davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

plant. The connection was plain
and easily read. Payne imme-
diately got the sheriff on the
phone and the latter informed
him:
There's one more thing. The
daughter of Mrs. Nelson saw
some one providing around the
house before she left her mother
alone, writing at a desk. Her
mother told her of some one
annoying her at the restaurant
and she thinks the two are the
same"
Payne NEEDED now only a re-
port from the II" bureau on
their findings from the door
glass of the auto where Sheriff
Holbrook and he had decided
that Mrs. Easts slayer had
rested his hand as he aimed his
gun at her head.
That bullet. and others from
the body of her husband. possi-
bly, from that of Mrs. Nelson,
could be compared with those
from Rutledge's gun as final evil
dence to place before the court
of law.
Shortly before daylight, Mon
day morning, the Il" bureau re-
port was tingling through the
telephone receiver:
prints the same. The mug
you've got Is the same as the
one who left the prints on that
car glass;"
That clinched the case against
the suspect, who was now
locked tight behind the bars as
the driver of the green sedan
and the murderous actor in the
death scene at the cemetery.
From the Cudahy plant and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
Take No Chances,
He Shoots to Kill

With a radio operator at his
elbow. the chief cast the drag
net for the juggernaut.
"a green Auburn sedan with a
California license" the operator
droned to the eager occupants of
patrol cars. 1.-THE man Is mad
and will shoot to kill-take no
chances, he will shoot to kill"
Action was rapidly replacing
the skilled clue finding which
> had seemed so necessary a scant
half hour ago
"BlOck the Salt Lake-Farm-
ington highway at the south end.
Block the highway at the city
entrance near the Log Cabin
resort" the operator broadcast
the chiefs message to the cars.
Capt. j. G. Smith will have
charge of the blockade. Captain
Smith will keep traffic moving
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
Mad Killer
OnRanpage
Stays Three

EARLY on Sunday night. Oct.
II IL, 1895. a huge. clearly
etched Utah moon stared from a
cloudleSs sky on East Bountitul.
its bright beams shouldered
aside the heavy shadows
10 reveal the triple tragedy of
Cemetery Lane.
The body of woman lay
huddled in a ditch. and not 20
Yards away a second sprawled
with feet upon the running
board of a small sedan. Across
the road, in the corner of a field
directly opposite the sedan, a
man lay on his back, hands still
gripping the grass from his last
mortal agony.
1t was 9 o'clock when Sheriff
Joseph Holbrook of Davic
County. a small group of depu-
ties and Salt Lake City's Chief
of Police w. L. Payne arrived
10 read in the tire tracks and
footprints, the story OF death S
latest and maddest fantasy.
At the road edge near the
body of the first woman. the
dusty impressions suggested that
here the first act in the MUIR
derous play had begun.
.She- MAS undoubtedly tosred
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

cried. "a mailman OF. the Salt.
Lake Ogden Highway. Hes
blasting at passing cars with a
heavy gun; one man Is shot in
the head and dying-others are
wounded :"
We'll have to step on It,"
Payne smiled coldly at his COM
panion in investigation. THE
chances are that this loose mad
man Is the killer gone berserk.
Payne's action as chief of police
of Salt Lake City was plainly
mapped as he raced back to the
city.
He bounced upon one glaring,
valuable fact; the car from
which the wild shots were being
fired was a green Auburn
sedan,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
Daub of Crimson
Found on Auto

"Rutledges live next door to
you" Payne said. els any one at
home?"
= "NO. Mrs. Rutledge Is In
Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic
for an operation replied the
housewife. "Her hush d.
why. he Is usually away"
The officers made their en-
trance into the home. but could
find nothing pertinent to the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
MzSzjm0ORn IlILllESS MURDERS

moving and watch for a green
Auburn sedan with California
license plates. A heavy-set gun
man at the VIII el- take no
chances-take no chances"
An hour and 30 minutes later
he had again travelled that high
way in the green sedan, going
northward. VIII al destination
the rabid driver had conceived
for the green sedan on his mad
ride northward the offic ers
dared not hope.
Was he returning to Bountiful
and the scene of his first atroci-
ties? Such things had happened
outside of story books.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
BrOadcdSter'S
Voice Is Tdut

