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Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Slight Increase
At CaIexico.

Slight increase in the enrolment
is expected at Calexico Union high
school this fall The total pupil
load is expected to be in excess of
80, which was last years enroll
ment
Pupils began to sign for their
courses Wednesday and the task
was scheduled to continue all day
Thursday and Friday.
J. w. Lawson is district super
intendent and principal of the high
school at Calexico and H. j. Hart
wig is vice-principal. The roll of
teachers follows with new teachers
this year designated by an asterisk:
Harold Durfee, Miss Marian Farr,
Mrs. Dorotha Fitzpatrick, Earl Lin
holm, William G. Bailey, Mrs. Laura
Sheppard, j. M. Ostrey, Miss May
jenkins, Robert Treble, Mrs. Nora
D. Bacon, E. D. Covington, Miss
Ramona Allen, Lewis Smith, and
Miss Olive Hays, school nurse*.
Increased enrolment is anticipat-
ed in the four elementary schools
in the Calexico district. Last years
enrolment was 1900.
HOFFMAN
Mrs. Hazel Erickson, principal;
Miss Constance Pace, Daisy Blais-
dell, Mrs. Helena S. Deaver, Mrs.
Florence Culver, Olivia Anna Tobin,
Mrs. Helen M. Bates. Mrs. Sydne
G.. Halliday, Mrs. Ruth Going, Mrs.
Florence B. Stevens, Mrs. Margaret
K. Edmunds' Mrs. Helen S. Fugate.
One more teacher was to be added
to the list at school board meet
ing Thursday night.
LOCKWOOD
Allen W. Mains, Howard Kim
ball Mrs. Alice Marie Rice, Miss
Madeline Bertoglio, Mrs. Edith
Carmichael, Edwin Costenborder,
Mrs. A. f. Kennedy, E. j. Hannah,
Mrs. Julia H. Grant. One teacher
was scheduled to be selected at
Thursday nights board meeting.
DOOL
Mrs. Kathryn Watts, principal;
Miss Marie Dobbs, Mrs. Florence
Otter, Mrs. Alden c. Maud, Elsie
Lueck, Mrs. Carrie Willoughby,
Mollie Buckley, Mrs Lorena Taylor,
Mrs. Charlotte L. Langley, Mrs.
Addie G.. Hale.
Mrs Marguerite l.. Ashe and Mrs.
Continued on Page 5; Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
SKUNK AND HOUSE CAT PLAY TAG
WITH OFFICERS IN Ell CENTRO

"Tag! You're it, played by rocsome house cat gaiy
striped through the alley between State
Centre Wednesday night fatally
Ousy for police officers.
The striped the feline will through the
serted thOrOughfare until spotted
doughty officers cautious
phOse post departed roofs to safety
Officers taed the perfumed kitty the method to
Elks
failed drive him into the
Roy Dupont either lost his had AT
his the stairway
perfume dispenser.
DupOnt seriously handicapped his the
remainder of the night The other officers still could smell
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
FLYING BOAT
WINGING WAY
9OvER ATLANTIC

NEW YORK, Sept. 10. UIP)-The
German flying boat Zephyr was
making slightly less than 100 miles
an hour westward over the Atlantic
from the Azores to New York to-
day, its crew reported by radio to
the Pan American wireless station
at Port Washington, N. Y.
Maintaining the same speed, the
lotion craft, trail blazer of a
proposed commercial ocean service
of the Deutsche Lufthansa company,
would reach Port Washington, New
York suburb, at approximately 7
o'clock (EDT) tonight. 1t left Hor-
ia, in the Azores, at $40 pm. (EDT
last night. Flight Capt. j. Blan-
kenburg reported, however, that
thunder storms and a head wind
which slowed the ship in its early
flight were moderating.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10

