The Maryville Daily Forum from Maryville, Missouri • Page 1

Be Sure to Vote in City Primary jHarpbtlle iforum Polis Open From 6 a. m. Until 7 p. m. Member Associated Press, and A C.

MAin VILLE, Ml SSO UHI, MONDAY EVENINU, MAIiOII 22, 1937 Pounded as the Nodaway Democrat In 1860 State Basketball 1 itle Is Held by Local High School Team Cops Championship in Tourney at Columbia. The Weather Forecast Defeat Springfield 51-27 in Final Game A beautiful a tlie hig! ti school (bull fated today In the trophy case of the Maryville high school, brought. to this city ye.ster tlav by a group ot ten Spoofhound who tuniay evening at Columbi Mo up three days of tournament ompetition by out lasting everythin ig in the field The i Coach Bill Smith. clicking like a Hamilton watch. mothered figli itine aggregation of Springfield bovs Who failed to halt the onward ma tch of the Maryville Spoofhounc t-s toward the championship.

MS; ville defeated Springfield in by the score of Thus the ambition of the high school ba 11 team, when it out it, cepiber, was axon early in I Bllzed. It third eonsecutiv hounds had goi year the Spoof- ite to Columbia to compete for championship honors. The first year hey were let down In the first ran: nd Last year in a tense came they lost bj close margin to Joplin in this year they the semi-final and ailixi through their undefeat ighlv polished et of A i lf state tournamei 1 vw N. iUOv fill ii st in many a of ic lit 1 1 Confident (Milting for vho has been offi- years, in an off-the record that there may have been some teams as good vears ago but he one (itoduced at Maiyv is an exception. Ci nfident fro: the of the tourney that th ey would of all opposition, 5 rtaryvllle looked the money in the i lrst game sweeping aside Hannibal 18 to 20.

In th next two the Spoof hounds were slightly oil tor mi ig up by the st vie of pinv adopted by the Oza fliers against Maryvill A defensive, as used by Eldi hold the-ball on, which held down ihe score, Marv a margin of Hie winning only by punts Friday night ill Hi round game which Against in the cully making nar ck-f shots fall Inside the rim but their deadly accuracy over tl ssotic? took heart out IVrre lads, a- was the case In tlie name with Etdou. ir tl (tame produced best bunch of ball handlers gainst whom M.ity- Die comix ted. i md had the been different, might have gone to the finals. Ban ne Terre the team which won thin honors by ing Joplin, 31 30, after losing Spi mg field in 'he semi-finals, won SHOWfIS treme east tonight. Missouri: shi prnba hie late toniKht and Tuesday.

Sotnewhat war. mrr pi In i xtrrme northwest portion. Iowa: Snow or rain probable tonight and day; slightly warmer In on a bone-head call on the part of the Joplin captain. Bonne Terre forged mto the lead in the third quarter after the lead had changed at various times But the green-shirted Joplinites put on a ralh the closing two minutes, drawing up from a 26 to 30 disadvantage to tie the score When the tying basket was made Joplin calk'd lor time out. fifth in the game, and Robinson, Bonne Terre guard, took advantage of the technical foul to a free throw with only two seconds let to play.

Maintain Pace In the championship game Springfield didn't have a show, bui beiim a potent team with plenty of scoring power when Bennett, Gilbert and McDaniel swung into action, (See No. 3 on Page Washington Township Selects Its Nominees Primary elections were held Saturday at Guilford by both the Republican and Democrat parties of Washington township to select tickets of candidates the regular township election to held Tuesday of next week, March 30. Republicans named were Earl Brittain for collector; on Clayton for assessor; Clarence Nelson for trustee; D. J. Reynolds and Leslie Weathermon for the township board; R.

Anderson for constable and Claude Young and Carl Wray for justice- of the peace. Democrats nominated James Curnut! for assessor: Kelsey Hinkle for collector; John Merrlgan for trustee; Walter Griffin and Ed Whorton for the township board; Herman Turner for constable and W. D. McClanahan and Hugh Moor for justices of tin- peace. BUTTER KIST BREAD contains only the purest ingredients.