And a few minutes later
Payne hurried through reports
and received the frenzied mes
Sages that kept phone wires hot;
"Sgt. =. Falkenrath will have
charge of the highway patrol
ear the blockade Sergeant
Falkenrath TO the south end Of
the Pennington highway at the
Log Cabin resort. Keep traffic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

again and again. -Four times the
heavy slugs had struck the body
O.. the farmer.
I'VE have plenty of clues"
Holbrook addressed G thief of
Police Payne. There's prints on
the glass, and tire tracks
the first woman, I'm sure, was
killed elsewhere and driven out
here to be dumped from the
car"
There was a sudden inter-
ruption. The roar of a motor
cycle echoed across the Gene
terry; a rider skidded his vehicle
10 stop
"A mailman loOse. chief" he
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

squat and heavy-there's blood
on his shoes. He's strong as an
OK and looks like an ape"
And a few minutes later, Ser
geant Falkenrath and Captain
Smith, who had been present at
the capture, brought in their
prisoner. The sergeant placed a
heavy revolver on the chiefs
desk while Payne studied the
manaCled driver of the sedan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
LuH-Then Police
Seize Suspect

Chief Payne knew, however,
that Sheriff Holbrook's men
were still there in Cemetery
Lane. He knew also that the
miracle of radio had already
flashed to them a description of
the green sedan.
If the wild actor returned to
the scene he would find some
thing vastly different from the
moonlit cemetery and the silent
dead he had left behind.
1t was nearing midnight on
this bloody Sabbath; for an hour
no direct reports had been re-
ceived that the mad driver had
struck again. There was a lull
at police headquarters where The
radio operators voice droned
routine reports. And suddenly
the chief was called to the phone
again
Sergeant Falkenrath report
..A- 49,, 49, -~.~~nt CT - a ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
Woman Alone,
Sheriff DeduceS

1.-THE woman was alone in the
car then. waiting for her hus-
band" the sheriff read on.
when by merest chance she
saw the killer toss the other
woman from his car. When the
slayer realized he had been
seen, he shot the witness. The
husband, hearing the shots. ran
toward the car, hut the muir
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

employees of the restaurant It
was learned that Mrs. Nelson
had often repulsed the atten-
lions of the bloody butcher.
THE Pig" they called him.
these friends of the unfortunate
woman who had quickly
disoerned the brute in the muir
dering beast of Bountiful.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
PrOUIer Seen
Around House

Rutledge was a meat buyer, a
former butcher-Mrs. Nelson
operated the only handy lunch
stand near a sprawling packing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

Payne tried the usual depth
bomb which often sends echoes
from the black hollows OF
mind gone awry, when he
asked suddenly:
Did you kill those people
near the Bountiful Cemetery"
His pig-eyes glinted and he
passed thick-fingered hand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19
Put Into Cell,
He Falls Asleep

I'm a butcher" he said.
That's how that got there. :"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

the black spots could be blood.
The suspect looked down at
them when he heard the
order
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

out of a car" suggested the
sheriff, examining 1.-THE
marks at the edge OF the road
side grass.
His flashlight CROPPED in the
ditch and dissipated the black
shadows cast by the nearest
bank. -------
mo tracks In the grass
and she was hurled good 6
feet -. a powerful brute tossed
her across that ditch"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

derer crossed the road and went
through the fence to meet him
shot him down, then walked
back to the road"
The tracks in the loan were
deep; out-turning feet had sup
ported PeHderots body. But
the stride -sheft,-the- toes
did not dig in undulY as
though the slayer had run.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

ground. Between il and the
fence were two sets of tracks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

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Ease Of operation-the new Maytag
Commander means less time for
washing and brand new freedom
from washday work for every owner.
This is the finest porcelain tub
washer Maytag ever built!
Ask your Maytag dealer to show
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

as fast as possible, but examine
every car"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-19

you how its square Tub, its gentle
Gyratoam AetiO1, its effective Sedi-
mept Trap, and all its other exclu-
sive Maytag features work together
to make home a happier place to be
on washday.
You'll be amazed at its low price,
at how easily you can cum one!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-02-26
IDsom PIT. \.

The h5som PIT. y. VIII meet
Thursday. February p. at 7:3O
acoc4 at the school. The program
will be gwen by the agriculture de-
...tMNM,-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-02-26

Mr. and AIa>. James II. Brodie and
Mr.. T. l. WaddjIl returned Saturday
.r,,, Florida. where they spent some
the.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-02-26
In Miami.

