Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1949 — Page 1

VII. No. 114,

RITISH AUTHORITIES QUESTION EISLER

Jrtßeds Klsed In - h Fight LJKLghai Garrison |K Strong Reds L Vock Beaten Back may 14 — (UP) • g3rr ison headquarters that a powerful ComEKtack which drove to with- ; of Shanghai’s north:e Slt four miles of the Woohad I " j, ' n beaten back ' artillery emplaced in forts, at the mouth of "•*^K n g|,oo miles north of shanghai, was credited ihpfommunist attack. headquarters claimed of an attacking force of was killed or - E i n the battle, which ended i after 36 hours of cont £-■ government communique I .ML 'main battle was fought west of the Woosung ■ ■ the villages of Shihtand Yangchang. daylong fighting we have the attacking driven them back, killwounding more than 5,1)00 BH and capturing much war the communique said. ■L jonimunist attack was back■L leavy artillery support, the H lique said. One feature of nm was a heavy artillery the Woosung forts guns. trying to see the fightthe tops of Shanghai's fflHKpers were able to spot Nai i g&t planes circling in the skies , JKBthe north, seeking out targets. uf guns in the Woosung HBtonsidered one of the most held defense positions could be plainly heard Blriimwn Shanghai throughout ttle. sh authorities announced M oul< * provide air or sea pas--9 Hong Kong for any of the ■ Britons still here if any of ■■wished to leave because of to the city. ■ rican authorities, however. | no new pleas to the 1,600 J tans still here. It was be- $ all those still remaining in- ° s;a >' Woosung forts are only 17 of downtown Shanghai. they fall. Shanghai would M°P f roi » fi'tt world by both sea. headquarters admitted point of the Communist ■MI had driven into Lion forest Yam hang area eight milts the city's northern gate miles west of the Wooheadquarters claimed forest battle ended at * yesterday In defeat for the 1 but the continuous of Woosung's guns appearM indicate otherwise. M'r re P°rts said a heavy Comaltack from the southwest into Chinpu. 28 milts at the southern end Communist siege ring. Pre-ss 'ice president II Bartholomew, flying to from Tokyo, reported M Seou ' 'bat air travel in and ■ I *T»r» Tn ru» Six) Kes Os Meat At Solesale Decline Bcago. May 14—(UP)—WholegBmt I ! rices dropped another ner i*an meat institute said ■»» pr ' tes also are down H^B 7 ' lhe institute said. the average, the institute "M wholesale meat prices are "M 22 percent below the all-time M* 02 ' as( summer. ■^ a > oI the declines, the in|B> said, were those on the Chi ■■ re!ail market where round |Wt is down 25 percent below last ■* ! pealt ' chuck roast has de «• Percent, sliced bacon 23 Pork sausage 25 percent, rhops 18 perC (. nt and lard Mtteit iB, weather ■2™' Clou<l )' tod.y with I F ‘’’“"her.howerg extreme cosier north. Clearing 11* mUth CMler tonight. ToMr and rather cool. IB M U<Uy 70 ,0 78 north ' 80 K Low toni ’ ht w W *’*> 45 to 4« south.

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Rutledge Seeking Acquittal Verdict State Rests Cose In Alleged Murder Cedar Rapids, la., May 14 — (UP) —Dr. Robert C. Rutledge's attorneys fought today for a directed verdict to acquit the St. Louis baby specialist of charges that he killed his wife’s alleged seducer. The prosecution rested its case 1 yesterday after deputy coroner Regis Weland testified that Rutledge’s alleged victim. Byron C. Hattman, apparently was standing still when he was stabbed to death in his hotel room here Dec. 14. “The width of the incision was the same in all cases,” Weland said. The state apparently was trying to prove that there was no violent struggle in the hotel room when Hattman was killed. The defense contends that he met death in a fight. The trial was in recess today but the jury was housed in the courthouse for the weekend. The jury was excused after the state rested yesterday and district judge J. E. Heiserman called the opposing attorneys into his chambers to discuss a defense motion for a directed acquittal.. Heiserman will rule on the motion when court reconvenes Monday. If he turns it down, the defense may call Rutledge's pretty honeyblonde wife. Sydney. 23, to testify Immediately about her torrid affair with Hattman. Weland said Hattman's fatal wound was six inches deep and almost an inch wide. He said it was struck with "considerable force" with a “narrow, sharp in.strument, probably at least five inches long.” ~TTb said Hattman apparently was not struggling at the time because “if there had been any appreciable body movement there would be a tear or cutting at one end or the other” of the wound. During Weland’s detailed testh mony of the autopsy, Mrs. Rutledge paled and left the courtroom. It was the first time she had left her husband’s side while court was in session since the trial started. The defense has promised that she will tell in her own words of her romance with Hattman. Rutledge’s attorney said either she or the doctor will be called to testify among the first witnesses Monday. Prices Reduced On Gas Refrigerators Evansville. Ind.. May 14—(UP) —Price reductions on al) but the smallest gas refrigerator manufactured by Servel, Inc., were announced today. Servel president Louis Ruthenburg said the price cuts were “drastic” but because the company did not have a nationwide price scale it was impossible to list them. Refuses To Clear Knelier 01 Charge Bankruptcy Referee Refuses Petition Edwardsville, 111. May 14 —(UP) —Robert Knetzer lost his bid to be cleared of bankruptcy proceedings growing out of his multi-mil-lion dollar used car dealings today. A referee in bankruptcy turned down a petition to discharge Knetzer and his partner, Arthur F. Kramer, after a brief hearing yesterday. G. William Horsley, attorney for creditors of the pair, entered obto the discharge in the hearing before referee Thomas Williamson. A federal court in Springfield Thursday had continued hearings in Knetzer’s bankruptcy case until July 11 so attorneys for the ere ditors could consult auditors examining Knetzer’s books. Knetzer built up his business by - offering to sell "new used" cars at less than their list price. Customers flocked to him from all over the United States. The collapse of Knetzer’s dealings came when buyers who had put up cash deposits charged they tailed to get delivery.