average daily attendance or
last year. Elementary pu-
pills probably will approach
the 9,239 average daily at
tendance of the 1934-1935
year. 1t still is too early to esti-
mate the enrolment but some
idea may be gained from study
of last years figures.
Ell Centros junior college, high
school and elementary system will
be united under one head for the
first time this year. Guy A.
Weakley is superintendent of the
elementary school district in Ell
Centro as we'll as principal of
Central Union High school and
junior college.
Central Union High school will
open for the fall term September
81, and while it is too early to make
any definite predictions, no ma
terial increase in enrolment Is
anticipated. High school enroll
ment last year was 715 and the
junior college $50.
High school enrolment for ele-
mentary school graduates was
completed last spring by D. w.
Ketchen, vice-principal and coun-
selor, who met with the gradu-
ates as a whole and followed the
group talks with individual con-
ferences. During the summer,
school plans were made upon the
basis of that enrolment. No ju-
nior college enrolment will take
place until September 81, and %.
Charles Sones is president of the
board of trustees, o. G. Horne Is
clerk and the other members are:
j. E. Brock, j. w. Donohue and
Dorsey Whitelaw.
D. w. Ketchen is principal
and counselor, Frank l. Shepherd
is dean of the junior college, Mrs.
Evelyn Powers is registrar and
bookkeeper, Miss Marie Cooper Is
secretary to the principal and Miss
Ruth Bormose is junior college
dean of girls.
Six new instructors and one re-
turn after a leave of absence were
added to the faculty at the high
school and Junior college this
year. The additions and changes
Continued on Page 2; Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
MAJOR LEAGUE.
|-SCORE ES-

NATIONAL
ySt. Louis 900 010 002-3 13
',Bost On ....... 200 900 000-2 s
Johnson, Todd, Heusser, ]. Dean
and Ogrodowski, Ryba; Chaplin and
Lopez.
Pittsburgh .43O O1O O21-11 Ia
Brooklyn .... 900 013 010-- 5 IL 2
Swift and Todd; Farmhouse. Jeff
coat. Winston and Phelps.
Cincinnati 900 100 500 Is
New York -. .OO1 900 1902 2
Derringer and Lombardi; Gabler,
Coffman and Mancuso.
Chicago ... 900 002 010-3 8 /
Philadelphia ...011 900 000-2 3
Lee and Hartnett; Walters and
Grace.
AMERICAN
First Game:
Philadelphia 400 141 1O1-12 16 8
st. Louis ..... 100 800 300 8 2
Archer. Gumpert and Hayes; ia
kucki, Van Alta, Liebhardt, Kim
berlin and Hemsley.
Washington 900 o1o 0o1-2 6 9
Detroit .,..... 100 020 02X--5 8 0
Newso mand Hogan; Bridges and
: Hayworth.
New York .O21 100 OOO-4 13 l
Cleveland ..... .001 100 003-5 IA
Broaca and Dickey: Allen and
George.
Boston at Chicago. played former
date.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
RANCH WORKER
FEARED VICTIM
OF CRIME RING

FRESNO, Cal, Sept. TO- UP
With his skull crushed and a leg
broken, Arjan Singh, SIS, Hindu
ranch worker, was found dead in a
ranch house near here today under
circumstances that caused author
tiles to investigate whether he
Nigh have been slain by Califor-
Mas perfect crime ring"-a Hin
du patriotism cult neld responsible
for 35 prior Hindu killings through
out the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
TROOPS MAKE
NIGH 7 RAID
Enemy Massacred by
Government
Soldiers

MADRID, Sept. 10. (UP)
-Loyalists, in a surprise
attack as part of which they
crossed the river Ebro by
night, surrounded and de-
stroyed two entire regiments of
rebel regulars, it was announced to-
day.
The loyalists crossed the river,
taking advantage of the stormy,
moonless night, in row boats and
flat bottomed boats behind the ad-
vance guard who swan the stream,
southeast of Zaragoza.
1t was asserted that most of the
men in the two rebel regiments
the Castillejo infantry regiment and
the 9th cavalry-were killed or cap
tured. The rebel leader and many
of his aides were among those
killed, it was announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. TO- W.H-
Gov. Eugene Talmadge and his po-
litical organization, the last citadel
of anti New Deal sentiment in the
old south, sustained a crushing de-
feat in yesterdays Democratic pri-
mary, incomplete returns indicated
today.
Talmadge, seeking the Demo
cratic senatorial nomination, trailed
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10

