The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 16, 1954, Page 7

Friday, July 16, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 Story Of Slaying Of Wife’s Suitor Is Told By Dentist Temporary Insanity Claimed By Defense In Murder Trial ALLEGAN, Mich. (#—“There I ‘was standing in a room. I saw my wife in shorts. There was Jules Lack. There was a gun going off. He was all bloody. There were people screaming. ... I guess I shot him. I don’t remember. I must have.” Thus in terse, vivid sentences Dr. Kenneth B. Small, 31, a De- troit dentist, described yesterday before a packed courtroom all he remembered of the May 29 shoot- ing of his wife’s suitor. Dr. Small claims he was tem- porarily insane when Lack, 45, New York playboy-industrialist, was shot and killed in a south- western Michigan rendezvous with Mrs. Edith Small. He was expect- ed to take the stand again today at his first-degree murder trial. Tell Of Scene The dentist, his voice quavering with emotion, described the scene when his wife, returning from & vacation alone in Florida, told of meeting Lack and asked for a di- "Dr. Small said 8 3 Pr asked her if this man had sald ved her. wughe said she did not know but ed him. ote has two kids nicer than x me. rd Sa: De you mean to sit there and tell me another man’s children are dearer to you than own?” veirshe said again that they were er than our children.” are Small, 30, a dark-eyed bru- nette, is the mother of three young ao Small said his wife, who left the courtroom while he was on the stand, also told him: “You don’t know how to live. I -want to live big now.” Shooting Told ‘The dentist told of tracing his The_ Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: P; cloudy to cloudy with local 2 a ers or thundershowers. through Saturday; not much chang¢ in pene; gh TEE tonight near 78 grees; turdsy about 90 degrees. Light to moderate vari- able winds, mostly easterly, and freshening in and near shower areas, Florida: Warm and partly cloudy through Saturday. Scattered show- ers, mostly in daylight hours. Jacksonville through the Florida Straits: Gentle to moderate south- east to south winds and partly cloudy weather through Saturday with scattered showers. East Gulf: Moderate easterly winds over south portion and gen- tle variable winds over the north portion. Weather partly cloudy through Saturday. Scattered show- ers in south portion: Western Caribbean: Moderate easterly winds and partly cloudy weather through Saturday. Widely scattered showers. Weather Summary for the Tropi- cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Area and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Conditions are settled in the tropics with no important wave or ir indications of a disturbance in any section today. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M. EST, Key West, Fla., July 16, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Warren Odham French Premier Is Set Back Charged With {In Last-Minute Peace Efforts Posing As MD MIAMI (#—Warren Odham Jr., 3t-year-old brother of Brailey Od- ham, says he was just doing his best to help three injured persons when he was arrested in Fort Lau- dérdale on a charge of imperson- ating a ere si Odham’s a lease un- der $250 tad ope diselosed yes- terday. Highway Patrolman C. E. Sullins said he was bear) to jail after was found a pa ae first aid to three people inju in ai automobile collision at 20- mile bend. Sullins said Odham first referred to himself as “Dr. Williams.” Then he admitted his identity. Denies Charge Odham denied he ever claimed to be a doetor and declared he tried to help the accident victims because ‘“‘nobody else was doing an; » “I came up on this accident Sunday and saw that three people were hurt,” Odham said. “An artery had been severed in one man’s leg. I put a tourniquet on the leg and treated all of them for shock. Jt was 20 minutes after I went to work before the patrol got theré.” Odham said someong referred to him as ‘‘doc” but when the patrol- men asked “I told them who I was.” Sullins said everything Odham did “was exactly backwards to piper first aid administration.” m reported that “I had an advanced course in first aid in the Mérchant Marine.” TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK #—The stock mar- Lowest last night .. Mea: Rea8 Preaipita Total last 24 hours Total this month .... Total this year Excess this ye: FREE wife to the plush suet _ “near” Douglas,’ Mich., where the ingot poccurred, through a phone “call she made Home, She had said p slanned to spend the ill-starréd Memorial Day weekend with a former college roommate in Chi- cago. ; Dr. Small told of tracing the call to Fennville,, Mich., and “I started to drive. There was rain and storm that,night. I had to see for myself if she was with Lack. ... IT prayed she wouldn’t be there. ... It was like you get some place but don’t know how you get there, or what way you went or how many red lights you