Democrat And Leader, The (Newspaper) - May 29, 1949, Davenport, Iowa News Certainly Travels Fast Okla. Charlie Klein is going to learn to control his enthusiasm when it comes to promoting civic In his column for the Hobart he in- remarked that as part of clean up he might go so far as to help his landlady with some of the chores around the When Klein got his landlady had a long list of things for him to do around the THE DEMOCRAT AND LEADER Weather with NINETY-FOURTH 197. SUNDAY MAY 29, 1949. FORTY-EIGHT PRICE TEN Rutledge Second Degree Ford Strike Is Key Issue Left to Arbitration Board To Be Picked Together End Disciplinary Action Against 35 Workmen 24-day strike Was settled Saturday The settlement left the key issue of the strike to The Ford Motor and CIO United Auto Workers agreed to pick a three-man tration Each side name one and the two chosen will try to agree on a third 11 they fail to reach agreement in limited the settlement that will be taken to Dr. Harry mvr partial umpire under the UAW The company's disciplinary tion against 35 Ford workers at the start of the snag the re- UNION MUST The agreement must be ratified by the union membership belore acceptance is This ably will be held The settlement means that many workers will be recalled after the Memorial Day The company said it hoped to hava some maintenance workers in the Ford Rouge and Lincoln plants back Monday and several thousand production workers back on the Job by The Ford company's duction workers will be recalled in the same order to which plants closed that production will be resumed last in far-away plants such as It will be necessary to build a backlog of parts before lines at the Ford Rouge and coln division plants can start rolling Federal mediators said as soon as the company got a factory arrangement for tion of the manpower dispute it agreed to withdraw disciplinary action against the discharged credited the tion set-up with the ot the PROPOSAL MADE The mediators said this man arbitration board proposal had been made Friday but it did not at that time appear table to either company or Selection of the arbitration board probably will not be an- until the workers have started returning to Ford It was believed that Ford would name industrial engineer with on Traffic Accidents Leave One Seven Injured Index to The News on The Inside Pages Big 3 Would End Military Rule in Reich Proposal is made to Russians in Paris Matting of Ministers The three western powers proposed to rub out all military government for Germany and Dpen the door Russia's zone to join a central under the Andrei Vishinsky promptly indicated the plan one-sided and but asked for time to study it until Opening the western bag of proposals for the first Brit- ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and French Foreign ister Robert Schuman presented the English and French texts of a plan for Germany to the power foreign ministers council at its sixth Final touches to the document were given at a two-hour ing of the two foreign ministers and U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson earlier in the The plan laid down as ples for the merger of East and West that Russia must stop political activity by men in her give up the veto in Germany except in unusual cases and agree to drastic to her reparations claims on the FREEDOMS For eastern Germany to join the the three powers sia must grant these freedoms to her Freedom person and of press and freedom for all democratic political parties and for freedom from arbitrary arrest and an dent The plan was simple in language but loaded with diplomatic who had expected some such already has de- j scribed the proposal to cover East I Germany with the Bonn tion as a western plot to get Germany the The proposal is almost directly counter to the Ideas advanced earlier last week by Vishinsky that the four powers reinstate the authority of the Allied control council which broke down under the impact of Soviet He also wanted a central German to deal with passed on to it by unanimous tion the control OFFERED IN GOOD In presenting western said the plan was offered in good faith and not with person is dead and en including one in serious are in line Public hospital after three traffic accidents Saturday in the area as ways were jammed with day The victim is Harry G. 46, of He died shortly after 1 a. m. of in- juries received about 10 p. m. in a head-on collision near the Ant- lers Inn east of Moline in which others were The other injured Robert W. 31, 2431 Sixteenth In serious condition with a crushed possible arm crushed nose and torn Mrs. Harry G. 41, the death Harry son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale R. R. 1, East According to Illinois state police officers who investigated the the Smiths were traveling in one other were occupants of Mr. Smith compound skull fracture and deep facial while his wife received a fractured leg and and their son was scratched and Daebelliehn has a crushed a. possible arm crushed nose and physicians reported it may be necessary to amputate one McMurray received a scalp laceration and his wife cuts and USE THREE The injured were removed from the badly