Rutledge to Fight Extradition in Iowa Murder Case
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge 27 of St Louis faces first degree murder charges in Iowa for the killing of Byron Hartman at the Roosevelt hotel. He was released on 5000 bond in St Louis after swallowing poison at arrest and is slated for an extradition hearing next week.
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Cedar Rapids
Missouri
Iowa
Robert C. Rutledge
St. Louis
Byron C. Hartman
Roosevelt Hotel
Rutledge
City Hospital
Dr. Rutledge
Fitzgibbons
Laughren
Crissman
Robert D. Blue
Des Moines
Donnelly
Don Hise
Hise
Byron Hartman
U S Aims To Get Tough on Dutch in U N
The United States leads a proposed UN Security Council resolution urging the Netherlands to pull back to pre attack positions in Indonesia. If the Dutch refuse to retire, the case could be treated as a threat to peace with possible sanctions. Dutch forces push along Indonesian transport routes in central Java seizing Toeban and moving toward Bodjonegoro amid heavy fighting in Jogjakarta.
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Paris
United States
Indonesia
Java
Sumatra
Security Council
Netherlands
U.N. Good Offices Commission
U.N
Batavia
Toeban
Bodjonegoro
Republic
Jogjakarta
Singapore
Kebangjan
U S Denounces Force in Latin America
The State Department condemned force used to effect political change in Latin America calling it deplorable and dangerous to the hemisphere. It said arms use undermines the ideals of the American republics and noted consultations with several Latin American countries on possible actions.
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Washington
State Department
Latin America
Department
United States
Former U S Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming Dies
Washington reported the death of Hugh S. Cumming 79 former surgeon general of the United States after a year long illness. He was a Hampton Virginia native who began his long public service as assistant surgeon general before rising to the top post.
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Washington
Hugh S. Cumming
United States
Hampton
Sheriff Elliott urged to quit over false record
Portland officials weigh downfall of Marion L. Elliott after an Oregonian investigation found he overstated Marine service time education and age. Elliott’s bond for a $119,000 post was denied and editors call for a fresh start in politics.
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Portland
INS
Oregonian
Marion L
Mike” Elliott
Multnomah County
Elliott
Detroit
University of Michigan
Civil Service
Martin Pratt
Quentin Roosevelt Feared Incrash Near Hong Kong
Aviation sources report Quentin Roosevelt aboard a CNAC C-54 Skymaster that crashed and burned near Ba Fatl Island off Hong Kong. The CNAC vice president was en route on business when the Tuesday disaster potentially cost 33 lives.
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Shanghai
Quentin Roosevelt
Hongkong
Theodore Roosevelt
Chinese National Airlines Corporation
Bafalt Island
Roosevelt F
Young Rutledge Kills Boy Over Affection at Age Twelve
The Gazette reports Dr Robert C Rutledge then twelve shot a fourteen year old playmate in Houston Texas on October 8 1933 The boy E W Sayers was wounded while the girl Anne Archer Reed was involved Authorities note Rutledge was placed in care at the Houston Child Guidance Clinic and later discharged after eight months Officials recount his plans to shoot Warren Gunn another suitor and his belief in his own brilliance despite recurring fights with girls The doctor predicted no recurrence and saw reform as best for the child
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Cedar Rapids
Robert C. Rutledge
Houston
Texas
The
Gazette
Harris County Probation Department
Rutledge
James Cunningham
Houston Child Guidance Clinic
Anne
Sayers
Reed
Warren Gunn
Warren
Gunn
the Gazette
Cunningham
Allies Revive Berlin Kommandatura On Three Power Basis
Berlin Western commandants announced the resumption of the kommandatura on a three power basis without Russia. The body will coordinate Four Power directives for the Berlin administration with Russian authorities absent and could resume quadri partite control if Soviets rejoin.
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Berlin
Kommandatura
Russia
Kommandantura
Paratrooper Lada Caught After Berlin Jail Escape
Former paratrooper Edward J. Lada of Newark New Jersey was captured by American MPs after escaping from a Berlin stockade. He had fled a barbed wire fence while pursuing marriage to Fraulein Schmidt and later sought a plan to leave Berlin with Fraulein Riecki and custody of his daughter.