House Labor Head To Push Labor Measure r • Will Proceed With ; Compromise Bill Despite President • Washington, May 14 — (UP) — • Chairman John Lesinski of the . house labor committee made it . clear today that he is going ahead : with plans for compromise labor i legislation despite President Truman’s demand for an outright i Taft-Hartley repeal bill. I "Os course, we are going to get a bill through the house,” the - Michigan Democrat said. “But legislation is up to house memi bers and not up to the president.” . In a letter made public yester- ( day, Mr. Truman told A. F. Whitney. president of the Brotherhood , of Railway Trainmen, that he still . wanted a new labor law unsullied by Taft-Hartley amendments. He , said he does not go along with the > efforts of his house leaders to , pass compromise legislation. The original administration*bill i would have reenacted an “improv . ed” Wagner act. , In other congressional developments: , Police—Sens. Karl E. Mundt, IL,- . S. D., and Robert C. Hendrickson, , R., N. J., endorsed a proposal for . setting up an international voluntary police force to help keep the I peace in Europe. Eisler—Rep. Richard M. Nixon, t R., Cal., called on the justice* de- , partment to give a “publi: accounting" for the escape from the , country by Gerhart Eisler, alleged one-time boss of U. S. communr lets. < Budget— Lawmakers who want to trim President Trumans 1950 , spending budget expect to get new , ammunition today from the joint congressional tax committee. The , group was to hear a report from its staff experts on the government’s financial condition. ( Matthews—Francis P. Matthews, ' 62-year-old lawyer-banker of Oma- , ha, Neb., appeared headed for almost certain senate confirmation , as the new secretary of navy. Ne- , braska's two Republican senators ‘ —Kenneth S. Wherry, the GOP . senate leader, and Hugh A. Butler (Turn To Pure Five! Remove Rails, Dies From Bendix Plant Trucks Convoyed To Factory By Sheriff South Bend, Ind., May 14—(UP) -Sheriff Stephen C. Hlspak today convoyed 13 trucks into the strike- , bound Bendix Aviation Corp, plant to remove dies and parts belong- , ing to the Kaiser-Frazer and Packard Motor companies. The trucks went through the (CIO) United Auto Morkers’ picket line without incident. It was the 25th day of a strike by Bendix ' local No. 9 against an alleged pro-1 duction line speedup. Twelve of the trucks were scheduled to remove 19 brake dies and | 500.000 small brake parts for Kai-ser-Frazer. and the 13th truck was sent in to get seven Packard dies. Both companies obtained writj of replevin from the circuit court here, but it was not until after ' they asked Luther M. Swygert for a temporary injunction that the union j granted permission for the dies and parts to be moved; Meanwhile, there were no negotiation meetings scheduled by federal mediators between company and union officials. A seventh meeting, held yesterday, ended without results. Chief conciliator Clyde Mills, here from Washington, said he thought the meetings would be resumed early next week. State Police Seize 24 Slot Machines Iniianapolis. May 14—(UP) — State police reported today that two state police raiding squads confiscated 24 slot machines from seven Marion county taverns last night. A spokesman said the raids were not made at the request of. local authorities.