MIR. II ". Whitmoro and Miss
arIdr,a Whitmorc have gone to
Uana. Florida, to spend several
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-02-26
Returns from EPSON.

AI-> Eute Boyd returned home
Yesterday utter spending the week
md H.ll Miss Lois Robertson, at
fri. IaMc near EPSON.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
New u. S. Steele. !. 0.
Crisis Believed Near

PITTSBURGH, March 27 lP.-
Another crisis in negotiations be-
tween the c. I. o. Steel Workers
Organizing Committee and the
United States Steel Corp. appeared
to be developing today as 100 leaders
of local C. I. o. units at corporation
mills were called into session unex-
pectedly.
News of developments during
formal negotiations for new union
contract has been withheld by. both
sides since the conferences began
March 20.
Informed steel sources heard. how
ever, that the deadlock which caused
c. L o. President Philip Murray to
reopen the fOur-year old agreement
to press the S. w. o. c. demand for
a 10 cents-an-hour pay raise, has
not been broken.
The contract automatically will
expire March 81. unless an under
standing is reached. While Mr.
Murray and the S. w. o. c. Execu-
tive Board were voted full authority
to make the best terms possible or
take any steps needed to enforce the
unions nine-point program, it was
understood he desired to confer
again with the men from the mills
before acting.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Chile Honors Delegates
To Red Cross Meetino

Ambassador Rodolfo Michels of
Chile presented awards yesterday
to Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran and
United States representatives to the
Red Cross Convention held in Chile
In December. The exercises were
held in the Embassy.
Gen. Parran received the award
OF Commander of the Legion O..
Merit of Chile.
The award of Officer of the Legion
OF Merit was presented to Aristides
Mol, secretary of the Pan-Ameri-
can Sanitary Bureau, and Knight
OF the Order to Thomas Cajigas.
Acting for the Chilean Red Cross,
the Ambassador also presented Dr..
Leo S. Rowe, director-general of
the Pan-American Union, the first
degree medal of the Chilean Red
Cross. Second-degree medals went
to James T. Nicholson, director of
the Junior American Red Cross:
Mrs. James r. McCHntock, wife of
the vice president in charge of
finances of the American Red Cross:
Mrs. Alta E. Dimes and William l..
Breese.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Dispute May Hold Up
lndiunheud Houses
Bv the Associated Press

bv The Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March 27.-The
c. I. o. Furniture Workers Union
today appealed to the National
Relations Board for aid in settling
representation dispute with an
A. F. L. union at the E. F. Hauser-
man Co, producers of pre-fabricated
homes for defense purposes.
c. I. o. leaders. protesting what
they called a lockout of eight of
their members, threw a picket line
OF several hundred men about the
plant. Company officials said a
majority of their 140 employees who
are covered by A. r. L. Federal
union contract had reported to work
Hauserman re-fabricated steel
houses are being erected at Indian
Head, Md, where housing shortage
developed due to defense work.
Federal conciliators arranged the
first joint conference between OFF,
cials OF the c. I. o. United Auto
mobile Workers Union and the Muir
ray Ohio Manufacturing Co., where
c. I. o. strike has held up work on
dies for the Army's Ravenna, (Ohio)
shell plant since Tuesday. More
than 300 employees are idle.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Land Would Expand
Existing Shipyards
To Speed Production
Building New Plants
Would Add to 'DiIution,
Maritime Chief Says
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
Chairman Emory S. Land said yes
terday that the Maritime Commits
sion, in its efforts to expedite deliv-
cry of new ships, preferred to ex-
pand existing facilities rather than
to start new plants.
He outlined the general policies
of the commission in a formal state
ment because, he said, there has
been so much misinformation with
regard to shipbuilding, emergency
and otherwise"
Obviously" he added. "the Gov
ernment will need more ships than
it is now building and our produc-
ton of ships for delivery in 194l and
1912 must be increased as dictated
by Congress under the lease-lend bill
provisions.
Admiral Land said that in general
the commission policy lis to utilize
existing shipbuilding plants (both
old and new, extending their facil-
tiles as may be necessary. There
are now 43 shipbuilding plants in
the United States and in view of
the tremendous shipbuilding burden
already undertaken primarily Navy
and in view of the tremendous dilu-
ton that has already taken place
in shipbuilding labor, both skilled
and unskilled as we'll as still further
diution of shipbuilding brains, it is
imperative not to further dilute but
to utilize existing plants, for extern
sions can be made much more satis-
factorily and much more econom-
ically than starting new plants"
Meanwhile, legislation granting the
Maritime Commission authority to
construct, buy or charter ships with
out competitive bidding was reported
favorably by a Senate Commerce
Subcommittee.
Senator Radcliffe, Democrat, of
Maryland, who presided at closed
hearings, said the measure would
give commission officials the same
1exibility to negotiate contracts"
that the War and Navy Department
have.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Fotitch
Continued From First Page)