wrecked in three Illinois State Police Officers bert Marshall Davidson and Inar who in- the crash when they arrived on the scene the two cars were facing south on the south side of the The three members of the Smith family were lying on the road beside their The occupants of the other car were in the machine in which they had been of the injured was in condition to tell a coherent story of the Memorial Services Two Days Grave Services Today Parades Monday memorial exercises and sports events will feature a two-day Memorial Day day in the Traditional church services and cemetery programs be held in Davenport while parades or other rial Day commemoration events are scheduled for day in Rock Moline and East Thousands of dents went to other cities to visit with relatives for the week-end while perhaps an equal number of other j cities hire to apend rial PROGRAM FOB In Davenport traditional rial Sunday events are scheduled for The program under sponsorship of the Scott Council of Veterans with services at Trinity cathedral at 11 a. M which the sermon will be preached by the Very Rev. sell K. the Members of the veteran and patriotic groups participating are asked to meet at the Main street entrance of the church at Cedar Rapids Jury Convicts Physician Of Murder Charge RUTLEDGE AFTER CONVICTION Dr. Robert C. St. Louis pediatrician convicted of second degree murder in the slaying of Byron C. hangs his head as he is led the Cedar Rapids courthouse elevator by Sheriff Jim Smith after reading of the verdict Saturday for the procession into the afternoon events are at In the scheduled and later at Memorial Fark Veterans will meet at the west gate of Oakdale at p. m. and march to the GAR plot headed by children of the Iowa Ivar Johnson will be master of and the Principal address will be by Maj. Soviet Zone Delegates Converge on Berlin To Set Up Their Own Republic German state controlled delegates from the I railway to pay them in Soviet zone converged on this west marks instead of the less city Saturday night to set up own German Formation of the regime will serve the Russians at the Big Four conference in Paris as a gaining point and rival to the re- public established by the western zones at The east zone people's gress will open here while Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky makes his study in Paris ot the proposal by the United Britain and France for a federal government for all many based on the Bonn The picked in a election two weeks ago which was marked by a one-third ex- approve the Soviet zone version of a republican but the officers said age to the cars indicated they had collided BADLY Gerard 29. 120 Eighth is in St. Anthony's Rock suffering from cuts and shock and a possible brain concussion as a on Page 2, Column 5) Don Dean Johnson will give tion There are the there will be I 000 Germans in the Soviet bers by the home glee I in the west NEWS OBITUARIES IOWA NEWS Puge R. CITY NEWS THEATERS RADIO COMICS FARM SOCIETY MAGAZINE Pages t- 9 13-20 Putt It U.S. Holiday Death Toll Is Climbing club and placing of by dren of the and a salute I will be fired by the firing squad of Davenport Post No. 26, ican LEGION SERVICE AT 3 P. M. Then at 3 p. m. the ninth an- American Legion memorial service will be held in the Legion plaza of Memorial Park with officers of Davenport Post No. 26, the Guard of Honor and the drum and bugle corps Memorial Park cemetery has completed installation ot RCA sound and first con- cerU of sacred music will be held from 2 to S p. m. today and from By THE ASSOCIATED The nation's holiday death toll climbed to 71 Saturday night Fifty-eight died in traffic Six persons drowned and seven died from other causes related to I the Memorial Day week-end ob- the intention nf many The document said the Bonn constitution had been promulgated California had the heaviest loss after receiving the support of 8 p m majority of Friday wUn nine Seven elected from highway three western zones It suggested mon ncar that Germany's unification light plane be best accomplished by during a fishing priate arrangements to enable the ohio minois each had eight Wearing shabby clothes and carrying cardboard they poured into the city by auto- mobile and by the Soviet zone rail lines not affected by the West Berlin The Communist party paper Neues Deutschland millions of are contributing the German share to a permanent world There meaning In West those who have been left behind by Gen. Clay are still worth c TI ay I 2 The Neues May 15. valuable Soviet zone east They also seek other The British and French military governments often accused by Communists ot being the agents of imperialist expelled Com- munist strike breakers and east zone railway police and refused to break up Hie even tho it lias halted rail traffic between Berlin and the west American transport the have C. Dij said started trying to move some of the 34 supply trains stalled along the 100-mile line across Soviet terr between Berlin and at the British zone are making some kind of an Dlx I don't know how successful it will Trucks are moving tons daily up the autobahn from and barges from the west slowly carry in some But West Berlin's main