UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950
Harvard Doctor On Stand Today In Sander Trial
Manchester, N.H., March 8.—(UP) Dr. Richard Ford, star defense medical witness at Dr. Hermann N. Sander's mercy murder trial, underwent further cross-examination today.
Dr. Ford testified that he never had any trouble designating whether a needle mark was made before or after death "provided the needle injected after death did not enter a pool of blood."
The Harvard pathologist returned to the stand after the opening of the 13th day of the trial had been delayed 20 minutes by an unexplained conference of lawyers in Superior Judge Harold E. Wescott's chambers.
Dr. Ford said that was possible but it was not good medical practice because of the danger of infection. The 35-year-old witness said he had made a one-year study of air embolism in animals and humans.
"Doctor, how can you distinguish a needle puncture made a minute or two after death from one made a minute earlier?" Atten-gen, William Phinney asked.
"If you can find the one made after death it would not contain blood and would not appear as a dark spot." Dr. Ford replied.
"If a competent physician took about 30 seconds to insert a needle into a vein, and the needle stayed in two or three minutes while the syringe was disengaged from it four separate times, you'd expect to find some indication on the skin whether it was inserted before or after death wouldn't you?" asked Phinnev.
"If there was some blood underneath. yes."
"Doctor, is it possible for a physician inserting a needle to go through an old puncture mark again?" asked Phinney.
Tuesday he testified that the condition of the tiny blood vessels in Mrs. Borroto's brain and the presence of a certain type blood clot in her veins, indicated to him death was a slow process such as is usual in cancer cases.
Phinney asked whether, if Mrs. Borroto had had sufficient air in her system to cause death, she still could have had the brain blood vessel and clot symptoms which Dr. Ford had noted. The doctor said that was true.
An all-male superior court jury is expected to begin deliberating Thursday whether the quiet 41-year-old doctor is to be sent to prison for life for injecting air into the veins of a woman cancer patient.
The defense has made a five-day attempt to show that 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borrotor already was dead of cancer before the country doctor injected air into her arm four times when he momentarily was overcome by the horror of her pain twisted face.
Uncle Jimmy Painted Again
A patch of red paint in the center of "Uncle Jimmy" Green's forehead today was evidence of Tuesday night's skirmish with disappointed K-Staters. The student who is getting "Uncle Jimmy's" advice has a booby nose and the base of the statue was camouflaged with the slogan letters "K.S.C." in red paint.
The "Pioneer" on the east side of Fraser hall was splattered with green paint.
These paint attacks violate the peace pact agreed upon in 1949 by Kansas State and K.U. According to the pact, the responsibility for any damage inflicted by violation of the agreement falls on the entire student body.
Butler Boosters Will Meet
Butler County Statewide Activities club will meet at 7:30 p.m Thursday in 206洪壁 hall.
Two Students Win In City Election
Two University students won party nominations for city council seats in Lawrence primary elections held Tuesday. Thomas J. Alexander, second year law student, won the Democratic nomination in the second ward, and Lew Henry, third year law student, won the Republican nomination in the sixth ward. Neither candidate was opposed.
General elections will be held April 4.
Nine Quartets To Sing Today
Nine quartets will compete in barbershop harmony at 7:30 p. m. today in Strong auditorium for a bronze offered by the Y.W.C.A.
Organizations and men entered in the contest are: Battenfell hall, Robert Casad, Frederick Doornbos, Howard Dunnington, and Douglas Kent; Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Wayne Atwood, Robert Dare, Edward Grandle, and John Hovt.
Kappa Sigma fraternity, Edward Green, James Jackson, Woode Keller, and Harold Vagtborg; The Moonshiners, Delbert Spaltsbury, Robert Kite, Edward Lynn, and James Blocker; Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Dean Johnson, Marvin Martin, Robert Mehl, and Donald McFlatrin
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, William King, Judd Lanning, Frank Moses, and James Wood; Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity, James Grey, Roy Hadley, Richard Swinson, and William Turner.
Rock Chalk co-op, Michael Hoshiko, Ethur Purce, Benjamin Sanchez, and Vern Smith; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Robert Davis, Paul Lovenguth, Jack Roth, and Ernest Shank.
