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WEATHER. * (ti S WeRther Bureau Forecast > Increasing cloudiness and slightly /^"X ThG Only GVGning papCT tWV T Washington with the grees; gentle winds. Temperatures—High- ■ \ ■ ■ Associated PrGSS NgWS ttSTWaSTJEtA* I Cl I and Wirephoto Services. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,141. _____________ 'Some returns not yet received.) 85th YEAR. No. 33,925. toirimcl wCMhin«w“.mDMQ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. ***** <*> Mean. Associated Pres*. TWO CENTS. BODIES OF 500 TAKEN FROM SCHOOL RUINS CHRYSLER FUNIS Official Asks 600 Special Deputies Before Making Attempt at Election of Sit Down Groups. ACTION AGAINST UNION LEADERS IS DELAYED Gov. Murphy Withohlds Comment on Writs of Attachment Issued by Circuit Judge—Workers Ac cept News Calmly—Fire Is Re ported at Dodge Factory. _ BACKGROUND— Drive of John L. Lcuis' Commit tee for Industrial Organization to unionize mass industries began in earnest last December 30 when strikes were called in General Mo tors plants in Detroit and else where. Sit-down methods were employed for first time in America on large scale. After six weeks, truce was negotiated and C. I. O. turned to other industries. Big steel made peace with union for first time. Chrysler crisis followed as C. /. O.'s United Automobile Workers de manded recognition as sole bargain ing agency for Chrysler employes and management refused. Sit-down was called March S and company obtained court injunction calling for evacuation of plants by 9 a m. Tuesday. Strikers continued to hold plants despite deadline. B.v the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 19.—Orders for arrest of 6.000 sit-down strikers occu- j pying eight Chrysler automobile plants ! in defiance of an injunction were de livered today to Sheriff Thomas C. < Wilcox, whose force of deputies num- ' bers 120. Gov. Prank Murpuy, who refused to order National Guardsmen to evict ! strikers from General Motors plants j at Flint, Mich., under similar cir- j cumstances. withheld comment on the j writs of attachment issued today by . Circuit Judge Allan Campbell. Chief Deputy Sherifi Bernard Mc Grath said. “It's up to the Governor. There is nothing we can do. We haven't the man power.” The strikers who have held the Chrysler plants since March 8 in an attempt to enforce a demand for ex clusive bargaining rights for the United Automobile Workers of Amer ica. accepted news of the order for their arrest calmly. Striker Hints Defiance. One striker in the Chrysler Jeffer son plant, referring to court action in another of Detroit's numerous sit downs, said: "They had 106 men in the Newton packing plant, and the judge said to arrest them, but nothing happened. If they can't throw 106 out, how can they throw us out? We're fighting for our jobs now, and the U. A, W. A., too." Approximately 1,500 union mem bers hold the Jefferson avenue plant. There was no unusual concentration about any of the striker-held factories, ! v here 20.000 sympathizers gathered Wednesday for a "show of strength.” The General Motors strike was set tled peaceably, and the strikers volun tarily left the Flint plants. Calls for Arrests. Today’s Chrysler writs called for ar rest of defendants "who have occupied the plaintiff's plants at any time since 8 a m Wednesday." The corporation indicated it would rot proceed immediately against high officials of the united Automobile Workers of America who were made respondents, with the strikers, in the Injunction which Judge Campbell is sued last Monday. Since 9 a.m. Wednesday, the sit down strikers have been in violation of the injunction, wffiich ordered them to evacuate the plants by that hour. Sheriff Wilcox said he would make (See STRIKE, Page A-3.> CONGRESS WINDS UP ART GALLERY ACTION Resolution Goes to Roosevelt for Signature—House Concurs on Amendments. Congress today completed action on the resolution accepting Andrew W. Mellon's $65,000,000 art gift to the Nation. The final step was taken when Representative Keller of Illinois had the House concur in Senate amend ments. This sends the resolution to President Roosevelt for signature. Mellon has offered to give the Gov ernment his collection of masterpieces In painting and sculpture, valued at $50,000,000. He also plans to erect a $10,000,000 National Gallery of Art on Constitution avenue, between Seventh and Fourth streets, and a $5,000,000 endowment fund for future additions to the collection and to meet part of the upkeep. The Government will take care of annual maintenance expenses of about $300,000 a year. The only important Senate amend ment was intended to permit tempo rary exhibits in the gallery, but at the same time preserve a high standard for any additions to the permanent ^collection. ■ Italy Boycotts Coronation Due To Selassie Bid ’We Are Sorry,’ Says Announcement of II Duce. By the Associated Press. LONDON. March 19.