SALINAS, Cal, Sept 10. UP)-
The first act of violence in the Sa-
linas-W -Watsonville lettuce strike oc-
Cured yesterday when F. M. Brans
ford and his two sons were badly
beaten, assertedly by strike pickets.
The three Were driving lettuce
trucks when they We're stopped at
Chular bridge, ten miles south of
Salinas. Their attackers dragged
them from the trucks, beat them
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
LIQUIDATION OF FIRM
TO BE INVESTIGATED

Los ANGELES, Sept. 10. WP,--
District Attorney Buron Fits an
nounced today the county grand
jury will open investigation Sept.
Is ito ascertain II any criminal
acts" were connected with the re
organization and liquidation Of
the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
In
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Last Minute
FLASHES
LEMKE TO ARRIVE
ON COAST BY PLANE

Los ANGELES, Sept. 10. W.D-
Delayed one day by special call
to Detroit, Rep. William Lemke.
Union party presidential candi-
date, will arrive here by airplane
at 11:45 pm. tonight. He will
speak at the Olympic auditorium
tomorrow night and leave at once
for San Francisco and swing
through Oregon and Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
ITALY SMASHES
COMMUNIST RING

ROME, Sept. 10. U.P)-The gov
ernment was said today to have
discovered and smashed a large
Communist organization with
headquarters in Rome and
branches in Leghorn. Grosseto
and other Tuscan towns.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10

will open Tor the fail terms Mon
day in Calexico, Holtville, Impe-
rial, Westmorland, and Calipatria.
Teachers have returned from
summer school sessions and vaca-
tion trips with new class plans and
new ideas. School buildings have
been refurbished and repaired to
make ready for the wear and tear
of school days.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Crushing Retort-

Crushing Retort-
Received in the mail:
DEAR RR,
Mote your Wednesday objection
to working on holidays. Why not
go on relief and not work at all?
We won't bemoan your absence.
Unanimously Anonymous.
RR's mysterious correspondent
must know what he's talking about.
RR will join him anytime-on re-
lief
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Just Too Tired

Just Too Tired
John Donohue never does any,
thing in small way. When he
gets tired, he gets completely tired
The other night when asked to join
a bridge game at tenth of a cent,
John drawled:
"I'll play but only for fiftieth of
a cent. I'd have to think for
tenth, and I'm too lazy"
A Disguise?
In case you failed to recognize
her at Sherwood's, it's truly Mickey
Kern, with a new haircut.
Dab de Dab de Dah-
One look at the paper and RR
knows why the staff kept hum
ming School Days" all day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
SCHOOL TO OPEN FOR 11.4OC
Fall Term Begun
For Valley Pupils


A OF
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Cities Ready
For School Opening;
Hundreds Enrolled
Fall Terms i'm Both Divisions Scheduled to Start
Monday in CalexicO, HOltvie, Imperial
WestmOrland and CaIipatra

When school bells ring in five Imperial county cities
bright and early Monday morning, the serious task of
acquiring education will take the center of the stage
for the hundreds of pupils enrolled at the Institutions
Both the high schools and the elementary schools
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
For Love of Dove

FUr Love OF DOVt-
A movement is under way among
valley hunters to delay the dove
season a month Several sportsmen
report finding nests of young birds
this season. If many of the birds
>really do nest at this time of the
lear, the objectng hunters have
case. Slick Ackley is guiding
light in the movement and will re-
ceive hunters reports. Or send
them in to RR.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
Ell CENTRO STORES STAY
OPEN UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT

FL Centre bucked Fall business
day with the that will observe late closing
Saturday
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10

The Spanish Influence
Even if Jim Jones got nothing
else on a trip to Mexico, he acquir-
ed one dandy set of sideburns. RR
expects him to get guitar or break
into a fandango at any moment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-10
MARKETS AN BRIEF

