Courtroom Spectators Whoop
With Joy Over Sander Acquittal
By H. D. Quigg
Manchester, N. H., March 10 (U.B Dr. Hermann N. Sander's
mercy murder trial ended Thursday with a quick verdict of
acquittal that brought whoops of Joy from courtroom spectators.
The all-male Jury of nine Catholics and three protcstants re
turned the verdict after only one hour and nine minutes' delib
eration, v-
Acquital of the 41 -year -old
Canadian physician came with
dramatic suddenness after 14
court days in which he success
fully combatted a charge that
he hastened the death of a can
cer patient by injecting air in
her veins.
The bespectacled physician
wept with his 37-year-old
wife, Alice, as they embraced
in the midst of a milling mass
of spectators, newsmen and
court attaches. '
"I am thankful it Is all
over," he said in a voice
choked with emotion. "I hope
to assume my practice right
away."
He smiled, kissing his wife
again and again while photo
graphers snapped dozens of pic
tures. "I am very grateful to Mr.
(Louie E.) Wyman for the way
he conducted the defense," said
the doctor, referring to his white
lhaired 71-year-old attorney who
-jad tried and won the first mur
der trail of his long career.
"I am very happy with the
press for their kindness and
courtesy throughout this ordeal
and last but not least it had been
wonderful to have my wife with
me throughout it all."
Dr. Sander had been charged
with first degree murder In the
death last Dec. 4 of Mrs. Abbie
C. Borroto, 59, a cancer-riddled
Manchester housewife.
The state charged he hastened
her death in the Hillsborough
County hospital by pumping 40
cubic centimeters of air into her
veins. The defense contended
the woman died .before even the
air was Injected.
Dr. Sander said he, his wife
and perhaps one of their three
small daughters were leaving
for an out-of-state vacation
which will last about two weeks.
The destination wag not disclos
ed. The 12-man Jury passed word
out at 4 p.m. that they had
reached a verdict.
They had begun deliberations
at 2:51 p.m.
The jury returned to the
courtroom at 4:10 p.m. and
Court Clerk Arthur S. Healy
asked them to stand arid Dr. San-
- der.
The 41 - year - old physician
stood for a moment, then sat as
Healy called the Jury roll while
the jurors remained on their
feet.
Dr Sander and his wife stared
at the men as the roll was called
Mr, foreman, nave you
Cagiest Horse Trader on
Capitol Hill Is Outfoxed
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, March 10 U.R The cagiest horse trader on Capi-lfy- sie wouldn't hitch and she
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Louis C. Cutter,
tile worker, i
"What say you, do you find
the respondent, Hermann San
der, guilty of- first degree mur
der, guilty of second degree mur
der or not guilty?"
"Not guilty," replied Cutter in
an even voice.
It was 4:11 p.m.
Whoops of joy rose from the
66 spectators.
Dr. Sander and his wife Alice,
37, sobbed. Their 71-year-old
Attorney Louis E. Wyman broke
into tears.
Superior Judge Harold E.
Westcott thanked the jurors and
told them not to discuss their
deliberations "under any cir
cumstances."
Atty. Gen. William L. Phinney,
the chief prosecutor and boy
hood chum of the doctor, left
the courtroom immediately after
the verdict without making
statement.
Grangers Dine
At North Howell
North Howell Dinner was
served to about 50 at the North
Howell Grange. A special table
for the January-February-March
birthdays was centered with a
cake and decorations. Birth
days of 15 members, the toast
master, Mrs. T. Thomas and Mas
ter Diadema Cline were observ
ed at this table.
After the dinner served by
the birthday committee Nellie
Hall, Florence Espe and Daisy
King, the agriculture committee
sponsored the program.
The Gervais high school band
played a number of selections.
Sharon and Cathy Hattrick ac
companied by their mother sang
Mary Ann Durn gave a reading.
Reading by Otto Dahl, solo by
Mr. Zitzwitz accompanied by
Mrs. Dahl, guitar duet by Mr
Newall of the county agent's of
fice.
