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Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Prosecutor In So-CoIIed Mercy Sloying
Case Swumped BY Letters Pro And Con

anition."
The prosecution and defense
both refused to commen on a
published report that Mrs. Bor-
roto's pulse could not be detec.
ted for Is minutes before DR..
Sander allegedly injected air in
to her Seins, causing death by
an air embolism.
Mrs. Borroto's daughter Elise,
10, who was present in the hos.
pital room could not say con-
corning my mothers pulse :.
however, we knew she was dy-
ing"
One of the. most outspoken
persons opposing the prosecu-
ton of DR.. Sander was Prof
Ernest A. Hooton of Harvard,
one of the worlds leading an.
thropologists. He said in an in
terview with the United Press
that the doctors action merits
universal commentator"
On the other hand, the case
was bitterly denounced by Ar.
chbishop Richard ]. Cushing OF
Boston. -
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

To Begin
In 10 Days

A ferry to replace the runaway
Snake river pontoon bridge may
be operating within 10 days.
Tom Doyle, state highway dis
trict engineer, announced last
night negotiations would begin
Immediately to lease a 20-car
ferry at Plymouth. The an
nouncement followed Doyle's
conference in Olympia yesterday
with w. A. Bugge, state high.
ways director. 49,
Doyle said the ferry has been
used at the McNary damsite for
construction work.
VITAL LINK BROKEN -
The ferry will restore a vital
link in us. highway 40 between
the Tri-Cities and southeastern
Washington and Oregon. Traffic
was disrupted Tuesday morning
when floating ice in the Snake
river broke moorings of the pom
toon span erected by army en-
gineers as substitute for a
bridge that burned Sept. 9. ,.-
Doyle said plans call for oper-
alton of the ferry not on the
Snake, where floating ice still
is a problem, but at the old
Hover ferry site on the Column.
bia river 10 miles south of Ken
newick. ,..--...s. -..-
Highway 40 traffic would be
routed south at Kennewick. At
ter crossing the ferry it would
rejoin the highway at Alfalfa,
Doyle said.
REPAIRS NOT MENTIONED
No announcement was made
on possibilities for speeding re-
pair of the burned Snake river
bridge. Doyle discussed this with
the contractor Thursday and it
was presumed the subject was
explored by the engineer and
Bugge.
!, at will probably take at least
week to get the ferry in opera
tion," Doyle said. This would
include minor repairs to the fer
ry and some work on the ferry
approaches"
The pontoon bridge which was
recaptured when it hung up on
a downstream railroad span was
being inspected for damage yes
terday.
If it is not reinstalled, the
ferry would operate until repair
work on the burned bridge is
completed, Doyle said.
However, Arthur Rhodes, divi-
sion engineer at Pasco, indicated
the span would be reassembled
at its former site. He declined to
predict when the bridge would
be opened to traffic again but
said a log boom would be in
stalled upstream to protect it
from floating ice.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
ShowgirI Pays
Fine Willingly

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (UP)-
Beautiful redhaired Cara Will
liams paid $207 in traffic fines
today after protesting that she
didn't want to go to Jail because
II don't photograph we'll" in jail
clothes.
The 21-year-old Los Angeles
showgirl appeared in traffic
court wearing a $1,000 mink coat
to retrieve her car, impounded
by police who found 1t parked
in a restricted area.
She had three traffic tickets
in her hand.
"Your honor" she said to
Magistrate Morris Rothenberg, 81
have to tell you something.
have lot more tickets uptown
(home).
Anything you say will be
used against you," the magis-
trate warned.
"I'll tell the truth anyway. !
have 10 more tickets uptown"
she said.
II think you want to 60 to
JAIL" Rothenberg said.
"Oh, no." she replied. II don't
photograph well in them"
The magistrates reply was
quick:
Five dollars on two tickets
and two dollars on the other"
Later Miss Williams pleaded
guilty in uptown traffic court
and was fined $195 for the other
10 tickets.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Ship Headed
For Shanghai

Aboard American freighter
Flying Arrow, Saturday, Jan. z
'-(AP)- This $4,000 ton cargo
ship sailed shortly after mid
night this morning for Red
Shanghai, whose waters the
Chinese Nationalist claim to
have mined.
Captain David Jones of Chi
cago, the 31-year-ship captain,
said he expected to reach the
mouth of the YangtZe some time
Monday morning Sunday U. S.
time).
While he did not appear per-
turbed at the sort of reception
which may be expected from the
blockading Nationalist, there
were signs of precautions.
Various sections of the mid
ship house were barricaded with
$50 bales of cotton. Officers said
the bales coul,. stop three-inch
shells.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Sex Crime
Bill Offered

