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NO. 300) Full AP Leased Wife PAMPA, GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1937. 24 PAGES TODAY (ffttCE FIVE UNSAFE HEATING SYSTEM BLAMED IN BLAST Ear hart Plane Wrecked SHIP CRASHES UNDER HEAVY GAS LOAD i AT HONOLULU HONOLULU, March 20 (AP) By a hair's breadth Amelia Earhart sidestepped disaster for herself and two colleagues today phe wrecked her $80,000 "laboratory plane" and her world flight plans during an attempted dawn takeoff for HoWland Island, 1,532 miles out in the Pacific. down the Luke field runway 50 miles an hour in the half 'light, the powerful plane began swaying under Its three-ton gasoline load. The right tire burSt.

The plane veered to the left. In a flash Miss Earhart "gunned" the left motor In an attempt to level the ship. The left undercarriage gave way and the left wing slashed into the ground. Quickly and cooly Miss Earhart cut the ignition switches and thereby saved herself and her two navigators from possible death In a pyre of gasoline-soaked wreckage. A single spurt of flame came from, the hurtling ship.

It spun to the right and stopped on its right Earhart Unhurt Miss Earhart's white face appeared at the cabin door, as horrified army'ambulance men dashed'up. "Something must have gone she said. She was unhurt. The navigators, Captain Harry Manning and Fred J. Noonan, climbed out unscathed.

I'm okay," said Noonan as slirveyed tne'' A few hours later Miss Manning, Noonan and Paul Mantz, technical adviser, sailed for Los Angeles on the steamer Malolo, termihed to have their plane repaired at its southern California factory preparatory to resuming the projected world flight. Although Miss Earhart gave no outward sign of agitation as she first emerged from the sixth narrow escape of her aviation career, she seemed bedraggled and tired as she hurried up the gangplank to sail. She wore Several leis, somewhat the worse for rain, and still was attired in the brown slacks and leather jacket she wore when she started her world flight from Oakland last Wednesday. Til Be Her always touseled hair seemed more awry than usual. Her eyes appeared tired.

Accompanied by Mantz, she rushed up the gangplank without speaking to viewers. Miss Earhart's chin went up, however, as the liner moved out to the strains of the inevitable "Aloha Oe." "I'll be back," she said. "I hope this Is only a she added. "I talked with See NUMBER 1, Page 8 TIME THY Although pinned beneath his overturned car for an unknown length of time, Blane Doherty received ho broken bones. Physicians -attending him at Pampa-Jarratt hospital, where he was taken in an feared, internal, injuries, however, Poherty, employe of Ross Maglll, 'drilling contractor, was enroute to his home in the south Pampa field when his car overturned on a 'curve on the Philips camp road and rolled over several times.

Do' had been to Pampa to call to a sister he lost know how long he lay beneath his par, A passing motprist, whose name was not Jearned, discovered the man about o'clock. He was unable to 'ijjove the victim Jrom-ljeneath the After calling an ambulance, returned to the scene of and assisted other freeing- Doherty, I Visiting senators and legislators who were paying their visit to thiis section of the state yesterday expressing astonishment at Pampa's stability and business activity. They also teetered that Pampa and the Panhandle must have been the place whpre western hospitality began. 'Spring Has Came, Grass Has Riz, Don't Know Where the Flowers Is 9 This is the first day of the winter of 1937 is history, according to the man Who figured out the official calendar. It all happened at 6:45 p.

m. Saturday. In fact, this is almost the second day of spring, If one wishes to get techcnical about seasons and such. Yessir, it was at just a quarter to seven last night when in bobbed Mr. Vernal Equinox, unannounced, to step up to the mike and tell the world that the sun at that very minute had just crossed the and some more history, had been made.

Now, the Panhandle of Texas was one of the very few spots in these United States that had the kind of stuff that Spring is made of. Saturday was a lo'vely day In Pampa and the Panhandle. You have had the radio word of a score of legislators from Austin to prove it. And, even if you don't wish to take their word for It was a swell day. There were the blue skies (mamm- my and sonny boy I) and the sun was shining bright in (my old Panhandle home) and stuff.

There was no need for top-coats, and pre-Eas- tcr finery was on parade. Elsewhere in the nation, according to wire reports, there was little corroborative evidence that Spring is in our midst. Snow, ranging up to three inches at Detroit, fell in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. Skiing was the order of the day in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hamphslre. near or below freezing formed the rule in the Northwest.

A chill wind moved across Missouri and Kansas. Nebraska also had snow. In New York it was misting rain, and Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana also were mumbling over cold, bit- Ing Tains. But, ahh-h! Around Pampa and the Panhandle, it really was Spring when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of marbles and roller skates. What's In A Name? Well, You How would you like to win $10 in cash, merely "for a three-word title and a suggestion for an unusual angle to' annual celebration to be staged the first week-in June? The $10 can be yours just as well as well as not.

