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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rrld.y. M.reh 3. 1950 1 U- IIIUJ riiiiiuiiaiy mncu In Freedom Attempt fAcmt Ttifphotol DENIES URGING 'MERCY MURDER'-n?Bln1i Borroto (left), accompanied by hl attorney, j. Murray Oevlne, leaves court In Manchester, N. H., where he denied he ever pleaded with Dr. Hermann N. Sander to end tali cancer-tortured wlfe't su.'ferfwr. Borroto was the states eighth witness In the "mercy mur der" trial of Dr. Sander, charged with slaying Mrs. Abble C. Borroto, 59. Question Of Air Injection Presents Big Problem In Dr. Sander's Trial By Paul F. Ellis United Press Science Editor Manchester, N. H., Mar. 3 (U.R) It was a bigger question than ever before today as to why Dr. Hermann N. Sander injected air into the veins of Mr. Abbie Borroto. His defense counsel has an nounced the doctor will go on the stand in his own defense and will testify that he waa "sure" his patient was dead when he injected the air. Then why the injection? And why the notation on the progress report that she died 10 minutes later? Mo 111 Effects Meanwhile, in Baltimore, Dr. Harry M. Robinson, a physician and professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, said he is willing to have air Inject ed into his veins perhaps not 40 cubic centimeters. Robinson said that he bas injected 10, 20 and 30 and perhaps more to pa tients in presence of itudents, and that none of the patients had any 111 effects. He said he was confident that many pa tients had received air with no ill effect! during blood transfu sions. Pathologists, , however, say that the lethal idose of air de pends on the condition of the pat tient, and whether the nir is given rapidly. Mrs. Borroto was in a dying condition when she received the air injections, but tha defense now maintains that she did not receive 40 cubic centimeters. Question Grows BIjjgor The question of why Sander Injected the air and made the no tation grows bigger as the de fense presents its case. Around Manchester, there Is some feeling that Dr. Sander did it well know ing that it would bring "mercy killing" out in the open for great public discussion. In that, he appears to have succeeded if that was the Intention. Trial observers have- been of the opinion that Sander would have to go on the stand to clinch the defence contention that Mrs. Borroto was dead before the in jections were made. It was felt in Manchester that even though the Jury were con vinced Mrs. Borroto was dead and that no murder was com mitted, the Jury would want an explanation of the injection. And that would have to come from Dr. Sander in person. Three Holdups Net Money In Portland Portland, Ore., Mar.. 3 IU.RJ Three holdups last night, one by an unidentified, apologetic man. netted robbers an undetermined sum of money, city and county police reported today. County police sairUa man be tween 21 and 25 years of age held up a tavern and apologized to the manager and his wife as he scooped $57 out of the cash drawer. "I need it for my wife and sixlcraft will form a protectice chain kids, and your Insurance will along the 90-mile overwater Portland Aviators En Route To Havana Jacksonville, Fla., Mar. 3 (U.R) Eighty small airplanes from Portland, Ore., climbed in to the murky sky today en route to Havana. Cuba, on a 7.500 mile round-trip from the west coast city. The group of airplanes, carry ing some 230 persons, arrived here yesterday from New Or leans. The flight is called "the world's most ambitious air tour." Chamber of commerce officials and local aviation followers en terlained the visitors with cocktail party last night. Included in the group is Ore gon State Sen. Angus Gibson. 61 a World War I fighter pilot who learned to fly all over again three years ago. The fliers brought along mem bers of their families. One hod his two-year-old child and anoth er his 83-year-old father. Navy and coast guard surface Rangoon, Burma, Mar. 3 (U.R) Police reported today that Miss belma ftlaxvuie, u -year-old cal ifornia missionary, has been kill ed along with 12 rescuers who attempted to release her from a kidnap gang. Miss Maxvile, a Baptist mis sionary who has spent 40 years in Burma, was abducted bv in surgent bandits while riding in her car about 100 miles east of Rangoon. The bandits demanded $4,000 ransom. The Rev. G. A. Soord. head of the Baptist mission, said he was unable to pay it because mission policy forbade use ol mission funds for ransom. A crouD of Burmese natives who were friends of Miss Max ville organized a rescue party and succeeded in freeing her from the bandit hideout. How ever, the party of 15 was am bushed while making their escape and all but three killed. Miss Maxville was killed by machinegun fire. Barrymore Daughter Weds Young Writer Hollywood. Mar. 3 (U.R) A daughter of the late John Barry more disclosed today she was married secretly to a young writer because her mother objected. Dolores Ethel Blyth. 