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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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THE SOIL
Dig the plant-food into i
the soil where it will do
the most good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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