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Evening star., 1950-03-08
Plane Clips F|agpo|e,
PIunges Into Houses;
IS Die in Flames
AirIiner From Washington
Crashes in Minneapolis;
Two Children Victims
BY the Associated Press

| MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 8. - A
Northwest Airlines plane crashed
into three Southside homes last
night after one of its wings had
struck a f1agpole towering over
graves in the Fort Smelling Ma
tional Cemetery.
Fifteen persons were killed in
the crash and in the fire that
followed. Ten of them were pas
sengers. Three were crew men,
bers. Two were children whose
parents had just tucked them into
bed in an upstairs bedroom of one
of the homes struck by the plung-
ing plane. Their home caught
fire Immediately
The Martin 202, on a fight from
Washington, D. c., to Winnipeg,
Manitoba, was trying for an in
strument landing during a blind
ing, bowling snowstorm. 1t made
one futile effort. missing the in
strument pattern.
Last Radio Signal.
The airport tower notified the
pilot to make another try.
In the last radio signal from the
plane. the pilot replied: II can't.
I can't"
Today it was established that
the planes left wing struck the
heavy, steel fiagpole. Northwest
Airlines operations officials said
A small piece of the front spar of
the wing was found nearby. The
lcemetery is at the south end OF
the airport.
Damage to the wing evidently
was so severe that it resulted in
the loss of an out-section of the
wing. This section was found
near the scene of the fatal crash
An airline spokesman said the
weather was fit for operating min
imums established by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration.
ReScuerS Driven BACK.
Flames from the exploding
plane lighted a scene of horror.
Neighbors rushed ladder to the
blazing home of Mr.. and Mrs
Franklin Doughty in an effort tx
rescue two children trapped ir
their bedroom. Fire drove bacl
the rescuers, however. and tht
children, Tommy, 8, and Janet, 10
perished in the flames.
my babies, my babies" sobbee
Mrs. Doughty, who was lying
bleeding in the snow from an arm
. injury. II had just kissed then
: good night. Please save then
somebody"
Witnesses said Mr.. Doughty wa.
standing barefoot in his backyard
crying for help for the children.
Another of the Doughty chill.
dren, Diane, Is. was found out
> side. She was led to neighbor'.
home.
Flame Bursts Into Room.
Shafts of flame fired the neigh.
boring homes of Mrs. Robert Cahr
and Irving Luger. Occupants o.
the houses fled to safety.
Howard Calm, studying in {
, second story room, said, II heare
a scraping noise and then bal
of flame burst in the room.
jumped over it to get out tn.
door,"
Joe Mulcahy, q high schoo
(See CRASH, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-03-08
Hong Kong PIone Ruling
Protested by ChennouIt
Nv the Associated Press


HONG KONG, Mar. 8.-Claire
L. Chennault today appealed the
February % Hong Kong Supreme
Court decision awarding Red
China II transport planes he
claims to have bought from the
Nationalist Chinese government.
The decision has been protested
to the London Foreign Office by
the United States Secretary OF
State.
Mr.. Chennault. operator Of a
civilian airline chartered by the
Nationalist government, said he
bought the planes, which formerly
belonged to two Chinese airlines.
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said positively he had not called
any meeting.
House District Committee aides
said this is what happened:
Investigator John Woog called
the committee Office to notify
members of the subcommittee, the
official reporter and the press that
a very important meeting" was
to begin at pm.
The subcommittee members
were then called and the House
press gallery was notified.
When reporters sought Mr.
Davis, however, to find out what
the hearing was all about, they
were told no meeting was sched-
uled,
Evening star., 1950-03-08

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. (P.-
Francis M. Lambert, Philadelphia
design engineer. is busy thinking
up some new inventions today
after receiving the 2,500, ,000th
patent issued by the Patent Of
flee. Mr.. Lambert, employed for
the last 20. years by the Heintz
Manufacturing Co., was issued a
patent for a quick acting mech
aniSm for latching doors-a device
particularly adaptable for ship
board watertight doors.
Evening star., 1950-03-08
Prosecution Implies
DR.. Sander Defense
Withheld Evidence
Physicians Chief CounseI
Agrees to Turn Over Vein
Of Cancer Victim
By the Assoeioted Press

