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Doctor Nervously Awaifs Trial In Mercy Killing As Young Girl Tries To Forget Ordeal Of Similar Case Manchester, N. H., Feb. 17 (U.R) A 41-year-old doctor wait ed nervously today in a two story frame country home for the beginning of his "mercy" murder trial. In another two-story frame house in Stamford, Conn., a honey-haired girl, half the doc tor's age. tries to forget her "mercy killing" trial. Carol Ann Paight. the girl who killed her cancer-tortured father and was acquitted by a iury of middle-aged parents, ;new what Dr. Hermann Nelson Sander was going through. "I certainly think everybody is praying for him," Carol told the United Press by telephone. Bean Resting "I know about his case, but I haven't read too much about it I'm trying not to read the pa pers," she said. "I've been rest ing." Carol said she didn't know enough about the case of Dr. Sander even to wish him good luck. But the slim, tall college senior, and the soft-spoken ath letic general practitioner have a common bond. They were paired strangely in trials that have brought the issue of euthana sia "mercy death" out of the abstract phrases of the pamph let, the text book, the legislative hall, and the pulpit and into the quick arena of the courtroom. Both were the center of world attention. Both have been prais ed, denounced; defended, at tacked. Both have a good repu tation among the home folks. Both were charged by their states with taking human life in violation of the laws of God and man. On the lawn of the white house in Stamford there is a neatly lettered sign: "Carl -IMP M32. ATririy-fineBock nCWCO IV BOHEMIAN ftrMERlEft. INC. POKANC HAYES DISTRIBUTING CO., 220 N. FIR ST., MEDFORD ii ii We Now 1950 CHEVROLET TRUCK Installed for Only- BARNES 227 East 9th Paight" the name of the father Carol killed. On the rural-type nil maiiDox at tne side of the doctor's home insuburban Can dia is lettered: "H. N. Sander, M.D." Held in Custody Carol did not see her home from the time she shot her father until she was acquitted nearly five months later, because mur der is not a bailable offense in her state. Dr. Sander, charged with first degree murder, has been free in $25,000 bail, an ac tion rare in capital cases in his state. There was a report that when the trial begins in superior court at 10 a.m. Monday, the state will ask that the defendant's bail be discontinued and that he be re arrested and kept in custody for the duration of the trial. That would be possible, although un der the law the bail could be continued until there is a ver dict. Asked about the report, At torney General William L. Phin ney replied "Why should we?" A member of the attorney gener al's staff said he knew of no plan for such action, but added that "anything is .a possibility." Car In Pond, Ducks Protest; Send Police! Spokane. Wash., Feb. 17 (U.R) State Patrol Radio Op erator Jerry Teele, listening over his short wave radio, heard a police operator in an unidentified southern Califor nia city order a prowl car to go to the assistance of another police car. The operator reported: "There's a car parked in a duck pond and the ducks are raising heck." I&iN ii Have the NEW '1AE " IWI ENGINE che HONOR ROLL Medford senior high school honor roll for the first semester lists the following names and grades: Sophomores Birdseye, Mary Ann A B A B Cody, Cheryle ABBA Coyle, Janet A A A A B Darby, June A B B A A Frink, Meta Jean A A A A Harris, Sue . A A A A Hicks, Kathleen A B A B Janes, Diane A C B A Laird, Marie A A C B B Meadows. Verna B B A A Pond, Johneva B A A B Rice, Maureen ABABA Shaw, Anita A A B A B Snell. Norma A A A A Starcher. Robene A A A A Tetreault, Janice A B A A Van Horn, Joan B B A A West, Gail A A A A Barnard, Dick A A A B Devoe, Bob A A B A Hillver, Bob B A A B McAllister. Bill B A B A B Merritt, Jim A C A B Phyllis, Douglas B A B A A Rogers, Roy A A A A A Sherwood, Duane B A B A B Juniors Adams, Astrid Baugh, Neomah Carson, Eloise Collins, Elizabeth Coolcy, June Cooney, Sally Cooper, Claudia Gillispie, Alverna Hinkle. 