UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY. MARCH 6, 1950
Sander Testifies Patient Dead Before Injection
Manchester, 'NH. March 6. —(U.P.)—Dr. Hermann N. Sander, testifying in his own defense at his "mercy murder" trial, said today he believes the woman cancer patient he is accused of killing was dead before he injected air in her veins.
Dr. Sander told of his examination of Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59, shortly before the air injection at Hillsborough County hospital last Dec. 4. "I can't explain my actions at this time. As I looked at her face all the thoughts of the past went before me. . . something snapped in me. I never had any intention to kill Mrs. Borroto."
“Did you ever have an agreement to kill Mrs. Borotto?” asked Defense Attorney Ralph E. Langdell who was conducting the direct examination.
"Do you know what you intended to do with it?"
"No."
"No," said Dr. Sander.
"Yes"
"Do you remember asking for a syringe?"
Dr. Sander said he vaguely remembered trying to "get into her vein" and that there was no blood on her arm or on the syringe. "I tried for 20 or 30 seconds I didn't use a tourniquet which is a ridiculous thing. Ordinarily I would use a tourniquet to bring up the vein so I can see it. I was never sure I was in the vein. I had 10 CC's (cubic centimeters) of air in the syringe. I withdrew the plunger but nothing came out. Ordinarily, a drop of blood would come into the syringe at that time.
"I felt either I had gone through the vein or was out of it and that the wall of the vein was drawn against the needle by suction and was blocking it." Dr. Sander testified calmly in an even voice—almost as if he were reassuring a patient at the bedside.
Dr. Sander continued;
"I then injected a couple of CC's (of air). There was a short swelling about the needle. I injected a couple more CC's. There was no change in the patient. There was a slight swelling around the needle."
Dr. Sander said he continued injecting small, two-CC's bubbles of air until the entire 10 CC's of air was gone. "During the entire procedure, there was no indication of life, no reaction," the doctor said.
The doctor testified there were four injections in all. Asked by Mr Langdell how much air there was injected in all, Dr. Sander said the total was "between 25 and 28 cc's."
Dr. Sander said there was no blood in the syringe, on the needle, on his hand, or on the bed. He said he could not recall any conversation with Miss Elizabeth Rose, the bedside nurse on duty in Mrs. Borroto's room, except that he asked her for a syringe and when he left the room he said that she was gone.
Dr. Sander said he recalled seeing Miss Elsie Borroto, 19, after leaving the room where her mother died. "Did you see Dr. (Albert F.) Snya after leaving the room?" asked Mr. Langdell. He was referring to a staff physician at the hospital who examined Mrs. Borroto prior to Dr. Sander's arrival and has testified he believed she was dead before the defendant reached the room.
"I vaguely remember seeing him after I left," said Dr. Sander.
"Do you recall any conversation with Dr. Snay?"
"I said he was right, or something to that effect. He had already said she was dead."
"The next day, I believe it was Monday."
"When did you fill out the death certificate?"
"What did you put down as cause of death?"
"Cancer of the large bowel with
mastasis to the liver and inanition."
Income reports from all veterans enrolled in farm training under the GI Bill are now due. To avoid an interruption of subsistence, veterans must submit such report no later than March 1, 1950.
Architect Photos In Marvin Display
An exhibition of photographs on the 1949 national honor award of the American Institute of Architects will be on display through Friday on the third floor of Marvin hall.
The exhibition is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects and the American Federation of Arts.
Band Conductor To Three States
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, conductor of the University concert band and symphony orchestra, will conduct at a music clinic and a festival and judge two festivals this month.
Professor Wiley will lead a regional music clinic Thursday and Friday in Ponca City, Okla. He will instruct 5 bands.
With Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, and James Nickerson, associate professor of music education. Professor Wiley will judge the district music festival at Nevada, Mo. Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18.
Professor Wiley will be a critic at the band festival of the Kansas City, Mo., public schools Tuesday, March 28. He will rehearse and direct a massed band of about 250 pieces at the Tri-State Music festival Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, in Peru, Neb. Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa musicians will attend the festival.
488 Students On Honor Roll; 71 Have All A's
Seventy-one College students made the fall "A" honor roll, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, announced. In the 1949 fall semester only 64 students made a 3. average even though there were approximately 500 more students in the College then.
Four-hundred and eighty-eight students made the "A" and "B" honor roll. The College has a minimum grade point average of 2.17 requisite before a student is eligible for the honor roll. To keep the roll from having over 15 per cent of the total College enrollment, the College has steadily upped the minimum average in recent years.
The entire College honor roll will be printed in the University Daily Kansan later this week.
Burckhalter To Go To AACP Meeting
Dr. J. H. Burckhalter, associate professor of pharmacy, will leave Wednesday for Dallas, Texas to represent the University at the sixth district meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
Dr. Burkehalter will present a paper written by J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, dealing with the proposed "Six Year Course in Pharmacy and Its Effect on Graduate Research."
Each of the Jayhawkers took home a trophy for his efforts. Karnes was given the Glenn Cunningham trophy and Bowers the Bill Lyda trophy, each for a year's keeping.
KANSAS' TWIN TRACK TERRORS, Bob Karnes (left) and Pat Bowers, are shown at the finish of the 880-yard run at the annual Big Seven indoor track and field meet in Kansas City, March 4. Between them, this pair earned 18 of the Jayhawkers' meet-winning total of 40 points. Bowers won this event in 1 minute 55.6 seconds after he had set a new record of 1 minute 54.8 seconds in preliminaries the previous night. It was vice versa in the mile run with Karnes finishing about the same distance ahead of Bowers and tying the meet record of 4 minutes 17.2 seconds.
The Kansas meet victory was a complete surprise. Coach Bill Easton's team had not won an indoor meet of any kind since he came to K.U. in 1947.