MANCHESTER. N. H.. Mar. 8.
"A demand that defense counsel
for DR.. Hermann N. Sander turn
over to the State the vein Of
Mrs. Abbie Borroto's left arm-a
key exhibit of the mercy death
murder trial-came today from
the prosecutor.
Attorney General William l..
Phinney implied that the defense
pathologist who performed the
autopsy on the cancer-ravaged
woman had withheld this i'm
portant evidence.
DR.. Richard F. Ford. Harvard
pathologist testifying for the de-
fense, replied that the State medi-
cal experts at the autopsy did not
request the vein, which he said
had collapsed several hours be-
fore DR.. Sander injected air into
the woman's arm.
Defense Counsel Agrees.
Mr.. Phinney snapped he was re-
questing it now-and Chief De-
Tense Counsel Louis E. Wyman
agreed to turn 1t over.
Earlier, DR.. Ford testified. that
air could not have caused the
death of Mrs. Borroto, 50, as it
was impossible for DR.. Sander to
inject a needle into the collapsed
vein.
DR.. Sander is on trial for first
degree murder on charges of kill
ing the hopeless cancer patient
to end her suffering.
Unexplained Conference.
Judge Harold E. Wescott called
counsel for both sides into an
unexplained conference-delaying
the opening of the morning ses-
sion 20 minutes.
Today is the 18th trial day. 1t
was considered likely testimony
would end before court adjourns
at S pm.
Mr.. Phinney asked DR.. Ford II
in his opinion the vein in the
left arm where the injections
were made had collapsed several
hours before her death.
"Yes," replied the pathologist
because the very presence OF
thrombi (blod clots) indicates cir
culation had ceased and that the
vein had collapsed"
DR.. Ford said he was basing hi.
opinion on an autopsy he made or
the exhumed body of Mrs. Borrote
about six weeks after her death
last December 4.
Would Have Plugged Vein.
He testified the ttrombi woulc
plug the vein from a flow of blooc
but would not plug forceful in.
lection of air-if air could be in.
jected.
Mr.. Phinney asked the patholo-
gist if he knew of cases where there
was no pulse, yet there was cir.
culation.
The doctor replied it was posi-.
BILE to have no pulse and still have
circulation and added in a case
where there was prolonged alb.
sence of pulse "I'd say it would bt
unlikely circulation would con.
tinue."
Mr.. Phinney brought out from
DR.. Ford that the pathologis
might be able to tell whether {
needle punctured a person befor.
or after death-by the presence o.
absence of blood on the needle.
rs it possible for doctor to q
(See MERCY KILLING pp. Az
Evening star., 1950-03-08
Shipkov Given
1'5-Year Term
As JUS. Spy
a Other BuIeorions
Receive Sentences
Up to II Years
BY the Assoeioted Press

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Mar. g.
Michael Shipkov. former trans.
lator for the United States LIE.
CATION here, was sentenced today
to Is years in prison on a plea o1
guilty to spying for the United
States.
Four others tried with him were
sentenced to terms ranging from
to IL years.
The president of the Sofia dis
trict court announced that the
sentence was exceedingly leniept
and light" and expressed hope
that the defendants would "re.
turn to the Bulgarian people"
Others sentenced were Kivks
Rindova, former telephone opera.
tor at the American Legation, /:
years; Stefan Kratutov, 10 years
Incila Tzanov, 6 years and
months. and Vassil Nalchev, 1
years months, and 10 days.
All Assessed Fines.
All. in addition, received fines
ranging up to the 5000 leva
(about S26.40) assessed against
Mr.. Shipkov. In addition, Mr.
Shipkov was deprived of all his
civil rights.
The United States recently
broke diplomatic relations with
Bulgaria because of the repeated
accusations Of spying against the
American legation in Sofia. All
American officials since have been
evacuated from Sofia.
When State Department officials
released Mr.. Shipkov's signed re.
port on how a confession was
"extorted' from him, they said
they were convinced then he was
either dead or held for trial or
trumped-up charges, and added
that they were releasing his story
of Bulgarian police torture be-
cause they felt all hope for him
was lost.
Mr.. Shipkov's affidavit had pre-
dicted he would be forced to re-
confirm the confession" he gave
Bulgarian police. He did this
during the trial, denying under
questioning that he had been tor
tured.
Mr.. Shipkov testified on the wit
ness stand that he had spied for
the Americans under the personal
direction of the former minister.
Donald r. Heath.
Strict Verdict Demanded.
The trial ended yesterday with
the prosecution demanding a
"just but strict verdict"
The defendants had begged the
court for mercy. and their attor-
neys had asked the courts Glenn
ency on the grounds that their
crimes were committed under ex-
tenuating circumstances.
Prosecutor Petko Petrinski
wound up his closing speech tc
the court by charging that the
American Legation, closed two
weeks ago, had been the direct
ing center of espionage and of al
plots against the liberty. inde.
pendence. security and sover.
eighty of our peoples republic.
He declared that Mr.. Heath hac
"left behind indisputable prooI
that he personally. and the mem.
bers of his mission, dealt not onl!
in conspiracies and espionage, bu
were specialists in classification
and in delivering ampules O.
poison"
Evening star., 1950-03-08
GoIIinger Doctors Soon to Study
Quick New tuberculosis Test
Accuracy Reported in 81 Pct. Of Cases;
Method Shows Whether Germs Are Active

DR.. Sidney Rothbard, chief of
pulmonary diseases at New York. S
Montefiore Hospital.
The test determines whether the
tubercle bacilli are actively at work
in the body. .One of the most i'm
portant factors is that no reaction
is shown If the patient once had
tuberculosis, but has recovered.
DR.. Rothbard said the new test
can be made overnight.
The procedure is to separate
serum from o small amount of
blood and to dilute the serum in
a series of test tubes. Red blood
cells from sheep, which have been
sensitized to tuberculosis bacteria,
(See TUBERCULOSIS, Hg. A-53
Evening star., 1950-03-08
Probe on Crime
Is on, Then Off,;
Davis Denies All

A very important meeting" of
the House District subcommittee
investigating crime was suddenly
called and as suddenly Cancelled
today,
The cancellation came when
Subcommittee Chairman Davis
Evening star., 1950-03-08

Aide
With Red Fronts
Miss Dorothy Kenyon
Accused of AffiIiotion
With 28 Groups
By Cecil HoIIond

Senator Mccarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin today brought the
name of Miss Dorothy Kenyon
into the opening hearing of Sen
ate Foreign Relations Subcommit-
tees investigation of his charges
that Communists have infiltrated
the State Department..
Senator Mccarthy said Miss
Kenyon is a $12,OOO-a-year State
Department employe.
This lady" he said, has beer
affiliated with at least % Com.
munist front organizations, all OF
which have been declared SUBJ
versive by an official Government
agency. Nine of the % have beer
cited as subversive by the Alto ney
General of the United State j."
First Case Cited.
This was the first case cited by
Senator Mccarthy as he begar
testimony at public hearing or
the charges he made in a Feb
ruary 20 Senate speech that
touched off the investigation. HI
said this was not one of the 81
cases he outlined in his Senate
speech.
A State Department spokes-
man said today the only "Doro-
thy Kenyon" listed in depart
mental files was former Judge
Dorothy Kenyon of New York,
who served from 1946 until De-
cember, 1949. as a United States
representative on the United Ma
tions Commission on the Status
of Women.
While serving on the conmls-
sion Judge Kenyon was not paid
an annual salary, it was ex-
planned. On the days that she
actually sat with the commits
sion she was paid at the rate of
$4,000 a year. The commission
usually sat about two weeks a
year, it was explained.
Term Ended in December.
The State Department sale
Judge Kenyon's appointment ex.
pired in December and she wa.
not reappointed. No explanation
OF the failure to reappoint hel
was forthcoming Immediately.
A former judge Of Municipal
Court in New York, Miss Kenyon
who graduated from Smith Colleg,
in 1908, is a member of the Ma.
tional Board of Directors of the
American Civil Liberties Union
and vice president of the Inter.
national Alliance of Women fol
Suffrage and Equal Citizenship
Her home is in New York.
The Senate hearing was DELAYED
for more than half an hour to.
day by a sharp partisan wranglt
as soon as Senator Mccarthy tool
the stand.
Tydings Touches Off Dispute.
Chairman Tydings of the five.
man Senate Investigating subcom.
mittee touched off the wrangl,
by calling attention to one O.
the cases mentioned by Senator
Mccarthy in his Senate speech
In this speech. Senator Tyding.
said. Senator Mccarthy had &C.
cused an unnamed high Stat,
Department Official of seeking t.
have loyalty records altered.
Senator Tydings wanted t,
know if Senator Mccarthy coult
give the name of this high Of
flcial' and whether he intended
to make it one of the cases tina
he proposed to present to tn,
committee.
Senator Mccarthy said that h.
was unable to answer at this tim,
and added II assure you that w
will get to all the cases in time"
When Senator Tydings pressed
for a yes or no answer to his ques.
ton, Republican Senators Lodg,
OF Massachusetts, and Hicken.
looper of Iowa demanded tha'
Senator Mccarthy be given {
Evening star., 1950-03-08
FumiIy of 8 Dies in Fire