At all L. CAMPBELL for Mayor, adv. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS Reading at 1 o'clock today Reading yesterday. 7 47. Ri ading today, 7am.

36. lllghp i yesterday 52 Lowest durtng night 36 Highest Saturday 45 Lowest Sunday a. 27. Highest year ago 69. Lowest year ago 47.

Highest on reeord 92 degrees 1910 Lowest on record 5 degrees 1913. Sun sets tonight 6 30 Sun uses tomorrow 6 21. Primary Election Tuesday Twelve Are Candidates For Nominations For Mayor and Two Councilmen. Where to Vote Pit Ward Kbersole Produce building. Fifth and Market streets.

Second garage, 114 West Fourth street. Third Ward Montgomery garage 102 South Main street. Fourth Ward Malam garage. 211 North Market street. Electors of Maryville will go to the tomorrow in this city's biennia! primary election for the pur- po of nominating two candidates lor mayor and four for the city council.

These nominees will then have two week, in which to conduct their campaigns before the general or run off election is held on Tuesday. April ii At the general election a mayor and two councilmen will be chosen The polls in tomorrow's primary will be from 6 in the morning until 7 in the evening. With five in the race for mayor and seven for council nominations, campaigns which have cn in progress for the past ten days or more today were reaching thi height of their intensity as the various candidates scurried about contacting voters and making last minute perfections of their organizations. Candidates in the race for the nomination for mayor are O. Ft obey, eeking renomination; Lowell Campbell, undertaker; William kin coal and feed dealer; O.

Bovard. the transfer and fuel and Cushman, music and electric dealer, Candidates tor council nomination are Emery Airy, employed at Townsend grocery: Cecil Wilson, watchmaker; Marion Smith, former rural circulation solicitor for The Daily Forum; Anselm Schumacher, yved at Fruit Market; J. ji oil man; I J. Phipps, oil man, and I Tulloch, barber. School Directors Will Convene Here Saturday More than 300 members of school boards of rural districts in Nodaway county are expected in attendance at the annual convention or meeting ot such officials to be held in circuit courtroom here starting at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, March 27, it was announced today bv H.

Burr, county school superintendent. convention, which is required by law each year, will be for the purpose of discussing various school problems as they relate to educational matters in this county. The principal speakers will be Ray Dice, rural school inspector in Northwest Missouri, and U. L. Riley, high school inspector in the same district Also at this meeting the two inspectors are expected to check over some of the budgets as prepared for school districts and approve them if they are satisfactory.

A community meeting was held last Thursday night at the Snowball school. Entertainment was furnished by the Maryville Chamber of Commerce Those taking part in the program were Betty Jean and Billy Tilson, Pete Sobbing. Harold Trueblood, Bill Gilbert and Albeit DeWltt. Fied Newlon accompanied the entertainers to Snowball. Children of the Snowball school are finishing their exhibits for the county Rural School Days to be held Maryville April 9 and 10.

Articles made the first of the term will be brought to the exhibits. Close Contests Feature Primary Township Voting Democrats Select Two New Candidates For Members of Township Board. Republicans Select Nominees at Caucus A heavy vote and a number of dose races iraturcd Saturday's Polk township Democratic primary election held In the county courtroom at the courthouse. The primary was the first of Its kind held here, the major parties previously having selected their candidates by the old-fashioned caucus system A total of about 1.100 votes were ca in ip Democrat primary Voting was comparatively light during the forenoon but was speeded up in the afternoon a farmers to town to do their trading and a more local resident came to the business section. In fact more than half the votes cast were between mid-afternoon and the time the closed at 5 The of Polk township held their accustomed caucus at 2 30 o'clock in the circuit roofn.

Which wa. filled for the and while wen some contests for nominations no extia- ordinarily hot campaigns had preceded the meeting The caucus was presided over by Fmi New Ion. township and county chairman, with E. C. Curfman acting as secretary.