On KFKU
2:30—"News from Mt. Oread" by Tom. Voe.
TODAY
2:45—'Four-State News Review'
by Emil Telfel
by Emil Telfel
9:30 to 10 "Concerto Concert" Handel's "Concerto No. 6 in B Flat" and "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"
TUESDAY
2:30—"Art by Radio" with Miss Maud Ellsworth
9.30 to 10—"Symphonic Favorites"
Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No.
3" and "Brandenburg Concerto No.
4"
WEDNESDAY
9:30 to 10—"Salon Soiree" Beet-
hoven's "Quartet No. 4 in C Minor"
THURSDAY
2:30—"Pleasures of Reading" with Miss Frances Grinstead
2:45—"The Magic Carpet" narrated by Tom Shay
9:30 to 10—"Sharps and Flats" vocal instrumental and choral selections
FRIDAY
2:30—"Music by Radio" with Miss Mildred Seaman
9:30 to 10 — The Opera Box” Fucinil’s “Madame Butterfly” 2nd act
Engineers Form Military Club
John Adams, engineering senior was elected president of the student chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers at the first meeting of the organization March 3.
2. To develop among military engineers a spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding.
Other members of the executive committee are Walter Buchholtz, secretary; Ross McGinnis, treasurer; John P. Bailey, program chairman.
The constitution of the organization was discussed. Definite plans are to be made at the next meeting.
Maj. R. W. Matz, assistant professor of military science, gave a short talk on the necessary steps of organizing the chapter to comply with the objects of the national organization. He listed the purposes of the organization as:
1. To advance knowledge of the science of military engineering.
3. To encourage a combination of interest of the engineering profession in civil life and in military service.
4. To promote efficiency in the military engineering service and to maintain the best standards of tradition in assisting the nation in preparedness.
Major Matz said all advanced R.O.T.C. engineering students are invited to join the organization. The next meeting will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 105 Military Science building.
Stapleton To Get One-Year Leave
A sabbatical leave for Miss Joie Stapleton, associate professor of physical education, was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malot. The leave will be for the 1950-51 academic year.
Miss Stapelton will study at Columbia university, for a doctorate degree in physical education. This will be her first leave since she joined the K.U. faculty in 1939. She is an alumna of K.U. and holds her master's degree from Columbia.
Professor Speaks To Executives
At 9:05 p.m. today, station KCKN Kansas City, broadcasted an interview with Professor Beth.
Guest speaker this noon at the Advertising and Sales Executives club午展会 in Kansas City, Mo., was P. F. Beth, professor of journalism.
In his luncheon speech, he explained how the law of privacy affects advertisers. In less than 50 years, the tort action for damages for invasion of "the right to be let alone" has been adopted by 19 states, he said. Kansas and Missouri are among the 19.
35 H-bombs Can Demolish US, Physicist Says
Dr. Lapp said, "We must limit the size of our cities. Those of more than 2 million population "fall in the hopeless category," and must be declared to be open cities that will not be defended. Cities ranging from 250,000 to 2 million population must be dispersed, he said. This group would include Washington D.C. with its government leaders and agencies clustered in a relatively small area.
Madison, Wisc., March 6. (U.P.) An enemy able to deliver 35 hydrogen bombs in surprise attacks "could decimate the metropolitan population" of this nation's 27 largest cities, a nuclear physicist said today.
To achieve protection, Dr. Lapp proposed a civil defense establishment as a counterpart to the national military establishment. "Specifically, I have suggested that this new agency be composed of civilian groups and services to study and effect dispersal of cities, invulnerization of industry and critical facilities, procurement of accurate intelligence information about enemy activities, disaster plans for cities and facilities, and provision of the American people with reliable and official information on civil defense," he said.
He warned that such a civil defense establishment would cost $100 million in its first year and $1 billion in its third. Thereafter, he said, " Its yearly expenditures would be determined by critical review of the international picture."
Meanwhile, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower says Americans should try to do more about preventing "national bankruptcy" instead of worrying so much about the hydrogen bomb
"My counsel is not to be too concerned about the H-bomb," the wartime commander of Allied forces in Europe said last night. "We can do something about the possibility of national bankruptcy," he said.
Activities Chairmen Named
Two new chairmen have been appointed to head Student Union activities' committees. They are: Priscilla Barron, College sophomore, announcements; and John Philip Kassebaum, College freshman, special projects.
In a lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. R. E. Lapp urged organization of a civilian defense establishment which would prepare, warn, and protect the public against super- bomb raids. Although the super-bomb—a weapon which he believes will be 10 to 50 times more powerful than the Nagasaki A-bomb is some time off, Dr. Lapp warned that now is the time to prepare against its use.
"Against these targets the enemy would want to use an H-bomb of between 200 and 500 kilotron (that is, a bomb whose destructive power would equal 200,000 to 500,000 tons of T.N.T.); with 35 such bombs he could decimate the metropolitan population in surprise attacks."
"If we alone possessed the H-bomb, it might serve as a temporary deterrent to aggression," he said, "but we know now that what American scientists can do so can the Russians. With the H-bomb in Russian hands, the real advantage would be theirs."
"Thus I would think of H-bombs, if perfectable, as being 10 to 50 times more powerful than the 1945 Naga-saki type bomb." he said. "You may have heard talk of a 1,000 times more powerful bomb. If such a monstrosity could be made, there would be no target area compatible with its explosive violence."
Dr. Lapp, onetime executive director of the committee on atomic energy of the research and development board, said that the destructive power of the Nagasaki A-bomb was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of T.N.T.
Pointing out that more than one-fourth of the U.S. population is concentrated in 27 cities, Dr. Lapp continued: