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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Former Pastor OF
 Church OF Sacred HeartDies Sunday
Rev. John J. Fitzgerald Known as "Ihe Builder, y Dies Suddenly Established First Catholic High
 School in Diocese, While Pastor Here

Funeral services will be held in New Haven Wednesday morning John J. Fitzgerald 71 pastor of St. John the Baptist church. Hghwood and former pastor of the church of the Sacred Heart in this city, Most Reverend Maurice F. McAulife bishop of Hartford will sing pom
 Known ughout the diocese the builder, Father Fitzgerald served pastor of the Sacred Heart church for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
ELEVEN KILLED

Boston, May 10.-UP)-Eleven persons were killed in motor ve- hicle accidents in Massachusetts last week, according to the report of the Registrar Frank A. Goodwin.
 This was two more than in the previous week and the same as in the corresponding period last year,
 Victims included nine pedestrians and two occupanutS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
FLIGHTS STOPPED

Berlin, May 1O-(UP)- All scheduled flights to South America of the dirig- ible, Graf Zeppelin were suspended today by Gen. Hermann Wilhelm GOering, German air minister, pend- ing a report from the Ger man commission en route to the United States to i'm vestigate the Hindenburg disaster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Late Neus Flashes
FATAL INJURY

New Milford, Conn.,, May 10-(UP)-Edgar Eaton, passenger in an automobile operated by Howard Sleigh ter, Kent, when it struck a tree and overturned on the New Milford-Kent highway Sunday, died early today at New Milford hospital. He suffered a skull fracture and other injuries. Sleigh ter was seriously hurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10

Laconia, N. H., May 10.-(UP)-- Only a few minutes after Mrs. Elizabeth Perry accepted ride with two nieces to a cemetery, the auto- mobile was in collision with an- other car yesterday. Mrs. Perry was killed. None of the other occu- pants of either car was injured seriously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
ORDERS STRIKE

Pittsburg, May 10 - (UP)-John L. Lewis steel workers organizing com- mittee today authorized it's leaders to call a strike in plants of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation unless the company agreed by Wednesday to sign a collective bargaining con- tract,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, May 10-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May '. compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,444,133,01 $6,149,742.S65.1
 Receipts
 $4,205.6es.7s0.72 $S.43S,146,7ss.04 s2,2ss,4ss.2s5.so s2.71s,5ss.12ZO7
 Cash Balance
 $1,711,ss4,s74,S1 $2.4s4,sSs.ss2.22
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
GRAPEVINE COTTAGE FIRE

Concord, Mass, May 10.-(UP)-- Grapevine cottage, one of historic Concord's landmarks, was slightly damaged by a roof-fire yesterday Former home of Ephriam Wales Bull, who developed the Concord grape in 1849, the 247 year old structure Is now roadside restau- rant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
C0n1mdnderROsendahL Starts His Testimony
 Before Inquiry Board
Dick Merrill Has
 Landed In Essex

London, May 1O.-UP)-Dick Merrill, completing a successful transatlantic flight from New York to England, landed at 6:1O D. m. at the Northweald Royal Air Force airdrome in Essex.
 The air ministry, which made the announcement, said Merrill had set off immediately for Croydon, his ultimate Objec- tive, at 6:2O p. m., 1:20 EDT. NOrthweald airdrome is about 20 miles northeast of London.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
FURNITURE STRIKE

Grand Rapids, Mich, May l0.- (UP)-Approximately 700 employees of two furniture factories walked out today demanding a 40-hour week, wage increases and recogni- tiou of their 0. I. 0. union.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Americas Foremost Expert Said He Had No Knowledge of What Caused
 Fire to Break on Dirigible
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N. J.. May 10-(UP)--. Commander Charles Rosendah Americas foremost air. ship expert told federal board of inquiry today that the drigbe Hindenburg "a little lighter or more buoyant
 than usual when she nosed through hunderSorms to land
 and destroyed by fire at the end of her voyage from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Denounce Bilbao Bombing As Refugees Flee Country

