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308 Five Cents Mm. AT Airliner Hits Home, Kills 2 Children Minneapolis Fights Flames After Blast Defense Department Ousts BV FULTON OVRSLER The Greatest Story Ever Told Chapter XV Peter's Mother-In-Law Critic of Hospital CMlfacLcU, Through the cool sweetness of a May morning Jesus led His Expert Denies Air Killed Mrs. Borroto Young Pathologist Dazzles Court; Shows Slides to Defend Sander BY EDWIN A. LAHEY Free Press Staff Writer MANCHESTER, N. H.

Dr. Hermann N. Sander sent his big man in Tuesday to convince the jury that he did not kill his cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto. The star defense witness, who band of five men down the highroad from Samaria back into Galilee.

They had come to a halt, for a little rest, not far from Nazareth, and beggars and curiosity seekers had gathered around them, when a shocked silence fell suddenly. All movement ceased, and the unclean mob stood rooted in fear. A rich and powerful magnate had suddenly appeared among them. His breast was decorated with a pendant disc covered with watery-blue aquamarines, black opals, and emeralds. THROUGH THE path they instantly opened for him the nobleman strode forward.

But as the crowd peeked and turned their heads, they observed that the stranger's face was pale, his eyes moist. His words were incredibly humble. "I have heard," he began without parley, "strange reports of you a carpenter of Nazareth. There is a tale of a fountain of wine you caused to spring up at Cana." "And another tale, which has gone before you, of how you read the mind of a disreputable woman at Jacob's well. Such reports have given me, a despairing man, hope.

I need help. 'I come from Capernaum; my son is there very ill. Please come down and heal my son, for he is at the point of death." "Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not," Jesus replied with a testing glance at the rich man. "Lord, come down before my son dies," pleaded the father, breaking into sobs. Jesus closed His eyes; this man's tears were real.

Softly He spoke: "Go your way! Your son lives." AS THE RICH MAN looked up, there was no doubt, but only hope in his face. His eyes spoke gratitude as without another word he turned and with outstretched arms flailed a path for himself through the crowd and ran down the open road. The five disciples were speechless; Peter's brow knitted in Tarn to Page 9, Column 1 Star Witness I iVft 9J -'0--" i' vaW i (r Free Press Wire Service MINNEAPOLIS A North west Airlines plane trying for a landing in a roaring March storm crashed into a house in the residential section here Tuesday night and exploded. Firemen said at least 15 were killed. The explosion killed two children watching television in the home of Franklin Doughty, and firemen said there would be "'no survivors'' from the flaming ship.

THE PLANE was Identified as a Martin 2-0-2 bound from Wash ington to Minneapolis. The plane was Flight 307. (Flight 807 stops at Detroit at 2:28 p.m. and leaves at 2:45. (Four men boarded the plane at Detroit, an airline spokesman said.

Two of these men were scheduled to leave the plane at Madison and presumably were not aboard when the ship crashed. Identity of the Detroit passengers was not available.) There were at least 10 passengers and three crewmen aboard. One report said there were 15 passengers. The plane, bucking high winds and a snowstorm, plummeted into a residential section at Emerson Ave. South and Minnehaha Parkway.

Witnesses said a wing fell near the Washburn water tower, some eight blocks from the scene. The wreckage caught fire as the gasoline tanks exploded. The Doughty home was immediately engulfed in flames which made a veritable pyre of the downed ship. flames spread to houses on avcb side of the Doughty home. POLICE SAID two of five mem bers of the Doughty family were killed and three others critically in jured.

Dick Jameson of the Minneapolis fire department said identified victims were Janet Doughty, 10, and her eight-year-old brother, Tommy. Taken to a hospital were Mr. and Mrs. Doughty and a 15-year-old daughter, Diane. R.

E. Stelzig, flight superintendent for Northwest Airlines, said the ship had stopped at Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Madison, after leaving Washington. Radio control tower operators said tha ship was seeking to make the Minneapolis landing on instruments through the swirling snow. It had failed on one approach and was trying a second when the crash came. The Martin 2-0-2 has a capacity of 36 passengers and a crew of three.

The fire department sent 12 companies to fight flames. THE FIRST firemen at the scene found the body of a man lying in the street a block from the crash. They first thought he was a victim of the explosion, which was heard across the entire Minneapolis south side. Investigation, however, disclosed that he was J. Cameron Jenkins, about 60, an insurance man living near the scene, who had collapsed of a heart attack.

Dr. O. A. Lenz, who lives near the crash scene, told this story: "I heard a roar over the house. Then there was a flash of fire.