Republic an Candidates In the catlCus the Republicans made the folk wing nominations: Trustee Alfred Jones Township Board Ernest Wlll- hoyte and Dale Partridge Assessor K. Wray. Tax Collector Mrs. Claude Moore. Justice of the Peace- John L.

McDougal. Hugh Strong In in Bartram, Butler and Howard Wray. Nobiet. In the Democratic primary, that party nnomina'cd John Brennan for trustee, who obtained J02 votes and won over a field that included four other candidates Second high man was Roy her with vote while others in the race received votes as follow: Hemy Heitman. 166; Joe Fogan, 156, Karl Zimmerman.

123. and C. Donahue. 63 Carmieharl and Myers Nominated For the board Rhode Carmichael and Ed Myers nominated Carmichael getting 586 votes and Myers 484 vote Harry Farrar and Frank Meyer, present board were eliminated by 'inall margins. Farrar 466 votes and Meyer.

479. For collector Mrs Agatha Seipel led a field of four contestants, polling 361 votes to 327 for Mrs Alma Vaughn, her closest rival. Pat McCaffrey was third with 228 votes and Mrs E. Trullinger, ho ha held the office during the (vast two terms, was fourth with 171 votes. M.

Sherlock, present assessor, was renominated for that office, defeating C. I) Allen by a vote of 806 to 247 and polling the largest vote of any candidate who had opposi tion for nomination for any office. Vote for Constable Close F. Dougan, present constable, also was renominated, nosing out Homer Lowrance by 13 votes. Dougan's vote was 540 and Low ranee's 527, There was no contest for justice of the peace and as a consequence Roelofson.

Ed Orear. Ray Eckles and O. L. Holmes were nominated. Roelofson polling the heaviest vote of any candidate in the primary by getting 953.

Eckles polled 886 votes and Orear 860. The names of Roelofson, Eckles and Orear were the only ones printed on the ballot, although the party was allowed to nominate five candidates. Holmes, a present justice, however, was renominated when 101 electors wrote in his name. This made a list of four Democratic candidates in the race for justice. The general Polk township election Ls to bo held Tuesday, March 30.

Hughes Believes Efficiency of Court Detroit Facing Would Be Impaired by More Justices General Strike For a better Maryville, vote for Marion Smith for councilman, JACKSON GOP ELECTS Nominees for Township Offices Are Selected at Caucus Republicans uf Jackson township, meeting at Ravenwood in biennial caucus Saturday afternoon, nominated the following candidates for township offices, subject to the general election to be held Tuesday of next week, March 30 Trustee, Ed Spoonemore; tax collector, Loren Long, editor of the Ravenwood Gazette; assessor, E. township board. Arza Loomis and James Hawk; justice of the peace. Newton Long, and constable, E. W.

MeBtien. Women demand smartness, in eve wear. You can be sure to get just that at H. L. Raines, optometrist adv.

I of Letter to Senate Washington Highlights Chief Justice Hughes letter read to the senate Judiciary cf.mmtttee today; supreme court ls fully abreast of its work There la no congestion of cases upon our calendar. This gratifying condition has obtained for several years. No single court of last resort, whauwer the number of Judges, could dispose of ail the cases which arise In this vast country and which litigants would seek to bring up if the right of ap- were unrestricted. Hgf of in.gents will T8ke appeal, so long as there is a tribunal accessible In protracted I mat ion. the advantage is wi'ii tlio.se who command a long purse.

Review by the supreme court is xxx in the Interest of the law. its appropriate exposition and enforcement, not in the mere Interest of the litigants. I think it is safe to say that about 60 per cent of the appli- ions for certiorari are wholly ut merit and ought never to have been made. Mrs Elizabeth Davis, Age 87, Dies; Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Davis.