10 daughter of Barrymore and Actress Dolores Costello, and Thomas Alexander Fairbanks 24, were married in San Ber nardino, Cal., yesterday morn ing. They returned here to stay temporarily at the home of Fairbanks' father. The bride said they hoped to keep the marriage a secret be cause her mother objected to the romance. "After our families get to- a gelher. we hope to have a church wedding, she said. r.' Ii Sir Harry Lauder Laid To Rest Beside Mother In Family Burial Plot PLAYS LEAD Robert Pa- quln, above, will play the male lead in tonignt s zu-au ciuo drama festival production of "Fair and Warmer." He is in his third season with the Civic Drama Guild of New York and when not on the road with guild performers he is kept busy fill ing picture and television com mitments in Hollywood. He ap peared last year on Broadway with Ethel Merman in "Annie Get Your Gun." Curtain time for tonight's play is 8:15 p.m. in the senior high school auditorium. Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scot land, March 3 (U.R) The bag pipes were silent and the gray skies dripped rain on the "Bon nie Banks o'Clyde" while Sir Harrv Lauder was laid to rest. The kilted minstrel with the sparkling wit was buried beside his mother yesterday In the aus tere burial place of his family, less than a mile from the banks of the river Clyde which he im- Roseburg Woman's Body Is Found In Woodshed Rosebure. Ore.. Mar. 3 (U.R) The body of Mrs. Vila Belle Gal lop. :, was iouna weanesaay hanging in a woodshed at her home, state police said today. A 12-year-old son, Dale, found her on his return from school. Au thorities said she had been des pondent over poor health. MORE POWER AVAILABLE Portland, Ore., Mar. 3 (U.R)- Army engineers said today an additional 58,000 kilowatts of hydro-electric power will be available for Pacific northwest power systems sometime Sunday evening when the No. 5 genera tor at Bonneville dam is return ed to service. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press 'enure Writer cover the loss," he said The loss was covered by insur ance, police said. In a related double robbery. one man robbed a service station of an undetermined amount of money. Then he and his accom plice stepped across the street and stole another sum of money from a grocery store. None of the robbers was captured. Bad Knee Cause Of Man's Broken Arm Salem, Ore.. Mar. 3 (U.R) Bpcause of a bad knee, L. M. MeComber went to the hospital with a broken arm. MeComber, who lives in Sa lem, was going to enter a veter ans' hospital In Portland today for treatment of his knee. But it gave out on him Thursday night and he fell at his npartment, breaking his arm. He was taken to a hospital here where his con dition was reported good. NEW SPEED MARK Miami. Fla., Mar. 3 (U.R) Delta airlines claimed a new commercial speed record today for a DC-6 with 37 passengers aboard which made it from Chi cago to Miami in three hours, eight minutes and 48 seconds. flight from Key West to Havana tomorrow. The group will spend the night in the Florida Keys. Only One-Seventh Of Winter Pears Unsold Less than one-seventh of the 1949 pack of the nation's winter pears remains unsold and most of these are Medford anjous, the Oregon State college extension service reported today. "Very few" northwest winter nelit pears have moved but California is nearly clean of all varieties, the extension service said. Pear auctions have turned weaker during the last 10 days but shipments are beginning to taner off. Only 94 cars were billed the past week and of these, 80 were from Oregon. The United States department of agriculture reports fancy Ore gon anjous hit a peak in the New York auctions on the 10th last month when 1.000 boxes averaged $5.36. Offerings in creased last week and the aver age for 2.900 boxes sold on the February 26 was down to $4.31. Some recovery was shown the last two days of the month when averages for fancy anions climb ed to $4 45 a box. Cornice also shared In the slump Highway Association Man Dies In Eugene Eugene, Mar. 3 Harvey Blythe, 47, died here last week. He was manager of the Oregon U. S. Highway 99 association. For many years he was a mem ber of the University of Oregon faculty as an instructor in mili tary science. In addition to his work with the 99 highway group, Blythe was a memoer oi xne naimnai executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and of the Oregon Trail council. Blythe was well-known in Medford. .where he was a fre quent visitor in behalf of the highway association. Firemen Arrive Blaze Before It Gets There Williamstown, Mass. (U.R) Firemen set some sort of record when they reached the scene cf a fire before the fire itself got there. The firemen were waiting at the railroad station when a freight train arrived with a blaz ir; box car. ihe fire had been noticed by a resident of Hoosick Falls. N. Y., 206 miles back on the train's route, and railroad officials tcle- gf phoned ahead to give the alarm. ' if.5 JfcO Washington. Mar. 3 (U.R) This won't set very' well with our lovely women folks, but you ve got to face the facts. The National Geographic so ciety says that American