1 thought it was my new furnace exploding. I told my wife, Gee the house is on But then I saw fire east of the house. Then came the terrible sound of the crash." It was the second Northwest Airlines mishap involving a Martin 2-0-2. Thirty-seven persons were killed on Aug. 23, 1948, when a ship of similar design crashed near Winona, during a heavy summer storm.

Budget Studied MONROE A tentative budget of $1,001,488.70 for operating expenses of the City for 1950-51 is being studied by the City Com mission. On Inside Pages Blizzard, Fires, Dust and Gales Maul U.S. Dying Winter Sends Mercury Plunging in Dakotas and Minnesota By the Associated Preea Dying winter walloped the nation's midsection Tuesday with paralyzing blows from gales, blizzards, sleet and cold. Prairie fires and wheat-killing dust storms harassed the plains states. Navy Doctor Called Move Shortsighted No New Assignment Given to Boone WASHINGTON (JP) A high-ranking Naval doctor who criticized Secretary of Defense Louis A.

Johnson's economy cutback of 18 military hospitals has been transferred out of a high defense post, it was disclosed. He is Rear Adm. Joel T. Boone, who served as White House physician to three presidents. The Defense Department announced that Boone was informed last Tuesday that he would be transferred from his position as chief of the joint plans and action division of the Defense Department's Office of Medical Services.

NO NEW assignment for Boone was announced. Officials said that would be up to the Navy, from which Boone came to the Defense Department. The officials declined to give the reason for the transfer. However, it came out Tuesday that Boone opposes the hospital cutback order as "shortsighted." That was what he called it when he appeared as a witness before a House Armed Services subcommittee studying hospitalization problems. For one thing, he said, it would aversely affect the training of medical personnel for the armed forces.

ONE OF THE most decorated Navy doctors in service, Boone won the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving with the Marines in World War I. In World War II he saw action in the Pacific, receiving the Purple Heart twice. The 60-year-old admiral, a Republican, is a native of Saint Clair, Pa. He now lives in San Francisco. BOONE'S OUSTER was the latest in a long series of quarrels inside the defense high command.

Admiral Louis E. Denfeld was ousted as chief of Naval operations after he and other high admirals complained that the Navy's striking power was being damaged by the handling of armed forces unification. Some members of the subcommittee have indicated concern over failure to make maximum use of existing hospitals while budget requests are being made to build new ones. One example is that a new 500-bed Veterans Administration hospital is being planned at Ann Arbor, while the Army is closing the Percy Jones Hospital at Battle Creek. There are at least four similar situations in other sections of the country.

Dutch, Czechs Swap Slaps THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (JP) The Dutch Government disclosed it will order three members of the Czechoslovak Legation out of this country in reprisal for the expulsion Tuesday of three members of the Dutch Legation in Prague. Communist Czechoslovakia ordered the expulsion of Dutch Charg6 d'Affaires Jacob Van Der Gaag and two other Dutch officials. They were given three days to get out. The Czech Government charged that Hasselman engaged in military spying. Hasselman denied the charge.

UNCLE SAM Will collect your income taxes March 15. If you are not prepared to pay, consult one of the advertisers in Classification No. 124 in today's Free Press For Want Ad Service, Dial WO 2-9400 Gets Gate REAR ADM. JOEL T. BOONE Transfer follows criticism Chrysler Strikers Jam Meeting Leaders Say Demands Will Go Up Weekly BY ARTHUR O'SIIEA Free Press Staff Writer A mass meeting of Chrysler strikers filled the huge Fairgrounds Coliseum to overflowing Tuesday.

As the walkout entered its seventh week, the workers heard their UAW (CIO) leaders say that the Pictures on Back Page union's demands would be boosted week by week until the strike is settled. The name of John L. Lewis was cheered when Norman Matthews, chief of the TJAW's Chrysler department, congratulated the mine-union leader for his victory in the coal dispute. However, none of the speakers mentioned the million-dollar loan offered to the UAW by Lewis. SPOKESMEN INDICATED that the offer would be rejected with Turn to Page 4, Column 5 What They Are Saying LARRY E.

KERLEY, former FBI agent, testifying about Russian spy activities: "Russia's espionage activities in this country continued almost unchecked throughout the entire course of the war. The FBI was not even permitted to open an espionage case against any Russian suspect without State Department approval." OSCAR L. CHAPMAN, Secretary of the Interior, assailing efforts to curtail rural electric co-operatives: "The development of public power will be called socialistic, and a threat to free enterprise. But if we never falter in our devotion to the democratic principle that free men can direct their own affairs for their own greatest welfare, such campaigns will not succeed." Yugoslavs Accuse Czechs LONDON (JP) Yugoslavia as-! serted that its citizens in Czecho-j Slovakia have been virtually cutl off from its embassy in Prague by Czech security police. A Belgrade radio broadcast said 1 Yugoslavs attempting to reach the embassy have been jailed and members of the embassy staff have been refused permission to see them.