87 eat of age idow of William Evan Davis, died at 10:30 o'clock Satur- d.i evening at her home. 315 South Pillm re street following an ill jess of seveml months. Funeral services will be held dav auernoor A short service will be held at 1 o'clock at the home, fi 11 owed by ervices at 2 o'clock at Boirkow Baptist church, eon ducted by Rev Thurman Bowen of Maryville, a slsted by the Rev. Go dnight ot the Bolckow church. Burial will be lit Neely Grove southeast of Bolckow.

Mux will be furnished by a group of from the First Baptist church of this city. Mi Davis, lormerly Elizabeth Frances Neely, was born August 20. 1849. on a farm one mile east of Bolckow. the oldest child of James and Ann Neely.

Her parents moved to Missouri from Russellville. Kv making the trip In a covered wagon in about six weeks. On sober 6. 1870. Elizabeth Neely was married to Mr.

Davis after which they resided on a farm near Barnard for thirty-six years. Mr Davi died May 16. 1921. Mi Davis united with the Bolckow Baptist church when a small girl but transit rred her membership to the local church soon after ing here in November of 1907. She is survived by two children.

Miss Eva Davis of the home and John Davis ot Barnard, and a brother Thomas Woodard Neely of Barnard. Three children also eded her in death- The ixKlv will lie in state at the from 10 until 12 o'clock to- moi row morning. Arrival Brings Moderate Temperatures Spi ing which arrived with the week-end. brought with it a warming of the temperatures and while there is no definite assurance that there will no recurrence of winter weather, farmers, gardners, and townspeople alike are in hopes oi milder temperatures. Spring officially came in at 6:45 o'clock Saturday evening and this week unless there should be additional precipitation, many farmers Contemplate the sowing of oats Prospects of a dry week, however, were none too bright today, as forecasters, while predicting a continued rise in temperatures, said showers were possible late tonight or tomorrow The arrival of spring sent thermometers over the state to temperatures ranging from 54 to 58 degrees with low temperatures during the night recorded from 36 to 40 degrees, it will be warmer tonight throughout the state except in the extreme northw portion, Rosooe Nunn of the United States weather bureau at St.

Louis said. In Maryville the high temperature Saturday was 45 degrees, while Sunday mornings low recording was 27 Yesterday high was 52 degrees and this morning's low was 30. Fire at True Bally Home The fire department was called out about 6 o'clock this morning to the residence at 121 East First street occupied by Mr. and MYs True Bally to extinguish a small roof fire. The blaze, which was near the eaves, caused only a small amount of damage before it was extinguished.

desire 2 helpful Nsurance is exceeded only by ability 2 serve well. Gray's Really -Chief Justice Hughes asserted today an increase In size of the supreme court would "Impair" nit her than Increase the of the high tribunal. The assertion was made in a letter presented to senate judt riary committee by Senator Wheelei He opened the Ji inony tn opixusiUor. to President Roosevelt's court reorganization bill Before the largest crowd to attend the committee hearings which began two week ago Wheeler, long known a liberal, added a state- iwnt of his own that if you want to the president' I know of no better way" than to approve the legislation. The letter from Hughes which chief Justice said was indorsed bv Justices Van Devantei and said an increase in size not promote the efficiency of the cour Mould Impair Efflrieney It is believed," it added, "that it would impair that efficiency so long as the court acts as a unit would be more Judge to hear, more Judges to confer, more judges to discuss, more judges to be convinced and to decide The present number erf justices is thought to be large enough so far as the prompt, adequate and efficiency conduct of the work of the court is conrerned The chief Justice confined his remarks to the question of court procedure, and did not discuss the pol icy of injecting new blood" into the courts.

He said the court was abreast of its work." Wrong I ourt In his own statement delivered extemporaneously. Wlwler said he favored a constitutional amend ment. but opposed "packing the court." "If it Is morally wrong for a private litigant to pick a jury." he said "it is just as morally wrong for the government, as a litigant to do the same thing." Montanan he could give assurance that if the administration would propose a reasonable amendment, it would be quickly submitted to the prople by congress. Tonight the discussion of the president proposal will be continued with a radio address bv John Hessin Clarke, only living retired supreme jrt justice. er' to indorse the Roosevelt program.