New York, May 10-(UP)-Five hundred refugee children from the Basque country will be brought to the United States within the next few weeks by the German American Relief Committee for Spain, 1t was announced today. Applications are being made to the state department for a collective visa. The children will sail this month from the French ports of Bordeaux and St. Jean de Luz.
 Pauillac, France, May 10-(UP)- Another contingent of 2.000 Basque refugees, most of them children, dis embarked here today for the French merchant vessels Carimare. Cha u-Margaux and Chauteau-Pal- mer. About 500 were aged noncom- batants and invalids.
 Bilbao, Northern Spain, May 10- The British vessel Marvin sailed for Bordeaux, France, today with 250 women and children refugees from the belcaguered area here. The Marvia was escorted by the Span- ish destroyer Ciscar and the motor ship Viscaya to the three-mile limit. after which two British destroyeFD took up her escort. Preparations were continued to remove 1000 ad- ditional Basque refugees during the week, mostly women end children
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
The Weather

Fair, Cooler Tonight; Unchanged Tuesday Full Weather Report Page H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
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Evening star., 1937-03-21
Believed 1900 Years Old.

Believed to be those Of a mother
and child 1000 years old, human
skeleton and some bones have been
unearthed at Bishops Stortford, Eng
land.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
By the Associated Press.

bE tHe associated PTeSS.
NEW LONDON, Tex, March 20
Funeral professions jammed the
country roads of Rusk County today.
The homes and family churches
of the ass victims Of the London
Consolidated School explosion Thurs
day sent a steady stream of hearses
and mourners' cars into the high
ways.
Texas highway patrolmen were or
dered out on the roads as traffic
clogged to standstill in many places
a tie-up in the vicinity of Pleasant
Hill Cemetery, where scores were
buried during the day, had auto
mobiles stopped at times for more
than a mile
Professions ready to move from
churches and homes waited in the
bright sunshine for an opportunity
to enter the burdened highways
Ministers spoke tirelessly from their
pulpits while others visited saddened
homes to conduct services there
Many Burials Today.
The ministers did not know when
the need for their services will end.
Many burials will take place Sunday
and plans still we're indefinite in
several homes.
The services were all short today.
Weeping mothers and grief-stricken
fathers, accompanied by friends and
relatives, filed into the churches,
sometimes behind single coffin, often
behind two or three
Most of the little coffins were gray.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
i. s. COURT BACKS
TAX FOR SECURITY
Fifth Circuit Tribunal Is
Unanimous in Constitu-
tionaIity View.
BY the Associated Press

ES the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, March 20.-The
United States Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals today upheld constitutionality
OF the social security act-specifi-
cally its taxing provisions.
The decision was unanimous in a
hree-judge tribunal composed of
Senior Judge Rufus E. Foster and
Associate Judges Samuel H. Sibley
and Edwin R. Holmes.
The judicial approval for the i'm
portant plank in the New Deals
social reform program grew out of
case involving the payment Of
S46.l4.
The Charles C. Steward Machine
Co. Of Birmingham, Ala, paid the
collector Of internal revenue s46.l4
in 1886 in accordance with title TX
OF the social security act.
The company then sued Harwell G.
Davis, internal revenue collector for
the district Of Alabama, for a refund
on the grounds the tax had been
"wrongfully and Illegally assessed be-
cause the social security act is un-
constitutional and void"
The Federal court for the northern
district of Alabama dismissed the CON-
pany's suit.
In upholding the lower court, the
Court Of Appeals opinion written by
Judge Sibley said:
For many years and in numerous
with complete public acquiescence that
calamities such as floods, droughts,
earthquakes and pestilences which,
though local, exceed the resources of
| local government to meet, are mat
ters affecting the general welfare
of the United States, touching which
its power to tax and the correlative
power to spend may be exercised.
THE recent countrywide distress
due largely to industrial unemploy-
ment has caused Federal expendi-
ture OF billions, largely borrowed.
Still it remains true that the relief
of such conditions is primarily the
duty and burden of the several States.
These two interacting responsibilities
We think are the key to the legis-
lation under scrutiny. To refill the
Federal Treasury and also to en-
courage the States to assume for the
future their proper burden this tax
with its credit scheme has been de-
vised, There is in it no undue coer-
cion or compulsion Of States. ="
Since we hold the, exaction to be
a tax" the opinion concluded, there
is no room for the contention that
private property has been taken for
public use without just compensa-
ton"
Evening star., 1937-03-21
OFFICER EXONERATED
IN DEATH OF PROWLER
Coroner's Jury Gives Verdict
After Man Stealing Gaso-
line Is Killed.

