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Newspaper Page Text1 MB 5 Uu DDI Patient Department Head Unable To Obtain Pulse Of Victim First Of Witnesses Produced By Defense ' Manchester, N. H., Mar. 30- (U.R) The defense today pro duced the first of a series of wit nesses who will say cancer-pa- ticnt Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 39, was dead when Dr. Hermann N. Sander injected air into her veins. "I thought she was dead," said Mrs. Cecilia Smith, supervisor of the women's ward at Hillsbor ough county hospital where Mrs. Borroto died Dec. 4. Dr. Sander is accused of tak ing her life by injecting air in a mercy murder. Unable To Get Pulse Mrs. Smith said she entered Mrs. Borroto's room about 11 a.m. on the day of her death at the request of Miss Elizabeth Rose, the bedside nurse. "Did you take Mrs. Borroto's pulse?" asked Defense Attorney Robert P. Booth. "I wasn't able to get a pulse," said Mrs. Smith. She returned to ihe room a few minutes later with Dr. Al bert K. Snay, a staff physi cian. She watched Dr. Snay try to get a pulse and listen with a stethoscope to Mrs. Borroto's chest. "What was Mrs. Borroto's ap pearance?" asked Booth. "She had an awful death pal lor . . . and she was cold and clammy to the touch," replied Mrs. Smith. "What was her condition?" "I thought she was dead." "Was she breathing?" , "No." "Was Mrs. Borroto gasping?" "No." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." Did Not Enter Room Mrs. Smith said that when Dr. Sander arrived she did not go into the room "but walked away to take care of my own duties." "Have you ever heard any sounds coming from a person after death?" "Yes." "What were those sounds?" "The sounds of air escaping." Attorney General William L. Phinney, who had dramatically read the hippocratic physician's oath to the jury, began cross examination. Mrs. Smith said in answer to Phinney's questioning she got the stethoscope for Dr. Snay and that he was in Mrs. Borroto's room about two minutes. She said she saw Dr. Snay and Dr. Sander meet in the corridor as Dr. Snay left the room. Mrs. Smith said she saw Dr. Sander enter the room but she did not enter with him. Red Deputies Riot In French Assembly Paris, Mar. 3 IU.R) Commun ist deputies rioted in the national assembly today, seized the ros trum and held it for hours in defiance of repeated orders to get out. Half a dozen other deputies were beaten, some seriously, and benches were smashed in one of the stormiest free-for-alls the French chamber had seen for years. One communist deputy was censured and expelled for one month. But hours later the ousted dep uty, Gerard Duprat, remained in possession of the tribune. He was surrounded by a bodyguard of fellow communists, defying or ders by Edouard Herriott, 77-year-old assembly president, to leave the house. Mother Fearful of Cancer Returns to Home of Family Rensselaer. N. Y Mar. 3 IU.R) Mrs. Helen B. Overlander, 30-year-old runaway mother, came home today and said she left her husband and three small children a week ago because she feared she had cancer and "didn't want to be a burden to anyone." She said she still was "not convinced" she doesn't have the dread disease, but added tear fully, as she embraced her hus band: "I will never do It again." Visited Brother Mrs. Overlander disappeared last Friday after giving the chil dren some toys and telling them. "You will never see me again." She returned this morning and said she had been visiting a brother in Stillwater, Okla. Mrs. Overlander, who had been the object of a 14-state po lice search, said she left home early last Saturday and, alter cashing a check, boarded a train at Albany for Oklahoma. "I didn't know what I was going to do," she said. "I didn't want to be a burden to anyone. I'm glad to be back and I'll do anything my husband wants me to. I was so mixed up I didn't know what to do." Dead Before Injections, ' FILES CANDIDACY David C. Shaw, above, of Gold Beach, has filed his candidacy for con gressman from the fourth Ore gon district. He will seek the democratic nomination in the May 19 primary election. Shaw will seek the congressional seat now held by Harris Ellsworth, Rosebug.. i, Mail Delays Cited By Medford Man At CAB Hearing Salem, Mar. 3 Mail destined for Klamath Falls and dispatch ed from Medford has to travel 425 miles by rail and bus via Eugene or Dunsmuir, according to Chester Hubbard, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce president, who testified at the civil aeronautics board hearing here late yesterday Hubbard, representing the chamber and the Jackson countv court, was appearing as an "in terested party at the hearing, which is for the purpose of study ing proposed revisions in United airlines' and West Coast air ways' certificates. Hubbard's in terest is in additional service be tween Medford and Klamath Falls, and he1 did not speak for or against any air carrier. Can't Serve Both united s certmcate prevents it from serving both Medford and Klamath Falls on the same flight, it was pointed out. A Klamath Falls delegation headed by State Sen. Phillip Hitchcock said that Unitcd's schedules in and out of Klam ath Falls provide only one