Thomas Hurley, Former Resident of City, Dies Charles Foster received word last evening of the death of Thomas a former resident of Maryville, which occurred Wednesday at Cleveland, Mr. Hurley was past 80 years of age. The body will brought to Maryville for burial Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church, conducted by Dr W. Insley Burial will be in the Miriam cemetery. Mr Hurley lived for many veai" on a farm eight miles southwest of Maryville and later resided on an acreage at the south edge of city, left here the summer of 1930 and went to Cleveland.

He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr, Hurley survived by two nephews, M. Hurley of Valley Falls, Kas and J. Hurley of Okaloosa, Kas. Automobile Workers Are Ordered Ready to Protest Forcible Eviction.

By The Associated A threatenrt clty-wlde strike of automotive workers In Detroit to day dominated the far- flung strike front. Fully 150.000 wage earners were est Imated to be Idle because of labor disputes, with two major dlvl- slens of labor Vtelng for support of employe and recognition of employer. Homer Martin. United Automobile chieftain ordered leaders ot Detroit locals to be ready to call out 175.000 tn protest against forcible eviction of sit-down strikers. Detroit's 2 200 motor plants employ 200.000 persons.

ol Labor Frances Perkins was in New York, seeking to pr a conference between Walter P. Chrysler and John Lewis, head of the committee for Industrial organization of which the UWA is an affiliate. principlr obstacle In the Chrysler stalemate was the offi refusal to recognize the union a sole bargaining agency for their 67.000 employes. Philip Murray, chairman of the workers organizing committee, announced the I. would demand today that the Bethlehem Steel Corjxvration recognize It was bargaining agent for all Bethlehem The I 400 members Providence.

R. who voted in favor of closing 1,405 retail stores In the city. Leaders of the striking taxicab drivers sought to bring the 18-day-old deadlock into conference. Joseph Jacobs, attorney for the Midwest Taxi Drivers' union, charged officials of thp Yellow Cab and Checker companies with breach of faith in refusing to negotiate." W. Woolworth stores in Akron, Ohio, were picketed.

Seven strikes have affected some 700 workers in the city. AH-Star Tourney Team Named by Sports Writer Howard Brlrkkcy, writer for Ha Associated Press at Columbia. Mo. who covered the state high school basketball tournament last week, selected the following as his choices for an all-tournament am: Frrwardv Homer Lodholz of Bon- Terre and CleetiC Helms of Eldon. Center.

Harold Hull Of Maryville Guards Donald Johnson of Maryville and Floyd McDaniel of Springfield. No official all-star selections were made either by a collaboration of writers, tournament offiicals ci the Mate athletic association. Mr Brickey's selections are merely personal and made at the request of the newspapers at Maryville and Springfield. Death of Sidney Hall Due to Natural Causes Sidney Hall, age 42. of Kansas City, whose body was found lying on Highway No, 27 about six miles north of Maryville by highway workmen early Saturday morning, came to his death from natural and from exposure, it was found by a Jury at the conclusion of an inquest, held Saturday by Coroner Charles 1) Humbert.

According to testimony introduced at the hearing, it was believed Hal), who previously had told nearby filling station attendants lie was walking from Kansas City to Hopkins to visit his mother, Mrs Albert Hall, had been overcome by illness about 10:30 p. Friday and after falling to the ground his death was hastened by exposure coroner'5s jury was composed of R. S. Broyes, Robert L. Noblet.

George Garrett, Fred Hasty, Charles Rice and Don St rough all of Maryville The body was removed from Maryville to Hopkins Saturday afternoon and funeral services were conducted at the Swanson Funeral Home there at 2 yesterday afternoon, being in charge of the Masonic order. Short were conducted both at the funeral home and at the grave In the Hopkins cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. E.