Butter. Los Angeles 351ac; burtet-
fat. Imperial valley Fob, ranch,
Grade A, f6c; manufa curing milk,
1ORc; route gathered cream, 37Rc.
l.. A. Hay-U. 8. No. 1 extra leaiy.
xfS.5O-19.OO; u. y. No. I, St5.5O-16. 90;
u. =. No. 2 Ieafy, x14.JO, u. y.
No. 2 S13.J0; Minneapolis flax 207 H,-
2i01s.
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
Roosevelt Opposes Use Of Relief Funds for Bonus
MISS MODEL AMERICA"
HOnOE.S Accumulate
HENRIETTA LEAVER, of

HENRIETTA LEAvER, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, is Miss
Model America" today, hav-
ing been chosen for that emf
nence at a contest in Los
Angeles. The new honor
brings with it a motion pic
ture contract. Miss Leaver
won the title of Miss
America" last year. Interna-
tional News Photo
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
CRASH HORROR
DESCRIBED

SUNBURY, Pa, Jan. 81 Q.N.SO.
Unparalleled scenes of horror
greeted rescuers early today when
they ran to the scene of the wreck
of the "Williamsporter," crack
Philadelphia and Reading flyer.
Miss Anna Lertzel, chief tele-
phone operator at Sunbury, wit
messed the accident from the win
dow of her office and notified
police and hospital authorities.
She said:
"The engine blew up. I was
standing at the window closing
it when I heard an explosion
that rocked the section and saw
a tremendous burst of flame.
BLINDED BY GLARE
II knew what had happened
because the passenger train was
due to pass at that time. I was
blinded by the glare for the
moment.
"When 1 could see again 1
looked for the cars but they
were gone. I did not look long
because 1 could hear awful
grOans and shouts from the pas
SengerS."
Miss Bertha Klein was one Of
the first to reach the wreck.
She saw the engine and five
car train plunge from the road
bed into the Susquehanna River.
She said:
ut was the most grueSOme
thing I've ever seen. The
coaches were lying on their
sides and the rescue workers
were climbing all over them,
smashing windows and drag
ging people out.
"Some were unconscious and
some were cut and bleeding
horribly. Some of them just
ran around screaming. Others
fell over before they could
stand up. They were lying all
over the place.
II saw some people partly
covered with blankets who
seemed to be terribly burned.
Whether they were dead or
unconscious. 1 cannot say"
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
POWERS FREE
MRS. fine
to by Washington Times

For two long hours today the
powers-that-be pondered. Here
was a young woman under arrest.
They didn't know what to charge
her with, or if they did, whether
to prosecute her.
They could accuse Mrs. Emily
Newhall Brown Fine, 81, of 80 New
York Ave. N. W., former teacher
at Smith and Radcliffe colleges,
of being a parade and parading
without a permit.
And then the powers-that-be sud-
denly quaShed whatever tn e
charges might have been and de-
stroyed the papers against Mrs.
Fine.
The young woman was arrested
yesterday in front of Constitution
Hall, where she was wearing a
placard urging pasSersby to read a
magazine article on John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Workers.
She was charged on the police blot
ter with violating the sign law.
Representative Thomas r. Amlie
of Wisconsin yesterday put up $25
bail for Mrs. Fine. The money
was refunded today.
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
HITS
WALL STREET.
BY HARRY WARD
international News Service

An attack on the money bags
of Wall Street" by Edward F. Nc
Grady, Assistant Secretary of
Labor, today brought 1,700 dele
gates to the United Mine Workers
convention to their feet in a
demonstration of approval.
He particularly aSsailed the Gen
eral Motors Company as being con-
trolled "by the kingdom of
du Pont," IL of whom, he asserted,
attended the recent dinner of the
American Liberty League ito assail
the President of the United States,
under whose administration their
profits have increased 1000 per
cent" He declared:
Gust about a week ago we
heard the old cry of Socialism
and Communism hurled against
the President for his efforts to
create work for the people; in
short, to find a way to create a
better life and a better day for
all of us.
MAKE THE MOST OF 1T
eff that is Socialism or Com
munism, let the tories and
mOneybags of the nation make
the most of it.
"The Presidents program is
now being challenged on the
ground that it is uncOnStitu-
tiOnal. Unemployment, long
hours, low wages and mass pow
erty are apparently the order
of the day. They are cOnstitu.
tiOnal. The COnStitutiOn-Oh,
Lord, what crimes are commit
ted in Thy name!"
McGrady said the defunct NRA
was an attempt to aid industry
and the workers to produce decent
ethics in business, to provide maxi,
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
ATTENTION, VETERANS!