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Berlin
Edward J. Lada
Newark
N. J
Lada
Thomas Lancer
United States
Ruth Riecki
Nancy
Ursula Schmidt
Per
Fraulein Schmidt
Germany
Fraulein Riecki
Confession Reported in 10 Year Old Roberta Rinearson Case
Immigration officials in Chicago say Marcus Neeley identified Herlindo Arios Perez, 31, a Mexican, as the man who confessed to killing 10 year old Roberta Rinearson. Perez was arrested in Hammond Indiana after attempting to flee. Neeley cautioned the confession may not hold.
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Chicago
Hammond
Ind
Roberta Rinearson
Marcus Neeley
United States Immigration Office
Herlindo Arios Perez
Neeley
Perez
ECA Halts Its Chinese Building Aid
The Economic Cooperation Administration suspends all reconstruction projects in China, halting about 70 million dollars of aid. Engineering planning will continue only in isolated cases, involving around one million dollars of the total.
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ECA
Washington
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
China
Truman
White House
Hoffman
Shanghai
Congress
Spring pig crop expected 10 percent higher next year
Agriculture officials forecast the 1949 spring pig crop would rise about 10 percent from 1948 levels to roughly 56.5 million head, with the 1948 fall crop at 33.995 million and total 85.281 million. The Corn Belt expects a larger increase, about 13 percent, while farmers worry hog prices may drop before a bigger crop can be fattened.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Brannan
Corn Belt
Corn
Iowa
China Civil War Stalemate Deepens as Cabinet Fails
Nationalist China marks another day without a functioning cabinet as civil war prospects sour. Observers say government forces offer no large offensive north of the Yangtze while Communist advances threaten Peiping and Tientsin, with Nanking isolated and Chiang’s leadership under doubt.
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Nanking
China
Yangtze River
Tientsin
North China
Chiang Kai-shek
Sun Fo
Chiang
Sun
Chen Li Fu
Kuomintang
Nationalist Party
Chen
Legislative Yuan
Yuan
Yangtze
Peiping
Manchuria
Temperature Be Expected Tonight
The weather bureau warned of sharply dropping temperatures Tuesday night into Wednesday as a low pressure area moves across the state. Snow flurries were forecast for the far north. Cedar Rapids fell from 35 to 32 degrees by noon with a low around 15 expected tonight.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Eskimos Seized By Reds Report Warns Alaska At Risk
Washington based subcommittee says 17 American Eskimos were seized by Soviet authorities during a trading visit and held for 51 days. Officials asked if Eskimos would resist a Russian takeover of Alaska and who would lead in Nome. The panel also cites communistic leadership in the IFAWА governing Anchorage and Kodiak labor.
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Washington
INS
House Labor
Alaska
Subcommittee
Kersten
R-Wis
House
Siberian
Nome
International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
Anchorage
Kodiak
Boys Republic to Send 70 Inmates Home for Christmas
Detroit AP notes Yale style honor at the Boys Republic facility. All 70 wards of the juvenile court will be allowed to go home for the holiday, each on his own, with traveling expenses paid by the institution. Rev. John Wittstock calls it a test of integrity.
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Detroit
Boys Republic
John Wittstock
Man Plunges to Death From Chicago Hotel
Chicago police identify Henry F. Voltz 70 as the man who fell from the 15th floor of the Morrison hotel Tuesday. The death is recorded as an apparent suicide.
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Chicago
INS
Henry F. Voltz
Morrison Hotel
Duggan on List Linked To Leakage
Whit taker Chambers said he never received state department papers from Laurence Duggan who died after being accused before the House un American activities committee of handing out secrets to Red spies.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Laurence Duggan
Duggan
House un-American Activities
Duggan Death Brings Suspicion Of Foul Play
Washington Rep Mundt voiced belief there is a strong chance Laurence Duggan met foul play. Le v ine testified Chambers named Duggan among six in the state department who passed confidential info as grand jury probes into Communist espionage continue. Duggan, a former State Department expert on Latin America, died after a plunge from the Institute of International Education building.
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Washington
Rep
Mundt
R-S.d
Laurence Duggan
Isaac Don Levine
Chambers
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Duggan
Berle
State Department
Federal Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Francis B. Sayre
Levine
Rep. Mundt
UN- American Activities Committee
The
Education Institute
Carnegie Corporation
Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Sumner Welles
Institute
West 45Th Street
Fifth Avenue
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