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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Mrs. Rodney jenkins Presented
In Fine Program Monday
EDITED BY ANNE HARDY DAVIS.

terpiece of colorful calendualas, its
silver service and pretty china
made an attractive picture, Mrs.
Bacons spring frock in the new
wood violet shade making an ef-
fective color contrast.
Guests were: Mrs. Emil Klicka of
San Diego. Mrs. Walter B. Have
korst, Mrs. Warren E. Sage, Mrs.
Bacon.
Members present we're MesdameS
w. H. Tyler, jrp John T. Rice
Earle c. Davis, p A. Murray, ]. S.
Larew, w. w. Apple, Ross T. Hick-
cox, Irving T. Raab, Don C. Paulus,
Forrest E. Kutz, E. j. Mack, N. A.
Contos, D. B. Roberts, r. j. Clev-
enger, Norman E. Dupont and H.
c. Diller.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

"A Cycle of Manhattan" by Thyra
Samter Winslow was chosen by Mrs.
Rodney jenkins for her program
given for the Twice Told Tales
section of the Ten Thousand club
Monday at the meeting held at the
H. c. Diller home, 473 Hamilton
avenue.
This was Mrs. Jenkins first pro-
gram for the section as she has
been a member but few months
and her excellent presentation OF
this delightful story gave evidence
that she is to be a valued member.
Mrs. Norman E. Dupont presid-
ed at the business meeting after
which Mrs. Diller served tea, as
sisted by Mrs. Sem Bacon who
poured The tea table with its CEN
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Methodist Church
To ShoU Films

Two motion pictures, one show
ing the racial groups of the Orient.
and the other, the beauties of ma
tional parks in the United States.
are to be shown Sunday night at
7:30 o'clock in the Methodist church
according to the Rev. A. d. But
ters. pastor.
World friendship is the theme
of East OF Suez" which shows
various seldom visited countries of
the Orient.
Gods Rainbow Canyons" is the
title of the second film which shows
in color photography views of Zion.
Bryce and Grand Canyons. The
program is open to the public and
expenses will be met by a silver
offering
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

California club women feel that
they have scored decisive victory
in the removal of Joseph NJ. Kelley
as superintendent for the Industrial
Home for the Adult Blind in Oak
land.
The state personnel board recent
ly announced its decision TO remove
Kelley from office, charges having
been filed by the California Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs. For more
than year the federation has had
as one of its major objectives the
correcting of conditions existing in
the home Members of the fedora
ton active in the investigation felt
that this objective could best be
accomplished by the removal OF
Kelley who, they charged, was in
competent and inefficient.
I'VE feel we have not only done
a humanitarian piece of work but
one that should be of interest TO
every taxpayer said Mrs. w. d.
James, president of the federation.
1T was a long time coming, but
we are satisfied with the decision, !"
stated Mrs. Edward w. Gillis, chair
man of institutional relations. This
work is unpleasant for us to do but
necessary when institutional STAN
dards are threatened"
The federation expressed graft
tude to the attorneys who filed the
complaint and handled the prose-
cution and to Gov. Frank F. Mer-
riam, and Harry Lutgens, super
intendent of state institutions, for
their fairness throughout the in
vestigation.
Robert Chandler, assistant super
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
First OF County
Music Festivals
Next Week

First of the series of music fes-
tivals which the rural schools of
the county are sponsoring this sea
son is that which the schools in
the Holtville union high school dis
trict will present on Friday, March
10, in the Chestnut street audi
torium at 1880 pm.
Five hundred children from nine
schools will be featured in a de-
lightful program arranged by Miss
Marjorie McFarlane, music super
visor, the public being welcome to
attend.
Schools participating are: High
line, Palmetto, EastSide, Sunset
Springs, Verde, Alamo, Alamitos,
Meloland and Jasper.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
.ooOf Interest to Women Churches
Society
Clubs
Social Calendar
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Scout leaders, 1880, court house
Music Teachers, 523 Holt
University club, 1880, Holtvillc
Church school, 1880, Christian
church
2O-3O club dinner dance, 1890.
Brawley
County fair, Imperial
I. o. O. No. 397. 8, 532 Main
American Legion, s, Veterans hall
Legion Auxiliary, s, Veterans hall
Jobs Daughters 1880, Masonic
temple
Troop 22, b. S. A., Washington
school
Lip Reading class, Z, high school
Bachelors, 1880
WEDNESDAY
Ladies day, golf club
Jasper nome department, r. w.
Leng home
Yuma day, county fair, Imperial
Chamber of commerce, 1910, Bar
bara Worth.
Rotary dinner, Z, 10000 club .
Church school, 1880, Chridsian
church
Oasis lodge No. 664, +. and A. NJ.
1880, Masonic temple
Eagles, 8, $50 Broadway
Troop 3, B.S.A., 1880, Scout hut
Choir practice, 1880, Presbyterian
church
Midweek prayer service, 1880,
First Baptist church
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
DIR VISIT TO kxO

