply by the He said he was passing sentence without passion or but in an logical court feels he any talented man in your But I am not con- doning the feel very sorry for your ther from whom I had a pathetic letter recently and for the Accompanying him was Sheriff James who rode the rear of Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder's car with Also making the trip was a special Ed When photographers attempted to take a picture of Rulledge seated in the the young tor held his coet in front of hii Today's Chuckle The children's was just about over and Junior's mama was bringing in the a heaping platter of As she placed it on the it quivered and Most of the with delight but one boy got up and started to leave the of that stuff for he ain't dead other members of the And I also feel sorry for Mr. and Mrs. John state has asked for a life It was not until a few moments ago that the court ar- rived in its own mind what the sentence should court is rejecting the state's request for a life Heiserman then termed case an especially proper one for board of parole to have under its jurisdiction from the be- Jury Rejected It. he the court's is not a None of his family was ent outside the jail when ledge His who took the sentence in court with outward and Sydney Rutledge and her Mrs. Howard of apparently had said their goodbyes immediately er court In his statement to the court on the Crissman a three-point argument for im- of a life These points he outlined the nature and gravity of the crime the effect the sentence may or may not have in deterring others with homicidal ideas and the ture safety and protection of ciety The last was the primary seemed to the man the verdict of second degree murder was The elements of deliberation and premeditation very definitely Crissman next made reference to reports of an incident when at the age of 12 edly shot a playmate over a Crissman offered to show the court accounts of the in- but Judge said it would not be necessary for him to look at Sadistic Declaring that the state felt the defendant is a psycho- pathic Crissman de- on Page 8, Col 4.) ROBERT C. talked with newspaper reporters outside the Linn county courtroom Monday morning after his son was sentenced to 70 years at hard labor for Left to right are Mr. Bob Suits of the St. Louis Jim Kearns of the St. Louis and Loyal Meek of The Cedar Rapids Judge J. E. who passed sentence on Young Dr. told the young pediatrician he had committed a and cious And added that sentence must be a long SYDNEY AND This photo shows Mrs. ert C. walking back of her Mrs. Howard 6. as the two left the Linn county courtroom r s s e d in this spectator stood at the door of the Linn county courtroom Monday during the Rutledge Man at right is Bailiff Dick Preston of Judge TO Dr. Robert C. sentenced to 70 years for the murder of Byron C. carried a of cigarets and a package as he left the county jail on his way to Photo i by 0el Mid Don HOLDING A COAT IN FRONT OF HIS ledge is shown in the back seat of a sheriff's car as he left Cedar Rapids Monday for the state penitentiary at Fort Man at the right it Sheriff Jim Deputy Harlan Snydor was at the Dr. Rutledge's father hat said that he to appeal the case his to the court of