The Junior Chamber of Commerce wants a name for the celebration and an idea. The name should be one that can be used each year. And the Jaycees will pay $10 for that name. Several have been suggested, but Jaycees would like, to see several hundred titles and suggestions roll The contest is open to anyone. There are no strings attached to it.

A name is wanted. You get the $10, if your suggestion is selected by the judges. Simple, Isn't it? Send along your entries at once. You may submit as many as you wish. Each must be accompanied by a short letter of suggestions as to how the Jaycees can incorporate some unusual idea into this year's show.

Mail or bring your names and suggestion to the June Celebration Contest editor of the Pampa Daily NEWS, Pampa. CONTESTS 6 SCHOOLS SEND BOYS TO AGRICULTURE MATCHES. Pampa, Miami, and McLean high school vocational Judging teams won first places In closely contested matches here yesterday. Six schools sent teams. The invitation meet was sponsored by thftPampa high school and the Board Tw" City 'DeVelbprnJent." Judges praised the work of the boys and the quality of the stock and poultry.

Winning teams had nlp-and-tuck battles in most of the contests, especially in dairy cattle judging where five points separated the first two teams. Individual contests were also keen. Pampa's poultry judging team, coached by J. L. Lester and A.

E. Prazier, won the poultry judging with total of 1,189 points. McLean placed second with 1,161 points and White Deer was third -with 1,159 points. Other scores were Perryton Miami Panhandle 1,082. Earl Bice of Pampa ranked high in individual judging-with 419 points.

D. Dupy of White peer was second with 400 and A. Pearson of Perryton placed third with 396. winning team was composed of Rice, Donald Cole and W. Locasse.

Miami's ace live stock judging team placed first in that division with 1,297 points. Panhandle was second with 1,272 points, with third place going to Pampa with 1,270 points. E. W. Hogan of Pampa was rank- See NUMBER 3, Page 8 17 Locations Are Staked In Plains Fields Sixteen new locations, eight new oil wells with a total potential of 4,894 barrels, and three new gas wells with a total open flow of 122,849,000 cubic feet, was the history of oil activity in the Panhandle oil field last week, Hutchinson county was decidedly in the limelight with four completions good for 2,636 barrels.

Hutchinson county also led in new locations with seven. One of the best producers of 1937 and one of Hutchinson county's largest wells of a year, was brought in by the Barnsdall Oil company with completion of its No. B-4, T. Lewis in section 7, block 23, survey, which was given a potential of i.030 barrels from the lime pay. test is seven miles northwest of Skellytown and about the same distance southeast of Borger.

New locations filed with the local office of the Texas Railroad commission were interesting, especially to Hutchinson county Where two semUwlldcat tests will be drilled. The PhAUPS Petroleum company announced location for its No. 1 Ray Ebling in section 18, block M-16, survey, on the Hutchinson- Moore county line. The test will be abount seven miles north of Sanford in What is proven gas territory but where no test has been drilled. Two miles south ot the Phillips test, Pave Rubin made a location for his No.

1 Barnhill in the center of lot 4, block 2, in the George Martinez survey. Another wildcat test Will be drilled in Dallam county, this one by H. E. Seward who has announced a location for his No. 1 Miss Mary Argile Wynne in section 26, block 47H, survey.

The location is 19 miles northeast of Dalhart. A test was drilled to a depth of 2,850 feet at a point three miles southwest of the Seward location, but was never completed. The Seward test will be drilled to below sea level at that place. New locations for the week were divided as follows by counties: Hutchinson, 7: Carson, Gray, Moore Wheeler, pallam, 1. Phillips Petroleum company led the field with six of the new locations, three in Hutchinson county, two in Moore and one on the Htutchinson- Mpore line.

Completions by counties follow: Hutchijison County. Phillips Petroleum GO. No, T. Timms, section 21, block M-31, survey, gauged 438 barrels with the pay in Ume from 3,050 to 3,120 feet. Barnsdale oil Qo.

No. B-4 T. D. Lewis, section 7, block B.S&F survey, was given a potential ot barrels. Pay In the wejl frpjn See NUMBER 9 Where 455 School Children Lost Their Lives "0 The architecture of the New London school plant and that ot I'ampa high school was identical, according 1 to information received here.

The explosion leveled the two wings and the front part of the building but did not completely raze the auditorium which was located similarly to Pampa's. The above picture shows a gaping hole in the portion of the structure that was not leveled. Other pictures of the explosion may be seen on page 12.. Pampa Gives Legislators Enthusiastic Gray county farmers Saturday were receiving their first checks of the year for compliance with the federal government's agricultural conservation program. Forty-two additional checks came in the mail yesterday, pushing the county's' total received Friday and Saturday to 448 for an aggregate $103,413.41.