went through.” The dentist’s stay on the stand was interrupted late in the day when Defense Aty. Leo Hoffman called the first of three psychia- trists who will testify for the de- fense. Doctor Testifies Dr. Harry August, chairman of the Michigan Mental Health Com- mission, said Dr. Small was in- sane when he killed Lack. Hoffman asked him when did the dentist ‘become insane to the point of being unable to restrain im- pulses?” “It was when he received the phone call from Fennville,” Dr. August said. “The mental turmoil had mounted to the point where his restraint was nullified. He was unable to restrain himself when he saw his wife and Lack together.” Before he left the stand, Dr. Small told of trying to commit suicide “but I couldn’t pull the trigger. I thought of the boys. I wanted them to grow up to know their dad.” Hoffman introduced four suicide notes which he claimed Dr. Small had written after his wife had asked for the divorce. One to Mrs, Small said, “I wish you had given me a second chance. ... I have no weapons and no defense and Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M 30.05 ins.—1017.6 mbs. (Naval Base) Time of Height of Station— Tide high water High Tides Low 10:18 a.m. 3:41 a.m. 11:35 p.m. = 5:08 p.m. ADDITIONAL TID§ DATA Reference Station: Key West Bahia Hende (bridge) .....—oh 10m 9.01, Ne Namé Key (east end) ....+-2 20m Boca Chica —ch 4m Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel nice +14 (north end) —)—Minus sign: Corrections : to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections te be added. PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF MOON OCCURS NEW YORK wm — The shadow of the earth moved across the face of the moon last night, obscuring part of it. This was the second and last lunar eclipse this year. The first, a total one, occurred in January. The partial eclipse, affecting about 41 per cent of the moon's face, lasted from 8:17 p.m. to 9:31 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. EXPLOSIONS SHAKE tin m aire spam fireworks and detonator Calls for help went out to Ea now no will to live.” POLICE LT. BACK (Continued from Page One) of Hernandez. They did not find him there or at his home. He said that the charges were based on information supplied by Roberts. Hernandez then took the stand | to tell his side of the story. He denied that he was drunk, saying that he had but one bottle of beer and two. sandwiches, He added that Roberts called him over “and started to talk poii- tics.” “During the discussion, I told him that he was not going to get into office again,” Hernandez said. He told the board that he then walked off. Case Summed Up - Albury, in up the case, said: “The testimony tonight does not warrant a suspension, much léss a dismissal.” He likened the case to the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District controversy—“a lot of hulabaloo about nothing.” He pointed out that Hernandez has served the city for 12 years eton, Elkton, and Dover, Del. Hospitals there were alerted. Usilton said one report indicated small houses containing the more powerful explosives still hady’t a whole of fireworks were Whole bundles r Dizs.eu into the air and then ex- Rescue work was hampered by the continuing explosions. Usilton said the re ee standing by tense a wut - ing for the moment when the ex- tent of the disaster could be gauged. —————$—$— ———————————————— without a blemish on his record and asked that he be reinstated. Porter summed up the case as “a question of the veracity of the two witnesses.” ae “Would a commissioner ie city of Key West, with the duty of working for the good of the community, bring such a serious charge against a respected mem- ber of the police department if it were not true?” asked Porter. The board members then went to an adjoining room for a con- ference lasting less than ten mine utes and came back with a ver- "| erated ket boiled ahead briefly today in early dealings and then subsided. Prices gained fractions for the most patt with only a few plus signé at a point or moré, ‘esterdgy’s higher market gen- three million shares of busi- neis, greatest in the past 15 | months. Among stocks gaining were U. S. Steel, Chrysler, International Harvéster, Republic Aviation, Cur- tiss-Wright, Lockheed, North Amer- ican Aviation, Radio Corp., Ameri- can Telephone and Loew's. Lowét were Sears Roebuck, Ken- r, American Smelting, ngeott Coppe! -|Du Post, General Electric, Ameri- | can Woolen, American Tobacco, as Can and Standard Oil (NJ). OPINIONS ON RAFT (Continued From Page One) coast when the five were rescued early yesterday. Verying Statements Smith charged: “They couldn’t navigate their way out of a garage with the door open. They had two compasses 5.. @ degrees apart.” . Fearon: crew could have put out to sea westward. . .but purposely hugged the shore looking for a boat to remove Don Smith. ... The raft was braterco nd Taneuverable (with) 180 directional con- Smith: “One porthole was never put in. We shipped water through it. The mast was not even bolted down. It was held up with four ropes.” F A ron: “the wooden raft was unsinkable +» amazingly seaworthy.” 