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Lay Groundwork For Big Four > jftk a b aMagg EN ROUTE TO PARIS to lay groundwork for the Big Four foreign ministers meeting May 23, Charles Bohlen (left), State department counselor, and Philip Jessup, ambassador-at-large, wait to board plane at Washington. Wife accompanies Jessup.

Lady Check Forger Under Close Guard Woman Returned To Greencastle Friday Greencastle, Ind., May 14—(UP) —Mrs. Marjorie Traylor was under constant guard in the Putnam county hospital today, after a doctor ordered her to the hospital shortly after her return from Chicago in irons yesterday. Mrs. Traylor, a self-styled FBI agent who was arrested here Tuesday for passing a forged SSO check, escaped from the county jail early the next morning. Dr. C. M. Schauwecker said she might have to undergo surgery for a bowel obstruction. The 25-year-old woman was arrested Thursday while windowshopping in Chicago. Doctors there at first refused to permit her return to Indiana, but finally turned her over to Putnam county authorities for the auto trip back in manacles. Jailers here promptly began to take special precautions with the twice-married daughter of a Butler University professor. She made the auto trip from Chicago handcuffed. And when deputy sheriff Victor Cue and his wife arrived here with Mrs. Traylor, she was bundled off to her cell. Cue said one reason she escaped last Wednesday morning was because the outside door was left open “because of the intense heat." “We wanted to be nice to her," said Cue. "Otherwise she never would have gotten out." Mrs. Traylor refused to discuss her method of breaking out of the jail. But jailers here believed she snitched a key to her cell from the sheriff's desk while a photographer took her picture last Tuesday. Chicago police couldn't find the key on her. however, and she had no comment when asked where it 1 'Turn To I’W Ml) — Revival From Dead Called Coincidence Fishbein Scoffs At Los Angeles Report Chicago. May 14—(UP)— Reid Lewis' “revival from the dead” j when a doctor broke one of his ribs probably was a coincidence. Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of the American Medical association journal, said today. Fishbein said he doubted that Lewis actually had died although he may have appeared to have done so. “It seems more likely that he ! was in a state of suspended animation.” Fishbein said. Lewis was reported to have i “died” last week in Los Angeles while his doctor was performing a minor operation upon him. The doctor, who was not identified, said he remembered an old Boy Scout trick of breaking a bone to revive a person who bad stopped breathing. The doctor snapped Lewis' 10th rib and he revived immediately. “In the old days all sorts of strange methods were used to re<Tcr« !• rige Five)

BULLETIN Washington, May 14—(UP) —Congressional tax experts estimated today the treasury will take in $2,100,000,000 less than President Truman forecast it would for the next fiscal year. If the estimate should prove accurate, a still deeper cut in i government spending would r be needed to avert a deficit i without a tax increase. Honor School Safely I : Patrols Here Friday 1 Patrol Activities Here Are Praised Thirty-two safety patrol boys . who guarded street intersections i around Lincoln and St. Joseph’s • schools so ably that not one traf- ■ sic fatality or injury, occurred ’ here among school-boufid children : in 1948. were honored in ceremonies held at both schools Friday as- • ternoon. i Lauding the accomplishments of ' the boys before fellow pupils werg ! ! school and law enforcement off!1 cials and representatives of civic organizations. Verni H. Gray, of the Chicago Motor club, which is ‘ prominent in encouraging the patrols, presented bronze achievement pins to each of the boys, as well as certificates of awards to the schools. The following Lincoln school , patrol members were honored: . John Neirelter, captain: Roger Eichenauer, Roger Eley, Bill Han- , cher, Jerry Arlington, Roger , Strickler. Bobby Keller, Harold i Sommer. Tom Grimm. Don Duff, i David Halterman. Ronnie Robin- . son, John Hammond. David Uhrick. Bill Dauler, Dick Dauler. Don Strickler, and Dan Krueckeberg. ■i Nelreiter and Eichenauer receiv- ■ ed special merit awards. St. Joseph patrol boys honored included: John Girard, captain; | Donald Wemhoff, Jerry Meyer, [ Aloysios' Brite, Edward Drum, ! Donald Eyanson, Michael Kohne, ■ Ronald Loshe, Charles Voglewede, j Tim Murtaugh. Tom Omlor, Tom Titus. Walter Mowery, and Donald Rumschlag. Officials present at the ceremonI ies were: Malcolm Locke, chair- ’ man of the safety committee of [ the Lions dub; chief of police : James Borders: state policeman Walter Schindler: deputy sheriff Bob Shraluka; Marion Kirpatric, Huntington branch of the Chicago Motor club: and Ruchard Pruden. secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Walter Krick, superintendent of the Lincoln school ceremony, a the Lincoln scohol ceremony, a | role which Pruden filled at St. i Joseph's. Mr. Gray said afterwards, "The 4'tara in Paar sin Frankfort Man Found Dead In Automobile Frankfort, ind.. May 14—(UP)— Robert Metzger. 27. Frankfort, was found dead yesterday in his automobile. which was parked at the Herbert Rose farm near here Police said a garden hose connected the exhaust pipe to the clos»d interior. Metzger reportedly was separated from his wife.