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - tUP)
- Rep. Frank L. Chelf, D., KY,
today proposed law, similar
to the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Act, to halt the depredations OF
sex criminals on children.
He introduced bill which
would permit penalties up ia
the death sentence if the child
victim of a sex maniac died.
He said it was aimed at help.
ing fight series of such crimes
throughout the nation. =.
The bill would allow the fed.
eral government to step in If
anyone fled across state lines to
avoid arrest or to avoid testi.
mony i:l sex crimes against min
ors. $50 &C.
II the fugitive was guilty OF
a sex crime against a minor
the penalty would be up to 20
years imprisonment for the first
offense and life Imprisonment
for a second offense.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Foreign Ship
Rivalry Blamed

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 6. (UP)
The American merchant marine
is being slowly strangled by
cheap competition from foreign
ships, Capt. C. F. May, national
leader of the ALL Master, Mates
and Pilots union declared here
today.
May conferred with Seattle
members of the union. He said
Excessive" Panama canal tolls
and efforts to rebuild Japanese
merchant fleet also contributed
to the decline of American ship.
ping.
May said the US. government
spends about Sc, 600, 900 each year
training new merchant marine
officers, while thousands of un-
ion officers are unemployed.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Adiufunf General ,
Changes Door Locks

building here have been chang
ed and extra ones added as
"a security measure"
He said all personnel had
been ordered to turn in their
keys to filing cabinets and doors.
Stevens said There have been
cases of things disappearing
lately"
An employee said the new sys-
tenn requires office workers to
get keys from the General to
get into the filing cabinets. /.
Stevens said bolts have been
installed this week on the in
side and outside Of tpors, lead.
ing into the building. He said
some of the locks had not been
changed since the building was
completed in 1928, and keys
now are in the hands of I'm.
authorized personnel not now
in the National Guard"
TYPEWRITERS MISSING
General Stevens said an In.
ventory shortly after he .assum-
ed command of the disputed Of.
flee last July disclosed three type
writer's and $685. worth of Sleep
ing bags were missing.
Some locks, he said, were
changed at that time.
The Adjutant Generals office
has been center of controver-
sy since Governor La1glie order
ed Brig. Gen. Ensley Llewellyn
out of it last summer and nam.
ed Stevens to succeed him.
Llewellyn recently obtained a
Thurston county superior court
order to restore him to it.
Llewellyn said today, after
being advised of Stevens re-
marks, that the National Guard
never had had any sleeping
bags, to his knowledge. He said
the records would show three
typewriters requistio1ed to
authorized personnel for night
work at home for the National
Guard.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

amounting pile of lawsuits.
Lucas announced that he had
called on John R. Steelman,
presidential assistant, and told
him he should "lose no time in
laying all the facts at his COM
mand before the President of
the United States" This Steel.
man agreed to do.
APPEALS TO MINERS
Lucas also appealed to the
miners and Lewis to reach an
agreement restoring the five
day week. He said that unless
they did so he would take the
floor of the United States SEN
ate and protest as vigorously
as I know how the continual
ton of these conditions"
Lewis, who with his United
Mine Workers has paid out ST.
100, 900 for contempt Of court
in the past two years, was con-
fronted with these new legal
actions today:
1. Coal operators filed suit in
Columbus, Ohio for $8,S72, 600
damages which they claim re-
suited from last years work
stoppages. The nine large mine
firms also asked for an injunc.
ton to prevent the miners from
obeying Lewis three-day week
order which they claimed was
violation Of the states anti
trust laws.
ENFORCEMENT ASKED
2. The National Labor Rela.
tons Board asked the, federal
circuit court Of appeals here. to
enforce d board order prohibit
ing the UNIV chief from seeking
an illegal union shop contract.
Lewis had no comment on
these moves.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Wotchnun
Admits Lie