Following the program Grange
was called to order by Master
Cline. Daisy Bump reported on
club and C.V.A. Nellie Hall,
agriculture chairman, brought a
specimen plant of tansy ragwort
as many members had not seen
it.
March 14 at 8 p.m. was the
date set for practice meeting at
Grange hall. Florence Oddie was
appointed to purchase needed
supplies lor the kitchen.
Hollis Smith
For Legislature
Dallas, March 10 Candidates
for Polk county offices in the
May primary will be few, but
strong contenders will be out for
most of the positions coming up
for election.
Seemingly attracting most at
tention is justice of the peace dis
trict No. 3 (Dallas) with three
republicans vieing for the nom
mination. They are C. L. Mar-
sters, Dallas city attorney; John
Overholser, now completing an
electrical engineering course at
Oregon State college; and O. E.
(Andy) Anderson, former Dallas
high school coach and ex-busi
nessman.
Mayor Hollis Smith said Wed
nesday that he would file as a
republican candidate for repre
sentative from Polk county. He
made the statement after Joe
Harland, Rickreall farmer, and
Walter Leth, former county
agent, indicated they would not
be in the race. Lyle Thomas,
who has served in that position
since 1935 but for one term, an
nounced recently that he would
not run this year. Mrs. Joe
Rogers, Sr., of Independence,
who has sought the position a
number of times before unsuc
cessfully, Is back again as a re
publican candidate. On the
democrat side, Al Dembowski of
Dallas has tossed his hat in the
ring.
Senator Dean Walker of In
dependence has indicated that
he will seek the nomination
again from Polk and Benton
counties.
James R. Manchas of Oakdale
filed as democratic candidate for
county commissioner for the
position now held by W. E
Knower, republican. Knower
filed sometime ago.
Only other candidate seeking
nomination through Thursday
was Ralph P. Howe, republican,
for county surveyor, a position
which he now holds.
to a
Gypsy for a sound pony. But
now two of his friends andor
victims" have ganged up on
him.
One is Owen L. Scott, execu
tive editor of the U. S. News and
World Report, who bought a
mare from the Oregon senator.
A mare too frisky for the editor
to handle.
The other is Paul Washke,
neighbor of the lawmaker near
Eugene, Ore. He and the senator
went cahoots on a couple of
brood mares last fall. Morse
agreed to pay for the feed if
Washke would see that the ani
mals were fed daily on the sen
ator's ranch. Oregon had its
worst winter in history and
neighbor Washke had to walk a
mile round trip daily through
the drifts to keep his end of the
bargain.
Anyhow, Washke has seen
and ridden the mare Scott owns
and the two agreed to a trade
provided the senator would furn
ish the transportation.
"I've licked both so often,"
said the senator, "that I've
got to be a sport about it. It'll
cost me six or seven travel
days each way with my car
and trailer to get one mare
out to Oregon and the other
back here. And at least $200
for gas and hotels."
UNIVERSITY OF
OREGON
By CHARLOTTE ALEXANDER
Campus Clippings
Washke is an old timer in the
horse business with the senator.
Back in 1934 Washke was a
physical education instructor
at the University of Oregon
and Morse was dean of the
law school there. The two
bought a couple of mares
sight unseen for $250 each
from a man In Wisconsin and
agreed that the dean would
have first pick. The fillies ar
rived; both had been mis
represented. One was a ham
mer headed brute not worth
her weight in hay and the
other one didn't look much
better. Morse picked the one
which didn't look much better.
For a time it appeared that
the old horse trader (Morse)
had made a bad deal. Washke's
hammer-head turned out to be
a pretty good buy, But Morse's
oat eater showed up crazy in the
head. A loco," as horsemen
At length, the then dean let
it be known that he was in (he
market for a new car. He'd al
ways driven Fords and specified
his word-of-mouth advertise
ment that he'd trade in his old
one, plus the mare market
value $250 plus receipt from
the dealer of $88 freight charges
that brought the animal west.
Along came Buick, Graham
Paige, and Pontiac.