Every Monday we go to our hob
by groups. One. of the groups IS
radio. Last Monday the radio group
visited KXO. The owner showed us
what made the time signal and
showed us how the melodies were
played. He took us in the visitors
broadcasting room. We noticed the
microphone.
We heard Mr.. BowleS announce.
An interesting time was had.-Jon-
ell Withrow, 5th grade.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Spruce-Westmorland
Meets Wednesday

Mrs. Robert Pinner, nutrition
project leader for Spruce-Westmor-
and home department, will be in
charge of the cake Filings and
frostings demonstration to be con-
Quoted at that center's meeting
Wednesday beginning at 1890
o'clock in the Methodist church,
Brawley.
Instead of the usual pot luck
luncheon a committee will serve the
menu, small charge being made
to cover expenses. Members will
bring their own silver and dishes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Aid Juvenile Home

As part of their program for the
year the high school Girl Reserves
are collecting discarded clothing
and furniture for the county de-
tention home at Imperial. All this
week the girls are conducting a
drive to obtain these articles, as
the detention home is in need of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Many Activities Being Featured
At Central This Week

them. Anyone who has any old
furniture or clothes may give them
to the cause by calling 1893 and
they will be called for by the Girl
Reserves.
To Select Team
Members of Central'S declama-
ton team will De chosen by Mrs.
Annette Gillett, coach, at a meet
ing in the middle of this week. The
six students, of which two will be
the final members of the team.
are: Helen Dowd, Bill Dunn. Pearl
Robertson, Frankie-Nell Birkhauser.
Lamar Gillett, and Dan Judd. Mrs.
Gillett hopes to repeat the declam-
alton success of last year when
Dorothy Lou Gillian won the state
contest.
Addresses Class
Sheriff Robert w. Ware was the
speaker Monday morning of the
high school sociology class of G. w.
Martin. Sheriff Ware told the class
about the duties of the county po-
lice officers and the way in which
various departments co-operated.
He emphasized the fact that GRIMM
ais are invariably caught because
of some slip in their own plans.
Interesting equipment which he
had taken from prisoners was shown
by Ware, as well as the equipment
necessary to the law enforcement
department.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
SCHOOL NOTES

is making the plans smaller on pap
err. If you were making a house
you could make a scale as, every
four feet would be one inch on the
scale drawing. That is what we
are doing in arithmetic. We will
draw to scale all the buildings on
our school grounds.-Raynor Starr,
9th grade. .. ....,s.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Our Story


We have read with our teacher,
Mr.. Sprague, a thrilling mystery
story. The name of the book Is "'lhe
Disappearance of Anne Shaw.
wish l knew what the mystery was.
All the time. Just as the most eXcit-
ing part comes, Mr. Sprague stops
and continues the reading the next
day.-JameS Bowling, 5th grade.
90
Our music supervisor gave us
music appreciation lesson. She toio
lis about the different languages
that people use. Then she told us
that music is a language, under
stood the world over. She played
some records that told stories. Rach-
maninoff's Prelude in C Sharp
Minor told a bell story Mendel-
ssohn's Spinning Song is spinning
wheel story. Zapateado is dancing
music. The Fourth Grade, Mrs.
Couch.
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Boys and girls have newspaper
too. 1t is the Weekly Reader CIV
en- to us every week. 1t has a great
variety of topics. Each week it tells
us something new that We have
never heard of, such as a teleyiSion
scanner or isotype. 1t takes us to
other parts of the world as England,
Norway. Switzerland, and even
across the Pacific Ocean in Clip
pers.-La Freida Bennitt, 9th grade.
Did you ever write letter to
an author and receive one in replyP,
Our teacher read us the book. "Hur-
ricane Weather" by Howard Pease.
We liked it so much that We sent
him a letter telling how much We
appreciated it, and that we wanted
him to write another book with
the same characters. When we re-
ceived his letter he said that he
liked to receive letters from children
because it gave him ideas and criti-
cisms that helped him.-Roberta
] jerks. 9th grade.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
TRACK MEET

