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Evening star., 1937-05-22
NEW lORK-PTNN,

NEW YORK-PENN.
Scranton 6: WlliamSport, ].
Wilkes-Barre 3: Elmlra t1H inr!ngSl
Eazelton. s Blnghamton, &.
Standing of the Clubs.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
Cut In List Likely.

If MORE than 80 cars qualify for the
race the slowest qualiflers will be
eliminated, and Litz and Ronney
Householder, the only two who have
made less than lit miles An hour, ad-
mitted they were in danger OF being
crowded out Of the starting lineup.
The trials were to begin at o'clock
Central standard time) this after
noon and continue until 7 pm. They
will be held during the same hours
tomorrow
Jimmy Snyder Of Chicago headed
the list OF high" shooters Snyder,
driving new six-cylinder job built
by Art Sparks for Joel Thorne, has
made 1913 miles an hour in practice
Others who intended to put up a
battle for the 81 500 awarded for the
fastest qualifying time are Rex Mays
OF Glendale, Calf; Babe Stapp of
Dallas, Tex; Kelly Petillo of Los
Angeles, Ted Horn of Los Angeles,
Frank Brisko of Chicago, Shorty
Canton Of Detroit, Harry MacQuinn
of Indianapolis and Duke Nalon OF
Chicago.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
PAGE, KIRBY PLAY
FOR LINKS CROWN
Self Taught Star Battles
Pros Pupil for Dixie
Championship.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TLANTA, May 22.-Two Sly
n year golfers-one virtually
~ self-taught and the other tie
1 \ product CT professional IN
struction-matched games today for
the Southern worlen's golf champion-
ship.
The exponents of the two methods
were Mrs, EStelle Lawson Page Of
Greensboro, ome-instTucted North
Carollnian, and Miss Dorothy Klrbr,
l7-year-old Georgia champion, who
learned the game under Howard
Beckett, Atlanta professional.
Lays Victory to Luck.
MRS. PAGE who broke tournament
records with a 33 in scoring a 7
and victory over her opponent Mrs.
Frank Goldthwaite of Fort Worth,
Tex, former Southern champion, in
sisted luck played big part.
You may possess all the skill in
the world but you must have luck
with you too" she said
Dark-haired small and compact,
Mrs. Page is the daughter of an eX-
pert in physical education, DR.. r. B.
Lawson of the University Of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill They de-
veloped their games together by work
and study.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
AUT0|STS JOCKEY
FOR RACE BERTHS
Most Content to Beat Low
for Start in 5O0.MiIe
INDIANAPOLIS Event.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
T INDIANAPOLIS May 22-"Hlgh-
low" was the game at the Indian
apolis Motor Speedway today
L Thirty-tWo drivers put final
touches to their speedsters in an effort
to qualify for the Memorial day 500
mile automobile race. Only % places
were left in the starting lineup.
Eight OF them were ready to shoot
for high" They announced they
would gun" for Bill Cummings quail
flying record last week OF l23445 miles
an hour.
Twenty-Five of the drivers were
playing for low" Their intention
was to go little faster than the
1854 miles an hour with which
Deacon Litz qualified last week
The other two-Chet Miller and
Russell Snowerberger-admitted they
were in the middle They don't have
the speed to compete with the high
shooters and they're faster than those
playing for low"
Evening star., 1937-05-22
Needs National Seasoning.

NteuS 4<dtplldI ScdSOHIIls.
"A S GOOD a golfer as she is, Helen
has Just really gotten started on
her top flight links career. She is
a freshman in the big leagues of the
game, so to speak, and she needs
more seasoning and more tournaments
to figure as potential national
championship winner, and member
Of the Curtis Cup squad,
True enough she went to the final
in two Southern tournaments last
Winter but she will have to do more
than that to win berth on the United
States team which will meet the
British in 1888. The Selection Com
mittee bases its team choices on more
important tournaments than the
Southern affairs.
Ever since l saw those girls play
at Chevy Chase in 1884 I've wanted
to make the Curtis Cup team Helen
says. It's been my greatest ambition.
But I realize it takes a lot of hard
work and a lot of winning to make
the team I promised Patty Berg to
play in some of the Western tourna-
ments which come at the time of the
Maryland and District championships,
so I won't be able to compete in the
tournaments here this Spring.
New Sectional Threat.
WITH the DettWeIler girl out Of the
w two championship affairs this
year Mrs. Betty Meckley, champion
of the District of Columbia and OF
Maryland, again will be the faVorite
to win both titles But from the way
the girls are talking. Mrs. w. R.
Stokes, a clubmate OF Mrs. Meckley
at Indian Spring, may be the gal to
lick. Mrs. Stokes has been getting
around her home course in good
scores, has won a tournament already,
and probably will be the one to beat
in the Maryland tourney at Five
Farms June 6-l2 and the District
championship at Chevy Chase June
14-l8
With Helen DettWeiler around,
those tournaments probably would be-
come a four -cornered scrap, for Mrs.
Meckley, Mrs Stokes, Helen and
Marion Brown, the Manor girl, seem
to be the strongest feminine golfers
in this sector.
Evening star., 1937-05-22