Goforth Sunday with their daughter. Mrs. Leon Woolhethcr and family at Tarkio. They were accompanied by Dorothy Price, who was the guest of Eva Marie Woolhethcr. Judge Hughes Name Injected in Risk Case Jefferson City The name of Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of tlie United States, wax injected today into Missouri's fire insurance lnvestlgal ion R.

.1 Molonie. Chicago attorney representing the insurance companies said Hughes, before his appointment to the court, was pa id a fee of for arguing the 10 per cent case before the supreme court. It took Hughes two weeks to prepare tlie argument and two hours to argue it, Molonie said questioning by James M. Reeves, attorney for the house insurance mitter' conducting the inquiry. and Mrs Sam Gray of Barnard, Heflin of Ravenwood, Whittington of Fairfax.

Lawrence of Conception Junction, Tomer nzi? of Weather by, C. Wright and w. J. Stevenson of Tarkio John Tatman of Quitman and Shell of Hopkins were business visitors in Maryville today. Kites Held Today Funeral services for Mrs.

George Coler of southwest of Maryville, who died Thursday evening in a St Joseph hospital, were held at 11 o'clock tJiis morning at the Price funeral chapel, conducted by Rev. V. C. Clark, pa.stor of the First M. church.

Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery. Boy ShocU Himself. Gentry, Mo. -T cleo Kier, Gently high school senior anc baaketball player, shot and killed himself accidentally yester- dav while hunting Emery Airy for Ralph Thrasher, Student In College High, Dies Ralph Dean Thrasher, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Thrasher living six miles west of Barnard, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at a St Joseph hospital The young man who would have been 17 years of age April 5, a freshman in College high school and had chosen president of his class Ralph tripped while running on the College campus on March 2, falling and fracturing hh leg bone three Inches below the hip The lad was suffering from a bone isst. according to physicians who examined him.

his leg bone being but a thin shell 8t Joseph stated it might have broken as he was walking along a street, the bone being so thin Surh a condition. they explained. Ls difficult to discover except bv a thorough physical examination and ca history. The injured lad underwent an operation at the hospital last Monday He suffered a severe hemorrhage following thp operation and although given several blood transfusions, was unable to survive the injury and operation The voung man was bom April 5. 1920, near Barnard and was a member of the Bethany Christian church.

He is survived by his parents and by his grandmother. Mrs Vina Ras- nir of Barnard A sister piecedrt him in death. Funeral will be held at 2 o'clock afternoon at the Bethany church Burial will be tn the Bethany cemetery. Pope Puts Blame On Nazi Officials Any Rupture With Vatican Will Be Due to German Government He Says. Vatican City.

P- Pius XI, tn an encyclical epistle to the German bishops, it was disclosed today, placed thr for any rupture of relations between the Vatican and the third reich on the German government. The encyclical, read to Catholic in Germany yesterday, accused the German government of "distortion ot pacts" and affirmed the innocence of disturbing the peace Although expressing his "paternal sorrow" over the church and state conflict in Germany, the pontiff militantly charged that Catholics were being persecuted "with pressure veiled and and with in timidations which promise professional, economic, civic and other Calling for a return to basic theology, the Pope declared anyone daring to place a simple mortal beside or above Christ is "a senseless prophet of absurdities." The document reoonnnended that all German Catholics return to the fundamental Catholic doctrine of a personal Gcd for all it was said Berlin. Germany's secret police today were reported "watching" persons they suspected of delivering to foreign correspondents from papal letter to Catholic congregations, accus ing the nazi regime of violating the concordat and encouraging pagan movements German Catholic clergymen, simultaneously, referred to the Vatican all requests for the text of the letter. At the Vatican, (hey said, the communication Ls txung translated for transmission to bishops throughout the world. On the other hand, nazis hinted openly at rupture of Germany's relations with the Vatican.

