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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. March 6. 1950 Agonies Of Lingering Cancer Death Graphically Told At Sander Hearing Manchester, N. H., Mar. 6 CU.R) The agonies of a lingering cancer death probably never have been told to the public more graphically than through the lips of witnesses at the Sander mercy-murder trial. The state charged Dr. Her mann N. Sander killed Mrs. Ab bie C. Borroto by pumping air into her veins. The defense holds Death Assessed For Texas Love Burglar Dallas. Tex., Mar. 6 U.B Dapper Fred Felix Adair Jr., the handsome ex-bookkeeper accused of being Dallas' mysterious "love burglar," was found guilty today on a charge of aping a 31-year-old housewife and the all-male jury assessed the death penalty. The handsome, 25-year-old husband and father blanched as the verdict was returned in Dis trict Judge Henry King's court, but otherwise showed little change from the calm attentivc ness he showed during the week long trial. Defense Attorney Harvey Lindsay Immediately said he would appeal the verdict, reached yesterday by the Jury but not formally relumed until Judge King re-opened court this morning after a week-end re cess. . ,, Adair was tried specifically on a charge of raping a Vickery housewife as her two children looked on, but he also has been indicted on two other charges of rape and three of burglary. The courtroom was oniy nan filled at the opening today in marked contrast to the standing-room-only crowd which jammed it throughout last week's Jury selection and testimony. Tire Prices Expected To Jump By June 1 Los Angeles, Mar. 6 (U.R) Tire prices will rise by June 1 but motorists still will buy more tires this year than ever before, predicts President J. P, Seiber ling of the Seiberllng Rubber company, Akron, O. "More vehicles will drive more miles this year than ever before," he said. "We estimate that 52,000,000 tire casings will be sold as compared with 34, 000,000 during an average pre war year." Seiberling blamed Jumps in the cost of natural rtibher, high er freight rates and increased labor costs for the anticipated price rise. NO MORE KEYS TO BOSTON Boston (U.R) Keys to the city are out of style in Boston. John D. Brown, the new city greeter, announced visiting dignitaries in the future will get an illustrated historical pamphlet instead of the traditional keys. she had already died of cancer before he injected the syringe. No one challenges that it was a close race. Cancer's Role Dominate! Cancer's role in the race has dominated each day's testimony. The defense has played it to the hilt, Obtaining a much great er Impact on the jury than any other testimony it has produced. Even the state in its effort to show Mrs. Borroto was alive when the needle was injected left the vivid impression that cancer is no way to die. A robust woman, Mrs. Borroto first felt pains in her stomach in 1946. She thought it was in digestion. But the pains grew in intensity and frequently she would have to leave her work to throw herself on her bed in agony. During the summer of 1948, while she was working at a hotel, the pain was great enough to terrorize her. "She had a very severe at tack of pain, so severe it fright ened her. She called her hus band in the middle of the night to come and get her," Mrs. Har old Anderson, her closest friend, testified. Later that summer when Dr. Stanley W. Yudicky cut into her abdomen he found her "so can cerous that I considered her case inoperable. Spread of Growth Shown By diagram, the surgeon showed the jury how the cancer growth "as big as my list," near her large bowel had spread to her liver, kidney, thryroid glands, lvmnh nodes and adre nals. He testified all he could do was short-circuit the small bowel past the main cancer growth to give "the poor woman a few more months of comfort." Borroto was told his wife might live from two months to two years. After the operation Mrs. Bor roto grew steadily worse. Her weight dropped from 150 to 140 then to 130 and then plunged sharply. She never was able to eat more than "a couple of table spoons full at a time" during the last months. Friends who came to visit the dying woman and saw her tor tured face were "so shocked they had to leave the room hurried ly, Elise, daughter of the Bor rotos said. Only death whether It came naturally or by an air bubble ended the pain. THE AMERICAN WAY Poultney, Vt. (U.R) Green Mountain Junior college has a student who claims she owes her academic success to studying comic books. Hong Kong-horn Kathleen Eu said she studied English at a British school in China. But, she added, she studied comic books to learn American. Dead line on ClnsstMeri Ads: 8 30 o m for following day: 10 e m Mon day, noon Saturday (or Sunday - Azores Peasant Thrilled By Sights On Visit To U. 5. Hollywood, Mar. 6 (U.R) A Portuguese peasant in a bor rowed blue suit took in the sights of Hollywood today from movie star mansions to burlesque snow contortions. Antonio Brasil, a tenant farm er from an island in the Azores, found a plastic ball on the beach near his home and thereby won a plane trip to Hollywood, $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in prizes from the "People Are Funny" show. Antonio arrived in Hollywood and was quartered at a swank hotel. With an