DETROIT, Jan. 5 (UPs-The
middle. aged Waterman who dis
covered an sttempt to blow up
headquarters of the C1O United
Auto Workers admitted tonight
that his story of being kidnapped
early today was a hoax, police
said.
George Thomas, veteran JAW
employee, said he attempted sui
eide because people thought ]
put the bomb against the build
ing" inspector Joseph v. Krug
said.
Krug said the soft-spoken
bachelor, questioned almost con.
tinuously for eight hours, will
most certainly be questioned
about the bombing itself and the
Reuther shootings."
Faced with discrepancies In
his account of the abduction, "
Thomas SO, said he attempted
unsuccessfully to throttle him.
self by binding lengths OF
clothesline about his neck and
then tying them to his hands
and feet.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan 6 -
CUP The state prosecutor was
swamped with letters of con-
demaation and support today
as he began preparing a muir
der case against DR.. Hermann N.
Sander, Manchester physician
accused of a mercy Staying.
Letters are pouring in on me
80 fast and numerous l haven't
time to read Them" county SOL
icitor William H. Craig said.
"Some are so bitter you might
think that instead of being pro-
secutors we're actually perse-
cutors and murderers."
Craig said he had the feeling
that the whole world was look
ing over his shoulder. Many of
the writers Craig said were per
sons prominent in medical and
civic life.
They were about equally di-
Vided in opinion about Sander
Some indicated they "abhorred'
so.called mercy deaths but be-
lieved in the case of the doctor
1--WE should temper justice with
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Neqro Pastor uifh
HI PEOPLE Rewarded

could. had faith that TIE good
Lord and the people of Vallejo
would help when my money ran
out" &C., 5@ 2s.l.-.
He was right. A Vallejo news.
paper published the story of the
family's plight and within hours
a deluge of offers of assistance
were received. r.
The Vallejo Elks club pur-
chased train tickets to Denver
for the family, and other gener-
Gus townspeople sent more than
81 900 i'm contributions.
Ball, merchant seaman, said
he had been unable to work be-
cause of a leg infection and had
set out from Texas to visit his
mother i'm Denver. g, 49,.
At San Bernardino, Calf, their
car broke down and Ball gave
his last SGT to man who prom.
ised to drive them to Denver.
The man disappeared with the
money, leaving the family afoot
until they. met their Good
Samaritan. 49,
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Freezing
Weather.
Kills 4Q

CHICAGO, Jan. 6 - CUP -
Nearly 1000 persons were home.
less in flooded river basins OF
Illinois, Indiana and Missouri
today as fresh rains swelled
the raging streams.
At the same time, new flood
threats arose in Ohio, Kentucky,
Alabama and Mississippi.
A United Press survey show
ed that a week of rains, sleet,
billiards., floods and miG-win.
ter cold had claimed at least
49 lives across the nation. -.
The fresh rains brought new
danger in Illinois and Indiana,
where dozens of rivers and tri-
butary streams were out of their
banks and flowing into homes
and over thousands of acres OF
farmland. z"o
CROPS FEEL THREATS
Elsewhere in the nation,
freezing rains and ice storms
plagued wide areas of the mid.
west and south, chilly weather
menaced California crops, New
York City CROPPED in heavy fog
and Washington, D. c., basked
in a record u degrees tempera-
ture.
The Red Cross reported more
than 500 families with an est.
mated 1000 persons driven from
their homes in Indiana by three
days of raging floods, the worst
since 1913.
More than LOO persons -
233 families - were being shell.
tered on higher ground in Him
OILS. The hardest hit place was
Villa Grove, where 100 families
were homeless. In addition, zoe
persons - ITS families - were
refugees from high water in
st. Louis county, Mo.
Meanwhile, the weather bureau
at Mobile, Ala, warned of inn
pending floods on the Tombig-
bee River in Alabama and Mis-.
sissippi. Heavy rains drove the
river up 20.1 feet in "a hours.
OHIO RIVER RISING
The rain-swollen Ohio climbed
at the rate of a half-foot an hour
at Cincinnati and the weather
bureau said the river might
reach flood level of So fee. this
weekend.
At Frankfurt, KY, the Ken
lucky River surged toward flood
stage, rising a half-foot an hour,
and also menaced the town of
Lockport. State highway trucks
were standing by to help with
excavations at Lockport. The
Cumberland, Green and Barren
Rivers in Kentucky were out OF
their banks in spots and water
covered numerous roads,.
Three persons were dead In
the floods rampaging in Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri.
Ice storms caused two deaths
in Arkansas and the state ex-
pected lowland floods on the
Ouachita and Black Rivers.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Witness
Fends Shots
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan6 -WP

