Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - May 29, 1949, Waterloo, Iowa Section I to 10 News FIRST WITH THE NEWS Cloudy ond 1> ESTABLISHED 1854 MAY 29, 1949 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS SECOND DEGREE FOR RUTLEDGE 24-Day-Old Ford Strike Settled Russ Open Switch Locked in Strike i Key Issue to be Submitted to Arbiters Mich. The 24-day-old Ford strike was settled last The settlement left the key issue of the strike to Pleasure Seekers Jam The Ford Motor Co. and Rutledge After Conviction Two Russian officers work at reopening a railway in the yards in the American sector of strikers and west Berlin residents watch grimly as the officers tools to open the A Russian military ment tried all afternoon to get line open to remove a Soviet coal train which had been stalled for seven days by the Wirephoto direct to Other Means of Travel for death toll rose sharply yesterday as j millions of holiday travelers j crowded the roads and airlines for the long j Memorial Day Sixty persons were killed in 48 of them on the streets and highways at 11 p. m. while the holiday weekend was yet There were seven drownings re- 11 ported and five persons died in Total accidental deaths for the nation rose to 49, a United Press survey In addition to auto the total included five persons drowned and three killed in miscellaneous Automobile accidents at East took four at 111., and at Airlift Roars Over Berlin Despite Russian Warnings Berlin American and British air lift planes roared along Buckeburg corridor into Berlin day in defiance of Russian warnings that Soviet army mer including anti-aircraft will start there at The air lift is assuming its former role of lifeline to Berlin in the face of a Russian rail blockade intended to break the day strike of west Berlin rail Up until no pilots had reported firing along the Buckeburg The Russian announcement said the maneuvers and ground to air fire were to start yesterday morning in a mile area under the air lane in British commander in Gen. Geoffrey K. Bourne blamed the Russians for precipitating the railroad He labeled the situation in Berlin and indicated he thought the Soviets were not capable of solving it. He credited the airlift with saving Berlin once more American and British pilots flew 8.529 Ions of supplies into this former German capital in the 24 hours ending at noon n i sit i y Revengeful Clerk Takes Ladies Undies Valued at New uncovered more than worth of undergarments yesterday in the home of a department store stock clerk who said he stole every time his boss bawled him The stockpile in the FOREIGN ROUNDUP In the past 16 days the lift has ferried an average of tons France Pans Princess Margaret of Great Britain sipped pagne and had her choice of 50 young Frenchmen for dancing lasti lne night at the British embassy uf her first taste of Parisian I Aphony Foy included CIO United Auto Workers agreed pick a three-man arbitration Each side will name one and the two chosen will try to agree on a third If they fail to reach agreement in a limited the settlement that position will be taken by Dr. Harry impartial umpire under the UAW The company's disciplinary action against 35 Ford workers at the start of the snag in the The agreement must be ratified by the union membership before 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 have some maintenance workers in the Ford Rouge and Lincoln plants back next Monday and eral thousand production workers Big Three Invites Soviet in Republic With List of One auto accident took seven lives back on the job by Most of the guests were Margaret's Secrecy surrounded the but three of them included Capt. Antonie Corbigny and the two sons of the Francois A small orchestra played in the ballroom where a portrait of Margaret's grand- Queen and traits of George V and other Brit- ish monarchs A red-faced official told garet there is a post-war age of well dressed young French the you not many French youths have dinner he Lille Joseph Mirland peeled off his shoe and set it on the stove to melt off the piece of putty that stuck to the The explosion broke several dows in Joseph's but he caped with only minor The of was plastic Czechoslovakia Archbishop Josef Beran appealed yesterday to the ministry of education to stop lishing its new of the Catholic He said it was infringing on the slips and near I various other Foy charged with grand Police said that when they ar- rested him Friday Foy was carrying a parcel containing 33 slips valued at They said his boss apparently had called him down BANK TO DRESS UP ITS GIRLS IN UNIFORMS la. The nine girls working in the Peoples Trust Savings bank no longer have to worry about what to wear at The bank is furnishing each girl three suitable for wear the year Woman Hif by Car a Mystery Mystery surrounded the identity of a woman who was struck by a car on highway 218 south of Wa- and died later at terian Story on page 11. Other features Page rightful duties of the Catholic At the same the arch- bishop's office in Prague asked that the government reane on page 2, column 6) It or 8 Cedar Falls City in Brief 3 Classified Advertising 24, 25, 26, 27 Farm News 75 Northeast 12. IS Radio 36 Sports 31, 32, 33. 