Reichsfuehrer Adolf newspaper "VelkLscher In an editorial Interpreted as an answer to the pastoral letter from Pope Pius XI. implied the Vatican concordat might be canceled by the reich. Sister Mary Katherine Dies at Local Hospital Sister Mary Katherine. 68 years of age. a sister at the St Francis hospital since its founding, died at 10 o'clock last evening She had seriously ill since Thursday.

Sister Katherine, whose maiden name was Miss Mary Kuerz. was born June 21. 1868. in MTdingen. Germany, the daughter of Alois and Katharina Kuerz, both of whom were born in Germany and who now are dead.

Sister Katherine came to the United States when she was 16 of age She entered the convent at St LouLs on September 29. 1887., and came to the local hospital with the Mother Superior soon after 1890 She had remained at the hospital since that time. Funeral services will be held at 8 Wednesday morning at the hospital chapel Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Clue to Cause Of School Blast Given by Pupil He Saw a Spark at Electric Switch Just Prior to Gat Explosion.

School Head Had Gas Line to School Tapped London. Tex -Frail and weary with grief. Shaw, superintendent. told a military inquiry today he wax "partly for an Informal line connection for the heating system of the explosion- wrecked New London school and that he had not known of any particular objection to the connection. The ga' line Ls being studied among numerous other tn the search for the cause of the div- which killed 455 children and Shaw, who last a son in the explosion.

was weikoned that he retired from the vtUMM stand to a nearby cot. He is a sufferer from high blood pressure Won Recall Shaw Captain Zarhartah Ooambs. judge advocate of the court. Shaw, a man in his middle would not be recoiled to lie witness to resume his story, "He Is under a mast heavy strain, his physical condition is poor and no use in having him come back before uv We already obtained virtually all the information we from him." said Coo robes A clue to the ignition of the ex. plosion provided by John Dial, 15.

a student "A flash of fire blinded me," Dial testified, at almost the same instant a man (Killed a light switch in the manual training loom The gas connection of which Shawr test if was with a line of Parade gtwtine company. cumulated A preliminary opinion of Dr. Schoch, University of Texas explo- 'ive exjiert was that gas within the walls or under the flooi.s, caused the blast. The general contractor for the school tokl the court heating plans were chang cd from a steam boifer avXtPffl to individual gas steam for reasons of economy. In the heart of the rich Blast il field, the school was repuled to be the wealthiest of Its kind, with seven producing welLs on its own grounds.

Clark, the Parade field foreman, testifirt that the school had the company gas line for heating fuel without his knowledge or consent and added he believed he would have been advised if anyone else had given permission. No Objection to Line Shaw said he had talked with BTarl Clover, the Parades superintendent. "Mr, did not give us specific permission," Shaw said, "and warned that we liable to be cut loose at any time but I concluded that he did not particularly object." Shaw said he had discussed frequently with Clover the matter of the school purchasing gas when so much oil Held gas was gome to He emphasized, however, that Clover always refused specific mussion for a connection Shaw said he was responsible" for giving the order to run from the school to the Parade's line and sud that he directed the Janitors to make the connection. shaw told his story parents and friends ot his school children buried the last dead. Only seven victims had not been interred at daybreak, but funerals started in the morning.

Three were sent overland to a distant town for burial. Bury Last of Dead The funerals had proceeded in tragic close sequence Saturday and Sunday. City officials at Overton said they to have a definite death list "within the next day or but declined to estimate the figure. Gas ustxi at the school came originally from the oil fields It had been stripped of natural gasoline content before being sent back, colorless and without a particularly warning odor, through the line to which the school was connected. Leguslation Ls nearing passage in Texas to inject color into heating gas as a safety measure.

Mr and Mrs. William Shackelford announe? today the birth ot a seven and one half pound son oa Friday, March 19. The have given him the name of William Larry. Mrs. Shackelford was formerly Mary Louise Swinford.

Mr. and Mrs. Dal Slayton and iamily have moved from the Wayne Shackelford farm to the Shell farm home near the school, instead of Mr and Mrs William Dempsey stated in the Wilcox items. Emery Airy for Councilman L. B.

CAMPBELL for.