Evening star. [volume], October 02, 1947, Page A-6, Image 6

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High School Youth, 15,
Held in Fatal Stabbing
Of Minister's Wife
By th· Associated Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—A 15-year-ol(
vocational high school youth, de
scribed by his parents as a "ver:
good boy," was held in jail toda;
after, police said, he signed a s.tate
ment admitting the fatal, stabbinf
of a minister's wife in an atttemptee
robbery September 24.
Police Capt. Patrick Collins sait
the plump, tousled-haired youth
James Hartman, also admitted hi
slashed and robbed a young mothei
in the same South Side district ii
which the stabbing occurred.
He had been seized for question
ing in the attack Tuesday nigh
on Mrs. Mary Clausen, 25, mothei
of two small children. ■ After sh(
identified Hartmann last night, tw(
of her brothers grabbed and bea
him before police separated them
noiuup is iicjcrima.
Capt. Collins said that after young
Hartmann finished a statement re
lating to the attack on Mrs. Clauser
he was questioned about the slaying
of Mrs. Gracelyn Bush, 32, wife ol
m minister, in a busy parking lot.
-"Yes, I killed hpr," Capt. Collins
Quoted Hartmann as saying. "But
I didn't mean to kill her. I didn't
know the knife was open. She cam*
toward me and screamed. I hit her
Then she fell. I ran away."
Capt. Collins said the youth re
lated that as Mrs. Bush was about
to enter her new car he pushed e
knife through the door.
"I told her it was a stickup," Capt
Collins said Hartmann told him
"She started toward me and it waî
then I stabbed her."
saw Movie* Alter Stabbing.
Fleeing from the parking lot neai
the intersection of Sixty-third anc
Halsted streets, the youth, Capt
Collins said, stopped at a drugstore
and bought some adhesive tape tc
bandage the knuckle of a finger on
his left hand which he cut. Then
he went to a neighborhood theatei
and saw three movies. Capt. Collins
said the boy learned about Mrs
Bush's death when he left the movie
about four hours later.
Police said Hartmann identified a
pearl-handled knife, with a 4-inch
blade, one of the two knives found
In his second-floor four-and-a-half
CHICAGO.—YOUTH ADMITS FATAL STABBING—Surrounded
by unidentified detectives, James Hartman, 15, stuck his tongue
out at newsmen when he was photographed at Englewood police
station last night. Capt. Patrick Collins said the youth admitted
the fatal stabbing last week of Mrs. Gracelyn Bush, 32, a min
ister's wife. He also admitted the slashing of a young mother
Tuesday night. —AP Wirephoto.
room apartment, as the one with
which he killed Mrs. Bush. No for
mal charge was placed against the
youth immediately.
Capt. Collins said the boy's step
father, Le Roy Hartmann, 43, a bar
tender, and his mother Kathleen,
31, told him the youth was "a very
good boy at school and at home."
They said he did not stay out late
at night, was obedient and was
"always kind to his two younger
sisters."
Police said young Hartmann, after
being in custody last Jarrûarv for
three purse thefts and a burglary,
was placed on probation. He entered
the vocational school September 2.
Mrs. Bush was the wife of the
Rev. Francis F. Bush, pastor of a
Seventh-Day Adventist Church,
and had an adopted 2-year-old «on.
Tallulah Bankhead Better
After Attack of Neuritis
By th· Associated Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—Actress Tal
lulah Bankhead, starring in "Pri
vate Lives" at a Loop theater since
midsummer, was reported "much
improved'' today after suffering an
attack of neuritis. Performances of
the comedy, suspended Tuesday
night because of her illnees, prob
ably will be resumed Monday right,
a theater spokesman said.
J. M. Dodge of Detroit
Elected President of
American Bankers
■r th· Associated Pr·»·
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 2 —
Joseph M. Dodge of Detroit was
named president of the American
Bankers' Association at the closing
session of its 73d
annual c ο nven
tion yesterday.
He succeeds C.
W. Bailey of
Claries ville,
Tenn.
