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Nurse Admits Shaking Infant Who Died of Head, Body New Haven. Conn. (II P.) Authorities called an inquest to day into the death of an 11-day-old baby 8nd questioned the in fant's hulking nurse about the deaths of two other babies and the injuries of two more. The 250-pound, six-foot" pedi atric nurse. Miss Virginia B. Jaspers. 33, said she would shake or squeeze the infants because "kids sometimes get on my nerves." "She has tremendous hands and probably doesn't know her own strength." Police Chief Francis V. McManus said. Works in Private Home The Investigation into the ac- Oregon City Youth Stays Self After Beating Stepmother Oregon City (U.R A 16-year-old Oregon City youth shot and killed himself yesterday after he apparently had beaten his stepmother with a claw hammer, police reported. Authorities identified the youth as Hubert Lyle Jr. In ser ious condition in a Portland hospital was Mrs. Florence Lyle, 33. Investigating officers said the youth apparently hit his step mother over the head with the hammei several times in their rural home. Force of the blows was so severe that the hammer handle was broken, authorities said. Crawled To Neighbors Mrs. Lyle, severely beaten and In a dazed condition, crawled nearly a block to a neighbor's home. She was unable to talk but conveyed to Bill Lakey that she feared for the lives of her three small children. Young Lyle went to a rear room of the low ranch style home and shot himself through the head with a rifle, police said. Officers believed the attack resulted from a family argu ment over the youth's drinking. Young Lyle had been arrested on a charge of being drunk last week and was to appear in court this week. Coroner Leslie Peake said. Mrs. Lyle underwent surgery at Good Samaritan hospital last night after which her condition waa reported as "much better" and doctors gave her a fair chance at survival. Gloria Vanderbilt On Brief Honeymoon With Third Husband New York U.R) Gloria Van derbilt. society's "poor little rich girl" honeymooned briefly today with her husband, Direc tor Sidney Lumet. The heiress to Vanderbilt rail road millions and the former Broadway "dead end" kid who grew up in poverty were mar ried Monday on the "spur of the moment" at the home of Playwright Sidney Kingsley af ter obtaining a waiver of the usual 24-hour waiting period. The couple said serious honey moon planes would have to be delayed until October. Miss Van derbilt has a contract for a sum mer theater engagement at Mil burn, N.J., starting tonight, while Lumet has several confer ences in Hollywood scheduled. Wedding a Surprise Friends of the couple said the wedding came as a surprise. Gloria and Lumet met March 4, 1955, and had talked about mar riage for more than a year be fore deciding suddenly to obtain a license. The radiant bride, a spray of white orchids in her black hair and a beige silk "period of 1830 Stevenson, Nixon Slate LA. Speeches Los Angeles U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson will deliver major speeches next week here before the 38th national conven tion of the American Legion. National Adjutant E. A. Black more revealed Monday that Stevenson will address the con vention Wednesday, Sept. 5, and the vice president's speech will be on Thursday, the closing day of the convention. The topics for both speeches were not dis closed. The convention opens Labor Day with a parade through downtown Los Angeles that winds up in Memorial Coliseum. The first business session, is scheduled Tuesday and will be followed by a major address by Hollington'K. Tong, ambassador from the Republic of China. Use Tribune Want Ads The Low Cost Wav to Sell Items You No Lonrer Need Tot Quick Cash Injuries tivities of the nurse, who hires out to private homes to care for babies just brought home from the hospital, was touched off last Thursday by the death of tiny Abbe Kapsinow. 11 -day -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kapsinow. Miss Jaspers awoke the Kap sinow about 2:30 a.m. and told them the baby was breathing heavily. Mrs. Kapsinow investi gated, noticed a fleck of blood in one of the child's nostrils, and called the doctor. The child was rushed to a hos pital where she died about 4 a.m. from severe head and body injuries. Dr. Sterling P. Taylor, acting medical examiner, notified Cor oner James J. Corrigan that death was suspicious and . New Haven police moved into the case. Cheek Background They checked into the nurse's background and found that three other babies under her care had died and that two oth ers had received injuries. They called the nurse in for question ing and she admitted that she had shaken the Kapsinow baby and four others. Miss Jaspers said she shook the Kapsinow baby when the infant refused to take her bot tle. She said she took hold of the child with both hands, pres sed both thumbs into the in fant's chest and shook her vio lently. The nurse was alone with the baby at the time. She said she didn't want to harm the babies but said she would lose patience with the in fants and shake or squeeze them. Mine Shaft Blast Kills 2, Hurts 3 Ontonagon, Mich. U.R) An investigation was begun to day into the cause of an explo sion which tore through a shaft of the Calidonia Mine, killing two miners and injuring three others. The blast took place in the shaft Monday, killing Edward J. Hayes. 51, and Hugo A. Lukkari, 36. both of Mass, Mich., The in jured men were not hurt seri ously. Mine officials said the cause of the explosion had not yet been determined but theorized it was caused by accidentally Ignited methane gas. dress" and the bespectacled tele vision and movie director, wear ing a grey business suit, met in Kingsley's music room for the wedding. Federal Judge Irving H. Say pol, who issued the marriage waiver after the couple obtained the license at 2:30 p.m., offi ciated. The couple, both 32, said after the ceremony, "we are both go ing on with our careers." Third for Gloria The marriage was the third for Miss Vanderbilt. Her first, at 17, was to actor's agent Pat Di Cicco. At 21, she married conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was more than three times her age. She divorced him last year, after a 10-year marriage, winning custody of their sons, Stanislaw, 8, and Christopher, 4. Lumet, former husband of ac tress Rita Gam, is the son of Polish immigrant parents. While living on New York's lower