YM To Name Student Show Rockchalk Revue
Kansas State students no longer need to worry that K.U. is stealing the name of the Y-Orpheum show. William Champion, publicity chairman of a University Y.M.C.A. variety show patterned after the K-State production, is shown awarding a $10-check to Kathleen Larson,
College senior, for naming the K.U.
show Rockchalk Revue in a recent
contest conducted by Y.M.C.A.
Eight skits written and directed by members of organized houses will be presented in the show Saturday, April 1, in Hoch auditorium. Trophies will be awarded for the top two sorority and fraternity presentations.
The naming contest was held after a Kansas State student protested naming the K.U. show Y-Orpheum because the Kansas State show already had that name.
The first class to be graduated from the University was the class of 1873, with three students receiving bachelor of arts degrees and one receiving the bachelor of science degree.
Because of strong winds Monday afternoon, both the United States and University flags were taken down from the flagstaffs atop Fraser hall. C.G. Bayles, superintendant of buildings and grounds, said a flag can be ruined in one afternoon by high winds. A new flag costs about $35.
AWS Will Elect Officers Monday
Flags Taken Down Because of Winds
The Associated Women students will hold an election Monday, March 13. to elect new senate officers.
Booths will be in the rotunda of Strong hall and on the first floor of Fraser hall. All women regularly enrolled in the University are qualified to vote.
A tea was given for the candidates Tuesday afternoon at Miller hall.
Candidates for offices are:
President; Shirley Rice and Marie Schumacher, education juniors; vice-president: Frances Barnhardt, education sophomore, and Marjorie Crane, College junior, treasurer; Ardon Angst, Doris Kendall, and Virginia Thomson, College sophomores; and Margaret Shay, College freshman.
Secretary: Emma Lou Burbank and Anna Jean Holfield, College freshmen; Rose Marie Novotny, fine arts freshman; and JoAnn Van Petten, College freshman.
All Student Council representative (Greek): Patsy Cameron and Margaret Granger, College juniors; Barbara Hagan, College sophomore; and Janice Kolmann. College junior.
Opinions Split On Sander's Guilt
All Student Council representative (independent): Beverly Jennings and Betty Lichtenstadter, College sophomores; and Louise Ann Sanborn, education junior.
Bv DEWAYNE OGLESBEE and JOHN CORPORON
Three persons condemned, and three condoned mercy killing when questioned by the University Daily Kansan in connection with the Hermann N. Sander trial now in progress in Manchester, N.H. One person expressed no definite opinion because he felt he was not well enough acquainted with the facts of the case.
Dr. Sander is on trial for the murder of Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, his patient.
The Rev. George Towle, pastor or St. John's Catholic church said, "If the man said he killed the woman, then he killed her. God is author of life and is the only one who can terminate life. Anything that God has commanded is not a debatable question."
Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, said, "I think while there are many, many cases where there are people suffering that could be relieved, you still wonder. It ought not to be put into the law to let people kill. If everyone were wise and good it might work out."
J. Allen Reese, dean of the School
Dean Lawson suggested a general plan which might be put into effect. "A committee nominated by the State Medical association and given legal authority by the legislature would allow the release of a patient from suffering when it is the unanimous opinion of the state board that it should be done. In every case an official record would be kept of the mercy act." Dean Lawson pointed out that this is not a specific proposal, but felt that something might be organized along these lines.
Dean Barr said that in talking with doctors and seeing how strongly they feel, he wondered if the result of the trial wouldn't mean that doctors will more seriously consider their oath which says they are not to kill.
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, said, "The law should be obeyed. No one has a right under the present law to do away with a patient, but personally I be happy to permit such action on the part of the permit such action on the part of the."
of Pharmacy, said, "Forty cubic centimeters of air injected into the veins could kill a sick person. It depends on how fast you pump the air. Also, it depends on the condition of the patient.
"If the evidence in the papers is correct the jury should vote for an acquittal. There isn't enough evidence to say that a mercy killing was committed. From a scientific standpoint there is a lack of evidence. From a moral standpoint the person was already dead, but possibly not scientifically.
"If two men shot another man through the heart one right after the other, the man firing the first bullet would be the killer. That woman was so near death when Dr. Sander pumped air into her veins that he could hardly be classed as a murderer.
George K. Melvin, Lawrence attorney, said, "I think the verdict will turn on whether or not the man was dead before the injection."
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, said, "If I were a member of that jury I'd vote for an acquittal. I think it's a case where death was so certain that murder shouldn't be charged.