John Turcotte, Gray-co fanner, and president of the Gray-co branch of the Texas Agricultural Association, received the first check handed out here-by County Agent Ralph Thomas, in the postoffice building. Mr. Turcotte also had the honor of receiving the government's first AAA benefit check delivered in Gray county back in 1933. "out Saturday Is Largest To? Visit Panhandle Section See NUMBER 4, Page 8 WEEK IN REVIEW' TO BE TODAY "The Week In Review," news dramatization feature of KPDN and the Pampa Daily NEWS, which was presented from 5:30 to 6 o'clock last evening, will be on the air again at 1 p. m.

today over Featured in this week's half-hour show is a recreation of the week's outstanding news story, the school child disaster which claimed more than 400 lives at New London, Texas, last Thursday afternoon. spots of the week's news also will be re-enacted by "The Week In Review" cast as headlines of the last seven days pass swiftly before the microphones. The staff which presents the weekly feature Is comprised of Mel Marshall, KPDN production manager; Colleen McMahan. Retha Spencer, Mary Adams, the Rev. Hubert Bratcher, Ely Fonville, A.

L. Patrick, Bob Messer, Announcer Ray Monday, and Tex De Weese, editor Of the Daily News. Tune in KPDN at 1 o'clock this afternoon for "The Week In By HARRY E. IIOARE Into Pampa Saturday afternoon came a score of legislators, the largest of such groups ever to make a tour of the Panhandle. Eugene Worley of Shamrock, Max Boyer of Perryton, and Jack Little of Amarillo, representatives of Panhandle districts, headed the delegation.

The trip was made at the suggestion of Representative Max Boyer, for the purpose of acquainting the legislators with the Panhandle's resources and its problems. The three senators and 17 representatives were met east of Pampa by a delegation of citizens and escorted to the Schneider hotel where they were guest speakers in a radio broadcast over station KPDN. Gene W.orley acted as master of ceremonies and was the recipient of glowing praise by his colleagues in the house of representatives. After mingling with Pampa citizens, the trippers, returned to Amarillo from where they started out early in the morning in a swing through the north Panhandle. The noon stop was at Perryton where a I luncheon and entertaining pro- Igram were enjoyed.

Arriving in Amarillo early yes- I terday morning, the visitors were given a breakfast in the Amarillo hotel. Then in cars provided by Amarillo and Pampa citizens the trip through the plains country was started. A stop was made at Borger where the high school band and a group of citizens made the visitors welcome. The Perryton high school band and hundreds of citizens greeted their representative and his guests along flag decked streets. Pampans Welcome Solons Jack Allen of Perryton and Dr.

J. A. Hill of Canyon welcomed the legislators and many guests, Including Garnet Reeves, J. S. Wynne, M.

P. Downs and Harry E. Hoare of Pampa. Max Boyer was then given a free reign during which he introduced his colleagues, many of whom spoke briefly. Coke Stevenson, veteran member buy your car license with the tires; no interest pn mpths.

to pay on tlrea and Inn. See NUMBER 5, Page 8 NWS Pictures Tell Story of Condon Disaster Pictures tell the story vividly and as no words can describe it. High spot of the week's news will be found in a full-page of photographs in today's Sunday NEWS, Detailed and graphic camera's eye stones ef the' apalling New London, Texas, seftQQl disaster be found on Page SIME SIDES DETROIT, March 20 United. Automobile Workers of America threatened tonight to call a general strike in Detroit automotive plants unless "the brutal eviction of sit-down strikers and the ruthless clubbing of workers by Detroit police is stopped immediately." The threat was contained in a statement issued by Homer Martin, president of the IT. A.

W. after police had ejected strikers from the Newton Packing Co. plant and the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Co. factory Six persons were injured during rioting which accompanied the ejection of 75 women from the cigar factory. Martin declared that "every organized automobile plant in the city will be closed down Monday" unless the raids cease, and that "the 175,000 organized automobile workers of Detroit will mass Tuesday night Sec NO.

8, Page 8 Officials Told Gas Regulator Too NEW LONDO'N, March 20 military court of inquiry into the school disaster which took 455 children's lives tod'ay heard A. J. Belew testify he had warned school officials "it was dangerous" not to install a new gas regulator leading into the main building. Dr. E.

P. Schoch, explosions expert from the faculty of the University of Texas questioned Belew, representing James B. Clow and Sons company, while in nearby communities reverent thousands bowed in grief at the burials of the dead children in rich oil lands. The court of inquiry adduced first evidence that the reputed richest school in the world had sought to saVe money by installing an unsafe heating system. Dr.

Schoch, who earlier had expressed a theory that an accumulation of gas caused the blast, asked Belew if he had told officials of the regulator fault. The salesman replied: "I told Mr. Shaw (W. C. Shaw, school superintendent) that it was dangerous.