East Side he managed to win an acting part in Kingsley's Broad way play "Dead End." Lumet had important roles in such plays as "George Washing ton Slept Here." and "A Flag is Born." He subsequently went into television where for a time ha directed "You Are There" and "Danger." Massachusetts Hit By Sleeping Sickness Boston U.R) Two weeks of dry, cold weather would end the threat of mosquito -borne "sleeping sickness" now plague ing Massachusetts, a state health official said today. Dr. Roy F. Feemster, director of the division of communicable diseases, said the current wave of encephalitis or sleeping sick ness has proven fatal to three children and 18 horses, but is "by no means an epidemic. "We won't consider it an epi demic until we have at least 30 human cases in the state," Feem ster said. Seven cases in humans have been reported to date. The disease is usually fatal in 20 to 40 per cent of those strick en. Massachusetts is currently carrying on a land and air spray ing war against the spread of the disease. KIWANIS SPEAKER Con gressman Harris Ellsworth will address Medford Kiwanis club Wednesday at its noon luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club. He will report on the work of the last Congress and speak on the bills affecting Jackson coun ty. Ellsworth, Republican nom inee for reelection to the House of Representatives from Ore gon's fourth district, will be here also on Thursday evening for the Republican party jamboree at Hawthorne park. Street Widening Project Indicated Ashland Widening of North Main st. from Helman st. west to the new underpass is sched uled to be started soon, a letter to Ashland from the State High way department indicated Mon day. ' The letter notified the city that the highway department plans to call for bids on the street widening project in the near future. Plans call for wid ening the street to approximate ly 47 feet between curbs in order to provide four lanes of traffic without parking. This will be a federal-aid project. At present the street .is about 34 feet wide, according to Elmer C. Biegel, city superintendent. He said the widening project would eliminate the parkway on each side of the street. The state highway department will widen the street and repave it, while the city will lay a new six inch water main and install new street lighting. There will be no change of routing nor abandonment with in the city of Ashland, accord ing to the highway department. Some additional right-of-way will be required for widening, it was pointed out. A public hearing is tentatively set for Sept. 18, it was stated Monday, if the desire for a hear ing is expressed by residents. Nixon's Father Said Slightly Improved Los Angeles U.R Vice President Richard M. Nixon's 77-year-old father was slightly improved but remained in seri ous condition today after suffer ing a slight setback. Dr. I. N. Krauhaar said the father, Frank Nixon, was put ting up a determined fight to live and was doing as well as could be expected for a person of his age. The elder Nixon, suf fering from hemorrhaging of an artery in his abdomen, suf fered a slight relapse early Mon day but improved during the day. ' The vice president left his fa ther's bedside Sunday for Wash ington after conferring with the doctor. Nixon rushed to the fam ily home at LaHabra last Wed nesday when his father was stricken and in a critical con dition. Briton Questioned on Egyptian Espionage Cairo U.R) Egyptian au thorities today questioned one of two Britons arrested on espio nage charges with four Arabs and said "he may confess about others." James Swinburn, 51-year-old employee of the Arab News Agency, and Charles Pittuck. who worked for the Marconi Telegraph Company, were ar rested Monday on charges of es pionage. A government spokesman said Swinburn, accused of heading a spy ring which worked for Brit ain, may tell the names of other suspects during questioning to day. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Constitution Party Holds Convention To Pick Candidates Fort Worth. Tex (U.PJ The Constitution Party of the U. S., holding its national convention in Fort Worth, was to adopt a platform and nominate its pres idential and vice presidential candidates today. Between 75 and 100 Constitu tion party members from more than 17 states are meeting in the Texas Hotel. The party was founded by Philip' Lee Eubanks of San Antonio. j Andrews Seen Choice T. Coleman Andrews, former internal revenue commissioner, : was expected to head the ticket i and ex-Congressman Thomas H. I Werdel of California will prob-! ably get the vice-presidentia nomination. A spokesman said that both Andrews, a Richmond, Va., banker, and Werdel, who once ran for California governor against Earl Warren, have said they will accept the nominations. Andrews served as Internal Revenue commissioner under President Eisenhower, but re signed with a bitter condemna-1 tion of the nation's income tax laws. I Ask Just Interpretation j The party's platform Is called "The 10 commandments for good government." j One of the planks call for the "Constitution of the United ; States and Bill of Rights cor-! rectly and justly interpreted; Americanism and American jus tice; states rights exercised and ! retained; removal of govern-' ment from business; individual ' state regulation of public edu-: cation and protection of the legal rights of labor to a degree I equal to the rights of all other groups of citizens." Four More Banks Up Interest Rate Washington ftl.R) Four more Federal Reserve banks raised their interest rates today in line with the government's anti-inflation policy. Federal reserve banks at Bos ton, Atlanta, St. Louis and Dal las pushed their interest rates to the 3 per cent level adopted by five other banks last week. Two already were charging the higher rate. The bank at Kansas City is now the only one in the Federal Reserve system still holding the old 23i per cent level. The 3 per cent rate Is the highest since the "bank holiday" of 1933. Whenever the reserve system steps up the rate charged to member banks that borrow from the system, it tends to make all borrowing more expen sive by forcing up interest rates throughout the economy. This normally tends to reduce bor rowing. The latest round of increases began last week when the banks at New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Chicago jumped to 3 per cent. 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