A coroner jury yesterday exoner-
ated Ninth Precinct Policeman E. B.
Howlin in the death of Preston Swami,
80, colored, who was struck on the
head with the officers nightstick early
Thursday when he resisted arrest
after being caught siphoning gaso-
line from parked automobile.
Testimony was given to the effect
that Swami, who lived in Upper
Marlboro, Md, had a length of hose
and 5-gallon can when Howlin
found him tampering with the tank
of a machine in the 100 block Of
Fifth street northeast.
While en- route to call box, Swami,
it was testified by Howlin, struck
the officer with his fist, discoloring
his eye. Howlin said he returned the
blow with his fist and then hit Swami
once with his nightstick, causing
him to fall and strike his head against
a concrete coping.
Howlin, who is % and lives In
Arlington, Va; has been a member
of the force since June, 1882.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. March 20.-The speed
and precision of Associated Press wire
photo was again demonstrated by a
picture beat" on the New London,
Tex, school disaster.
Before the stunned community could
grasp the enormity of the tragedy,
pictures Of the explosion aftermath
were riding the wires side-by-side with
the word-story of a school turned into
death house.
BY 1890 pm, five pictures out of
New London had started to move on
the l0,000-mile wirephoto network
They were made by j. c. Kaho, staff
photographer of the Oklahoma City
Daily Oklahoman and Times, who
happened to be in the vicinity.
The first flash on the story sent
James F. Laughed, Associated Press
staff photographer, on motor-car
dash from the Dallas bureau to New
London, where he made a score or
more pictures and returned them to
Dallas.
by Z3o am, FRIDAY, 10 spot pic
lures had moved on the wirephoto net
work, six of them II by II inches,
and a total of % were in the hands of
editors before the wire closed for the
night.
Associated Press News Photo Editor
Butler and Staff Photographer Sanders
of Atlanta took an airplane and were
on the scene shortly after l am
John Lindsay, staff Photographer from
New York, accompanied by a wire
photo technician, landed at nearby
Tyler shortly before daybreak.
A wirephoto portable transmitter at
San Antonio was rushed to Tyler,
where it was set up in the office of
the Tyler Courier-Times. An airplane
chartered by the Associated Press
Evening star., 1937-03-21

feared the youngsters would be manned
for life if they did live.
A steady stream of parents applied
for and received loans today to defray
burial expenses of their children from
the First State Bank of Overton.
M C. Paris, president, said many
of them were too grief-stricken to dis
cuss their wants. They simply indi-
Gated by motions what they wanted
and signed notes" he said.
One man. whose three children were
to be sent to Alabama for burial,
pledged his few shares of stock in
major oil company.
They're all customers Of ours and
none are denied assistance" Paris
said.
Company Pays Expenses.
The TideWater Associated Oil Co.
at Kilgore announced it was defray-
ing all expenses incurred by company
workers in so far as the disaster was
concerned. The company distributed
a truck load of flowers and assigned
a crew of workers to digging graves.
A telephone wire was leased and
placed at the disposal of employees.
Only a few unidentified dead re-
manned in East Texas morgues-prob-
ably less than five, relief officials esti-
mated. Frantic parents continue to
visit surrounding towns to peer be-
meath sheets at torn bodies-hoping,
but fearing, they may find their child.
School officials said no definite plans
had been considered to replace the
demolished school house
Henderson school officials offered
the use of their schools to all students
between the fifth and twelfth grades.
Eighteen miles from the New London
district, Henderson was the con-
centration point for 100 bodies taken
from the ruins.
At Austin, Gov. James v. Alfred rec
commended that heating installations
in Texas school buildings similar to
that at New London not be used until
after careful safety examinations.
He acted after he had been informed
that several other schools in East
Texas are similarly equipped.
Day of Mourning.
At the same time he set aside to-
morrow as day of mourning in
Texas
Prompted by the New London dis
aster, City Manager F. G. Baker
of derrick-studded Oklahoma City
ordered check of all gas lines, no.
tifying oil companies to empty them
by the first of next week.
Two inspectors and six city firemen,
directed by Oil Field Inspector Ben
Dancy, will shoot cold water into
the lines up to 1000 pounds pressure.
Dancy said if the pipes stand this
pressure they will be pronounced safe.
Baker called conference of 18
inspectors. He ordered them "to en-
force ordinances down the line
The crew will go over 80 miles of
pipe, Baker said.
j. j. Lynn, assistant fire chief at
Oklahoma City, said he believed COL
lected gas from the East Texas oil
field caused the New London explo-
sion.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
DOUGHT0N LIKELY
TO RUN FOR SENATE
Friends Say He Will Oppose
Reynolds in '38 Primary in
North Carolina.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


