openSuse, not running the cron job

content of the dispatchingEmail_I is:
The permissions of the above cron file are the following:

when I check /var/log/messages I can see an entry

which tells me that the command has run, but no email has been received. The log file gets created, but its empty.
where as when I run the script by itself, the email is received.
the permissions of the file maildispatcher.sh are the following:
The two reasons that tell me that my script is not getting run via cron job are:
1. log is empty
2. script fires up a java program that updates a file before sending an email. The file is not getting updated.

when I run a simple command like
the cronjob works and has contents in the log file.
can anyone suggest some changes that can be tried?