Former No. 1 Communist Agent In United States Queried By Scotland Yard

Lewis May Seek To Divide Coal Owners May Push Southern Owners Into Corner Washingion, May 14 — (UP) — The coal industry was wondering today if John L. Lewis' "divide and conquer" campaign isn't designed to push southern coal operators into a corner. ' Although wary as always of trying to second guess the mine workers president, some industry sources were half expecting Lewis to invite northern and "captive" coal - operators to meet with him here at the very time his union is negotiating with southern operators in Bluefield, W. Va. These sources believe he may lie following the strategy he used in 1947 — the last year the southerners tried separate negotiations. At that time, Lewis let the southern group stew at one Washington hotql while he nego’iated a contract at another with northern operators and steel companies owning “captive" mines. Then Lewis insisted that all other operators — including the southerners — accept the same terms. They did. So far Lewis hasn’t even sent contract termination notices to the i northern and “captive" operators under the Taft-Hartley act. Technically those notices should have been sent early this month on the contract which is slated to expire' 3 June 30th. s Joseph E. Moody, president ofi 3 ihe Southern Coal Producers Assn.J [. is optimistic and confident about i the Bluefield parley, which is* n scheduled to begin on May 25. Moody and Lewis announced as. greement on the date and site yesterday. f Moody said the southerners are ? generally determined to press the ’ Bluefield negotiations to a successc ful conclusion. j A large segment of the Southg ern Coal Producers Association, . however, is known to have oppos- , ed originally the separate nego--9 tiation plan and to have favored a o united coal industry front against Lewis. >1 1 Pilot Brings Plane r ' Down In School Yard IAttempted To Land In Baseball Park Kansas City, Mo., May 14—(UP) —A pilot who tried to crash land d his small airplane in the crowded J Kansas City Blues baseball parkj ’• said today he would have made it '• "but they turned the lights out on I me." >, He missed the ball park and hit! i a school yard. 1 Ed Lobdell. 29, Fargo, N. Dak., ran out of gas just as several i- thousand fans began leaving the park last night. He tried to glide f into left field. ? Then groundkeepers pulled the , switches that put out the big floodr lights that illuminated it. So Lob-I . i dell picked the schoolyard. J “I couldn’t think of anything 1 but that tall concrete wall around ’ the ball park after they turned the lights out on me," Lobdell said. The plane tore into trolley-bus 1 wires instead of the wall and nosed 1 over as it plowed iqto the Lincoln 1 high school yard across the street • from the park. Lobdell escaped with minor ? scratches and bruises. Fans were just trooping from the field after watching the Minneapolis Millers beat the Blues 6 to 2 in an American Association game. Police kept them away from the s wrecked plane. - They let Ixrbdell go after routine ? questioning. He said he was enroute from Fargo to Kansas City. He had stopped at Omaha ! Lobdell telephoned relatives in' j Fargo to tell them he was safe. 3 1 then called the civil aeronautics ad . (Tara Ta Past Ma)