TEXAS.
Tulsa. 4: Houston. 3.
Beaumont. g; Dallas, 2.
San Antonio, 81 Fort Worth. 4.
Galveston Oklahoma City, rain.
Standing of the Clubs.
WI. Pct. W. L. Pct
Bumont 23 $50 Tulsa 1920 .459
Ft, Worth 20 l6 $3.50 s. Antonio II 81 "A 7
Okla City 81 II 52S Dallas 16 20 .444
Galveston l9 II 1928 Houston Is % .42l
THREE-EYE.
Decatur. 7: Bloomington, 8.
Other games postponed, rain.
Standing Of the Clubs.
WI. Pct WI. Pct.
Moline 3 .786 Peoria .6OU
Clinton & ,57l Terre Hte 8 SOB
Decatur 8 7 .563 Bloom ton 4 IL .267
Evening star., 1937-05-22

Standing of the Clubs.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
Place Curtis Cup Team Dett,veiler Girls Go1ng
HELEN TO FOREG0
SECTIONAL MEETS
Congressional Star Will
Adhere to Affairs of
National CaIiber.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.

tournaments THIS year, Helen
"A Il Dettweiler, Congressional golf
er. Is going to pass up the District
and Maryland Women's champion
ships in favor of bigger affairs of
national caliber.
Helens ambition, ever since she saw
the international contests at Chevy
Chase back in 1884, is to become
member of the United States Curtis
Cup team. She has chance to make
the team too. if she performs we'll in
the tournaments to come during the
Summer and Fall, including good
showing in the national Women's
championship at Memphis.
Evening star., 1937-05-22

TO-DAY S start of a perfect draw of
80 women in pursuit Of The Star
Cup is but a forerunner of bigger
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
BLAST MISSED
45O IN GYM

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
G.N.SO Standing out in bold re-
lief amid the gaunt columns OF
battered and twisted steel which
only two days ago was Texas
model school, a single building was
left today.
1t was the schools gymnasium
and behind the untouched walls of
masonry was written one Of the
most dramatic phases of the ex-
plosion which caused the greatest
school tragedy in history.
Those walls of masonry saved
$50 boys and girls, their teachers
and many parents from dying in
the holocaust which took the lives
of 425 children. 1t was luck-and
luck alone-which saved them.
Miss Louise Taylor, principal of
the primary school, revealed that
a last-minute change in plans
caused her to place the children
in the gymnasium instead of the
auditorium. If they had been in
the auditorium they, too, probably
would have died.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
MAN ARRESTED
AFTER RAID

A second arrest in connection
with the gambling raid made
late yesterday in the $500 block
of New Hampshire Ave, N. W.,
was made early today when
United States MarshaIs arrested
Henry Carter and charged him
with conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws.
Both Garter, and Mary Agnes
Gerard, 30-year-old woman who
was arrested yesterday at the
scene, were arraigned before
United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage this morn
ing and released under bonds of
$1,000 each for a further hear
ing March 81.
The woman was arrested yeSter-
day as police and United States
marshalS made two raids on al
legged gambling establishments.
The second raid was made in the
1700 block of R St. N. W., but no
one was arrested at the latter
address, as it was deserted when
police arrived.
Telephones, radios, and gambling
equipment were seized from both
establishments. Both Carter and
the woman entered pleas of not
guilty when arraigned this
morning.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
HOUSE TO PASS
LYNCH|NGB|LL

The House will pass an anti
lynching bill in the near fu-
ture, Representative Pat Bo-
land of Pennsylvania, Demo
cratic whip, predicted today.
Boland, whose job is to know
how the House will vote, made
his prediction after a petition
calling for action on the Gava-
gan anti-lynching bill had been
signed by 1853 members. With
addition of SIS more signatures,
the bill can be called to the
floor for action.
Just before adjournment last
summer, 218 members of the
HouSe-a majority-Signed a
petition to bring an anti-lynch.
ing bill to the floor. Congress,
however, adjourned before it
could be called up for action.
While the measure will be bit
terly fought by many southern
members, leaders admit the bill
will pass. Senate action is be-
lieved unlikely, although Senator
Wagner CD of New York will
make an active fight and Presi-
dent Roosevelt has endorsed
legislation.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
HOrrOF-Filled Parents
Haunt Texas MOH'SueS

