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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,
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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
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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."