4 Current The left San Francisco last Friday with a crew of five ama- teurs hoping to drift 2,200 miles to Hawaii. It missed the current 8) x Devere Baker hoped to find im six days progressed only 180 miles or s0, southeast. The men had expected to live off the Pacific—catching fish and distill- ing sea water. Smith began sending depressing messa: ttle, or no food; little water to and the like—on the second day. Tuesday and Selnesiey he demanded to As taken off, sa: he was seasic! an ii of hateoas. Wednesday he an SOS “taking water at the Mg The five crewmen were picked up by a freighter, the Metapan, yésterday and returned here last t, ctapibation win Rake sua tine with Baker a! r crewmen except Smth, also denied that the rad was out of control and thet the crew was im danger of starving. FACTS ABOUT POLIO ‘commas from Page One) hiea help the work could not have been accomplished: ocak DeEyM: “The U. S.. Nayal officials and their staff of professional and workers: veluntary 5 “The local civie groups and their voluntary workers; “Officials of the school board and their voluntary workers; “And last but not least. the un- tiring services of the local chapter of the National Foundation for dict reinstating the officer. Infantile Paralysis.” By EDDY GILMORE GENEVA ®—French Premier Pierre Mendes-France raced the clock today in a quest to win an Indochina cease-fire based on divi- sion of Viet Nam at the 18th paral- lel. But his efforts were set back by a four-hour session with Russia’s stubborn V. M. Molotov. French sources said last night’s meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister resulted in a complete deadlock. Both statesmen stuck to their positions and no progress was achieved, the informants said. The partitioning of disputed Viet Nam was said to have been the main topic of the parley which | broke up early this morning. Mendes-France was reported to have pressed for a cease-fire line Tunning from Dong Hoi on the Viet- Thakhek, on the Laotian border. Western diplomats said the Communists, seemed willing to do business, but that they were dick- ering for a bigger chunk of Viet Nam—most important of the three associated Indochinese states. The Reds appeared to be seeking a compromise between the 18th Parallel across Viet Nam’s narrow waist and their original demand for partition at the 14th Parallel. The French want to hold the line at least to the 17th Parallel. To set it below that point would mean handing over to the Com- munist-led Vietminh the important air and naval base at Tourane and ‘the old Annamese capital of Hue. Loss of the latter particularly would be a severe blow to the prestige of ex-Emperor Bao Dai, chief of state for the government the French have set up in Viet Nam. Mendes-France has hinted he mright be persuaded to turn over Viet Nam’s northern war capital Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minh’s forces. But the Premier was reported holding out stubbornly to retain at least temporary control of Hai- phong, the major port of the rich Red River delta through which the French may have to evacuate their forces. In return for retaining Haiphong, 65 miles east of Hanoi and well above the 18th Parallel, the French have offered to let the Vietminh keep control of some of their Pockets in the South. The French believe the Commu- nists will agree eventually to a neutralization of the other two In- dochinese states, Laos and Cam- bodia, based on withdrawal of Vi- etminh forces and incorporation of local Communist resistance move- ments into “national communi- ties.” Mendes-France, who has prom- ised to resign if he fails to get a cease-fire by July 20, is feverishly trying to iron out points of differ- ence in small, private huddles be- tween French and Communist del- egates. While the French Premier took the lead in dealing with the Reds, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden backed him up with an ex- hausting schedule of meetings with members of both the Western and Communist delegations. The French and British hope to reach a large measure of agree- ment with the Communists on de- tailed terms of an armistice by the time U.S. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith arrives tomorrow to sit in on the negotia- tions. Sources in Washington said the United States does not appear to have budged from its disapproving attitude towards: any partition of Viet Nam. But informants there said Mendes-France assured Sec- retary of State Dulles at their re- cent Paris huddle that France would only agree to an Indochina truce couched in terms that the ried eae could live with. _ The Washington informants pre- dicted this requirement would be met by a declaration that the divi- sion of Viet Nam was only tem- Porary, with the country’s future to be determined finally by even- tual supervised free elections — the same thing that has been prom- ised Korea and Germany. SWIMMING POOL (Continued from Page One) swimming events. I will guarantee to you right here and now that a Pool will pay for itself in five years.” Suggestions Made Louis Eisner told the members that if the matter of the pool was Presented properly to the commis- sioners and the need for a good swimming pool shown he was sure that the proposal would go through. Eisner also pointed out that it was not the intention of the Lions Club to pressure the commission- ers into selling bonds to get a swimming pool. The members passed a resolution | to have a committee appear at the next commission meeting to being up the swimming pool mat- fer. Bill Gibb, executive director of the Key West safety council, spoke to the Lions and requested that the club sponsor some project in the forthcoming “‘safety week.” P Safety Needs Gibb pointed out that there is a definite need for people to be- come safety conscious. “Strange as it seems, children appear to be more interested in safety than | adults,” Gibb said. He also told the group that the YFCGroup To Show Film Saturday Night Saturday night at 8 o’clock at the Fleming Street Methodist | Church, Fleming and Williams Streets, Key West Youth for Christ will be showing the latest Moody | Bible Institute of Science film | “Prior Claim.” The film, which is 45 minutes | long and in color, emphasizes that man has prior claim in nothing— wherever he may delve, he sees that God has been there first. Those that view the film will see amazing full-color sequences of fish that shoot down their prey, spider that live in submerged diving bells, birds that balance their eggs on a limb, the amazing thermal equipment of the rattle- snake, and many other interesting | scenes, Moody Bible Institute of Science films are the best in their field and are used quite extensively both in religious and educational circles. The Armed Forces use these films, too, for the education of their men. “Prior Claim” is a film that both young and old will thoroughly en- joy. Everyone is invited to at- tend and there is no charge for admission. Union Troops Smash At Vietminh HANOI, Indochina (»—Ten thou- sand French Union troops, backed by tanks and warplanes, smashed today at Vietminh forces en- trenched in two positions west and northeast of Hanoi. A French brief- ing officer said losses were ap- preciable on both sides. The assaults began yesterday when 5,000 French Union troops in mobile infantry units barreled out of Lue Nam to hit Communist-led rebels dug in on a river bank six miles west of the town. This area is 35 miles northeast of Hanoi, Twenty-five miles west of Hanoi, mobile infantry rolled southward out of Son Tay behind a spearhead of tanks in a four-pronged attack against Vietminh attempting to Pick off French posts in that area. The officer said both assaults Pushed the rebels from their Pposi- tions although fighting still raged today. The two attacks, the biggest French drives in weeks, were de- signed to relieve increasing Viet- minh pressure in those two areas. The Vietminh hit near Luc Nam have been trying to isolate defense garrisons in that area for 10 days. The pressure had become so great the French pulled the 80-man gar- rison out of Camp Derulin, between Luc Nam and Phu Lang Thuong, after four nights of successive rebel attacks. A mobile group was sent to aid the garrison in the with- drawal. A smaller mobile group, rolling east out of Phu Lang Thuong, plowed into another Vietminh con. centration five miles from the main battle area. The four prongs of the Son Tay offensive smashed into Vietminh trenches and foxholes forming an inverted triangle five miles south- east of Son Tay. The French rolied through a hail | of exploding mortar shells to come | to close grips with the rebels. A colonel leading the attack was seri- ously wounded by a mortar shell that exploded almost at his feet, As ground fighting raged in both areas, American supplied planes sowed the Vietminh fortifications with bombs and flaming jellied gasoline. French artillery and tanks pumped high explosive shells at Vietminh units trying to fight off the attack. ———$—$$ safety council had been limited to individual work for the last year. Edelmiro Morales, Lion presi- dent, instructed safety committee members Morris E. Stutz, Robert Harris, J. Buck, Bill Tyler, and Jack Elias to look into the matter of sponsoring a safety week pro- ject. In routine club business it was announced that a corporation had been formed to handle matters of construction of the planned Lions Den out near Hilton Haven. It was also pointed out that membérs who miss more than four meetings without reason will be dropped from the Lions mem- bership. The number of typewriters and mimeograph machines aboard the battleship Missouri is larger than the number of