SAN FRANCISCO, Jane ,-(UP)
- A 46-year-old Southern news
paperman and professed ex-
communist Tended most; of the
barbed shots of defense attor-
ney James M. MacInnis during
another bitter session of the
Harry Bridges perjury-conspir-
acy trial today.
In detatcher manner Law
renee S. Ross, managing editor
of the Cotton Trade Journal in
Memphis, Tenn, shrugged off
charges he concealed an early
membership in the communist
party and that he was kicked
out of the party because of wife
desertion.
Ross, who said he was the
former editor Of the communist
organ on the West Coast from
1857, testified earlier that he
saw Bridges at communist meet
ings and that he voted for the
longshore chief at the 1886 Ma
tional Convention of the. party,
The governments ninth wit
ness denied point-blank that he
lost his job as a paid commun-
iSt functionary in 1887 after a
hearing in which his first wife
accused him of desertion.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

VALLEJO, Calf, Jan. 6 (UP)-
A negro pastors faith in "the
Lord and the people of Vallejo"
was rewarded today.
The Rev. H. ]. James, minister
of the Second Baptist church,
picked up a destitute white FAM
lily, a man and wife and two
small children, who were hitch
hiking along rain-swept high
way on New. Years Eve.
They were Kenneth Ball, %;
his wife Emily, 26, Robert, 5, and
one-year-old Kenneth Paul. Ball
said he was attempting to get
his family to the home of his
mother, Mrs. Hazel Quaratia, in
Denver, Colo. a's.
The minister gave them shell
ter in his modest parsonage
where on the following day Mrs.
Ball gave birth to third child.
preachers aren't noted for
their wealth." James said, "and
1 have two sons of my own. But
decided I'd feed the Balls and
help them just as much as !
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
New Cutoff
Highway
lis Proposed

Construction of a cutoff high.
way between the Tri-Cities and
Pendleton was urged of the
Umatilla county court this week,
The Courier-Herald learned last
night. .s' ~
The highway, now called the
Van Sycle road, would shave
about 80 miles off the present
route from the Tri-Cities to Pen.
dletOn. T. sEsr,. .l...+
1t would leave the Pasco-Wal.
la Walla highway a short dis
lance east of Touchet and would
connect with the Pendleton.
Walla Walla highway about IL
miles west of Milton-Freewa-
ter, Ore.
SAVE 30 NILES r-
/ It is now about IS miles from
Pasco to Pendleton via Umatil.
la. By way of Walla Walla it
is about Sc miles. The proposed
route would be reduced the dis
lance to about 81 miles.
The request for construction
of the cutoff was made by about
so Athens, Adams, Helix and
Weston residents. They reported
the proposed highway also was
favored by the Inland Water.
ways association and the Walla
Walla county commissioners.
There was no immediate indi.
cation from the Umatilla county
court, which sits in Pendleton,
of its reaction to the proposal.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

mercy"
Craig, who has promised to
prosecute Sander to the letter OF
the law, said he was taking no
official notice of the deluge of
letters and was merely placing
them on file until the case is
prepared.
That was expected to be a hard
assignment since the only evil
dence that MIR. Sander killed
Mrs. Abbie c. Borroto, So, OF
Manchester is in the woman'S
medical record and reports OF
his conversations with law Of
ficerS.
Craig admitted that the en-
tire case hinged on one para
graph in the medical report
signed by Sander. 1t said:
Dec. 4-Patient was given 10
&C of air intravenously repeat.
ed four times and she expired
within 10 minutes after this was
started. Cause of death carcln-
oma of the large bowel with
metastasis to the liver -. In
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Book Travels
Far And Back

It took quite awhile but the
bank book of Gene Edwards,
1906 East Lewis Street, Pasco,
finally returned home.
Gene lost the book last Aug
ust. Thursday he got it back
in a letter from Mrs. Virgil
Nonamaker of Osborn, Kan.
Mrs. Nonamaker explained
she had found the book while
walking down a Pasco street
and had tried to return 1t once
but evidently had the wrong
address. Her second letter sue
ceeded.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Filipino Prexy
lis US. Bound