flight each day north and south, and that times do not permit busi nessmen to transact business in Portland or San Francisco and return the same day. Other than this, service is satisfactory, thev said. UAL is being asked at the hear ing to show cause why it should be permitted to continue to serve Klamath Falls and other Oregon points, including Salem. The Salem hearing adjourned yester day afternoon, and will be re sumed in Washington, D.C., March 27. Deadline Nears For Public Office Filing Persons planning to seek nom ination for public office in the primary election of May 19 must declare their intention to run with the county clerk by March 10 one week from today. Terms of three county officials expire this year. They are: sheriff, en gineer and surveyor, and justice of the peace. Three of the coun ty s seats in the state legisla ture, two in the house and one in the senate, must also be filled. It was on last Saturday that a doctor told Mrs. Overlander's husband, Sherrell, that tests showed she had no trace of can cer. He had reporled her disap pearance to authorities and said he was convinced she left home because of her fear of the dis ease. "I Intended to get way from myself and I wouldn't have come back if I hadn't heard re ports that the police and my family were looking for me," Mrs. Overlander said. Told of the doctor's report, she said: To Continue Treatments "It's hard to be convinced by the word of one doctor." Overlander said his wife would continue treatments for a stom ach disorder. Ovcrfandrr a truck driver, was on a trip to New York city when his wife returned and was not reunited with her for sev eral hours. Their three children. Sherrell Jr.. 10; Carl, eight, and Mary Elizabeth, six, who had prayed every night for their mother's return, had been cared for by friends. Medford 44th Year 16 Pages British Communism Issue In Attack Upon Aftlee Appointee Conservative Press Dares Revelations London, Mar. 3 (U.R) War Minister John Strachey was chal lenged publicly today to say where, when and under what circumstances he ever disavowed his belief in communism. Lord Beavcrbrook's conserva tive press dared Strachey to give places and dates of any public affirmation which would bear out an unprecedented defense of the war minister by Prime Min ister Clement Attlee. Confronts Laborites Beaverbrook's Evening Stand ard picked up the ball for the second straight day of an offen sive against Strachey. It con fronted the labor government, which squeezed through the gen eral elections to a bare and un workable majority in commons, with the gravest so far of an ex pected series of crisis. The standard opened the at tack yesterday by charging in a front page splash that the newly appointed war minister was an "avowed communist." his post put him in a position of prime responsibility for counter-espionage against communists such as Dr. Klaus Fuchs, who gave Rus sia atomic secrets. . --.-Charges Denied Attlee's office retorted with an unprecedented statement deny ing the published charges as un true and "disgraceful headlines." It said that Strachey, as long ago as 1940, "had made it clear that he was in fundamental disagree ment with the communist party, of which he has never been a member." School Merger To Get Revote Soon Central Point, Mar. 3 At a school election on Monday, March 6, patrons of Tolo dis trict No. 98 and consolidated dis trict No. 6 will revote on merger. Election hours are 7 to 9 p. m. Tolo patrons will ballot at the garage on the Richard Savage farm on highway 99. There will be one voting place only for residents of district No. 6, the Central Point school gymnasium. Revote Needed , The consolidation was ap proved in August but the revote was called because of a legal technicality raised by the bond ing company concerning the suhher election. Tolo youngsters have been at tending school at Central Point for several years. Last summer the old Tolo school structure was burned in a brush fire that swept over Blackwcll hill. Voting qualifications for the election are legal residence for six months in the district and registration at least 30 days pre ceding the election. There must be a favorable vote in each dis trict to authorize consolidation. Two Youths Arrested For Old Burglary Bennie Harvell Lawler, 24, and Kenneth Albert Roberts. 22, were arrested yesterday after noon in connection with the theft on Aug. 27, 1949. of 14 guns from the Cass Brothers Gun shop, 1080 South Riverside ave nue, according to state police. The youths are held in the county jail on charges of bur glary not In a dwelling and have admitted the theft, police said. Officers got a lead in the case when one gun was found cached in a barn last week. Most of the firearms have been recovered. LAGESONS LEAVE Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Lageson left today for Portland where Dr. Lageson will attend the an nual convention of the Oregon State Dental association. En route north he will take Bart in a clinic conducted by the Port land Prosthetic club conducted in conjunction with the University of Oregon school of dentistry on the campus it Eugene. They will return Thursday. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, War Minister Challenged ' iiy!ptigsS.Tlf"'' w"!fWff321 FIVE SHOT IN GUN BATTLE-Suspect Identified as Pedro Gon sales, 25, alias James Ford, is carried from night club In New Yortc s Greenwich Village after gon duel between bandits and police in which five were shot. Gonzales and two other gunmen, reportedly "hopped up" with marijuana and whiskey, were thwarted in their attempt to bold up the 100 patrons and the proprietor of the club by two detec tives on night patroL Fireman Saves Doll; Tot B urns To Death Oklahoma Cityr Okla., Mar. 3 (U.K) The cries of a' large "mama" doll sounded so real that a fireman carried It to "safe ty" while two-year-old Carolyn Thompson suffocated in a blaz ing bedroom. Fireman Bob Coley said he put on a gas mask and crawled back into the bedroom after dis covering his tragic mistake, but the child was dead when he found her. Starts in Closet The fire started yesterday in a closet of Charles W. Thompson's apartment in a 12-family frame building at a veterans housing unit. It was almost out when fire men arrived, authorities said, because two persons refused to get off a telephone party line when two women tried to report the blaze. W. P. Bruce, chief of the vet erans hospital fire department, said closed doors and windows prevented Mrs. Thompson from reaching her child. Coley rushed into the apart- Prospect In Finals Of Consolation Round Prospect high will play Elk ton in the consolation round fi nals of the Southern Oregon col lege invitationcd basketball tour nament Saturday at 2 p. m. The Cougars entered the championship round this morn ing by downing St. Mary's (Med ford) 39 to 27 while Elkton elim inated Valsctz 33 to 28. Pros pect led at the half 20 to 15 and Elkton was on top at the half 27 to 17. Talent will play Cold Hill at 7 p. m. and Oakland will meet Westport at 8:15 in the tourney title semi-finals today. Radio Highlights Radio station KYJC (1230 kc) will broadcast the 10-round boxing match between Jersey Jo Walcott and Omelio Agra monl from Madison Squire garden tonight, starting at 7 o'clock. KWIN (1400 kc) will broad east the Oregon State-Washington basketball games from Seattle on Friday and Satur day, starting at 8 p.m. At about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, by delayed broadcast. KWIN will air the championship gam of th class B invitation al baskstball tournament now being played at Southern Ore gon college. WEATHER rORKCAflT: Clourlv unit mild with orejMlonal lthl ip tinkle tonight and Saturday. Temp. HlfhMt YMltrifay Lowell (till Morning . 43 Prvc. to 4:30 A.M. Today, Trace C ervisor Says 'Acme TeUnhoto) mcnt when someone told him Carolyn "was in the west bed room." "But she wasn't there, and I had to get out for a second to breathe," he said. Mrs. Thomp son was screaming hysterically. "She told me the baby was on a bed in the other bedroom," Coley said. "I crawled on the floor to the bed. I couldn't see a thing because of the smoke. But I felt something wrapped in a blanket. When 1 pulled it off the bed, it cried just like a baby." Returned To Bedroom Coley was dumbfounded when he learned he had rescued a doll. He put on a gas mask and re turned to the bedroom to bring out the child's lifeless body. Mrs. Thompson collapsed when hospital attendants told her Car olyn was dead. Doctors said the girl had suffocated, although third degree burns covered most of her tiny body. The father was on duly as an electrician for the Oklahoma City fire department at the time of the fire. City firemen do not serve the veterans housing proj ect because it is outside the city limits. Two Crew Leaders For Census Named Here Mrs. Dorothy Doty and H. F. Fricl will be crew leaders in Medford for the 1950 decennial census, it was announced today by Guy Corliss, assistant district supervisor for the census bureau. Examinations for the positions were given here last Tuesday. In Ashland, the crew leader will be Mrs. D. V. Mathency. Examinations for the selection of the 55 enumerators who will conduct the census In this county will be held Monday, March 8, at the federal circuit In the post office building. Corliss . said. Those who have already applied have been notified as to the time and place of the examinations. Others who are interested in seeking jobs as enumerators may apply directly to Corliss at the post office Monday. The exams are scheduled for 9 and 10:30 a.m., and 1:30 and 3 p.m. Young Arsonist Taken From Father's Care The Jackson county Juvenile court has ordered that a nine-year-old boy, charged with start ing three fires here last week, be taken from the custody of his father and placed in foster home for long-term care. The father was ordered to contribute to his son's support until permanent disposition of the case is made by the court. Juvenile Officer John Richard said the boy will be examined in a child guidance clinic to deter mine if there is any psycho pathic basis for his beim' ior, The boy admitted starting Ihe fires and had also been picked up previously as a run-away and for alleged burglary. Tribune 1950 NO. 290 State Department Bans Delegation Of 12 Europeans ' Group Seeks End To Arms Program Washington, Mar. 