RALEITH, N. c., March 20-Rep-
resentative Robert Lee Doughton, vet
eran member of Congress from
the ninth congressional district, will
become a candidate for the United
States Senate in the Democratic pri-
mary of 1888 against Senator Robert
r. Reynolds, those who talked with
him while he was here today and yes
terday are convinced.
Representative Doughton arrived
here Friday from Washington, visited
the General Assembly last night, where
he was extended the courtesies of the
floor and given enthusiastic applause,
and remained here until noon today,
conferrlng with various persons. It
is understood that most of these con-
ferenceS were with regard to whether
he should become a candidate for
the Senate, that he received verv
strong encouragement from most of
those with whom he talked and that
he has just about made up his mind
to become candidate COR the Sem
ate instead of the House in 1888. He
Is reported to have indicated a de-
sire to retire as chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
which he has headed for six years,
and to let some one else take over
this extremely arduous post.
Representative Doughton indicated
before leaving here this afternoon he
expected to spend an entire week in
the State sounding out sentiment in
various sections before reaching
definite decision or making any for
NAL announcement. But those with
whom he conferred are already salts
fed he will be a candidate for the
Senate in 1888 primary, rather than
to succeed himself in the House of
representatives
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Funeral Cars Clog Traffic
As T0,un Buries 455 Victims
Entire Day Occupied by Serrices-MH,-
listers Wait in Churches as Family
Groups File By.

Many had a single floral wreath
upon the top, while some were heavily
banked
After the pastor had spoken his
compassionate words at one service
the group would depart and others,
waiting patiently outside, would file
in for the next funeral.
In some churches men and women
sat all day, watching the stream of
coffins enter and leave the buildings.
They were the fortunate men and
women whose children escaped the
blast. 1t was impossible to visit all
the homes of their friends who were
smitten by the tragedy of Thurs
day. So they waited inside the
churches to extend their sympathy.
Parents Are Wearied.
Hysterical grief, apparent every
where Thursday night, was seldom
encountered today. It seemed that
parents, who had kept long vigil be-
side the collapsed school building
and in emergency hospitals ana
morgues. were wearied beyond ex-
preston.
The professions upon the highways
included automobiles of the newest,
most expensive make, and tn older,
cheaper types that are seldom seen
in use.
Trucks were used to carry large
numbers of persons to cemeteries.
Scores of Negroes were employed
in the cemeteries to dig graves. While
the burial services proceeded. the
grave-diggers continued their work
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Explosion
Continued From First Page.)

made. He said he told school Off
cials the regulator would not hold
the increased pressure following the
change.
Hollow Tile Theory Secuted.
Guy E. Stoy of Dallas, representing
a clay products manufacturing as
sociation, discounted the theory that
the explosion resulted from absorption
of gas by the hollow tile in the walls.
Had the gas accumulated in the
walls, there would have been q series
of little explosions, not one big one,"
he told the court.
Senator Joe l.. Hill of Henderson
said the Legislative Explosion Investi-
eating Committee might not take
testimony.
THE military court is going into
the matter so deeply that We may
be able to formulate our policies
from the record made here" he said.
Scores Of Victims Buried.
Scores of the victims of the Nations
greatest child disaster were lowered
into graves as the inquiry court sat
in rambling wooden structure only
so yards from the demolished school
house
Capt. zachariah Coombes of the
Texas National Guard sat as Judge
advocate and closely questioned wit
nesses who told of construction of
the building and heating system.
Maddox said the London School
Building Committee carefully in
spected various gas heating devices in
other East Texas schools before de-
Gliding to install gas in its struc-
ture.
No State agency passed on the in
stallation of hte radiator system, said
Maddox, but he added "it was done
according to the code with no formal
inspection"
Efforts to strengthen theories that
gas accumulated in the hollow tile
walls were seen when State Senator
Joe Hill of Henderson queried
"If you didn't get a perfect mortar
connection between the pieces of tile
intended to convey the gas to the
attic, the gas might escape, mightn't
it?"
Might Pervade Wall.
Maddox answered affirmatively and
said it was possible" that it might
eventually pervade the entire wall
Prior to the court hearing, Dr.
Schoch said he was convinced a gas
explosion caused the tragedy.
"One Of the big probabilities, he
said, sis that the walls exploded
The blast blew things too far to be
dust explosion. If it had been
caused by gasoline vapors, the VIC
tins would have been burned. The
victims in the main don't show scorch-
ing. 1t is just like they were shot
to death"
District Attorney Stone Wells Of
Rusk County sat deeply interested in
testimony at the hearing, but said
he didn't think there was a possi-
bility of criminal law violations"
A vivid account Of the explosion vas
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Associated Press Scores Beat
With Wirephotos of Blast