The Washington Times will all Of your bonus
questions.
Do you want know the status of your adjusted service
certificate? Any loans? Lost t How you apply for
your "Baby Bonds?
Watch the columns of The Washington Times for the
Read the bonus articles which will appear daily
Then if you do find the to your questions
there address letter to the Bonus Editor Washington
Times, Washington, D. C., enclosing stamped, seHad
dressed envelope for reply. See story Page 5.
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
Indy CASE
LACKS NEW
EVIDENCE
NJ. Attorney
General, Issues Pale
Reply to Governor
By KENNETH T. DOWNS
international NeMa Service


TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 81
0N.S0 General David
T. Wilentz's answer to Governor
Harold G. Hoffman's order re-
opening the Lindbergh murder
investigation, turned out today to
consist of one brief paragraph. It
was:
"An the columns Of inter
views, statements and pub
lished reports by persons inter-
ested in behalf o. the defense,
and all the statements Of the
governor, including the letter
to Colonel SchwaFzkOpf, con-
tain no fragment of new evil
dence. The case stands as is"
The statement was handed out
by Assistant Attorney General Jo-
seph Lanigan at about 1910 p. m.
Reporters Baffled
Two hours earlier WilentZ had
told reporters that he would have
something of Importance" to say
and it was anticipated he would
for the first time officially break
his silence on Governor Hoffman'S
intervention in the Bruno Richard
Hauptmann case.
The reporters maSSed around
the attorney generals office were
completely nonplusSed by the mild
and uncommunicative handout.
Wilentz did not appear immedi-
ately to answer the storm Of ques-
tons raised.
He remained inside with Col. H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the
State police, to whom the govern
or's sensational order to ARREST
everyone" connected with the
crime was directed.
Wilentz will leave for a Florida
vacation tonight. While there he
is expected to meet DR.. John F.
"Jafsie" Condor, who is now
cruising in Central American
waters.
Center on "TafSie"
The most important questions
raised in the case by Governor
Hoffman center about the enigma
tic "Jafsie," who was the States
star witness against Hauptmann.
United States Senator A. Harry
Moore, who was governor at the
time of the Lindbergh crime and
the arrest of Hauptmann in 1884,
entered the State house around
II a. m. Asked by reporters if
he had anything to say in the
case, Moore said:
II certainly have not. There's
being too much said now"
When the attorney general re-
Continued on Page 3, Col. s.
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
% C0NVICTS
BURNED TO
DEATH
Men Locked in Prison
Truck Perish in Gaso-
line Explosion