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
G.N.SO. Stunned d m e n and
women marched through the
streets of this community today
marched from one temporary
morgue to another in a search for
loved ones.
Their faces were tear-stained,
their eyes like hollow shells after
two nights of sleeplessness. They
looked at the broken little forms
set out on benches, hoping against
hope they would not find what
they sought, but knowing, never
theless, that the children they
loved probably were dead.
The horror of the situation left
men and women so numb, they
walked as if they were robots.
To the parents of the boys and
girls identified as dead all hope
has gone. But, as the day wore on.
there were scores of manSled
bodies which hadn't been claimed.
There were scores which probably
never would be identified posi-
lively.
Harbingers UnnOticed
Spring painted a riot of color
on the nearby hillSides. The sun
Shone brightly and outside this
little community there seemed
every reason for rejoicing. But
the bewildered parents didn't
notice natures announcement of
spring. They saw only broken
bodies-legs and arms and charred
torsos.
1t was in the morgues that the
most heart-rending scenes were
witnessed.
In an Overton funeral parlor
there are more than so mangled
corpSeS. A tall. sun-tanned worker
of the oil fields came to find his
son. The undertaken drew back
sheet after sheet as the Texan
looked on. He said once:
This may be him."
Then shook his head:
mo, the feet don't look like
him."
The rest of the body had been
so broken and bruised that moth
ing but the child's feet could Of
fer Identification.
Excavation Watched
Again, in Tyler, where some of
the victims were taken, a sister
and father sought their loved one.
Finally they stopped before a cot
on which rested a body with not
a bone which was not broken.
After looking at the distorted face
for a time, the father said:
II can tell by her teeth"
1t was thus that they identified
them.
AS the rain came down like q
spring freShet during the forenoon,
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
LOSES
GEMS TO THUGS

Loot valued at several hundred
dollars was collected by thieves
in a series of crimes during the
night.
Mrs. w. T. Utley, a visitor from
Detroit, reported her car was
broken into and clothing and
jewelry valued at $247 stolen.
Jack Shelowitz, Brooklyn cloth
ing salesman, reported his car
broken into and clothing valued
at $113 taken.
Rose Kartofel, owner of a gro
Gerry store at 634 Second St. S. w.
was held up by a colored bandit
armed with a revolver and robbed
of So.
John H. Olcott, Ontario Apart
mentS, was robbed of STA by a
olored man and a colored woman
in the 900 block Rhode Island Ave.
N. E. He ran to a fire alarm box
and pulled it. When the firemen
arrived he explained he had been
robbed, and they summoned police.
The robbers escaped.
Claude A. Smith, 1882 Park Pl.
N. w., reported his home entered
and jewelry valued at $143 stolen.
An armed thug robbed a liquor
store in the 1900 block Thirteenth
st. N. W., taking $500 from the
cash register and $50 from Samuel
Anleman, the proprietor.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
ScOurS 3 TOWnS
For Son Who Ldy
Dead at Home

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
Q.N.S0 The frantic search by
parents for their lost children
after the explosion in the school
last night was described to Inter
national News Service by j. A.
Ketchum, an oil field worker who
lost one son in the disaster. For
hours he believed another son had
been killed. He said:
Reaching the scene of the
blast, 1 Immediately started
search for my two boys, william,
16, and Cecil, IA, both students.
Il was informed by one of
williams SchOOImates that Will
liam had been slightly injured
and was in a hospital in Over
ton. l went to OvertOn. There 1
was informed that my son had
been removed to Tyler. rushed
to Tyler and was told, after
making a check of the hospitals,
that 1 should try KilgOre, 13
miles away.
81 went to kilgOre and
searched again, but found no
trace of William.
"Disheartened, 1 returned
home and there found William
dead. He had been instantly
killed.
Cecil, the other son was at
home, alive and uninjured ex-
cept for minor cuts and bruises"
The Washington times., 1937-03-20

making the red Texas clay almost
impossible for the trucks, ambu-
lances, National Guard cars and
mortuary wagons, anxious-eyed
men and women stood under shell
ter wherever they could find it,
and patched one particular spot.
They we're parents. And the spot
they watched was just east of the
school building, where the walls
had bellied out and the roof cal
lapsed through to the basement.
It was said that here a teacher
had been inStructing a class of 26
youngsters.
Workers carefully shoveled the
surface and men with acetylene
torches cut through metal, taking
off piece by piece, while other
workers left their tasks and stood
in the rain to see the first body
removed.
While this meticulous excava-
tion was going on-meticulouS
because earlier workers have taken
two living persons from beneath
the wreckage-others who had
been called from cities, towns and
hamletS within a radius of several
hundred miles went about their
tasks in the downpour without
complaint.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
Teen Generation
OfTOWnIs Wiped
Out By Blast