Railroads Restoring Full Service Coal Production Nearly at Normal Pree Press Wire Services WASHINGTON The Interstate Commerce Commission lifted all restrictions on freight service by coal-burning locomotives, effective at 11:59 p. m. (local time) Wednesday. Restrictions on passenger service by coal-burning trains were lifted effective at 11:59 p. m.

Friday except in cases where a railroad has no more than 10 days' supply of coal for its locomotives. Where there is less than 10 days' supply, the ICC directed that passenger service restrictions be eased from the present 50 per cent curtailment to 25 per cent, effective Friday night. The Association of American Railroads had asked the Commission to rescind its order of last month curtailing the train service as a result of the coal shortage. THE NATION'S railroads stepped up freight schedules to rush booming coal supplies to strike-emptied bins. Industry sources estimated that soft-coal production had zoomed to well over 2,000,000 tons a day and was close to the normal figure of 2,400,000 tons.

Only a handful of John L. Lewis' 372,000 United Mine Workers in the soft-coal fields failed to return to work in Missouri, Kansas and West Virginia. Coal-hauling railroads recalled thousands of the 62,000 crewmen and shop-workers furloughed during the strike and reported coal shipments were near normal. EARLIER, President Truman asked Congress to authorize a nine- man commission to study long-range coal industry problems. Mr.

Truman said his proposed commission would "make a thorough study of the coal industry in terms of national economic, social and security objectives, and recommend positive and constructive solutions for the basic problems of that industry." The commission would report back to the President and Congress within a year. THE NATIONAL Coal Association has said that the President's proposal is "ridiculous" unless Mr. Truman wanted to investigate the mine union. The commission would be made up of two senators, two representatives and five persons to be appointed by the President one from the Government and four civilians. Frank Sparks, Noted Editor, Dies at 73 GRAND RAPIDS Frank Sparks, 73, retired editor of the Grand Rapids Herald, died Tuesday night.

He was editor and general manager of the Herald from 1928 to 1947. He had succeeded Arthur H. Vandenberg as when Vandenberg was appointed to the Senate. Formerly he had been associate editor and political writer for the Herald since 1904. SPARKS was employed briefly by the Detroit Free Press in 1901.

A graduate of Bowdoin College, in Maine, he reached Detroit in that year with 16 cents in his pocket. After a short period on the Free Press, he joined the staff of the Detroit Tribune, then went to Sault St. Marie in 1902 to work for Frank C. Knox on the Sault Evening News. Knox later became secretary of the Navy and publisher of the Chicago Daily News.

Sparks moved Grand Rapids in 1904. No Coal! Have Badman Heatinp Install Gas Heat Now. Lakeview 7-7500 Ady. brought the "mercy murder" trial of Dr. Sander close to an end, was Dr.

Richard Ford, 36-year-old, boyish looking and brilliant Harvard pathologist. DR. FORD said flatly that 40 cubic centimeters of air was not enough to kill a human being. The State charges that Dr. Sander caused the death of Mrs.

Borroto by injecting this amount of air into her veins. "In your opinion, did air cause the death of Mrs. Borroto?" Defense Attorney Robert Booth asked Dr. Ford, at the end of hours of discourse on pathology, some of it illustrated with film slides. "NO, IT DID not," Dr.

Ford replied firmly. The young expert boosted Dr. Sander's chances to beat this murder rap. He had a self-confident flair, without brassiness. He had professional certitude.

Dr. Ford gave, in all, a performance that contrasted sharply with the curious and sometimes pathetically clumsy appearance of the defendant himself, who took refuge in an involved "everything went black" story when he was in the witness stand. DR. FORD sparred easily with Attorney General William L. Phinney during cross-examination.

"Is it possible to kill a dying person with a sufficient quantity of air?" Phinney asked. "Yes," Dr. Ford replied. "Do you know of any medical Turn to Page 4, Column 2 AUTUMN EVENT? Is Elizabeth Expecting? NEW YORK (U.R) Reports received here said Princess Elizabeth of Britain is expecting a second child in late summer or early autumn. The 23-year-old Princess was reported to have started shopping for a new wardrobe of maternity clothes.

Her first child, Prince Charles Philip Arthur George of Edinburgh, was born in Buckingham Palace 16 months ago, a year after Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbat-ten, Duke of Edinburgh. Youth Beaten on Street After Game Xn 18-year-old high school student was admitted to Receiving Hospital in a serious condition after he was beaten by a gang of 20 youthful hoodlums after attending a high school basketball game at Olympia. The youth is Robert Johnson, of 1508 Burlingame. His companion, Jacqueline Ham-mes, 18, of 9949 Plainview, told police they were assaulted by the mob on Grand River two blocks from the stadium. She could give no reason for the assault.