SANDY, Oreg., Mar. 8 P.-A
family of eight died in a flaming
one-room sawmill cabin near here
today. The roaring fire apparent
ly started on the small buildings
north side-the only one with
q door. Mr.. and Mrs. LIE Roy A..
Ludwig and their six children
died.
Evening star., 1950-03-08
Central High Transfer
To Be Recommended
By Committee Today
Buildings Group Plans
To Advise School Boord
On Relief for Curdozo

A Board of Education commit
tee today planned to advise the
full board to transfer Central
High School to the colored pupils
of Cardozo High School.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, chair
man of the Boards Buildings and
Grounds Committee. said this morn
ing her committee still stood by
the Central transfer recommends
ton and that the issue would be
given to the full board at 3::3t
O'Clock this afternoon.
The committee several week.
ago withheld its recommends tior
to allow opponents of the plar
to state their views before tn.
board. Action on the issue was
postponed until today.
Corning Report Also Due.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corn
ing today was to report to the
board on an alternative proposal
to substitute Eliot Junior High
School for Central in the trans
fer. Mrs. Smith said. however,
that she believed her commit
tees recommendation would be
given to the full board regard
less of the report on Eliot.
Board Member Albert Steinem
asked for information on Eliot at
a meeting February IS. School
authorities have been pressed to
find new quarters for Cardozo's S
overcrowded student body.
Mrs. Smiths committee voted
unanimously in favor of the Gen.
trail transfer. The chairman said
she couldn't predict whether it
would remain unanimous today
A committee meeting was to pre-
cede the full board meeting.
Clergymen Urge Relief.
Meanwhile. II Washington
clergymen yesterday appealed for
prompt relief for Cardozo.
The clergymen, representing
various faiths. called the present
situation of Cardozo pathetic and
untenable" and urged provision of
adequate facilities" at the very
earliest date"
The clergymen pointed to un-
used seating capacity in the city's
white high schools, asserting:
ut seems to us that since the
eight white high schools have ap-
proximately $500 vacant seats
and the three high schools for
colored have 2,0G0 more students
than seats. out of the abundance
OF facilities for white students
adequate facilities could be pro-
vided to relieve the genuinely sad
situation which prevails at Car
dozo."
Racial Issue Discounted.
The statement discounted the
racial issue. declaring that "the
matter of race and sentiment
have, it seems 20 us played all
too important a part in the COM
munlsy's appr~ ach to this educa-
tional problem"
Signers included DR.. Edward O.
Clark, Chevy Chase Baptist
Church; DR.. A. Powell Davies, All
Souls Unitarian Church; Rabbi
Norman Gerstenfeld, Washington
Hebrew Congregation; DR.. j. Hill
man Holster. Chevy Chase Pres
byterian Church; DR.. Carl Kopf.
First Congregational Church
Rabbi Solomon Metz, Sholem Asch
Congregation, and DR.. Orris j.
r obinson, Calvary Methodist
Church.
Also DR.. Seth r. Brooks, Uni
versalist Church; Drs Ralph K.
Merker, clerk of the Washington
City Presbytery: the Rev. De Witt
L. Miller, Washington City Church
Of the Brethren; the Rev. Wilfred
Parsons, s j., Catholic University,
and DR.. Frederick E. Reissig,
executive secretary of the Wash
ington Federation Of Churches.
G. Rowland Shaw. former Un-
dersecretary Of State, also was .
signer.
Evening star., 1950-03-08

Richitt Tronsfer Is Closed Cose, Davis
Says. Page 81
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(See MERCY KILLING, Pg. AS,
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Gets 2,500, ,000th Patent

(see COMMUNISTS, Page AS.
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(See BRADLEY, Page A-4)
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(See CRASH. Page A-3D
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(See BOONE, Page A-43
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
MID-S0U 7 H
MOTOR SALES

1850 CHEV., Low Mileage, Heater
and Seat Covers. $3.50
1913 CHEW. Fleetline, Door,
Black, White Sidewall Tires,
Radio, Heater ........ S1295
1912 BUICK Sedanette twO-tOne
green, Radio, Heater. $685.
1910 CHEN. New Seat Covers,
Heater, Good Trans
pOrtatiOn .S375
Two 1889 ChevrOlets, Good COndi-
ton $500 Each.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
Cut In Federal
Funds PeriIs
Negro Hospital