guns. Servicemen’s Special $1.00 Day PRINCE GEORGE HOTEL MODERN TRENDS IN (Continued from Page One) the retailer from just such evi- dence. : A fraudulent check file is main- tained and from the check and comparison of handwriting of known “‘bad check artists” the FBI can usually “pinpoint” the writer. Fire Arm File All known types of fire arms | are listed and from a bullet fired | from any gun, complete informa- | tion as to the type, make, and calibre can be obtained. The Bureau maintains files on glass, rope, hair, fibers, metals, | Paint, poisons, soil and hardwoods. | It is possible to identifv tool marks as no two tools will make the same marks on metal or wood. | Roper said that the purpose of | modern police training was “not to| make the ordinary officer a tech- nical expert but to teach them to; take advantage of the progress that has been made and to evalu- ate scientific reports.” “Eighty-eight per cent of the| law enforcement agencies in the country make use of radio in their work,”’ Roper said. Local Use Of Radio He told of one case where a| warrent had been issued in Key West. Local officers knew the | wanted man was in a hotel in Miami. They notified Miami and within four minutes after the call went out, the man was detained by the Miami police. | “One particular case that sums up the use of all these scientific | aids was the threat to derail the NYC railroad’s crack Twentieth Century Limited,” Roper con- tinued. | The president of the railroad received an anonymous letter de- manding that a large sum of money be thrown from the train as it passed a man waving a white flag. The letter stated that if in- structions were not followed, the train would be wrecked at a fu- ture time. The Limited runs from Chicago to Buffalo to New York and on the day designated for the payment of the money, every mile of track was covered by law enforcement agencies along the route. Track Alerted A radio car was placed every three miles and as the train pass- ed, followed it to the next point. The ‘‘control car’ was in constant contact with all cars in the area, and FBI agents on the train. A little fat man was seen wav- ing a white flag and all agencies were alerted. The train stopped and “agents poured off it”; all the cars in the area converged, and the man was trapped a short distance from the spot where he waved the flag. Roper said the FBI was able to prove that the flag was made from a sheet in the man’s house, that saliva on cigar butts found at the scene, was the same type as the man’s. Plaster casts of his foot- CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS WASHINGTON ( — Secretary of State Dulles arranges to give the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee a briefing on results of his quick trip to Paris for conferences with French and British leaders on the critical Southeast Asia situa- tion. Dulles is due on Capitol Hill soon after Under Secretary Walter Be- dell Smith flies off to Geneva, where conferences with the Com- munists over an Indochina peace arrangement now are entering the crucial stage. FOREIGN AID—Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Aflred M. Gruenther, supreme Allied com- mander in Europe, are ticketed for foreign aid testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee. MCCARTHY — Sen. Potter (R- Mich) says he'll “stand pat” in efforts to force a shakeup of the Senate Investigations subcommit- tee’s staff. Chairman McCarthy (R-Wis) yesterday blocked the move—for the time being at least. The issue may come to a head Tuesday when the group is sched- uled to meet again. ATOMIC — Senate debate on a bill to revise the nation’s basic atomic energy law continues to swirl around a side issue involving plans for a new private power plant in the Tennessee Valley. Sen- ate Republican Leader Knowland of California says he knows of no administration plan to offer a com- Promise on the issue. 10,000 Guaranty on USED CARS 101) FIFTH STREET Miami Beach, Fla. NAVARRO, Inc. | 607 Duval st. Tel. 2-704) 1 ' prints and handwriting specimens proved that the man was the ex- tortionist. Business Session During the short business meet- ing preceding Roper’s talk, Rotary President appointed a house com- mittee headed by Horace O’Bryant, Curray Harris and Ed Strunk, Sher gave several reasons for his choice and was applauded for his selection. Art Hunt, fellowship chairman, introduced Leon Spillman, a vis- iting Rotarian from Miami. Don Nichols, phone company manager, was introduced as the newest member of the Key West Rotary by Neil Knowles. Program chairman, Kermit Lewin, asked all committee chairs fmen to notify him immediat g they had a program to be sented to the club. | The meeting was adjourned following the parting oath. The Best In Key West SEE US FOR ALL YOUR RADIO and TV NEEDS RCA-VICTOR - ZENITH MOTOROLA * T.V. and Radio — All Models %* Antenna Installations * T.V. 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