—Italy will boy cott the coronation May 12 of King George VI. Premier Benito Mussolini announced in an interview published today by the Daily Mail, because the British government invited Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to send a representative. In the interview, obtained by G. Ward Price, the Italian leader was quoted as saying: "The invitation sent to Tafari i Haile Selassie's family name) will entail the absence of an Italian dele gation from the coronation cere monies. "We are most sorry. But if allow ances are made for routine formalism, then our attitude also must be un derstood.” Mussolini reiterated to Price that Italy's colonial ambitions are satisfied and declared Italy was ready to seek “a friendly settlement” with Great Britain. "Yes, yes,” Price quoted II Duce, "I declare that from the colonial point of view Italy is satisfied. Ethiopia is a huge territory, full of great possibilities.” He said the development of Italy’s j African possessions necessitates the co-operation of European powers. “I am ready to make a friendly settlement with Great Britain,” II Duce declared, "on all questions about which she desires to treat with regard to the territories adjoining ours—Kenya and the Sudan." WITH RDYAL MIL Hold Sweepstakes Tickets on Victor of Grand National Race. By the Associated Tress. AINTREE, England. March 19.— Royal Mail, making his first start over Aintree's treacherous jumps, today won the ninety-ninth running of the Grand National Steeplechase in the silks of H. Lloyd Thomas as only seven of the 33 starters finished the trying 412-mile race. Eight Americans held sweepstakes tickets on the winner and the race en riched others in the United States to the total of more than $4,000,000. King and Queen See Rare. With a half a million people, includ ing the King and Queen, packing the historic course, the coal-black son of My Prince took the lead at the half way mark and stepped home three lengths in front. As one of the fa vorites. he paid 100 to 6. Jimmy Rank's Cooleen, an outsider at 33 to 1, beat . W. W. Bailey's Pucka Bella, another one of the choices at 100 to 6. a head for run ner-up honors. Behind them trailed Sir David Llewellyn's Ego. R. Strutt's Crown Prince. A. Pilkington's Pen craik and S. Wilkinson's Don Drad man. The latter fell at the first jump, but was remounted and fin ished a quarter mile back of the leaders. Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller, backed into favoritism after being supplanted by Egc last night, again failed his many followers, as did the six American-owned horses. The ‘ Miller" started out well, but refused at Anchor Bridge, the first fence after Valentine’s Brook. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Flying Minutes, a son of the 1925 Kentucky Derby winner. Flying Ebony, made the best showing of the American contingent. He was pushing Royal Mail for the lead when they took Becher's Brook the second time, but fell at the canal turn. Bill Street! Thrown. What Have You, owned by Frank Gould and, like Flying Minutes, foaled in the United States, tumbled at the first fence after at first refusing to leave the past. He broke away from his rider, Bill Streett of Warrenton, Va„ and attempted to return to his stable. When the field did get away he stood still and declined to run until two men had hit him with their hats. The son of Tryster had the last word, however, falling at the comparatively easy first fence while trailing by 100 yards. J. B Snow’s Delachance and Dela neige tumbled at the fifth and twelfth fences, respectively. Robert Lehman's Didoric, best liked among the Ameri can horses, made a spectacular fall in front of the grandstand after Jump ing clean for half the race. Jesse Metcalf’s Kiltoi also failed to com plete the course. Royal Mail was a contender from the start. With only 12 horses still on their feet after completing half the journey, the 8-year-old forged to the front at the first Jump on the (See RACE. Page A-2.) COLLUSION CHARGE King's Proctor Lifts Last Apparent Barrier to Wed ding Edward. FINAL DECREE APRIL 27 ONLY TECHNICALITY LEFT "No Evidence to Justify Inter vention,” Attorney General Tells Packed Hearing. BACKGROUND— When Mrs. Simpson was granted her decree nisi at Ipswich last Oc tober 27. the general public in Britain did not know o) the love story linking the American woman and King Edward. The London press still attempts to keep their identities separate in spite of the tidal wave of publicity that swept the world in the wake of a battle that resulted in Baldwin’s victory and Edward's abdication to marry "the woman I love.’’ By trie Associated Press. LONDON. March 19.