"If a person is in good health and is killed by euthanasia it warrants investigation, but in this case the patient was apparently so nearly dead that it should be a moral matter."
"There was no moral turpitude on Sander's part, and murder calls for that frame of mind."
"If the state proves the woman was alive at the time of the injection, Sander will be stuck. If, however, it is proved that the woman
was already dead at the time of the injection, I believe the doctor will be acquitted."
Mr. Melvin said that he felt like the girl who was asked to tell the gender of a cat. She said, "Show me the cat." A person must know the situation better and the attitude of the people of the locality. Their opinion is what will count.
Hilden Gibson, professor of political science and sociology, said, 'The difference between life and death is not nearly so sharp nor so debatable as is generally assumed. Thus far there have been apparently equally reputable testimonies that Mrs. Borrota was dead and not死 at the time the doctor injected the air. This raises a rather interesting legal and ethical question.
"If after all consciousness is gone and there is no hope of recovery, could the doctor's action be described as murder? Or had life actually ceased for all practical purposes prior to his action?"
Dr. Gibson believes that we can learn a good deal from anthropologists in respect to the pattern social groups have used in dealing with the problem of the hopelessly ill varies a great deal from one group to another.
"I would vote for acquittal without question. I'm only sorry that the legal and moral view point has been obscured. We will not get a clear cut ruling of the true issue, that being, is it permissible for a doctor to assist in taking the life of a person who asks for his assistance?
"Admittedly, every precaution should be taken to see to it that the ultimate decision of life and death must be made for the patient and not in the hands of the doctor."
"Dr. Sander could retain the stand of a man of compassion and mercy who aided his patient. If he does, he will spend the rest of his life in the 'clink.' Or he can look like a fool who administered air into the veins of a dead person and go free."
Italian Operas To Be In Hoch On March 13
Two Italian operas, Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" will be presented Monday, March 13, in Hoch auditorium, as another attraction on the University Concert series.
The two have been running mates almost continuously since they were first performed in 1890 and 1892.
"Cavalleria," a one act opera, was written in a short time in 1889 for a prize contest being offered by an Italian publishing house. The work won the prize and the first performance was given in 1890, immediately making Mascagni famous. The simple, tragic plot concerning a Sicilian Easter celebration is as popular today as it was 60 years ago.
"I Pagliacci" (The Players) is a two act opera also written about the lives of the Italian peasantry. It is actually a play within a play about a traveling group of players.
The production is staged by Desire Defere, a veteran of 18 seasons with the Metropolitan Opera company and managed by Charles L. Wagner. Direction is by Paul Breisach, who has recently appeared as guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony orchestra and was previously with the Metropolitan Opera company.
Management must learn the factors of labor, and labor must know the factors of management. H.J. Yount, of Kansas City, Kan., told the Society for the Advancement of Management Tuesday night.
Mr. Yount is the secretary of the Kansas State Industrial Union council of the C.I.O.
SAM Hears Talk On CIO
Mr. Yount listed the goals of the labor unions in six points. They are: Effective political action, reasonable pensions, decent housing, equal rights for all men, promotion of Americanism, and abolition of pay by piece work. Mr. Yount denied that unions are controlled by labor czars. He said that "labor dictators do not exist in reality, since when their methods become top high handed, they are subject to removal."
"Labor unions want industry to prosper so that with prosperity the laborer can purchase the goods produced by our industries."
"It is labor's duty to cooperate with business in obtaining efficiency, but a fair day's work is necessary to everyone. The speed up on the production line is unfair to the laborer."
After the speech, the club voted to make a field trip to the Chevrolet assembly plant at Leeds, Mo., Thursday, March 16.
Dr. Cecil G. Lalicker, professor of geology, has again been designated faculty member in charge of the fellowship, under terms of the grant. The fellowship will pay the fees of the student.
A $1,250 graduate fellowship in geology will be offered at the University by the California company, New Orleans, La., for a second consecutive year, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
The California company, a producer of petroleum, offers only four graduate fellowships in geology. The offering of a fellowship at K.U. for a second year is only the second time a renewal has been made at one school by the company. The company's practice is to shift its fellowship in order to encourage a maximum amount of geological research.
Oil Company Offers Fellowship
earth.
Fellow for the 1850-51 school year
will be chosen later this spring