MANILA, Philippines, Satur-
day, Jan o. (UP) - President
Elpidio Quirino left by special
plane for the United States to-
day. He plans to undergo a kid
1ey- operation at Johns Hopkins
hospital In Baltimore, Md, and
return for the opening of the
legislature on Jan. q.
A crowd of more than 5000
damned Manila airport today
to see the 59-year-old QuirinO
and his party of 20, including
his 1S-year-old daughter, leave.
The departure ceremonies in
cluded a presidential 81 gun
salute.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Union Hits
OUsferAct
WASHINCTON Ian

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - (UP)
- The food, tobacco and agri-
cultural workers union said to-
day its custer trial. by the Ma
tional CIO for being left-wing
its illegal, unconstitutional and
"a disgrace to the labor move
ment."
The assertion was included in
a brief prepared by the union
officials for a special three-man
CIO committee considering the
unions fate. The committee will
hand its recommendations to the
CIO executive board which will
make the final decision.
In another development, the
CLIO announced that rank and file
members of the Food and To-
bacco Workers will be permit
ted to testify. The CLIO origin
ally had barred % such witness
ses representing Is Eta locals,
arguing that only the five ma
tional officers could be heard.
The hearing is the second in
a series of trials" of alleged
ly pro-communist unions. They
were ordered by CIO president
Phillip Murray following his
sweeping victory over dissident
left-wingers. at the recent Cleve-
land convention.
The Unions Brief was signed
by John lisa, acting president;
Armando Valdes, secretary-treas-
urer; Robert Latham and Arman-
do Ramirez, International vice
presidents, and Donald Hender-
son, former president and now
national administrative officer.
It urged the CLIO to call, an
immediate halt to the proceed
ings and to dismiss the charges.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Hard Keepsake
+GivenReqinnenf

FORT LEWIS, Wash, Jan. 6.
(UP)-The rock of the Marine in
fantry regiment finally has its
rock. t.... Z.
A hug boulder, weighing one
ton, arrived here as a gift from
the citizens of Chateau Thierry,
France. The 38th regiment earn
ed its nickname by hating a
German drive at the Marine DUR
ing World War /. ;,
The stone will be polished, in
scribed and mounted on a site
in. the regimental area here.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
kidnapping
Is Denied

Edward o. Duke Arnold
pleaded innocent today in
franklin county Superior court
to charges of assault and kid
mapping.
Arnold was charged Dec. Is by
Prosecuting Attorney William ].
Gaffney with assault against
BENJAMIN franklin Collins and
with selling and forcibly trans
porting Collins beyond the boun.
DIARIES Of Franklin county.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Soil District
Meeting Set

A meeting of the Soil Conser-
walton district is scheduled at
100 p. m. Tuesday at the Frank
lin county court house.
Lawrence L. Brown, county
agricultural agent, said the
meeting was called to acquaint
farmers with the work of the
Conservation district.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Life Term Upheld

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 -
CUP) - The U. S. Court of APP
peals. 9th circuit, today upheld
the life sentence of George Har-
rison Meeks, convicted OF the
1915 murder of Clarence ]. Camp
bell in Juneau, Alaska.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Ferry 10 Replace Pontoon Bridge
Thousands Flooded From Midwest Homes
Lucas Asks Truman
To Take Coal Action

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6Cf1-Senator Lucas of Illinois,
President Trumans leader in the senate today APP
peaed to the White House for action to end what he
termed serious coal crisis. ...~..r -.
His action after Republican congressman COM
planned that the administration Withholding action
while people were in danger of freezing. -: :
John L. Lewis, whose order for three-day week in
the mines led to the coal shortages, meantime faced
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Passes Examination

HOLBROOK, Ariz., Jan. 6 (UPD
w. B. Cross, custodian of the
county courthouse here, gave
himself his annual examination
on the occasion of his 18th birth
day today.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07

CAMP MURRAY, Wash. Jan.
g. (AP)- Brig. Gen. Lilburn
Stevens, State Adjutant Gener.
al, said today that locks in the
National Guard headquarters
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TheWeofher

Mostly cloudy today and
Sunday with occasional snow
in mountain areas, rain in
southern areas. High both days
20-30. Low 1920. z
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-07
Inside Today

Church news, pages 2-5;
editorials, columnists, page 4;
amusements, page 5; crossword
puzzle, page S; sports, page 8.