The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-13
VaskO Family is
 Great Sensation
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 Police accompanying pr Michael Bender, who snw the child last night, were refused admission to- day.
 "The child may not be critically Ill.," Dr Render said. Out when was cnlleh last night, she had an alarming temperature" The doors of tho little cottaRe in UastinRs' poorest district were Wedgcd shut with pieces of wood. Mr and Mrs VnskO. appearing Oc- cnsionally at the windows, shouted their defiance of the law as crowds of tOWnspe0ple gathered around their home.
 A Deighbor who gained ndmIs- sion to the house through n ruse found the Vasko adnmmnt in their determination to nce no more doe tors. Ignoring the danger of iD- feetjon, they had shut Helen up with her sister iD q small room.
 Nothing but h bnd cold" they said about Annn's condition. "ghe all right"
 Mrs Vasko said that fl news-rccl concern had offered her 3b0 for fl sound picture of Helen. Ehe EcornfulIy rejected the offer.
 Dr Bender was called by the family yesterday after f. day of nc- tivity which found Mrs Vask0 stubbornly determined to resist all efforts to take Helen from her, either by persuasion or by court action.
 Were ready for them" she said. We have boiling water to pour on anybody who tries to get in. They won't take my child away"
 A crowd Of nearly 100 persons had gathered outside the cottage when Dr Bender, accompanied by IL policeman, tried to return this morning. The doctor, receiving no response at the front door, went to the back, and knocked on win doWs and doors. Finally Vhsko's head was thrust through T. window, and the doctor was DrGmemD- tor1Iy ordered to Ego away---she's all right"
 While hurnnnitarians debated the right of parents to doom their child rather than permit 1n oper~ ntion, tWO-ychr-old Helen VaekO's case went today to the New York state appellate division.
 Ths question before the court will be:
 "Iiae the state II right to de- fnand m operation on Helen, which probably will save her life, but destroy the sight of one eysY
 The cOrollary question is:
 'Jins n parent the right to ds- eide fl question meaning possible life or death for m infant"
 Helen. happy. laughing, wholly unconscious of the creeping tum0r that G0OnGr or later doctors say VIII crowd ifs wny back from her eye 10 tho brain. plotting out her life. played JoyfulIy with her dolls today.
 You ene?" her father. John Vaek0, il iabOrer who earns 22b q week working for the unemDioy- nent Relief Bureau. said in exDIh- nation of his refusal to permit nn operation, You see her lauEhI She has no pain. Tho doctors know nothing, They nre nIl crazy"
 And Mrs Vnsko. who has. set up Il Iittle religious shrine before which she prays daily for her daughter, is confident that prayers will work the miracle. bhe has sGorned the DIehdinEs or hcr par ish priest. who urges the opera tioB.
 Judge George W. gmytb, of the Weetchestcr childrsn's court. be- fore whom the case came. frankly considered the question of the fam ily's rights in such IL case hs moot" There is no law govern ing such get of circumstances, he indicated. although as Il test case he has ordered Helen into ths GUS" today of the welfare society, with instructions that she be placed Tn the Gr0eslnnds hospital.
 Judge Gmyth suspended skecu. ton of his order. however, until the appellate division can rule on