Mckinley and Harding had
track meet Wednesday. The events
were: SO yard dash, and relay; push
UP, pull up. throw for distance
running broad jump, standing
broad jump. The score was lo9 for
Harding and 50 for Mckinley.
We all surely had fun. Hope the
meet is bigger and as exciting next
year.-LeSlie Harton, 5th grade.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Blind Home Superintendent
Removed from Office

intendent of the Whittier state
school, has been appointed to as
sumo management of the blind
home pending selection of per-
manent successor to Kelley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Rehearsal Set For
Teachers Chorus

Next meeting of the rural school
teachers chorus is set for March
II at 7:30 o'clock in Wilson school,
according to Miss Marjorie McFar-
lane, music supervisor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
Rotary Club Plans
Dinner Party

Ell Centro Rotarians are enter
tanning their ladies at dinner and
program to be given Wednesday
night at 7 o'clock in the Ten
Thousand club house.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
NeUs Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Naliboff of
SGT Commercial, Ell Centro, are the
parents of son born at the Ell
Centro hospital Monday morning.
The baby weighed seven pounds,
10 ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09
MCKINLEY POSTAL ZOO

One of the most interesting postal
issues of 1886 is the Anglo Egyptian
Treaty set which came out on De-
cember %, honoring the signing OF
the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of AL"
lance in the Locarno Room OF the
British Foreign Office. The stamp
shows picture of the Egyptian
delegates all seated at a long table.
Anthony Eden, British foreign Sec
retary, is chairman of the meeting.
This treaty tells us that the British
troops now in Egypt will gradually
leave. A few garrisonS along the
Suez Canal will still have some
troops though. The treaty marks
step in the attainment of Egypti-
an nationalism. Since 1922, Egypt
has practically been an indepen-
dent kingdom under the military
protectorate of the British Empire.
90
Since it is yo-yo season, the boys
IN my school are having contest
10 sec who can do the most tricks.
They try over the falls, walk the
dog jump through the roof, around
the world, and many others. John
Moore and Teddy Burton are the
best so far.-Jack Lane, sixth grade.
90
The Scale is not a fish scale, but
a drawing scale. Drawing to scale
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Ferguson of
77O12 Len Rey have announced the
birth of a son, weighing six and a
half pounds, at the Ell Centro hos
pital Monday morning. The baby
has been named William Orville.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

to her with with illness.
Miss Maybelle Kinnear has re-
turned to her studies at UCLA fol-
lowing an illness which caused her
to remain here last week.
Mrs. John T. Rice and Mrs. Fred
Kenyon are enjoying a visit from
their aunt, Mrs. Emil Klicka of San
Diego. Mr.. Klicka accompanied his
wife to the valley for the weekend,
returning later to San Diego. Mrs,
Klicka will remain a week in the
city.
Mr.. ano MRS. Henry Loud are
in Ell Centre and their daughter,
Miss Margaret Loud expects to
join them for the Easter vacation.
Miss Loud is a student at Stanford
University.
Mr.. and Mrs j. w Asher return
ed this weekend from a trip to
Los Angeles.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w N Boyer have
been enjoying a visit from Mr.
and Mrs Edward Kennedy of AL
hambra who each year come to the
valley to see the county fair. Mrs
Kennedy was Mrs. Boyer's brides
maid and Mrs. Kennedy's father
officiated at the ceremony.
90
Mr.. and Mrs. p. f. Carr and their
daughter, all of San Bernardino and
formerly of CaleXico, have been
visiting relatives in Calexico in
cluding their son, Lawrence Carr,
and Mrs. A. S. Carr a sister-in-law
Mr.. Carr was at one time super
visor from Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

Miss Irene Swanson is confined
to her with with illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

Miss Maybelle Kinnear has re-
turned to her studies at UCLA fol-
lowing an illness which caused her
to remain here last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Asher return
ed this weekend from a trip to
Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
SEARCH AMONG DEAD,