Police held more than 20 youths for investigation. They were rounded up on the street near the scene of the assault. Cars Jump Rails SEATTLE (JP) The rear five cars of the eastbound Milwaukee Railroad's Columbian were derailed by a broken rail near Hyak in the Cascades. No one was hurt. DR.

RICHARD FORD Makes telling points for defense Gubitchev, Miss Coplon Convicted Spies Face Long Prison Terms NEW YORK (JP) Bright little Judith Coplon and her glum Russian ex-friend Valentin A. Gubitchev were convicted of plotting to spy for the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war. The Government hailed the verdict as a warning to subversive activities. Both defendants, who had been free in bail, were jailed to await sentencing Thursday. MISS COPLON, 28, formerly a political analyst for the Justice Department, faces up to 25 years in prison plus a $10,000 fine.

This is in addition to a 40-months-to-10-years sentence she received after a previous spy conviction in Washington. Gubitchev, 33, an engineer who still holds the rank of third secretary of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, can get up to 15 years and $20,000 in fines. He is the first Russian convicted of spying in this country since the cold war began. A FEDERAL COURT jury of six men and six housewives returned the verdict Tuesday morning after failing to reach agreement Monday night. The jury had been out since 4:34 p.

m. Monday. Brooklyn-born Miss Coplon, an honor graduate of Barnard College Turn to Page 4, Column 3 Shock TOKYO (JP) An earthquake, with its epicenter Tokyo Bay, was felt here Tuesday. No damage was reported. Rock ROME (JP) A slight earth tremor was felt early Tuesday at Rocca Di Papa, a village about 30 miles south of Rome.

Sock SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) A slight earthquake jolted the San Francisco Bay area Tuesday night. Weather toughened Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas got their worst mauling of the winter. Winds up to 100 miles an hour ripped across the northern plains. MOST ACTIVITY in the storm area was paralyzed. Power and telephone lines snapped, schools closed and highway and some rail traffic ground to a halt.

Gales shook ice-laden wires into fragments in the Dakotas. All of North Dakota, 100 South Dakota communities and parts of North- New-Type Map Tells Nation's Weather at a Glance. See Page 1 7 ern Minnesota were cut off from outside telephone communication. Even city buses quit running at Grand Forks, N. where a blizzard cut visibility to zero.

The blizzard roared into Ne braska on winds of near hurricane force. Seven inches of fresh snow fell and the wind whipped it into drifts five feet deep. NORFOLK, IX Northeast Ne braska, had winds of 60 miles an hour. There were frequent gusts up to 80 and one blast of 100 was recorded. Some Nebraskans called the storm worst in many ways than anything last winter the winter of "Operation Snowbound." At Dilworth, the wind tossed telegraph poles across railroad tracks, halting some trains, area.

BLIZZARDS ALSO hit Eastern Kansas and dust storms continued in the western part of that state. Gales knifed across a broad area from the Plains States to the Great Lakes. The high winds sent prairie fires racing out of control parts of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. Air Crash Kills 4 BRISBANE, Australia (JP) A Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln bomber crashed in flames in Southeast Queensland, killing four persons aboard. Trenton Boy-Hangs Self to Own Bed Special to the Free Presg TRENTON An 11-year-old boy hanged himself Tuesday because he was unable to go to church for evening devotions, police said.

William Patrick Armstrong, called Pat by his family, was found in his bedroom. He had tied a clothesline around his neck and to the iron bedstead before jumping off the bed. HIS FATHER, Spencer, of 22591 Monterry, told police that Pat and about 15 playmates had been in the house earlier in the evening. He said they all wanted to go to St. Joseph Church for the evening service.

When Armstrong told them were too many to take in his car, all the children except Tat drifted out of the house to play. Pat walked into his bedroom, Armstrong said. Hearing a thump, Armstrong said he rushed into the room to find Pat lving on the floor. His efforts to revive the boy were futile. Pat was a fifth-grader in St.

Joseph Parochial School. Armstrong is a laborer. He and his wife have five other children, ranging in age from a year to 13. Eight Lose Lives as Fire Sweeps Apartment House OCEAN FALLS. B.

(U.R) Light persons were burned to death in a fire that swept a 25-family frame apartment house. Dead were two men, four women and two children. They were members of three separate families. The structure was owned by Pacific Mills and was occupied by its Ocean Falls employes. Ocean Falls is 350 miles north rf Vancouver.

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