SCOTTSBORO, Ala, Jan. 81
Q.N.S0.-An exploding drum Of
gasoline, ignited by a Negro con-
vict who sought to warm his
hands, today turned covered and
locked highway truck into a seeth-
ing inferno, cremating 20 Negro
convicts.
The explosion occurred three
miles from Highway Camp c, Dep.
uty Warden r. H. OSburn of Camp
c, announced.
p Warden D. A. Hansard left at
once for the scene of the explosion
and only meager details could DE
obtained Immediately.
Only 2 of % convictS being
taken from Camp C of the Ala.
bama highway department to work
on the Pain Rock River bridge
near Larkinsville, survived the
catastrophe.
They were Paul Dawson and
Johr Stokes, who were pulled from
danger by Foreman H. Middle
brooks and Guard Phil WATSON, a
moment before the 30-gallon drum
of gasoline blew up. Both were
burned.
The other 20 convicts were
burned beyond recognition. Resi-,
dent Highway Engineer L. D. Ely
Ster said it would be impossible to
determine their identities until a
roll call was made of the remaining
convictS at Camp C.
Smoke wreathing from tn e
locked, covered prison truck and
the hoarse shouts of the penned-in
convictS was the first intimation of
the fire. Foreman Middlebrooks
said:
WATSON, the guard, and 1
were driving in the cab" Middle
brooks said. "The cOnvictS were
in the rear of the truck and
could not be seen. 1 felt a move
ment of the men back of me,
smelled burning gasoline and
almost Immediately heard the
men shouting.
Il stopped the truck and
WATSON and I ran to the rear.
We unlocked the dor and we're
met by a sheet of flame.
1.-TWO of the cOnvictS, Paul
Dawson and John Stokes, were
at the entrance and we pulled
them out.
1--WE couldn't do anything
more. The interior of the truck
was a mass of Seething, roaring
flames and in a moment : the
3O-gallOn drum exploded, knock
ing us to the ground and singing
our hair and clothing"
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
TRAIN LEAPS
OFF BRIDGE
INTO ICY
CANAL
Mystery Wells Cause;
Screams of Victims
Add to Horror

SUNBURY, Pa, Jan. 81 G.N.SJ.
Four persons were carried to their
deaths and 81 others were injured,
two seriously, when the Williams
porter" crack Reading Railroad
flyer, hurtled from a bridge APP
proach near here early today.
One Of those who died when
the five-car train left the icy rails
on a curve across the SuSque-
hanna River from Sunbury was
believed member of a party Of
Bucknell students, enroute home
for mid-semester vacation.
Complete mystery surrounded
the cause of the disaster, de-
scribed as the worst on the
ShaInokin division of the line in
more than 10 years. Although
one eyewitness of the crash re-
lated that the engine exploded,
Reading Company officials ex.
pressed belief that a rail, split by
the cold, may have been re-
sponSible.
Only One Unlnjured
From comparison of the rail-
roads official list of dead and
injured with the conductors esti-
mate of persons on the train, it
appeared that no passenger or
crew member save the conductor
had escaped death or injury in
the crash.
The dead, as announced by
the railroad, were:
DIR. Guy ROthfuSs, 80, Will
Transport, a brother of DIR.
Paul A. ROthfuSS, deputy secre-
tary of health for Pennsylvania.
william Ramp, Tamaqua, the
engineer.
Washington DanShaw, Tama-
qua, the fireman.
One unidentified person, be-
ieved a BucXnelI University
student.
Two of the injured who crowd
ed this river community'S single
hospital through the long hours
of the early morning were re-
ported in serious condition. They
are Mrs. Daniel Brownell, 68, Of
WilliamSport, suffering shock and
body Commissions, and Fred Fun
ston, 20, of Muncy, with severe
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
WINS
MOVIE START

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81 Q.N.S).
Henrietta Leaver, pretty brunette
of Pittsburgh proclaimed Miss
America" today had won a new
honor for her beauty, and was
ready to start her career in mo-
ton pictures, fully clothed.
Miss Leaver last night won the
title, Miss Model America" in the
Spring Market Week contest held
here, being chosen from five final
lists from all over the country.
In winning, she gets a movie con-
tract. Her work in pictures will
be based on her dramatic talent,
she said, talent which may show
itself while she is fully clothed.
Miss Leaver has consistently re-
fused to capitalize on her beauti.
full figure. Last year a nude statue
was made of her and she refused
to be photographed with it, de
claring the statue "imperSonal. a
work of art" and not to be con-
fused with personal privacy.
The Washington times., 1936-01-31
lord, Help Me" Says
Man Going TO Chair

EDDYVILLE, KY, Jan. 81
GN.SD. -J James Mathews, 10,
Whitley City, KY, was executed
in the electric chair at the State
prison here shortly after midnight
for the murder of Cleve Spalding,
a coal miner, in April, 1885. His
last words we're:
Lord, help me-"
Testimony at the trial developed
that Mathews shot the miner on
a lonely road and witnesses iden-
titled Mathews as the man who
later cashed a payroll voucher be-
longing to Spalding.