source of freight transport is the ing in about tons a The railway strike Saturday night to have settled down to a stubborn there is no settlement in the next few it may have to gc up to government saic W. the U. S state department's chief adviser in Paris ence of step in al any time and take direct INDUSTRIALIST N. J. liam F. 89, retired vice ident and general manager of line apparently referred to eral Rubber subsidiary of U. Verdict Carries j 10 Years to Life Cedar la. A jury of nine men and three middle-aged housewives Saturday night convicted Dr. Robert C. of. St. Louis of second degree The 28-year-old children's specialist was accused of the hotel room slaying of Byron C. 29, a St. Louis aircraft expert who allegedly the doctor's attractive blond 23. District Judge J. E. Heiserman said he would pronounce sentence within 30 The conviction carries a term of 10 years to life The indicated at once it would move for a new tria and appeal the conviction to the Iowa supreme court if the motion is The Jury was out only 3 hour and 41 minutes in reaching Its de cislon at the of the month long Jury Toreman Archie Farmer 25, said the jury was the -word that a convic He said the chief weakness II the defense case was th jury hot Dr. Hut FOURTH He said the verdict was reached on the fourth Tiie state had asked for a dict of first degree murder and made clear It believed the some young doctor should lay in wait for Hattman and killed him wantonly from motives of revenge and County Attorney William had told the jury in giving the state's version of the Cedar Rapids hotel room fight last Dec. 14, which left man dead with a stab wound in the The defense had demanded com- plete and immediate freedom for the Rutledge was in self-defense to tect the sanctity of his the defense assorted in contending that seduction of doctor's wife Mast July 31 this whole tragic chain of Mrs. Rutledge had testified that her co-worker at a St. took her got her and was with her while she was too ill to NO REASON TO One of the jurors Emmet J. Neenan the jury believed the young wife's testimony but he seduction wag no reason to kill It might have been the first Ihrer dan afler Rutledte found out about the Incident but he waited too The young doctor's face was strained with as he left the courtroom to a reception of The handsome young doctor's face worked emotionally and Jury Convinced Of Conviction Word Cedar Jury Foreman Archie D. 25, the youngest of thf juron in the Robert C. murder uld the Jury convinced thit con- viction should be returned the Asked he itate whether Saturday's of the state's version of the fital in which the prosecutor ind hii assistant rolled on the floor In front of Uw jury wu an important Farmer that pined over one's Pressed chief III the detenu the Jury fore- null uld tout he and his we couldn't be- Dr. uld the ballot wan taken after only 20 Questioned about attitude Sidney testimony in which nid the had beta plied with liquor and seduced by Mailman Firmer her One at the Emmet J. the jurors the of Mrs. WAITED TOO LONG. seduction was no reason to kill a Neenan could have been during the first three days after the incident but he waited too Neenan said he felt that listant County Attorney David argument was the most impressive of the four closing ad- asked us to reason with him and we the retired man He said he believed that thing that most impressed us waa the fight in the hotel that the jury did not believe that Hattman was Neenan added that ally of Dr. None of the three women on he held out for first degree He said that Emerson Electric from St. Louis who testified for the state on rebuttal were thing but Defense Attorney R. S. Milner had referred to a couple of seven Emerson employes who took the stand as Both man and Mrs. Rutledge em- ployed by the t line III U. 10 a. m. to and 2 p. m to 3 strUte now in s of New died fully as he was hustled out The want the at his of the eastern lone to cede to The freedoms that the consider should be Incorporated in these were then dMd killed North Carolina m a On slippery pavement Safety Council naj a Memorial The western then called of jjs dead by states for the drafting of an drowning statute by Hie four California 7-n-I. Colorado that already conferred on the 1-0-0. nmn By Illinois Kantai 5-0-0. Kentucky ol military government would irl New York 1-1-1. would entrusted to an ly from the but he did not lie made no com- Defense Attorney R S. Milner said no attempt would be made to have bail set for Rutledge until Thf wq filled when the verdict of quickly at the courthouse upon hearing news that the jury had reached a decision at p m BOLIVIAN MINE STRIKERS HOLD YANKS CAPTIVE Seven One Argentine Kept as tages for La en and one Argentine Saturday held hostages by 2.000 striking tin mine workers protesting thp arrest and of a mine union The held nt the In Veinte tin mine in the Catavi region about 200 miles tlie verdict read Dr j Rutledge sat alone at the side of 1 Sheriff J. L. Absent from T. O New Carolina Virginia Wen 0-1 3r., guilty of murder in C. to hark Ralph t Curl Aa i Gilford and Uu i and Mirea fw derree On Ike MM a millet t4 M rut i. f the army and national j of and