—The last ap parent barrier to Mrs. Wallis Simpson's absolute divorce arid her marriage to Edward of Windsor was cleared today when a charge of "collusion” was dis missed by the president of the Brit ish Divorce Court. Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the court, directed the charge stricken from the record after the King's proc- ' tor infoimed the court that, treating 1 the case "as any other.” he had made a careful investigation and failed to find any grounds to prevent the abso- j lute divorce of Mrs Simpson and Ernest Aldrich Simpson. His action, following the proctor's surprise move in asking "for instruc tions” in the case, removed all legal obstacles except the technical grant ing of the final decree April 27. That action will free Mrs. Simpson to wed the man who abdicated the British throne because of his love for her. Intervention Not Justified. "The result of the Kings proctor’s inquiries,” the attorney general, Sir Donald Somervell, informed the court, "on all aspects of the case was that there was no evidence to justify him in directing intervention.” Francis Stephenson, an elderly little lawyer’s clerk, whose mysterious inter- ' vention last December—just one day before Edward abdicated—caused to dav’s almost final scene in the drama of empire, rose to his feet in the an cient chamber and gave his approval to the action wiping out his charge of "collusion " Stephenson actually already had withdrawn the intervention charge, the attorney general told the court president, in view of abdication events "now matters of history.” Sir Donald, the attorney general, appeared for the King's proctor. Sir Thomas Barnes. Sir Boyd, the divorce court presi dent, agreed with Mrs. Simpson’s counsel afterward that "the sole pur pose of taking the divorce case to Ipswich (one of the points questioned) w'as expedition; a desire to obtain the decree nisi at the earliest possible moment. No blame whatever can at tacn to the petitioner (Mrs. Simpson) or her advisers.” Double Purpose Served. The hearing today thus served the double purpose of removing any tech nical obstacle to the divorce and as suring the British public that its vaunted justice had not been lax be cause of the link between Mrs. Simp son and the former King. The fact that the case originally was heard at Ipswich, instead of London, was one point threshed out—seemingly to every one’s satisfaction—today. Every inch of standing room was packed in the oak-paneled chamber of the cathedral-like law courts. Hundreds of persons were turned away and stood in long lines outside the doors After the proceedings Stephenson rushed from the room. The white mustached, gold - spectacled man ~ (See DIVORCE. Page A-153 MUST STAY IN JOBS German Workers Forbidden to Change for Higher Pay. BERLIN, March 19 (JP).—Farm workers, as well as metal and con struction workers, were under official orders today to stay put in their jobs during Germany's fight for economic independence. Jumping from one job to another, merely for higher wages, was forbidden. ■' -- 1 • Flirting Cab Drivers Hit. PASADENA. Calif., March 19 (VP).— City authorities took the romance out of cab driving today—they ordered the discharge of any cabman caught flirting with feminine passengers. Amelia Earhart Gives Credit To Navigators on Hawaii Hop BY AMELIA EARHART. HONOLULU, March 19.—The last time I saw Diamond Head was on January 11, 1935. It was nearly dusk on that cloudy afternoon when my heavily-laden Lockheed Vega con trived to get off Wheeler Field and, climbing laboriously, headed eastward over Honolulu, bound for the Cali fornia coast. Yesterday morning at 5:40, Honolulu time, we sighted Diamond Head again after reversing the process of the previous voyage. Making yesterday’s landfall was even more pleasurable than my first view of California’s shore line. After all, it would require ingenuity to miss a continent, which I was aiming for then. Hawaii, however, is a much smaller mark, and I knew only too well how easily the islands could be missed. The credit for finding them belongs to my navigators, Harry Manning and (See EARHART. Page A-14.) ff PLENTY OF BABIES—NOT ENOUGH STEPS! EARHART POISED FOR SECOND NOP May Take Off Late Today for Howland Island—En gine Is Checked. BACKGROUND Outdistancing two giant Clipper planes on the first leg of her 27,000-mile 'round-the-world, flight. Amelia Earhart was poised at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, for take-off on second leg today. Yesterday’s flight set a record for the westward trip. Miss Earhart's time was IS hours and 5l\i min utes, beating the Hawaii Clipper's mark by 1 hour 6’2 minutes. Purpose of flight is to test human endurance and to learn effect of fatigue on human body in long flights. B> the Associated Press. HONOLULU. March 19— A su preme test in navigation—finding a tiny