34 Theaters 17 Uncle Woman's Pages 20, 31, 22, 21 and critically injured three others at N. C. One crowded with workers returning there from D. for a weekend at crashed into another car occupied by three persons after a Prediction Fulfilled First North Carolina officials had pre- seven traffic deaths in the state this Aided by generally fair most transportation facilities were The National Safety council mated a total of about private cars would use the It predicted a highway death toll of 215 but pointed out that extra caution might reduce fatalities by one half or At New York airline traffic jumped 50 prr cent and an mated were expected to desert the metropolis for and resorts during the Railroads throughout the country added extra sections to get city dwellers to picnic grounds and re- sort Only in the plains states were there The rain was slowly spreading eastward and the Chicago weather bureau said it might reach the east coast by Other Holiday The far west enjoyed fair and seasonable weather and the south basked in early summer The overall accidental death toll in the past two Memorial Day days was Deaths from auto drownings and miscellaneous hit 482 in 1947 and 453 in 1948. Auto accidents alone killed 206 persons in 1947 and 212 in 1948. The changing weather picture might contribute to cutting traffic and reducing the number of At both motor and rail movement was slowed by cool The was in the 50's. The Pennsylvania railroad as a travel was 10 per cent be- low Sporting events invited millions from their Northern California mountain re- sorts were still offering snow Idaho and Wyoming announced good fishing Thousands were gathering in Indianapolis for the classic 500-mile Memorial Day auto race and ball drew its fans to the The parade of automobiles was The New Tork City ante club said about 650.MM cars were expected to leave the Michigan looked forward to more than cars on its Minnesota halted road construction to clear the way for an anticipated 18 per cent jump in Flood closed roads at 15 spots in In some western highway of- warned of bad road tions as a result of the heavy zards of last The Ford company's duction workers will be recalled in the same order to which plants production will be resumed last in far-away plants such as It will be necessary to build a backlog of parts before assembly lines at the Ford Rouge and coln division plants can start ing Truman Asks Nation for Peace Prayers IBy the Associated Americans are urged by President Truman to pray for permanent peace at Day observances tomorrow as they bow in tribute to the dead of the nation's From famed Arlington tery near where many of America's heroes to little rural churchyards all over the tiny flags will fly and graves will be vladen with flowers on the 81st annual In a Truman called on the nation to observe Memorial Day with a nationwide prayer for sacred day is a fitting casion on which the people of our all of directly or have been bereft by war's terrible may appeal to Almighty God for help in ing the steps of the world to the paths of permanent the proclamation Sen. Millard Tydinys will speak at the Arlington Wreaths will be placed on the tombs of the Unknown dier there and in Paris and A floral anchor will be cast in- to the Potomac river near ton to honor navy and marine Paris The west invited Russia yesterday to join the Soviet zone of many with the west German republic on condition that Russia abandon its staggering claim for reparations and agree to guarantee the fundamental freedoms set forth in the new Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Vishinsky's reaction was He said the west's idea was and for four power He said he had been presented with a or West's U. S. Secretary of State Dean British Foreign tary Ernest Bevin and French For- eign Minister Robert Schuman came up with the formal proposal to unify Germany at the opening of the sixth session of the Big Four council It was the west's answer to Vishinsky's suggestion that Germany revert to the power rule which was tried oat after the Potsdam conference in 1945. It broke down when Russia The west made it plain to Vishinsky that it would approve no plan to unite east and west Germany unless the Soviet Union accepts the basic law of the Bonn This guarantees freedoms and liberties the Russians never have been willing to give the people they These were the Freedom Main 1. Freedom of in- freedom of freedom from arbitrary arrest and freedom of association and freedom of press and 2. Freedom for all democratic political parties and freedom of 3. Independence of the 4. among the four that delivery of rations from current production or stocks would be Russia insists on worth of reparations from mostly from current She has consistently