Show Judge May Appeal App al Operation Ruling Family of Child Suffering Dangerous Tumor on Eye Again Disappears Dis Br my United Unite russ HUDSON HASTINGS N. N Y April 19 19 The The possibility ity of an appeal to the states state's highest court from an unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented un un- un- un court order compelling the parents of year old Helen Vasko to submit her to an eye operation deemed necessary necessary necessary essary to save her life was considered today by the Judge who originally ordered the oper operation Meanwhile the Vasko family had dl disappeared appeared again despite a police guard placed at its home to prevent harassment by the curious The fa father fa fa- ther thor John an unemployed laborer was reported to have expressed a willingness to comply with the court order but the childs child's mother was said to insist she would rather let God take Helen than agree to an operation operation opera opera- tion which would cost her the sight of her left eye Judge George Smyth of ot the Westchester Westchester West West- chester county childrens children's court who underwent a a minor operation Monday Mon day said at nt Lawrence hospital in ron that e he e expected to r return home today This is a most serious case he said I 1 think it might be a good idea to have the question carried to the court of appeals because there thero Is no precedent for fot- it It He said he would study the unanimous decision of f the supreme courts court's r appellate division to determine Da er or he would ask Francis R. R Fay Yonkers lawyer appointed as guardIan guardIan guard guard- Ian ad litem to carry the case to th the highest court Smyth first ordered the operation on Helen but arranged an Immediate appeal Th The appellate division ruling was wa based on on the contention that Helen was a neglected child chUd because th the parents parent immigrants from Czecho Czecho- Slovakia Slovakia- have treated a 01 on her left leet eye with herb medicine anc and have refused to follow the advice of ofa o oa a a. doctor The attempt to compel an operation was deplored in a resolution passed a at the annual meeting of the citizens citizens' medical reference bureau The at attempt attempt at at- tempt said points to th the growing power of a n medical autocracy in this country that threatens to take tak absolute possession of ot the peoples people's bodies and to override parental op op op- position |