interpreter he set out to see the town. Awed By Sights The bright lights, television sets, movie theaters. Venetian blinds, electrical appliances and plumbing fixtures each brought an awed "wonderful" from An tonio. He makes about $10 a year and has 10 children, but Anjonio said he had no use tor mosi oi the prizes. So he exchanged them for blankets and clothing and bought lunchboxes and a cow boy suit for each tt his sons. Two cans of fruit salad he kept for himself. Antonio said he will use the $1,000 to buy the farm he now tills. "I would like very much to live in America," he said "But I won't be happy here. What you never have, you don't miss." Stage Director Says Opera For America Should Be In English New York (U.R) Opera in this country should be sung in English, in the opinion of Leo pold Sachse. stage director of the New York City Opera company. In an interview during the com pany's engagement in Chicago. Sachse said this is the onlicoun- try in which "a language barrier is built between the performance and the audience." Sachse, close friend of the late Richard Strauss and manager of many successful opera houses in Germany, said that "first of all, opera is theater. "And theater must be under stood," he said. "Singers in this country waste years learning Italian, French and German so that nobody can understand them. Why not let the audience know what's going on?" Sachse said a boom could be developed if opera, theater, mu sic and ballet would work to gether. He proposed a system under which opera, theater and sym phonic groups in smaller com munities could use the same mu sicians, singers, actors and thea ters, staging the different types of performances on different nights. Dead line Sunday Classified la ai Noon Saturdays. l.Ur X..V f wi Li r ( l . ti - j l I'n. j $ 7t (Acmt Teltphoto) MINERS CLEARED OF CONTEMPT-Attorneys for the United Mine Workers display happiness and jubilation in Washington as they read statement which cleared the miners of civil and criminal contempt charges despite their refusal to obey a court order and call off the coal strike which threatens to cripple the nation. The ruling opened the way for President Truman to ask Congress for power to selft the struck mines. Left to ritht: Earl Houck, Harrison Combs, Welly Hopkl'is, M. E. Bolarsky, William Owens, ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Carrespoadenl Hollywood, Mar. 6 !U.R) This is the story of a press agent who stormed out to a movie star's house to break r Viral nla MacPhersot) up her r o- munce with a V.tf'jj "fortune hunt T' Jm er" and nev-ffL- a all pr onpned his mouth. Frank Per rctt tells it on himself and press agents like that are rare around there parts. "I," he said, wound up feel ing like a prize jerk." Perrctt rushed out to the home of Lois Butler, Eagle Lion's 19-year-old pride and joy, to put the studio's foot down on her romance with a young writ er. "We'd been hearing rumors around," he said, "and we were afraid this was just another fortune-hunter out to latch on to a rising young actress." So out Pcrrcnt went. He parked his car behind a low slung convertible in Lois' drive way. And that's when he begins to get hi.s first qualms. "That car cost $4,000," he said. "And it looked paid for." Inside, he took a deep breath and got ready to give with the fatherly "young - actress - should n't - marry - when - they're - just getting - successful" lecture. That is No. 2 in studio lecture books. I (No. I is "what - wolves - all- young starlets - should steer clear - off.") Boy Friend Sauntered In "About this boy friend, Lois," ben Perrctt . . . "Would you like to meet him?" she said. "He's right in the next room." And in, reported a red-faced Perrett, sauntered a handsome young gent with shoulders like a football player and a profile like a movie hero. "I gave him the third-degree," Perrctt said. "He was obviously in love with Lois, so I decided maybe he wasn't after her money. But I was still dubious about his background." "The pay-off is: He's the son of Paul Dana Bartlctt, an extreme ly wealthy grain executive in Kansas City. The family has a resort mansion in Del Monte. And the son, Hall, has a private income of his own. From Yale 'He's 29 years old. a Phi Beta Kappa, and a football and tennis athlete from Yale university. "For their honeymoon, he's taking Lois on a trip to Europe. They'll live in a brand new house in Beverly Hills. And if she didn't want to, Lois would never have to make another movie again as long as she lives." Ten Top Producing County Cows Named Jackson county's 10 top pro ducing cows for 1949 were named today by Hollis Hopper, Jackson County Dairy Herd Im provement association super visor, who said there were 65 cows which produced more than 400 pounds of butterfat during the year. The cows were from 11 different herds. The 10 top cows were six owned by Delbert Mongold of Eagle Point and one each owned by P. K. Nelson, Mervyn Hix son and R. L. Wyant. California has several impor tant occurrences of saline minerals. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads The Grange Bellview Grange Bellview Grange will put on full initiation in the first and second degrees at next regular meeting, Tuesday, March 7. Grange will open with officers' seating drill. Mrs. Naomi Gassaway is in charge of the tableaux so they are sure to be interesting. Being initiated in first and sec ond degrees are Ray and Edith Mays, Wayne and Corabell Daily, Mrs. Beatrice Lyndsay and Mrs. Mable Gardner. Serving committee for this meeting is Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mickle, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Miles, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Mur phy, Mr. and Mrs. George Nich ols, Don and Edward Nichols and Ilene Jarvis. Eagle Point Grange i.Ae Point Grange will meet in regular session, Tuesday, iViarcn 7, at 8 p.m. The program will be in charga of the agricultural committee, Jake Brown, chairman. A good attendance is hoped for. Police Discount Man's Story After a Probe Omaha (U.R) Police solved one puzzling care by concluding that it's impossible to get shot at while running away and then come up with a bullet in the stomach. John Sund, 25, told police he was shot when he fled from two holdup men. But that stomach wound made Detective Inspector Harry Green wonder. Sund finally admitted he stole the gun from an automobile, tried to r.t'ck it in his shirt and it went off. 'Acme Telephotoi AIR . . . NOT CANCER - r- Milton Helpern (above), deputy chief medical examiner of New York City and the 16th witness called by the state In the mercy murder trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander In Manchester, N. H, testified that air in the veins not cancer caused the death of Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto. The de tense has offered as evidence the signed statement of Dr. Albert Snay, that Mrs. Borroto was al ready dead when Dr. Sander in jected air into her veins. There are six "forests" in the Petrified Forest National Monu ment in Arizona. Sixty-one million acres of for est and wild lands arc in California. Mary Jane Fowler, M. D. Physician and Surgeon announces the opening of her office In the Leverette Bldg., Room 308 Practice Limited to the Eye HOURS: 10-12, 2-4, except Saturday afternoon and Wednesday PHONES: Office 2-9972 Res. 2-9710 FERTILIZE WHEN YOU PREPARE THE SOIL Dig the plant-food into i the soil where it will do the most good. TAKE'OUR WORD FOR IT GROZ-IT SHEEP GUANO IS THE PERFECT NATURAL PLANT-FOOD For Everything That Growl ODORLESS, WEEDLESS FINELY PULVERIZED REBUILDERS OF HORSEPOWER 1 When Oregon sawmills began turn ing to electricity for operating power, Charles Gibbs (left) and his son, Edwin W. Gibbs, of Ncwberg, took advantage of the trend. They changed their general service electrical busi ness in 1935 to one devoted exclu sively to salvaging and rcmanufactur ing sawmill motors. Today their Gibbs" Electric Co. is kept busy re winding motors and providing other electrical services and supplies for Dougtns fir mills in its area, llic firm has grown to include five full-time employes, and warehouses at Ncw berg anil Carlton. These father-am-son partners credit financial services of the Ncwberg Branch of the I irst National Bank with helping them build and expand t!'nir business. t', X 'l v P V ! t 1 .K'vl4 WWSiw Ir '" . a v f . mi F f I "t. i Building Oregon together o - VT, .fir " , 1 ii ' 1 - in MS KSJ'k' ! SX1 Vv x. k v Sk .s l N t 5v THESE FARMERS ARE BUILDING As a youth, Jack B. Farmer wanted to be a refrigeration engineer. Following war serv ice, however. Jack went to Scio to help develop a Shclburn area dairy ranch started hy his father. Encouraged by his wife, Leonore, and son, Billy, 5 and the cooperation of the Scio State Bank, an affiliate of the First National Bank of Portland he has cleared much of the tfiO acre ranch and developed a herd of more than 20 Guernseys. He also has 75 acres for grain grow ing. With their ranch progress ing, father Carl R. Farmer has resumed his long-time railing, the contracting business, to fill a Ssio need. Thus the Farmer family helps build Oregon. 4 HAS KEY TO ARMING SUCCESS Friends say that Otto Bohnert, Central Point rancher, was bora with a "green thumb." Bohnert, however, believes farming suc cess is based on "doing the right thing for crops at the right time." He began farming as a . boy; bought 10 acres of land when he and his wife, Virginia, were married in 1928, and now farms 200 acres. Bohnert grows many crops. This aids crop rota tion; guards against possible hazards of one-crop farming, and retains key employes the year-round. A First National customer since his youth, Boh nert now banks Jt the Central Point Branch. I here are no substitutes for sound planning and hard work when it comes to developing and expanding a business, service or farming enterprise. The persons shown here followed such a formula in building successful endeavors. And in the process of bettering themselves, they also conuibutcd to Oregon's growth and prosperity It is significant that in each instance these energetic men and women made effective use of services offered by banking offices in the First National Bank Group. By making these modern financial advantages widely available to people in all walks of life, we alsd help Oregon grow family by family, farm by farm and business by business. Con'" in r.ivl let us know how we can help you. MEDFORD BRANCH FOB SIT ma Open 10 U 5 ieuladlatj Satwrdo TIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND MIMIII JtCtlAl CfrOSIt INSUIANCI I I 0 I A t I ON i I ; J is- j, V