Evans Wool
len. Jr., of In
j « — — u- —
U * Η Λ i «ρν»ιο « no
elected vice pres
ident, a post that
insured him the
1948 presidency.
Among the
vice presidents
elected for the
48 States and Mr Dod»«·
the District of Columbia were Sid
ney F. Taliaferro, vice president of
the Riggs National Bank, Washing
ton; Harvey E. Emmart, Baltimore,
for Maryland, and I. T. Van Patten,
Jr., Norfolk, for Virginia.
Favor Cuban Foreign Loans.
The association went on record in
favor of foreign loans only to thoee
nations "which encourage their peo
ple to work and give their people
freedom of en
terprise and
freedom In liv
ing."
American eco
nomic vigor
must be main
tained, the reso
lution on foreign
policy said, but
the United
Rfc η "rarm nfc
maintain its
own strength
nor can it aid
the world, unless
it confines its
efforts to those Mr. Wosii«a.
countries whose governments seek
peace and are willing to adopt eco
nomic and financial policies which
encourage their people to work and
give iheir people freedom in enter
prise and freedom in living."
Other resolutions called for a cut
in Government spending to "effect
a substantial reduction of the public
debt;" caution in making bank loans
to combat inflation ; co-operation
with the Government, labor and
the construction industry to speed
housing, continuance of the salt
of Government Savings Bonds;
"friendly Interest and help" to vet
erans seeking loans, and opposition
to any proposal that would tend
toward nationalization or socializa
tion of industry.
Farm Land Prices Checked.
The upward spiral of farm lane
prices appears to have been checked
for the first time in six years, the
agricultural commission of the as
sociation was told by Jesse. W. Tapp
San Francisco, chairman of the
commission's committee on farm
land Drices.
He reported a survey among kej
bankers in 2,870 agricultural coun
ties throughout the country, showed
most farm sales were being made
for cash or with a large cash equity
The index of farm land prices
based on the 1912-14 average at 100,
climbed to 162 on July 1, Mr. Tapp
reported only eight points below the
1920 boom peak. However, he noted,
the advance of three points between
March 1 and July 1 was the lowest
in any recent reporting period.
Average land prices were reported
to have decreased since March 1 in
11 states—Connecticut, New York,
Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Alabama—and to be unchanged in
10 others. *
The 27 state* reporting Increases,
Mr. Tapp pointed out, included
those where land prices were af
fected by high current prices of
corn, wheat and other farm products.
Body of Gen. Lerch
Arrives in California
The body oi Maj. Oen. Archer L.
Lerch, 53-year-old military gover
nor of the American zone of occupa
tion in Korea, arrived yesterday- in
San Francisco. Gen. Lerch died
September 11 in Seoul.
Mrs. Florence M. Wentworth Lerch,
Gen. Lerch's widow who was at his
bedside when he died in the 34th
General Hospital, was aboard the
Army transport Fred C. Ainsworth.
She was met at the dock by the two
children, Capt. Archer L. Lerch, jr.,
Fort Sill, Okla., and Mrs. Donald W.
Rush, 1205 Trenton place S.E.
Gen. and Mrs. Lerch lived at 6315
Broad Branch road, Chevy Chase,
Md. He formerly was provost maf
|shal general of the Army stationed
here before he went overseas in 1945.
Archbishop of York Urges
International Atom Control
ty th· Atsociotad Prni
MIDDLESBROUGH, England,
Oct. 2.—Dr. Cyril Gafbett, Anglican
Archbishop of York, today urged
that Christians throughout the
world unite in demanding inter
national control of atomic energy.
Warning that "there is no time
to be lost," Dr. Garbett told the
Middlesbrough ecclesiastical parish
that "no nation can be trusted with
complete control over an invention
which might give it world suprem
acy." v
"If one nation must Jiave a
monopply on this fearful weapon, I
agree it is well that for a time-this
should be the United States," he
added. "But not every nation is
confident that the United States
will abstain from making use of It
for power politics."
Dr. Garbett said that If Russia
persisted In rejecting the Baruch
plan for international controls ôther
nations should go ahead without
her on the understanding that she
would be welcome at any time to
participate.
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