refused to tell the west what she has taken already in the way of plants other German IN LESS BART SUFFOCATES IN Walter D. 4-month-old of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson of At- suffocated Friday in his It was baby pulled a rubber over Us 7 Americans Held Hostage by Bolivians La Bolivia Seven American engineers and one Argentine yesterday were held as hostages by striking tin mine workers ing trie arrest and deportation of a mine union The held at the Sight Veinte tin mine in the Catavi region about 200 miles southeast of La were fied as Wilbur J. Floyd W. Joseph G. T. J. Patrick Richard D. and T. R. A Bolivian army commander at Catavi was reported last night to be negotiating the release of the REDS Berlin trolled delegates from the Soviet zone converged on this harassed city last night to set up their own German Dr. Robert C. St. Louis pediatrician convicted of second degree murder in the slaying of Byron C. hangs his head as he is led from the elevator by Sheriff Jim Smith after reading of the verdict last night in a Cedar The doctor's face worked emotionally and painfully but he did not break He made no Wirephoto di- rect to Shanghai Goes Under Rule of Reds China A Communist military con- trol commission headed by victorious Gen. Chen Yi took over Shanghai and sued rules governing the city's The new rulers began by taking over the Central bank and two Chinese Four Chinese evening newspapers reportedly were ordered to suspend but there were cations that they might be allowed to resume publication No new regulations for foreign publications and news that passed over everyone's were decreed The government's gold yuan Soys Verdict Influenced by Ingenuity Cedar la. Jury Foreman Archie D. 25, the youngest of the jurors in the Dr. Robert C. murder said the jury was convinced that a conviction should be returned in- the word Asked he state showed more Asked whether yesterday's of the state's version of the fatal which the prosecutor and his assistant rolled on the floor in front of the was an important Farmer Four Ballots None for Within 30 Cedar la. Dr. Robert C. last night was convicted of second degree murder of the ing of Byron C. alleged seducer of Rutledge's The verdict was returned in the courtroom at p. m. The jury had deliberated three hours and 41 minutes with an hour out for Second degree murder carries a sentence of 10 years to life im- The determination of sentence will be up to District Judge J. E. The state had asked for a dict of first degree murder which carries a sentence of death by hanging or life The defense had asked for im- mediate and complete freedom fof the 28-year-old Sentence Within 30 Judge Heiserman announced that the sentence would be within 30 Dr. Rutledge was charged with stabbing Hattman to in a Cedar Rapids hotel room last 14 during a bloody The young doctor's face wu strained with emotion as he left the courtroom to a. reception eC The courtroom was filled whem the verdict was When the verdict was read St. Rutledge sat alone at the side of Sheriff J. L. Absent from the courtroom were his willowy 23, his father and Mr. of and Mrs. father and Mr. and Howard B. of Mo. Took Four Jury Foreman Archie Farmer said the jury took four On the he one juror was for a verdict of first degree were for seven for second rency was effective June 5, and the Communist min currency established as the only legal basis for The city wu as ands of curious residents flocked to points which were the site of battles earlier in the ing souvenirs of the defense of The local branch of the economic cooperation administration an- today that no further shall plan supplies would be sent to but that Communist eaders would be consulted on the disposal of stocks already on Red Dutch San Martin Pressed for chief weakness in the defense the jury foreman said that he and his colleagues we couldn't believe Dr. Rutledge's He said the first ballot was taken after only 20 Questioned about the at- toward Mrs. Sydney which she said she had been plied with liquor and seduced by was protecting her HURT IN CAB la. Marsean four and degree On the second ballot sevea favored a verdict of second degree two first degree and three On the third Fanner con- the vote was 11 for second degree murder and one for first Farmer said one ballot was en before the jury went to dinner and three after they Second degree murder under Iowa law is murder without pre- The defense and state were dramatic contrast in their final His Defense Attorney Walter J. grover Rutledge fought to save own life and in defense of sanctity of his Edison 41, verdict of guilty would make was injured critically last womanhood the bare and open prey night in an automobile accident the man who would rather in- highway 275. I vade another's home in The Jury That Convicted Dr. Rutledge is the jury that last night found Dr. Robert C. guilty of second degree murder of lyren C. right back David Emile Ralph Emmet Carl AvH font Theodore George 6ffford, te