shuttled between Tyler and Dallas
with additional pictures.
BY the time Friday afternoon papers
went to press with their final editions
more than 40 pictures covering every
phase of the disaster had been moved
by wirephoto.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
FOUND.

FOUND.
COLLIE. male, large red, lame; found two
land 46T4. 80.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
CATHOLIC PACIFlSTS
PLAN BANQUET HERE.
international Dinner Will Be
Held March Ex-senator
O'Mahoney to Speak.

AS part Of the eleventh annual
conference Of the Catholic Associa-
ton for international Peace in session
here March 29 to 81, an international
dinner will be held at the May
flower March 90
Senator Joseph c. O'Mahoney Of
Wyoming will speak on Faith or
F'ear-the Basis of Peace" and Dr..
Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Maur
College will speak on "Ou Responsi-
bility for World Peace"
Evening star., 1937-03-21

given by Frank Hodges of Hender-
son.
II was standing at the northwest
corner of the building, only about 5
feet away from it when the explosion
happened. 1t made a muff1ed noise"
He was with two other persons,
returning to the school house from
the cafeteria, when the blast oc-
cured.
Hodges said it seemed the wall was
bursting towards me-" but added he
did not see whether the roof had
been blown upward. Hodges, plumb
ing contractor on the school house
when asked if he found horizontal
and vertical layers of tiles in the
walls when he drilled holes for vent
pipes, replied:
There was draft every time I
made test. It's possible l didn't
test all the holes"
Community Is Silent.
Normally, the largest and busiest
petroleum sector in the world, the
East Texas field today was silent ex-
cept for only the imperative work.
Workers deserted their leases and
stood at graves. Business houses had
front door shades drawn and crepe
huttered from the door knobs.
Everywhere was grief.
Relatives by the thousands moved
into nearby Overton and at New Lon
don, called by countless kilograms and
telephone calls that followed the ex-
plosion
Piled high in telegraph Offices were
messages seeking to learn Of the fate
of relatives or friends; others of con-
dolence.
Automobiles jammed the highways
in a slow procession to the New Lon
don section.
Coffins stopped traffic at one time
today in Overton.
When purchasers exhausted the
stock in an undertaker's establish
ment, highway patrolmen halted bust
ling traffic on State highway so
workmen could carry across additional
cof1ns stored in an automobile show
room.
With it all, however, there prevailed
a strange restraint of emotions. Only
occasionally did sobs become audible.
Tear-f1lled eyes were many.
Ministers Are Recruited.
Ministers recruited from over the
hilly, pine-studded East Texas area
performed funeral services in relays.
From dawn to dusk, services were held
in churches, in funeral chapels, in the
small homes of Oil workers.
On several occasions one service was
held for groups of victims.
Soldiers of the National Guard pa
trolled the schoolhouse sector-now
only leveled mass of brick and an
occasional steel beam. Most of it was
moved away by the heroic toll of a
thousand oil field workers who clawed
and fought their way through the
debris for nearly "a hours to reach
trapped bodies of children.
Only pitifully few were lifted out
alive. Hospitals still housed nearly
100 injured and physicians reports
held but little hope for many OF them.
Fractured limbs and skulls were
alArmingly dominant and attendants
Evening star., 1937-03-21
MAY FESTIVAL SET
Barney Neighborhood House to
Hold Fete May 13, Ia, Is

The annual May festival of the Bar
hey Neighborhood House will be held
this year on May l3, IA and Is, it was
announced today. May l3 will be
guest day for the parents of the chill
dren taking part.
Two short operettas-"The Cobbler
and the Elves and The Magic Bean
stalk'-Will be presented under the
direction of Miss Virginia Griffith,
teacher of folk dancing at the settle
ment.