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
G.N.S0 This stricken oil-settle-
ment town of 1900 today faced an
irreparable void in its population
the mass death of virtually an
entire blooming generation.
The terrific explosion that razed
the main building of the New
London consolidated school killed
between $50 and 500 of the teen
aged high school students of the
community.
Nearly all of the boy and girl
victims ranged from IL to 19 years
of age. Scarcely a home in the
community escaped the whitening
toll of death.
School Superintendent w. c..
Shaw had no plans today for the
building of another high school.
He said:
"After all, why should we?
There would be only 100 stu
dents left to attend classes. The
rest are dead"
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
WALLS TO GET
DECREE MAY ;

LONDON, March 20 G.N.SJ.
Mrs. Wallis Simpson will be
granted her final divorce May 3,
it was reported today. after all
obstacles to her prospective we'd
ding to the Duke of Windsor
were removed when the London
divorce court struck an interven-
ton from the records.
Francis Stevenson, who had
given notice he wished to inter.
vene in the case, and then yes.
terday publicly stated he was
withdrawing his action, declared:
when / heard Edwards
speech from Windsor Castle,
when he oeferred to his inabil-
ity to carry out the heavy bur
dens of state without help Of
the woman he loves, said to
myself: He is human. 1 shan't
take any further action"
VIENNA, March 20 GN.S1.
The Duke of Windsor was jubi.
liant today over the favorable de-
ciSion of the London divorce
court, clearing all obstacles from
the path of his romance with
Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Between
telephone conversations with his
future bride at Tours, France,
the Duke played English and
Scotch tunes on the piano and
an accordion.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
Paper Mill Workers
Reject Seat on {. |. @.

CHICAGO, March 20 G.N.SD.
Delegates representing 10000 mem,
bers of the Brotherhood of Pulp,
Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
returned home today after reject.
ing proposed affiliation with the
Committee for Industrial Organi-
Zation.
After four hours of debate the
delegates last night voted TO retain
the international brotherhood S
place in the American Federation
of Labor.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
High School Letter
Presented Aide, IT

PALMER, Mass. GN.S0.-Al-
though II years old, Peter E. Bard
has just been awarded his letter
from Palmer High School.
Bard was presented the letter,
affixed to a lounging robe, in
recognition of his Is years service
as the high school athletic as
sociation's ticket seller and
financial agent.
A bronze plaque was also pre-
sented to Bard and his name will
be placed on the schools honor
roll of athletic greats"
The Washington times., 1937-03-20

Beaumont on the south.
Here in the heart of the oil
fields, the hundreds of young vic
Tins mangled in the walls of the
$1,000,000 school house that oil
wealth built, were to be buried
today.
AS the last of the tangle OF
debris left by the explosion which
wrecked the school was combed
and carted away, the total of
known dead stood at approximate
ly 500. Hospitals in a dozen box
car boom towns surrounding the
New London consolidated school
held 215 more victims. Many of
them will die. Death would bring
a merciful release for most of
them.
A More Tragic Picture
The little sufferers in the hos
pltalS present an aspect infinitely
more tragic than the still figures
piled up in the morgues.
Mothers and fathers continued
their mournful pilgrimageS, seek
ing their own among the sheet
draped figures over which en-
balmers still were working in
funeral homes, garages and ante
rooms. In the largest funeral
home in Overton, the undertaken S
prize poultry cackled among the
corpes in the back yard where the
overflow of trade was being cared
for, while the undertaker'S wife
showed the latest models in mauve
and white caskets for the country
trade in the front room.
Short-length casketS have been
rushed in by the truckIoad from
points all over the State to meet
the emergency.
Outside Relief SuperfIuous
The oilfields will take care of
their own. It is a curious aspect
of this catastrophe that relief
funds, rolling into $4,000 with
out any appeal for them having
been made, will go unused. The
oilfield worker may live in the un-
painted box-car shack in what
East Texas calls, for its shape, a
shotgun town." but he wants it
understood that he will bury his
own. Because of this prevailing
sentiment, even discussion of a
general memorial service-for the
victims whose bodies never will be
recovered-haS been dropped.
Nurses and doctors who re-
sponded to the Red Cross appeal
for volunteers. have been sent back
home.
Task Is Undertaker's
The task here is the under
takers, not the doctors. Maj.
Gen. H. j. Brees, commandant of
the Eighth Army Corps Area, re-
turned to Houston satisfied that
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
Coma Slayer Plans
To Seek New Trial