every liberty loving man and woman.
Mr.. Welles said.
He added that Mr.. Lane also was
instructed to tell the Yugoslav
government that in accordance with
the terms of the Lease-Lend Act
President Roosevelt is enabled. in
the interests of the national defense
of the United States, to render eff
fective material assistance to ma
tions which are seeking to preserve
their independence and integrity
against aggression.
Mr.. Fotitch described the new
government as truly representative
OF the feeling of all the population, +"
and said 1t meant "a concentration
Of ali national forces around the
King
He said he was convinced the
Kings policy was for preservation
Of peace. but at the same time COM
plete preservation of our national
independence, sovereignty and dig
nifty
He pointed out that the new cab
met included the leaders of all DO
lltical parties in Yugoslavia.
The Minister'S comment was made
to reporters at the State Depart
ment after he had conferred half an
hour with Mr.. Welles.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
$500 Goroeemen
End New York Strike
BY The Associated Press

By The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March GA strike
OF about $500 employees of $50 Man.
haitian and Bronx garages. which
went into effect Tuesday night. was
settled today by the State Mediation
Board and arrangements were made
for the men to return to work to-
night.
The settlement provided that the
employers would grant every worker
employed one year or more a weeks
vacation with pay and that all other
questions would be decided through
mediation. The Garage Washers
and Pohshers Union "a. F. of L.
had demanded 20 per cent pay in
creases and reduction in working
hours from 81 to AZ week
One hundred fifty of the garages
signed contracts with the union
yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Cargo Ship to Become
Aircraft Carrier

The Navy has purchased a new
l7,6l5-ton cargo vessel and is con-
verting it to an auxiliary aircraft
carrier at Norfolk, Va, the report
of House hearings on the fifth sup
Elemental appropriation bill re-
vealed.
The S. S. Mormacmail a C-3 type
ship completed by the Maritime
Commission last spring, was bought
from the Normack Lines for So
956, ,346. the report showed. 1t will
be equipped to carry more than a
squadron of fighting planes, it was
said.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Bethlehem
Continued From First Paee.)

the plants share of the company's
defense orders.
r. A. Lewis, plant manager, in his
most sweeping statement since start
of the strike, declared:
"All steel-making departments
are continuing to operate on a nor
NAL basis. All divisions of the plant
are in operation. All the mills are
running, on normal schedule. More
than IS per cent of the regular
forces are at work.
The union, which claims a ma
jority Of the $4,000 production work.
erS here, asserted previously that the
strike was 80 per cent effective.
The terms revolve around suspen-
sion of an election by the Employees
Representation Plan, which the
S. w. o. c. contends is company
dominated and which the National
Labor Relations Board has directed
the company to disband.
The E. r. P. election to name
collective bargaining representatives
precipitated the strike and S. w.
Q. c. leaders maintain they will
carry the strike to other plants if
E. R. P. elections are held.
Other Bethlehem Developments.
Elsewhere in the Bethlehem pic
ture:
The c. I. o. Industrial Union of
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
OF America at New York. called &
meeting for Friday afte1 noon of
workers in three big Bethlehem
shipyards in New York Harbor to
vote on plans for an immediate
strike. Philip H. Van Gelder, ma
tional secretary treasurer of the
union, which claims to be bargain
ing agent for some 80 per cent of
5000 workers in the yards, said eight
weeks OF union-company confer
ences had failed to effect a settle
ment of grievances.
Union leaders at the Bethlehem
plant at Steelton, Pa, where 5000
are employed, threatened a support
strike, If necessary" George H
Stepp, president of the S. w. o. C,
local there, claimed so per cent of
the workers were S. w. o. C. MEM
bers.
Maryland Plant Pledges Support.
Support" also was promised by
S. w. o. c. leaders from the Spar
rows Point, Md, and Lackawanna
N. Y. plants, although Lorne n
Nelies, S. W.O. C. international rep
resentatiye at Buffalo. said the ac-
ton does not necessarily mean a
sympathy strike" at the Lackawanna
mills. scene of a two-day walkout
last month. Sparrows Point has 25,-
600 employees, largest number of any
Bethlehem plant.
Evening star., 1941-03-27