3 (U.R) The is t a t e department today barred from the United States a 12-man leftist delegation which sought to come here from Europe to petition congress to ban atomic weapons and end the arms race. The department refused visas for the delegation, which includ ed the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the so-called red dean of Canter bury, and Pablo Picasso, the famed Spanish painter. Subject To Exclusion "The 12 delegates, on the basis of available information, are either known communists or fel low travelers and are therefore subject to exclusion from the United States under the immigra tion laws," the state department announced. It added that it had consulted with congressional leaders and with their support "is refusing to grant entry to the proposed delegation." The delegation represented "The World Congress of Parti sans of Peace," which the state department said Is "the leading overall communist front organi zation in the world." It said the "Partisans of Peace" move ment is "a major Soviet instru mentality for propaganda and political pressure." Cliiitns Warned The department warned Amer ican citizens that communist front organizations are pressing an extensive propaganda cam paign to promote so-called peace movements. O. John Rogge, former assist ant attorney general, was sched uled to call at the state depart ment today to plead for visas for the delegation. During the night, however, the state department instructed its overseas consul ates to deny visas to the delega tion as such. This left the possi bility that the delegation mem bers applying as individuals could receive visas if they sought to come to the United States for some other purpose. Alaska Statehood Urged On Congress Washington, Mar. 3 (U.R) Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlctt urged congress today to give Alaska statehood "the key to unlock our treasures." "It has what is needed to make a prosperous state of the union," he told the house in opening de bate on the statehood bill. "Give us the key and we shall make this rich and great country of ours even richer and greater." He cited 'Alaska's untapped mineral, timber and hydroelec tric resources and one other its people who have sought state hood for 34 years. Alaska's strategic location re cently" has brought more gen erous appropriations mostly for defense than ever before, Bart lctt said. These funds have en couraged population and indus trial growth. TO VOTE ON DST Grants Pass, Mar. 3 The Grants Pass city council at its next meeting will vote on wheth er or not the city will go on day light saving time this summer. Medford's 'Joy Scout' In Portland to Sign Up 10,000 of City's 'Sourpusses' Portland, Ore., Mar. 3 (U.R) "Joy Scout" Joe R. Neil today has what he thinks is the answer to unhappy men who want to join a club that holds no meet ings, collects no dues or assess ments, and avoids elections by making everyone an officer. Nell is here to conscript 10,000 Portland "sourpusses" into his "Are You Happy" club that got its start Feb. 14 in Medford, Ore., "the city of smiles." The organi zation's 700 members are scat tered as far cast as Missouri, and Nell said the, idea Is catching. The for-men only club got Its start when Neil stopped a Med ford furniture dealer on the 1 street and asked: "Are you happy?" The dealer thought It over for while before deciding in the 'CAN WAIT NO LONGER' TRUMAN TELLS CONGRESS IN SPECIAL MESSAGE Washington, Mar. 3 (UP) President Truman asked congress today for authority to take over the coal mines and operate them temporarily "as a pub lic service." In a special message to the house and senate he said he hoped soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers would reach a strike-ending agreement "be fore it actually becomes necessary for the government to take possession of the mines." "But we can wait no longer to prepare ourselves with the necessary legislative authority," he said. The president called for seizure powers after all other government efforts to end the four-week total strike by mediation and court injunctions had failed. Union and management negotiators were unable to agree on a new contract and the miners themselves refused to obey back-to-work orders from the courts or John L. Lewis. Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois promised that the president's request would get the fastest possible action. He said a Saturday session may be held, and that a seizure bill could be passed Preparations For Spring Opening Completed Today Preparations were nearly com plete at noon today for the gala spring opening event planned to night by Medford merchants to give the public its first view of new spring merchandise. Beginning at 7 p.m.', the eve ning's program includes an auto mobile farm equipment show that will take over two blocks of Bartlett street, martial music by the senior high school band, and a "model identification" game with $5 merchandise tickets as prizes. Prises In Gam Anyone who can soot one of the 25 or 30 models that mingle with the crowds from 7 p.m. un til 8 p.m. will be given tickets entitling them to $5 worth -of trade at the store sponsoring the