OVERTON, Tex, March 19 (P).-A
shrek, half of anguish, half terror,
echoed in the American Legion audi
torium. Another mother had identi-
fed her child among those who died
in the London school explosion.
The improvised morgue scene was
described today by visitor, Mrs.
James F. Laughead:
Mattresses spread row on row bore
the mangled, smashed and torn bodies
of 116 victims-children and adults.
Through the big hall shuffled a
crowd of men, women and children
hoping against hope they would not
find a loved one among the corpses
stretched on the mattresses.
Nov and then a woman screamed
and listeners knew she had come upon
her child among the dead.
In an undertaking place sheets
covered 35 or 40 bodies Along with
the frantic parents and relatives who
sought their kin we're curious on
lockers. Some lifted the sheet-shrouds.
In the great crowds that gathered
wherever bodies had been taken,
screams and wailings were heard Two
women, one of them the mother of two
youngsters who had been in the school,
searched through the Legion halls
dead
The children were not to be found
there. Half an hour later, in an un-
dertaking establishment the mothers
search ended-there among the dead
we're her small, overalled sons"
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Geneva Johnson.

heralded the blast The roof lifted.
they say, as if propelled by some
giant hand.
Then down it fell in a rain of
horror to crush its victims in debris.
Oil workers rushed from adjoining
wells, caught the first survivors as
they rushed bleeding from the build
ingS least damaged, and hurried them
to nearby homes.
Soon the full weight of the tragedy
fell on the peaceful little town and
hundreds hurried to the scene.
Quick to respond, neighboring oil
towns OF Kilgore, Longview and
Henderson rushed ambulances Soon
the rescue was in full, orderly stride
and so it continues now.
One gray-haired woman tells me she
had two children in the school. She
mas waited for hours in the hope they
would be found alive But as the
hours pass she is becoming resigned
TO the terrible truth
Now she is going to Tyler, neigh
boring town, to join the hundreds of
| other parents sWarming through hos
pltal wards in search of loved ones.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
THE EVENING WASHINGTON c. FRIDAY MARCH 49, 1887

Lawrence Swift.
G. F. Scott.
T
w. H. Tate, teacher.
Lizzie Ella Thompson.
w. D. Billy Tipps.
Walter Thompson.
Charles Ray Taylor.
w
Louis Waller, assistant coach.
Katie Mae Watson, teacher.
Florence Warren.
Mary Wooten.
Dorothy White.
Alvin Walker.
Doris Jean Williamson.
Inez Walker.
Herman Walker.
Y
Belle Mae York.
Evening star., 1937-03-19

trict have prided themselves for years
on the fact they live in the most
thickly populated and wealthiest rural
school area in the Nation, situation
created by the forest Of. oil derricks
covering their hills and valleys.
But another product of this rich
oil field, natural gas, brought stunning
tragedy In the opinion of w. c. Shaw,
school superintendent. Shaw, recover
ing from injuries to head and arms,
said he believed all accumulation Of
gas in the walls and beneath the
building caused the explosion.
The tiny town of New London was
born Of feverish oil activity in 193O-31
Leasing drew hundreds to the area.
Most inhabitants were in a camp
established by the Humble Co. for its
employees. Because it was a short dis
Evening star., 1937-03-19

tance from a hamlet called London.
now termed "Old London" the citizens
decided to call it New London.
1t is not Incorporated. The town Of
approximately 1000 inhabitants is
located "a miles west of Tyler and
about 50 miles from the Louisiana
border. The school had an unusually
large enrolment. Buses went out into
the countryside daily to bring in rural
students.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Continued From First Page.)

Helen Dawson.
Wanda Dickinson.
Eugene Eakes.
Latham Fakes.
Dora Ethridge.
Holly Joe Ellison.
Myrtle Freeman.
James Freely.
Jack Ford.
Mary Ellen Foreman.
H. D. Gum.
Edwin Griggs.
Alvin Gerdes.
Micelyn Gibson.
Mrs. John Gore, teacher.
Helen HARRISON.
May HeW.
Bessie Estell Holland.
Francis Hankin.
Charles Holbrook.
Martha Ellen House.
Mary Frances Hooten.
Mrs. Ernestine Hogue.
Margaret Hogue.
Melba Lee Hughes.
D. D. Hall.
MARCEL Hanna, teacher.
Geneva Johnson.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Death List for School Disaster
London Consolidated's Identified Victims Reported
Alphabetically by Associated Press.