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Dolores Peabody, Leah Robinette. Gloria Runtz, Jean Sams, Carole Tolle. Muriel Wright, Dorothy Collins, James Coverstone, Dean De Zell, John Goodman, George Grimm, Jim Johnson, Martin Maddox, Raoul McCabe. Stephen Rentcheler, Bob Stothers. Lee Parts New YsiQ Engine Assembly New Carburator 5 Quarts of Oil Includes Labor Remove Your Old Worn CHEVROLET ENGINE and Replace with the New 1950 "105" TRUCK ENGINE VR01 NAUTICAL HOSTESS Popping out of porthole, smiling Janet Jackson extends an Invitation w the fifth annual Sports, Travel and Boat Show In San Franctsc March 3-IX Dow Plant Explosion Kills Eight, Hurts 26 Midland, Mich., Feb. 17 U.R) Dow Chemical company said to day that the explosion which ripped through a paint labora tory, killing eight and injuring 26, caused more than $500,000 damage. The blast tore off the roof yesterday and wrecked one side of the two - story, block - long brick building which housed the firm's latex plant. Fire broke out and firemen battled three hours. Authorities said they had no clue to the cause of the explo- WET ALL OVER San Francisco (U.R) It was raining hard as John Unsinn drove through the night In Gold en Gate park, his car splashing water from many puddles. He drove into another puddle and the car slowly sank uy) to its win dows. Unsinn swam ashore. He had driven into the park's fly casting pond. TOO MANY PITTSFORDS Pittsford. Mich. (U.R) Em ployees at Pittsford's post office are getting slightly confused. The high school English class is ex changing letters with students in two other Pittsfords. in Vermont and New York. Employees say they have to look twice at each letter before sorting it. Walker, Bill Welty, Jim Wendt. Warren AAAA AAA AA AAAA PRICE INCLUDES: 1950 "105" El Phone 2-6115 Gen. Clay Defends Plans To Battle Blockade By Reds New York (U.R) Gen. Lu cius D. Clay, then U. S. military governor, proposed in 1948 that the United States send an armed convoy across the Soviet zone of Germany to Berlin to break the Soviet blockade of the city. The U.S. government rejected the proposal, according to Clay, because of the risk that it might provoke an armed conflict with Russia. Clay Confirms Rumor Clay confirms his oft-rumored blockade-breaking proposal for the first time in "Decision in Germany," his own story of his fours years in the Reich, pub lished by Doubleday. He said he sent the proposal to Washington on July 10, 1948, less than three weeks after the Soviets had clamped a complete land - water blockade on Berlin on the pretext of "technical dif ficulties." By then, Clay said, he was convinced that the Soviet gov ernment did not want war, but believed that the western allies would yield much rather than risk testing the Russian position Suggestions Overruled Said Clay: "I reported this conviction to our government, suggesting that we advise the Soviet representa tives in Germany that under our rights to be in Berlin we proposed on a specific date to move in an armed convoy which would be equipped with the en gineering material to overcome the technical difficulties which the Soviet representatives ap peared unable to solve. "I made it clear that I under stood fully the risk and its impli cations ana mat tnis was a neci I sion which could be made only by the government. No Convoy Passes "No armed convoy could cross the border without the possibil ity of trouble. In my view, the chances of such a convoy being met by force with subsequent developments of hostilities were small. I was confident that it would get through to Berlin and that tne highway blockade would be ended. "W hen our government turned down my suggestion, I understood its desire to avoid this risk of armed conflict until the issue had been placed before the United Nations. I shall el ways believe that the convoy would have reached Berlin." Montana Civil War Vet Suffers Attack New York, Feb. 17 (U.R) Civil War Veteran Samuel Ben nett, 102, of Miles City, Mont., was hospitalized today after a bus ride from Washington, D.C., to visit a friend. Bennett, last surviving mem ber of the GAR in Montana, col lapsed in Times Square last night just as he was about to hail a cab. He told police he felt week after walking up the steps from the subway. He was taken to St. Clare's Crosley Electric Range Quart of Veedol Thor Washer Schwinn Built Bicycle The Service Is Always the Same Rogue 8th and Front Friday. February 17. 1950 hospital for observation. 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