to take bold steps to end the Allis-
Chalmers strike
They had conferred all day with
officials of the company and, after
the latter had departed for Milwau-
kee, dispatched a firmly -Worded
telegram to Max w. Babb, Allis-
Chalmers president, and to Harold
Christoffel, union local president at
Milwaukee.
The Government officials kept
their own counsel on what steps
they might take in the event any
union or company refused to comply
with its subsequent orders.
However, a clause in the Selective
Service Act provides that when a
plant refuses to manufacture
armaments ordered by the Secre-
taries of War or Navy, the President
may take possession of the plant
and operate it through the Army
or Navy The section says a fair
and just rental must be paid the
manufacturer.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
{. |. 0. Dues Drive Halls
Work al Defense Plant
6S the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa, March 81
A c. I. o. dues-collecting drive today
forced suspension of operations at
the Babcock and Wilcox Tube Co.
plant, which is producing materials
for the United States military forces
and the British, Plant Supt. Luke
Sawyer reported.
Mr.. Sawyer said the plant first
closed last night and the suspension
was extended when ''less than 200"
passed dues picket lines and entered
the plant on the m. shift today.
He said he had notified the Office
Of Production Management and the
Navy of the shutdown.
The plant, he reported. is the
principal supplier" of boilers and
tubes for the Navy.
At nearby Aliquippa, Steel Work
ers' Organizing Committee pickets
appeared at three gates of the big
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. plant
% collect delinquent dues from union
men. The company reported few
men had been refused entrance but
the extent of interference with op-
erations was not determined imme-
diately.
There we're no disorders at either
place.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Police Investigate
Attack on Woman
In Apartment Here
Housewife Is Beaten on
Head by 'Repoirmon';;
Condition Serious

Mrs. Ruth A. Street, 38-year old
housewife of 1929 E. street NE,
was reported still in critical con-
dition in Casualty Hospital today,
following an uncomfortable" night,
and police investigators were seek
Ing a colored man who she said
had beaten her on the head yes
terday after representing himself
as repairman
AT the request of hospital doctors,
police agreed to postpone question
ing the victim. They had intended
to visit her today.
A blood TRANSMISSION was ordered
for Mrs. Street on her arrival at
the hospital, when physicians found
she had lost a large quantity of
blood from severe laceration they
said had been inflicted by a blunt
instrument.
Homicide squad detectives said
the attack apparently had no con-
nectlon with the murder earlier this
month OF Mrs. Rose Simons Abram-
owitz in her Sixteenth street apart
ment.
Police were summoned yesterday
about 1890 pm. by a laundryman
who called at the Streets second
floor apartment and noticed that
Mrs. Streets head was bandaged.
She collapsed while talking to him,
he reported.
Mrs. Street had left a telephone
message for her husband, Maurice
Street, Capital Transit bus oper-
ator, at ll:20 am. however. He re-
celved the message at about II: 80
and rushed home from the Bu-
chanan street terminal after tele-
phoning, police said.
When Mrs. Street regained con-
sciousness in the hospital. police
were Informed, she told a physician
a colored man had come to her door
and said he had been summoned to
repair gas heater.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Vonodium Strikers
Heed Knudsen's Plea

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa March 27 LP).
Complying with a request of Will
liam F. Knudsen, director of the
Office of Production Management,
strikers at the Vanadium Corp. plant
today voluntarily began loading
ferro-vanadium for shipment to
other plants producing defense ma
terials.
About 400 strikers, who quit work
more than six weeks ago in protest
against the hiring of five lon-union
plant guards, previously had refused
an o. P. M. request to load the metal
and had stood by while office work.
ers prepared the first shipments
under the protection of State motor
police.
Mr. Knudsen last night renewed
his plea for removal of the metal,
declaring 1t was urgently required
defense material" Seventy-eight
strikers volunteered for the work.
Negotiations for settlement of the
strike have been deadlocked for
days.