Morse still was slinging from
the bad deal he had made with
his friend Washke and listened
to all offers. Lawrence Simmons,
uie tugene rora dealer, came
to him pleading that "we can't
afford to have you stop driv
ing Fords, sir."
In no time at all, the dean
was behind the wheel of a new
Ford, and Simmons was own
er of a mare that wouldn't
budge.
Morse had pulled another
fasty.
Simmons still wasn't too happv
about the deal.
He had the mare less than a
week when she suddenly stop
ped being stubborn, busted
loose, and nearly tore herself to
pieces bolting .through a barb
ed wire fence.
Simmons traded the mare for
10 Angora goats at heaven
knows what sacrifice.
Broker Dies
Chicago John Jay Bryant.
Jr., 74, broker and former pres
ident and governor of the Chi
cago Slock Exchange and one
time chairman of the Associa
tion of Stock Exchange firms
High to Send
15 Students
Fifteen students from Salem
senior high school will attend the
Willamette university speech
tournament to be held Friday
and Saturday, March 10 and 11.
Schools from all over the Wil
lamette valley will send speech
delegates to the tourney to rep
resent their school's debate department.
There are six contests which
the students may enter: oratory,
extempore speaking, serious in-j
terprctation, humorous interpre-1
tation, debate and impromptu.
Speech coaches and Willam-j
ette university students will be
the judges. i
Students representing Salem j
high school at the tournament
are Doris Frohm, Paul Ward,
Joanne Ellis, John Bone, Jim
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Humphry, Marion Putnam, Bill
Maude, Don Anderson, Ronald
Swanson, Louis Matter, John
Periman, Gilbert Bateson, Eu
nice Peckcnpaugh, Gene Poin
dexter and Frank ViTaris.
The Willamette university
high school speech tournament
will have approximately 250 stu
dents, representing 23 schools,
participating.
This year's tournament has at
tracted one of the largest groups
of students since the program
was inaugurated
Schools participating include
Pendleton, Klamath Falls, Med
ford, Grants Pass, Coquille
Marshfield, Salem, Albany, Eu
gene, Grant and Washington
from Portland as well as many
others.
Friday's program will be de
voted to preliminary rounds
with semi-finals and finals slat
ed for Saturday.
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The day of reckoning is at last here that could only mean
finals. The library is once again filled to capacity and the fresh
men are busy working on their comp term papers "Addison &
Steele." Registration has been completed and plans are being made
lor spring vacation
The campus events have just
about come to a close for win
ter term. Two big events next
term will be Junior week-end
and campus election. Commit
tees are now being picked for
Junior week-end and the vari
ous houses are making their se
lection of a song for the all
campus sing.
Political Organizations such
s AGS, USA, and ISA are or
ganizing their platforms for the
big race to come.
Chi Psis are feeling quite elat
ed over winning the 1950 Intra
mural championship. The Chi
Psis won over the Phi Delts.
"Warrior's Husband," the
third production of the Univer
sity theater, has been claimed
the funniest in years. The cos
tumes are very colorful, and set
' tings quite lavish. The cast seems
to be having such a wonderful
time with the play and that only
adds to its enjoyment.
Members of Delta Tau Delta
assembled in Eugene for their
annual Founder's day banquet.
Harold Brenton, national presi
dent, was the guest speaker.
The Military ball Saturday
night was the usual success. The
decorations were very outstand
ing. A huge ceiling was made
for McArthur court, which rep
resented the American flag. This
flag was made of crepe paper,
wnn iignts shining from above,
casting a shadow of the flag on
ine aance lioor.
Dick Tau and Pat Zosel came
from Salem for the dance . .
Kay Huntington and Hugh Bur-
kett were seen with their dates.
. . . Janie Carson and fiance
Jim Shaw, were there. Jim took
part in the tapping ceremonies
for Scabbard and Blade.
With finals over the Oregon
students will be looking forward
to their vacation.
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scheme and roll-up-roll-down
bamboo blinds in a unique (and
inexpensive) window treatment
lifted It out of the ordinary.
The walls, woodwork and
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