The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 23, 1952, Page 3

Mother’s Grief sgt MRS. DELLA BAIRD struggles with two neighbors over the body of her three-year-old baby girl, Laura Rowena Baird, who died of suffocation when she and her playmate, Tamarrah Eliza- beth Boucher, also 3, locked themselves in an unused ice-box in the Boucher garage. efforts failed to revive either child. Police estimated they had been in the ice-box three hours. Wife Of Marine Captain To be Charged Today PENSACOLA (#—Detective Sgt. Raymond Harper said he expected to charge the 32-year-old former wife of a Marine captain with The experience and skill of our crafts- men actually save you dollars on prin- ted matter. Their speed and flawless printing techniques reduce our costs — so they reduce our price, also. See us! Across From City Hall Ov, Greene St. Spon ey first degree murder tday in the death of her 6-year-old son. Harper said Mrs. Gladys Cain poisoned John Michael Cain Jr. with barbital, then attempted to asphixiate her 1-month-old baby with a bathroom gas heater. Mrs. Cain spen‘ Monday night under police guard in a hospital recovering from large amounts of whisky and drugs. Eva Lou Williams 25-year-old night supervisor of nurses at Baptist Hospital, was credited with saving the life of the baby. Harper said Mrs. Cain awakened Miss Williams, who lived in the same apartment building, Monday afternoon and told her: “I think there is still a pulse beat. Do you want to do anything about it?” The nurse srid she rushed into the Cain apartment and found Johnny lying dead in the bathtub, with the baby on the -floor. She turned off the unlighted gas heater, opened a window, and spanked the baby until he cried and began to breathe. Harper said baby food was found in a wine glass with “white tab- lets crumbled in it.” An empty | Associated Press Photo Firemen’s Believes Troops To Return Soon RICHMOND, Ind. \P Rep. Ralph Harvey (R-Ind) says he be- lieves most American ground troops can be withdrawn from Korea within a year. On a radie panel program last night, Harvey said South Korean troops, with American ait and | naval support, could carry on the | fighting if Lt. Gen. James Van | Fleet’s training of Koreans goes on as planned. Harvey recently returned from a tour of Korea. By use of artifiical insemination it is possible to get 1,000 calves a year from a bull compared with 50 by natural breeding. bottle for barbital nearby. Dr. Gretchen Squires gave a tentative report that the boy had died of barbital poisoning. An older daughter of Mrs. Cain was away at school when the tragedy occurred. tablets was SHOTGUN SLAYER KILLS TWO ‘MORE TAMPA GAMBLERS MON. One Is Kingpin Rene Nunez; Other A Tampa Barber TAMPA (P—A shotgun slayer cut down two more Tampa gam- blers—one of them Kingpin Rene Nunez—Monday night and fled un- seen. Killed with the boasting, arro- gant Nunez was Angelo Giglio, a barber whose position among the lesser lights of the Tampa under- world avas not well defined. Sheriff Hugh Culbreath said nei- ther of the victims was armed. A witness who heard but did not see the shooting said Nunez and Giglio were calm a few minutes earlier, evidently not expecting trouble. They were shot in the front part of a hardware store under con- struction on busy Hillsborough Av. enue, just outside the city limits. Their business there has not been learned. Samuel L. Massey the night watchman, said they came in the back about 8 p. m. while he was eating a snack. They asked about installation of some machinery, then stepped into the unlighted front section, At that momen’ the shooting be- gan. Nunez fell dead in that room, half his head torn away by a load of buckshot. Giglio was hi’ in the kidney re- gion and his left arm was shot away. He collapsed outside, near his car, and died on the way to a hospital. Four empty 12 gauge shotgun shells were found in the front room, Nunez had been coming up in the Tampa bolita gambling racket since the still unsolved slaying of Jimmy Velasco in December, 1950. His name became well known only last spring, however, when several of the candidates in the sheriff's race tried to link him to some one of their opponents Neither victim had a police rec- ord, but Sheriff Hugl. Culbreath ordered Nunez’ telephone discon- STRUNK LUMBER YARD HAS... Excellent Pine and Oak Flooring In All the Grades SANDING MACHINE AT MODERATE RENTAL STRUNK LUMBER YARD PHONE 816 120 Simonton Street ANOTHER Maxwell FI? 