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 49,
(ANP)-A cut in federal funds for
Alabama under the Hill-Burton
act has imperiled the construction
of a Negro hospital here, accord
ing to Clay Dean, director of the
hospital planning division of the
state department.
The state was to have received
S., 100000 under the act to aid in
its health program. However, the
amount was cut this year to ST.
100000.
All but $4,000 of the funds to
be furnished by the city has been
raised for the hospital. The hos
pital funds is known to have re-
ceived more than 100000 gifts and
receipts form professional football
games. The federal government
was to supply the remainder of the
money needed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
NEGRO OTHER
MINORITIES
IGNORED In
SCHOOL BOOKS

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-(ANP)-
American children learn very lit
tie or nothing about Negroes and
other minority groups from their
school textbooks, according to the
current Public Affairs pamphlet,
Prejudice in Textbooks"
This pamphlet summarizes a
study made by the American Coun-
Gil on Education through funds
granted by the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews.
After dealing with the Recon-
struction period, the pamphlet says
many history books ignore Ne
groes altogether. They either ig-
more the religious, family, social
and general cultural activities of
Negroes OF pass them over so
generally that they are almost
without meaning, the pamphlet
continues.
This survey also noted that ex-
cept for the ancient Jews, this re-
ligious group also is omitted from
most history texts. Chinese, Jap
anese, American Indians, and Latin
Americans also have little place
in American school books.
Other criticisms Of American
texts, according to the pamphlet,
include such items as failure to
stress sufficiently the worth of
the individual perpetuation of old
antagonisms in American life
through careless wording, and fail
ure to personalize the basic civil
liberties.
To improve the present faults
of texts, the pamphlet recommend
ed a change in the types of courses
taught in schools. On this sub
ject, it said:
Only as those courses of study
demand the inclusion of topics on
intergroup relations, some of
which are inevitably controversial,
will the textbooks be subsequently
improved. A remaking of curric-
ulum must precede the revision of
textbooks.
THAT revision involves, first,
the writings of passages focused
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
Two Indicted In
Alabama On Civil
Rights Charge

OPELIKA, Ala, Oct. 19.-(SNS'
"A Federal grand jury has in
dicted two former Lafayette, Ala,
policemen on charges of violating
the civil rights of a young Negro
man.
Doyle Mitchum and James r.
Clark had been acquitted in a state
court on charge of beating the
same man to death in Jail. They
were arrested Sunday and released
under bonds of $1,000 each in con-
nection with the death of 18-year-
old Willie B. Carlisle.
U. S. Commissioner Bertha M.
Smith said the two former officers
will probably be tried during the
November term of u. S. District
court in Opelika.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
Private School
System Urged
In Georgia

Augusta, Ga. = (GN) = A
private School system is urged in
Georgia to foil Negro Anti-Segre-
cation Suit. Roy V. Harris, the
Klan-loving political leader often
called the power behind Gov. Her.
man Talmadge, suggested the
shelving of a "broadened" public
school program in favor of private
Georgia Schools for white children.
Mr.. Harris denounced suit by
the NAACP and Negro parents
directed against the Atlanta School
System. Its purpose is to secure
equal education for the Negro chill
dren of the city and to abolish
segregation.
The klan-loving leader predicted
that if the Negroes won, the good
white people" would leave the
Georgia Capitol, new business
would turn elsewhere and "Har-
lem" would come to Georgia.
"Why should we be willing to
have our Legislature raise new APP
preparations up to 40 20 so million
dollars every year to destroy the
white race in Georgia ?" Mr.. Har-
ris asked. The leader of the Angus
ia Cracker" party said that "since
white people already paid 81 per-
cent of the states educational cost
this percentage could be used to
finance private system for white
children.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
PAGE FIVE

to register for her sophomore year
at Florida A. & M. College. re-
celved a thunderous ovation from
students, faculty and the 1O0-piece
school band, as she alighted from
the Seaboard streamliner last week.
Miss Gibson had just recovered
from an appendectomy in New
York City which prevented her
from participating in the Pan Am
erlcan at Mexico City last month.
First Negro ever to participate
In the National Lawn Tennis AS
sociation's championships at For
est Hills, Miss Gibson would also
have been the first Negro to com
pete in the Pan American cham
pionships.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-10-21
U S. Civil Service Put Examiners
At Booker Washington Birthplace

of the regional director. The post
office here was dedicated February
II, 1948, and earned second-class
status early in 1949.
In making the announcement
Mr.. Phillips stressed the impor-
lance of having Board of Exam
liners in the community, and de-
clared that Booker Washington
Birthplace is ready to assume
greater responsibilities, and men,
bers of this community and our
nelghbors, can more readily take
advantage of job opportunities Of
tered by the Civil Service Commits