brides come c h e a p- on a down payment basis, that is c o m p a red to their less civi lized sisters in the grass skirt sets in primi tive lands. HarmiD Nichols If the Ameri can lover has S2 or so in his jeans he can buy a marriage li cense and trot his girl off to the altar. There, after pledging to love, honor, and obey, he can slip the parson whatever he can afford and be away on his honey moon. But that's not so in other lands. The N.G.S. has looked into the matter and comes up with some interesting data. Take New Guinea. There the native swains find a price tag of S600 on their lady loves. True, they can go into the woods and pluck a few wild flowers and maybe spear a wild boar for the wedding feast, but there still re mains the original cash outlay. Looks Control Price In Nigeria, the high cost of brides Is causing a fine old to-do. Among the Ibo-spcaking people oi tne country, a snapely, pretty gal may win her pappy as much as $250, while the parents of a homely girl with skinny pipes and buck teeth would have to be satisfied with three mangy goats. Around the world " where bride-buying is an accepted cus tom, a girl must hide her head in shame unless she earns some thing for papa. In the society of tne Kaffirs, members of the Ban tu races of South Africa, a cirl who is not bought with cattle is dubbed an "old cat" by her campfire sisters. An "old cat down tnere adds up to one word worthless. Fire-water Used With the Kuki-Lushai people of Assam, India, a young man is expected to give a few gourds of fire-water to his sweetheart's parents when he calls to ask her to be his own. If the folks accept him, he moves in on the girl's father and goes right to work. He be comes a servant in the house hold for three years. Then, if he has kept his nose dry, clean, and has otherwise behaved, he is free to wed. But another two years of servitude is required before he can go into the woods and cut down the material for his own thatch hut. In Alaska, the situation is dif ferent. A hopeful suitor of the Kenai doesn't bother to ask for parental consent. He slips silent ly Into the old man's igloo and begins to cook, clean and take care of steaming up water for the baths. If he does a good job, he is allowed to work on for a year, then he can marry the girl and start igloo-inhabiting on his own. All of which makes America a wonderful country. We fellows expect, bv tradi tion, to have the papa-ln-law foot all of the bills for the wed ding, give us a set of sterling and maybe a new house for a wedding present and to leave us forever alone once we settle down. mortalized In the song "Roamln' in the Gloamin'." Likened To Burns. Scott Humble miners in shabby rain coats jostled shoulders with Scottish peers as the Rev. T. F. Harkncss Graham likened Scot land's greatest minstrel to Rob ert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, the poets of the past. "His popularity was world wide" said the pastor while the organ swelled in the familiar melody of "The End of the Road," one of the 150 songs Sir Harry wrote. It was raining as- Sir Harry's neighbors gathered at Bent cem etery to pay their last respects to tne worid-renownea minstrel who died Sunday at the age I of 79. Flowers ranged from a great sheaf of arum lilies and iris, the remembrance of wartime Prime Minister W inston Churchill and his wife, to a bouquet of violets i sent by a child admirer of the I Scottish minstrel. i Hymn Repeated , Services were held in Cadzow parish church before 800 mem-: gers of the congregation and oth- er guests. Mourners joined in hymns and some repeated the lines of Lady Grizel Baillie's ballad: O were we young as we ance hae been We sud hae been galloping down on yon green And linking it ower the lily white lea, But we na my heart light I wad dee." Shasta Dam Water Mark Reaches AH-Time High Redding, Cal., Mar. 3 (U.R) The water mark In Shasta dam was expected to reach tha 3,000,. 000 acre-feet mark today, an all time high for this date. The mark would be 600,000 more acre-feet than last year at this time. The all-time capacity mark was reached last June X when it stood at 3,807,700 acre-feet of water. ' NEW LEAGUE FORMED Salem. Ore., Mar. 3 (U.R) A planning committee of the Oregon Mint Growers association met here Thursday and formed the Oregon Essential Oil Growers leugue, a research and educa tional group. Don't Mist The Demonstration Of The Wonderful CONNSONETTE ELECTRIC ORGAN At BARKER'S ' Corner Main & Central SAT. MAR. 4 Demonstration ay Mr. E. C. Howard EXCLUSIVE DEALER PRUITT'S Music Center 1 1 1 W. Main Si. MON DESIR Southern Oregon's Outstanding Restaurant GRAND Re-Opening SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 4 Again you may enjoy dining at beau tiful MON. DESIR ... the finest of foods and innovationi that will delight you! Crater Lake Cut-off Jutt ' East of Central Point PHONE 122 CENTRAL POINT CED I ! . . UFUi T X fl vr iut j r ,B5kT 17? It's the new lasle-lreol becouse it's a new discovery in bal anced blending. 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