William Ketchum.
May Lloyd.
Robert Lampert.
Mary Ellen Lagugh.
John Lumpkin, jr.
M
Billie Morefield.
Coral Miller.
H. C. Mills.
Louise Maxwell.
Maxwell.
Mary Louise Munday.
w. c. Mclaughlin.
Lanny McCune.
Jim McGouney.
Sarah Jane Mills.
Alma Louise Murphy.
Marie Milstead.
Mrs. Lena Hunt Mack, teacher.
Zeke Miller.
Mary Ethel Neal.
Vester Norton.
j. B. Nelson.
Miss Ethel Neal, librarian.
Oren Newell.
Mrs. J. B. Nelson, teacher.
Raymond O'Neil.
Marie Patterson.
Billy Patterson.
Mary Edna Pierce.
Virgil Phillips.
Forrest Pearson.
S. T. Powell.
Queen Price. teacher.
j. H. Propes, teacher.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
WEEPING PARENTS
WATCH RESCUERS
Strain at Guard Ropes to
Learn Fate of Their
Children,

When an explosion precked the
Ne,D London School, Charles SdulS-
berry, sports editor OF the Oklahoma
City Times, 10as coUering Spring
training of the Oklahoma City base
odA team at nearby Jacksonville,
Ter. In the tollowing eyeluitness
account, SaulSberry tells OF Uhat
ne saD ,Uhen he reached Ne1U Lon
don ttCo hours after the fatal blast.
Evening star., 1937-03-19

r
Maxine Rogers.
Thomas Rogers.
Oliver Rider.
Aubrey Rainwater.
D. w. Ragsdale.
Sam Shaw.
S. L. Starnes.
Roy Skaggs.
Robert Shumaker.
a. w. Stubbleheld.
Carl Stages.
E. j. Smith.
Geraldine Starnes.
Mandine Stephens.
Henry Steele.
Earl Scott.
Dorothy Shaw.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
BY CHARLES SAULSBERRY,

written Tor the Associated PreSS.)
NEW LONDON, Texas, March le.-
I saw this little Texas oil town
struggle last night to recover from one
OF the most crushing death blows the
Southwest ever has known.
Just across the street as 1 write
this is the explosion wrecked school
building where hundreds of school
children and teachers were blasted to
death.
Now, only a few hours after the
blast, at least thousand rescue work.
ers labor under spotlights to wrest the
broken bodies from a mass of twisted
steel and bricks.
Dstraught parents strain at a rope
which rings the desolate scene. Their
faces Streamed with tears, their hearts
smothered with despair, they wait to
learn the fate of their children-but
with little hope.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
No Shouts, No Screams.

There were no shouts, no screams.
Just an ear-rending roar, and the
whole center of the I-shaped struc-
ture seemed to lift from its founda-
tions and fall back to bury the occu-
pants under a mountain of brick and
tile.
raced here in my automobile with
c. ]. Kaho, Oklahoman-Time staff
photographer, from Jacksonville, Tex,
about 25 miles away. We were there
covering the Spring training camp of
the Oklahoma City Indians base ball
team.
With US rushed long line of motor
cars, heading for the scene, Spurred
by the incredible story which spread
through the countryside
We reached this little oil town about
pm, two hours after the blast. AL
ready the town was in confusion. It's
only what we call wide place in the
road" hardly to be called a town.
Bricks and tile spread from the
wrecked building in all directions.
Ambulances race to the front of the
building, pick up their burden of little
bodies and speed away.
flushed and white-faced, parents
press against the giant rope stretched
around the school The spotlights,
mounted on trucks, send their search
Ing white fingers over the ruined
structure, flash on the oil wells which
surround the schoolyard.
Doctors Shout Orders.
Doctors shout terSe orders. Men
dig with their bare hands into the
pile of bricks and steel, frantically
laboring to reach the crushed bodies.
Stretcher bearers hurry to and fro,
silent as they clear the trail of death.
Already, those grim-faced rescuers
tell me, 300 bodies have been dragged
from the shambles. Rumors race in
hushed whispers through the crowd.
Some say 600 must have been killed.
Others, 500. But there is no doubt
death did its job thoroughly, brutally.
A few victims escaped with injuries
but from the mass of wreckage the
real story of horror unfolds 1t is one
of sudden death striking in mid
afternoon of a warm, sunny day.
Most of the victims were trapped in
long tWo-story middle section of
the building. In one of the two wings
a parent-teacher meeting was in
progress when the blast struck. Most
Of them escaped
Here and there an eye witness tells
me of the unearthly rumble which
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Dies Watching Rescuers.

NEW LONDON, Tex, March 1s (H).
George Hardy, SO, fell dead late last
night as he watched workers carry
mangled bodies from the school build
ing ruins.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
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Evening star., 1937-03-19
SCHOOL SECTION
| IS RICHEST IN u. S.
Institution Had Unusually
Large Enrolment Due to
Oil Communities.

By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Tex, March 19.-
Residents of the London School Dis