LOS ANGELES, March 20 G.N.
S0.-Helen Wills Love, convicted
husband slayer who awoke from
an apparent coma that had held
her for 1853 hours, said today she
was ready to fight for a new trial.
The brunette faces a sentence of
from seven years to life for the
murder of Harry A. Love.
Although Mrs. Love is still weak,
DR.. Benjamin Blank, county Jail
physician, said she would be able
to walk soon.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
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blown outward as a result of gas,
without the introduction of nitro
glycerin, either maliciously or
carelessly.
Seventeen Still Missing
One newspaper here said its
count showed II children still
missing, and added that the death
toll would reach $50.
Because the injured and dead
were taken to widely separated
sections after the blast, it has been
virtually impossible to arrive at an
accurate toll. There were many
Implications of names.
However, since a score or more
of the injured are on the critical
list, new deaths may be added to
the toll over the weekend, ply
sicianS said.
No mass burial of the victims
was planned today, although mass
funeral services were scheduled.
The Rev. N. C. Holmes, of the
Baptist Church, was to lead a
mass funeral service at noon.
And, because large numbers Of
victims were neighbors, interment
at some cemeteries will resemble
mass burial. Mr.. Holmes said 10
new graves were dug in the old
London cemetery yesterday.
Rites Held For 200
Throughout a 40-mile area, at
least 200 torn and crushed bodies
were being inferred following serv-
ices in homes, churches and
mortuaries today, it was esti-
mated.
Several clergymen from other
communities have arrived to as
sist local pastors.
Capt. Clayton E. Coombes, who
is assisting Major Howard in the
court of inquiry, said the probe
might last three days. He added:
1--WE want to get to the bot
tom of this disaster. We are
not attempting to fix blame,
but something may come out
during the probe that will pre-.
vent a recurrence of explO-
SiOnS of this kind.
Frantic mothers and fathers
rushed about in cars and on foot,
lifting white sheets that covered
still forms here and there IN a
search for their sons and daugh-
terS. 1t was feared some might
never be identified, so battered
were their bodies.
Ruins COmbed by 1000
The gigantic task of hunting
for bodies in the ruins of the i'll
fated school has ended, with au-
thoritieS convinced that all the
bodies have been found. About
l 900 workmen quit their labors
last night after upturning with
bare hands and derrick more than
half of the brick and steel in the
structure.
Inc tragedy brought the big
geSt demand in Texas history
for medium-SiZed caskets. Factories
in Dallas and elsewhere worked
night and day to meet the demand.
Most of the young victims we're
between 8 and is.
Superintendent of Schools w. C.
Shaw revealed triple tragedy in
his family. In addition to losing
his own son in the blast, his two
brothers, Joseph and Walter Shaw,
lost their sons. At the same time,
Shaw said II teachers had lost
The Washington times., 1937-03-20

medical or other facilities of the
Regular Army would not be
needed. The Mother Frances Hos
pital, a recently-completed 100-bed
institution at Tyler. was opened in
advance of the time formally set,
to receive the injured. .s
Said Mrs. L. L. Gibson, whose
13-year-old daughter, Marcelyn,
was one Of the first of the dead
to be removed from the wreckage:
'Tf the worst must happen, it
Is much easier to know it right
away. 1 have been spared some
thing in finding my child and
being able to recognize her"
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
SECURITY ACT
HELD VALID

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 20
G.N.SD The Federal Social Sc
curity Act was held constitutional
today in a ruling by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Fifth District,
The ruling was in the case of
Charles C. Stewart Machine Com
pany VS.. Harwell G. Davis, Federal
collector of internal revenue for
Alabama. The case came before
the circuit court on an appeal
from the Federal District Court of
Northern Alabama.
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
Breaking Death
NeWS Too Much
For Doctor

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
GNS0.-A kindly physician who
declined to permit publication of
his name today said he could no
longer be the bearer of dread It'd
ings to bereaved mothers and
fathers. He said:
"I'lI not tell another mother
or father their child is dead, 1t
is too horrible.
"The numbneSS which StareS
out at you in their every facial
expression is too much for me-"
The Washington times., 1937-03-20
Texas Tragedy Stirs
Windsor S Sympathy

VIENNA, March 20 G.N.SD.
The Duke of Windsor has in
structed his equery to express
heartfelt sympathy to the United
States minister here in connection
with the disastrous school explo-
sion at New London, Tex, it was
learned today.