I told him he would have to reduce the pressure." Belew testified that a new regulator was installed in the main building some time after 1 and i a change from dry gas to wet gas was made. He said he told school officials the regulator would not hold the Increased pressure following the change. A Crime 1 George H. Oreenway. Dallas heat- i ing engineer and an unsuccessful bidder on the heating contract for the destroyed school building, testified that "it's a crime to put gas steam radiators in public buildings.

When you put in 72 such radiators, you have 72 chances for individual explosions." Jesse P. Vaughn, an oil field worker, told the court that he and a companion who previously had theorized that the explosion was caused by nitroglycerin had changed their minds. Dr. Schock pursued relentlessly the question of efficient venting of heating appliances. "The vents I inspected were all right," Belew told him.

"There were 72 radiators in the school," the chemist said. "Do you feel they were safe whether or not they were vented?" "It would make no difference," the salesman replied, "if the vents were open or shut, or if there were no vents, so long as the adjustments were proper and equipment was all right." Proper Venting Discussed They engaged in a protracted technical discussion of the proper construction of flues, agreeing that they should have vertical shafts of considerable length in order to create a draft for disposition of unburned gas. "Now who should enforce proper venting?" Dr. Schoch asked at the end of that exchange. "Who should be interested most except first the salesman?" Belew contended he was principally responsible only for advising how to place the vents.

The salesman answered "no" to a question whether he had determined the condition of vents in the school building. "What assurance would persons buying radiators under similar circumstances have that they would be safe?" inquired Schoch. "Somebody has got to make sure this won't happen again and kill more people." "Is it established that the vents destroyed the building?" Belew asked. "Well, we don't know," Schoch told him. Previously after a preliminary investigation the scientist had pressed a belief the explosion occurred in chambers of the hollow tile walls filled with gas.

P. F. Waggoner, principal of the New London elementary school, gave See NO. 3, Page Delegation To Discuss Borger Road At Austin A five-county delegation from the Panhandle will go to Austin on April 15 at the invitation of the state highway department to discuss the Pampa-Borger highway possibilities and other road problems of the area. Tliis was the announcement Saturday of James Collins, president of the Pampa Board of City Development, following the return of a Pampa delegation from a conference with State Highway Chairman bert L.

Bobbttt and Highway Commissioner Harry Bines in Lubbock Friday. Members of the Pampa delegation who conferred with the state Of" ficials, in addition to Mr. Collins, were Garnett Reeves, manager, Fred Cullum, county Sherman White, County" sioners Arlie Carpenter and M. M. Newman, W.

C. DeCordova, Frank Hill and Reno Stinson. Others from the Panhandle who were in Lubbock in the interests of the highway problems included Judge J. C. Jackson and Commissioner John O'Keefe, of Carson county; Judge W.

O. Puett, of Wheeler county; Judge Norman Coffee of Hutchinson county, and Judge Noel McDade of Moore county. Needs of the Pampa-Borger highway improvement were graphically portrayed to the highway officials through the use of maps and photor graphs of the main an4 lateral roads and of camps and oil, gas and carbon plants that are served, by the See No, 6, 8 NUMEROUS PAYMENTS ARE STILL OWED GRAY COUNTY County officials Saturday were putting their heads together to see if something cannot be done about foreclosure against several hundred persons who have purchased acres of school land property form- erly owned by Gray. Gaines and Dawson counties 1 in West Texas. The land, four leagues of it, came into possession of Gray county back in October, 1902, when the then Gov.

Joseph D. Sayers signed it over on a letter patent issued by the state's general land office. It was at this time that the state allocated to the various counties parcels of land which had been owned and retained by the 'state down through the years from the days after Texas ceased to be a republic. Gray county held possession -of this land for five years until 1907 when it was sold to W. L.

Saye, of Comanche county, who gave a vendor's lien and note promising to pay annually $3,719 to Gray county.on the proprety. The note was to bear interest at 6 percent. Saye's total indebtedness was $61,992 for the entire four leagues of land, totaling 17,712 acres. The notes still are held in the name of the Gray county common school fund. Saye later sub-divided See NO.

4, Page 2 IMF TEES A cash box containing about $300 in cash and $700 worth of checks was taken from the office of the C. R. Anthony store sometime before closing time last Manager Tom Aldridge reported to city police. The box containing' the'castyanil checks was on a desk in the' office at 7:30 o'clock when several dred dollars-was removed. When closing time came, the box gone.

I Sow Young Senator MorrtS Roberts of Pettus renewing acquaintances in the Schneider hotel lobby yesterday. The Senator who is about 27 looks younger, was editor Pampa Daily Times for about months in 1830. He was ative before he was elected Senator, Listeners laughing loudly at one of Wit Tex De Weese's puns. Said the editor after being informed that Pampa high judges won the poultry judging contest: "NOW. we have something to crow about-" READINGS (At.