The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1954, Page 5

Monday, October 4, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5) Mother Slays Entire Family OAKLAND, Calif. ®—A middle- aged mother’s terrifying fear of a failing memory is blamed for a 10-hour nightmare-in which she methodically wiped out her entire family, including two teen-age sons | with a..22 rifle. Police said Mrs. Olive Losser, findergarten teacher, shot and killed her two sons, Donald, 19, and Richard, 17, yesterday. Then she sat for 10 hours in the living room of her fashionable east Oak- land home waiting. At dusk, her husband Milan, 52, prosperous manager of an aopli- ance, company, opened the front door, The rifle barked again. Los- ser fell, fatally wounded in the head. Mrs. Losser, a final bullet saved for herself, dashed into the street and fired it into her own head. Stunned neighbors, who later de- scribed the Lossers as ‘‘a fine fam- | ily who never quarreled,” sum- moned police. Inside the house, police found an | Open case of .22 cartridges and seven rambling, incoherent notes, scrawled in pencil on cheap paper. Only one gave a clue. It said: “I can't teach. Something is wrong with my memory. I don’t know what else to do. . .” Donald, a sophomore engineer- fng student at the University of California at nearby Berkeley, was found in the bathroom. Police said he obviously had been cornered there while trying to escape. Richard, a high school senior, was found in a basement bedroom. The bullet had entered his brain | as he slept. | RATS ACONTROLLED , Call 2-3254 NEW YORK W—A little thing like a collision at sea didn’t per- turb passengers on the luxury liner Maasdam—until it hit them in the | Pocketbook. And then— Well, a typhoon was nothing Key West In Days Gone By |dam’s crew sailed into from furi- |ious passengers, angered when the | damaged ship returned to port yes- |terday and they were told they {would have to pay hotel bills. | More than 100 passengers went on a sitdown strike in a lounge jon the promenade deck. Five hun- | dred other passengers left quietly. In vain, officials of the Holland- | . | America Lines, operators of the October 4, 1934 Maasdam, pleaded that it was Rev. J. C. Gekeler gave an ad- | against sanitary regulations for dress at the Rotary Luncheon to-| passengers to live aboard ships day on the subjegt of church at-| in drydock. tendance. Rev. Gékeler spoke of a} The Maasdam suffered a smashed movement now being inaugurated | hull in a collision with the French for a general church attendance on | freighter Tofevo Saturday night off ;this coming Sunday, and stressed | Rhode Island. the matter of having members of| The dispute followed an an the Rotary organization fall in line. | nouncement that Holland-America — |would arrange hotel reservations Chief Harry Baker of the Key|in New York until another Ppas- West Fire Department has been sage could be obtained but that | pwevided with a new car which he | the passengers would have to pay has placed in department service. | the bills. pein | Finally Holland - America sur- Roberts, who committed depre- | rendered. It offered to Pay $20 sub- dations at Pine Crest in the Che-|sistence for each adult and $10 compared to the storm the Maas- ; Passengers Balk At Hotel Bill Prospect LEXINGTON, Ky. # — Vice | President Nixon, confident the | |Democrats “don’t have an issue” | upon which to wage a campaign, | today opened a speaking tour in behalf of Kentucky’s Republican | senator, John Sherman Cooper. Nixon planned speeches at Pine- ville, Barbourville, Corbin and | London, all hotbeds of Republican: ism, and at Lexington, key city in the Democratic 6th District. Cooper is opposed by former Vice President Alben W. Barkley. “When you analyze the. cam-/} paign of the other side . . . they ; don’t have an issue,” Nixon told| | 300 persons at a reception for him | |and his wife last night. “We find they offer criticism,” he said “‘but they don’t offer one single constructive suggestion.” He said that “with four weeks |to go, we’re in the position we |for each child pending the sailing of the line’s Ryndam Oct. 13. Hours after the fuss started, the ' Maasdam weighed anchor at Ho-: boken, N.J., and headed for re-| pairs at a Brooklyn shipyard. At} | last report, there still were about | }20 passengers holding out. | valier Corporation section of Mon- roe County, had only a brief pet: | iod of pleasure after their thefts | and are now in jail in Miami. woe, * October 4, 1944 ATTENTION! Garages - Contractors - Service Stations Contact Us For Nixon Stumps Ky. For Cooper ‘At Frankfurt | leadership President Eisenhower is | There is no charity ward plan- ned for the new Municipal Hospi- tal on Stock Island, but no ill or injured pefson will be turned away because they are indigent, Ernest Ramsey, chairman of the board of governors of the institution, told | city Council last night. All pay increases for city em- Ployees, including heads of the po- lice and fire departments, are out until the city has a surplus of cash on hand to guarantee such raises, City Council decided last night. C. G. Campbell, president of the Florida State Elks Association, will pay an officials visit to Key West | Elks tomorrow. Your Grocer SELLS Tiat Good HEAT-TREATED BOLTS and NUTS Most Complete and Largest Stock in Monroe County CATERPILLAR DIESEL MARINE ENGINES . TRACTORS EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT Shelley Tractor & Equipment Co. 313 Margaret Street Telephone 2-3022 NEED MONEY WE have it! 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