model. Bob Agard and his retail trade committee of the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce have worked out the general plan for the opening, and details of the program have been handled by John P, Moffat and Howard J. Boyd. The retail trade committee also sponsored the successful Christ mas opening that attracted some 15,000 window stoppers to the Medford business district last November. High Court Rules On UN Memberships The Hague, Netherlands, Mar. 3 (U.R) The international court of Justice ruled 12 to 2 today that the United Nations general assembly cannot admit states to UN membership without a rec ommendation from the security council. In effect the ruling upholds a veto on memberships by the Big Five powers represented on the council Russia. Britain, France, China and the United States. The advisory opinion was asked by the general assembly after repeated Soviet vetoes in the security council prevented numerous prospective UN mem bers, including Italy, from ob taining membership. The dissenting votes were east by the judges of Chile and Bra zil. The court ruling upheld the position of Russia, which has maintained that the security council must agree on all mem berships. TO REPAIR STREETS Mayor Flynn said today that spring street repair has com menced In Medford. Two trucks with patching crews are out now and yesterday filled chuck holes at the Main street bridge. Both city graders are now in opera tion, Flynn reported. affirmative Nell proposed, "Let's start a club." The conscription began, and B0 members with happy faces were enrolled on Valentine's day. Since then, members who joined the club have received membership cards when ihoy wrote Neil (Bth and Bartlctt, Medford) and sent 10 cents to cover mailing and handling costs, The female sex Is the only thing taboo In the miles-of-smilcs club. "I don't know why women aren't in the club." the Joy scout mused, "but we're undertaking some research to find out. May be they're already happy, or maybe they're hopelessly unhappy." by tomorrow night. But Speaker Sam Rayburn told reporters there would be no action in the house before Monday. Mr. Truman throughout his message referred to the bitumin ous crisis, and it was expected that if he seizes mines, he would seize only the soft coal mines. The anthracite miners have con tinued to work a three-day week. With his message Mr. Truman sent a proposed draft of legisla tion. He asked congress to act "as quickly as possible." Impartial Boards He proposed the establishment of two Impartial boards one to recommend "fair and just com pensation" to the operators for use of the mines, and the other to see that the miners receive "fair and just compensation for their work." (Mr. Truman gave no detailed description of the bill In his message. Copies of the bill were not available immediately.) The chief executive stressed that he did not propose the leg islation as a mean of dictating settlement of the eight-month contract dispute between the op erators and the- United Mine Workers. Sttl Own Problems "They will have to settle their differences through their own collective bargaining, just as though government operation were not In effect," he said. "I do not propose to substitute the government's representatives for the private operators at the bar gaining table." He said that the government would not establish wages, hours or working conditions that would bind either the miners or the operators upon resumption of private operations. He specified that the mines would be "promptly returned to private hands" once the country can be assured of sufficient coal supplies. State Construction Funds Under Study Salem, Ore., Mar. 3 (U.R) An emergency appropriation of $241,000 for state construction waa up for study late today by a joint meeting of the state board of control and the state emer gency board. The total needed for the pro gram is $373,000. Of that amount, $132,000 would come out of the state building fund. exhausting that fund approved by the 1949 legislature. Items in the program Include: $115,000 for an addition to the nurses' home at Eastern Oregon State hospital in Pendleton; $25, 000 for a sewage disposal plant at Woodburn boys' school, and In the Salem area, $56,000 for a sprinkler system for the ad ministration building and pa tients' cottage at Fairview home, $15,000 for a sprinkler sys tem and $12,000 for a dining room at the state school for the deaf, and $150,000 for an admin istration building at Oregon State hospital. The happy-go-lucky club has two offices. Neil ii president, and all members become auto matic vice-presidents. Most recent development in the club's growth Is the official designation of Medford as "the city of smiles," by Mayor Dia mon Flynn and Chamber of Com merce President Chet Hubbard. Neil is to visit Portland's Myor Dorothy MrCullough Lee In behalf of "city of smiles," but he said the visit will take some diplomacy. "She's a woman and our strongest rule forbids female members," he explained. "I'm In Portland to spread good cheer," Nell continued. "The club picks a community up. You can see the results In town the size of Medford. It's fun, and it docs lot of good."