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When he finished, AFL President William Green told the delegates: “Now you have heard him and he has touched you and moved you deeply. There is no ques- tion about how you feel about this great American.” GOP presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the AFL Convention last week. Eisenhower said he was against repeal of the nected last -ear on grounds it was used for gambling information. The slaying caused more stir in the city than any in recent years except those of Velasco and Jim- my Lumia, another bolita leader slain mysteriously 16 months ago. ngth add ruggedness and chassis. Rubber from shock. Your y Dodge c n body Oriflow ride control is SEALED IN e of the bers. Y TWO hydreelic cyli 601 DUVAL ST. for President of the United States. Governor Stevenson Today; Admits Raising Similar Cash Fund Taft-Hartley Act but saw room for some “realistic” amendments. The CIO already has endorsed Stevenson. The AFL traditionally has remaine” neutral during presi- dential campaigns. Stevenson met with a group of some 48 labor union leaders after the speech. They indicated there was little doubt he would get the backing of the federation. He planned to fly from New York to Baltimore this afternoon after the decision of the convention is made public. Stevenson seemed unruffled yes- | terday by a demand from Chicago jo he acknowledge he created a | special fund in Illinois and used it | to supplement the salaries of some of his public employes. He said it was true, and added: “There is no question of improp- er influence because there was no connection between the contribu- tors and the beneficiaries.” | A telegram from Kent Chandler, Chicago businessman, said in part: “As governor of Illinois, you per- sonally promoted a similar cash fund contributed by private indi? viduals which was paid to various of your official appointees to state jobs in order to supplement the salaries paid to them by the state.” The words “similar cash fund” apparently were an allusion to the $18,235 fund contributed to Sen. Richard M. Nixon, of California GOP candidate for vice president. Chandler's telegram began: “In Tuesday, September 23, 1952 view of the attack on Sen. Nixon, ete.” In his reply, given in the form of a statement to reporters, Ste- venson said: “There has never been any se- eret about the fact that I have tried to reduce the financial sac- rifice of a number of men whom I induced to leave private employ- ment to work for the state of Illi- nois.”” Stevenson’s statement noted that: 1, The men were appointec. offi- cials. He said none had sought pu'lie office, nor were any elected to office. 2. Money given them, in addi- tion to their regular salaries, came from a general fund and not direct- ly from any individual contributor. 3. “The funds used for this pur- pose were left over from the 1948 campaign for governor, together with subsequent general contribu- tions.” Stevenson summed up by say- ing: “During my administration I have never heard of any case of a promise, either direct or implied, of any favor in exchange contribution.”” Two of his top fund-raising offi- cials, Beardsley Ruml chafrman of the Finance Committee of the Democratic National Committee, and Herman Dunlop Smith, nation- al chairman of the volunteers, also devied assertions that pressure- tactics were used to obtain con- tributions from Illinois business- men and state employes. The governor’s press secretary, William Flanagan, said Stevenson would not answer a part of the telegram demanding that names of the contributors be made public. The amount in the fund was not THE KEY WEST CITIZEN for a} disclosed. Flanagan said it was | Page 3“ Pohaski Street May Be Re-Named Ashe By City A public hearing has been set for Monday evening, October 20th at 8:00 p. m., for the purpose of dis- cussing a proposed change in the name of Pohaski street to Ashe st. The City Commission scheduled the hearing when several com- plaints were received because of the confusion resulting in that area since Pohaski street is said to be a virtual continuation of Ashe street. Key West's street system came in for further discussion at last night’s Commission meeting when John Carbonell asked that Baha- ma_ street re-designated as a two-way thoroughfare because of extreme inconvenience resulting since the street was made one- way, four weeks ago. Carbonell said that while he had originally asked for the change to one-way, the change is not satisfactory. 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