Ford Company To Answer UAW Proposal Today New Proposal Made By Union To Settle 10-Day-Old Strike Detroit, May 14—(UP)— The Ford Motor company will reply today to the CIO union Auto Workers’ new proposal for settling the 10-day-old strike which has idled 100,000 men. Details of the proposal were secret, but the fact that it was being considered by the company, plus the government’s announcement that it might intervene if the walkout continues, made the outlook tor a settlement more optimistic. Cyrus S. Ching, director of the federal mediation and conciliation service, announced the government’s intention to intervene last night. He said in Washington that the government would step in "unless significant progress is reported , . . within a reasonable period.” John S. Bugas, labor relations i chief for Ford, declined comment ion Ching's announcement. But . UAW president Walter P, Reuthet ( commented that Ching was ‘Taking , a position on the public responsi- , billty that he has.” Reuther presented the new peace ■ proposal at yesterday’s negotiating session. He refused to reveal any 1 details of the proposal. "It is too detailed to discuss.” he said. "The proposal merely shows our stand." Meanwhile, Lee Romano, vice president of the Rouge 600 local of the UAW accused the Ford company of trying to "provoke" the union by firings during peace talks. He referred to the firing yesterday of seven more employes for "threats, intimidation and coercion" of the workers the day the strike began. In telegrams notifying the union and Ford that he might intervene in the strike, Ching noted that the walkout has “a widespread effect upon the delicate balance of our national econonp'." However, he would not state what he considered "a reasonable length of time.” The Ford walkout began*!ay 5 when 62.500 employes of the Ford River Rouge and Lincoln-Mercury plants quit work. Since that time, the strike has forced the layoff of thousands of men in subsidiary and supply plants. Some 6.000 more Ford employes are scheduled to be (Turn Tn I’aitr Ml* Subpena Professors To Give Testimony U. Os Chicago Men To Defend Selves Chicago. May 14 — (UP) — Three University of Chicago pro fessors have been subpenaed to ' defend themselves before the Illinois seditious activities committee against charges that they belonged to communist-front organizations. the university said today. They will appear before the legislative committee Thursday at Springfield. 111. The professors are Rexford Guy Tugwell, professor of political science, Malcolm Sharp, professor of law, and Robert J. Havighurst, professor of education. Witnesses before the committee, which has investigated allege 1 subversive activities at the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College. originally named seven professors as members of front groups. The faulty members denied the charges of subversive activities and offered to testify before the i committee. A university spokesman said the school did not know > whether the other four were to be subpenaed.

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4 Polish Liner With Eisler Aboard At Southampton; To Question Escapee BULLETIN Southhampton, England, May 14 _ (up) — Gerhart Eisler, Communist agent fleeing from the United States to Poland, refused to come ashore from the Polish liner Batory today and the captain of the ship backed him up in his decision, reports from the vessel said. e Southhampton. Eng., May 14— ’’ (UP)—The Polish liner Batory anchored off Southhampton today B and Scotland Yard inspectors went I aboard to question Gerhart Eisler at the request of the United States e government. 8 The British government had di- ’’ rected Scotland Yard to question Eisler, the former No. 1 Communr ist agent in the United States. As e soon as the ship dropped anchor '■ in British waters, the agents set out to do so. e The Batory was bound for II Gdynia. Poland. Capt. Jan Cwik- '■ linski said yesterday that he would 1 not turn Eisler over to the British, ’ but would take him on to Poland. *’ The ship arrived soon after noon. *■ Officials went aboard at once in e A small tender. They said the question of whether Eisler could 6 be extradited to the United States would be determined in a shipboard conference. ‘ r A special session of the SouthK hampton magistrates court was set *' tentatively for 4:30 p.m. (11:30 a.tn. EDT) to judge the legal e aspects of the case in event authg orities decided to remove Eisler y from the ship. • Among the Officials who boarded the Batory were representatives of y the American and Polish embassies, C. G. Morris, British immie gratlon inspector here, inspector 1 W. E. Bray of Scotland Yard, and Gordon Baker, head of the Yard's e Southhampton division. 1 Eisler, convicted of contempt of congress and making false passr port statements, was free on $23,500 bail awaiting appeal when he e stowed away on the Batory a week ago Friday in New Y’ork. Once 1 aboard, he paid for passage. e Called the number one Commune Ist agent in the United States, Eis--1 ler is expected to fight extradition r by all available legal means if he is e taken off the ship by British offleers. A spokesman for the London ’ Daily Worker meanwhile indicated 1 that the British Communist party )’ was ready to help Eisler in his '• fight against extradition to the * U. 8. The spokesman said Eisler ' would have all the legal help he e ineeded. e Today's edition of the Daily Worker splashed the Eisler story across three columns of its front page with the headline “Americans ! Hounding Gerhart Eisler.” The story said that "a world-wide i persecution of Gerhart Eisler. wellknown Communist in America and . German anti-Fascist refugee, is under way." Meanwhile, Eisler’s attractive wife. Brunhilde, 37, was held by American immigration authorities in New York. She was arrested yesterday. lake her husband. Mrs. t Eisler faced deportation charges connected with her entry into this country in 1941. She had been free (Tura To Paae Five) Two Juvenile Girls Confess Robberies t Two juvenile girls who earlier r admitted stealing small change I from a home on Walnut street conr fessed Friday night that they also stole 152 from the Milton Swearingen residence. 901 North Third street. 1 The girls, nine and 11 years old. told city police they climbed into the Swearingen* house through a back bedroom window Thursday at " 1 p.m. They rifled dresser drawers. taking bills, coins, and « check tor about 125. they said. The girls were originally picked ' up for questioning after they had f tried to spend 50 Indian head pennies stolen earlier from the Louis t Smitley home. 946 Walnut street, e No disposition of the girls’ cases has yet been made.