sandbar 1.532 miles ahead in the vast Pacific—awaited Amelia Earhart and her crew poised today for a take off on the second leg of her 27.000 mile world flight. The aviatrix, who set a speed rec ord on her flight here from Oakland yesterday, said she probably would start for the distant speck of land— Howland Island—late today. Army flyers pointed out a night flight would facilitate the perfect nav igation required to hit the 2-mile-long island, for Navigators Capt. Harry Manning and F. J. Noonan will have stars to guide them. The landing itself could be accomplished after dawn. May Take Off Today. “There is every possibility of a take-off late today," said Miss Ear hart. She delayed an immediate start because of weather conditions and to permit a check of the plane's motors. "They have a long way to go and I ( See FLIGHT, Page A-15.) ~ Retired Justice To Discuss Court Change on Radio Bs the Associated Press. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, announced today that John Hessin Clarke, only living retired Supreme Court Justice, would discuss President Roosevelt’s court reorganization program in a radio address Mon day night. Robinson made the announce ment in the Senate. Clark, who is 80, resigned in 1922 to devote his time to "culti vation of public opinion in behalf of international peace " At the same time the Arkansas Senator remarked that recent views expressed by Justice Mc Reynolds were given “wide pub licity.” He did not say on which side of the court controversy Clarke would speak. STATUS OF COURT DOCKET SOUGHT Committee Asks Clerk for Number of Cases From 1925 to Date. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The clerk of the Supreme Court was called on today by the Senate Judiciary Committee for information concerning the number of cases on the court’s docket from 1925 to date. The committee took this action at the suggestion of Senator Austin, Re publican. of Vermont, who explained that it was necessary for the commit tee to have this information in order to pass on the question of congestion of the Supreme Court docket. Such congestion has been advanced as one reason for increasing the membership of the court in accordance with Presi (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2.) Summary of Todays Star Page Amusements C-4 Comics D-5 Editorials . A-10 Financial A-17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary A-12 Page Radio _ D-4 Short Story, B-i:t Society . . B-3 Sports D-l-4 Woman’s Pg. C-7 SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Senators ask Supreme Court clerk for docket data. Page A-l LABOR SITUATION. Judge orders writs calling for arrest of strikers. Page A-l Ratification of Remington Rand strike settlement held likely. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Bodies of 500 recovered in Texas school blast. Page A-l Senate and House due to clash on neutrality. PageA-12 Canadian Prime Minister ends vaca tion at Virginia Beach. Page B-5 FOREIGN. Royal Mail wins Grand National Steeplechase. Page A-l Diary of De Chambrun attacker bares love for Italian. Page A-8 Loyalist onslaught routs rebels in Guadalajara line. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITT. Nice refuses veto on bill to save Demo crats’ jobs. Page A-8 Woman critically injured by street car. Page A-9 Former Police Inspector Burke to head Nashua (N. H.) force. PageA-12 Two indicated in Connecticut avenue gaming case. , Page A-16 Unfairness charged to National Train ing School for Boys. Page B-l Park and planning group lacks power to change memorial site. Page B-l Probe discussed for overhauling ot D. C. government. Page B-l Committee to guide Potomac pollution study Is formed. Page B-l Virginia spokesmen indorse Vinson pollution control bill. ^ Page B-7 Young woman suicide identified by husband. Page B-14 Winchester dentist and grocer deny liquor charges. Page B-14 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-ll Paul Mallon. Page A-ll Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll Constantine Brown. Page A-ll Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll SPORTS. Griffs trying to keep '‘ailing" Bolton from leaving camp. Page D-l Dodgers have pitchers, but are weak in other departments. Page D-l Majors’ Spring training now science, Connie Mack declares. Page D-2 Western and St. John's offer natural in basket ball final. Page D-3 Hopkins likely to go alone in payless collegiate contests. Page D-4 FINANCIAL. U. S. bonds turn down (table). Page A-17 Freight loadings rise. Page A-17 Cotton mills set record. Page A-17 Rail stocks lead rally (table). Page A-18 Curb list rebounds (table). PageA-19 Big trade gains due. Page A-19 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Page A-2 Service Orders. Page C-6 Dorothy Dix. Page C-7 Traffic Convictions. Page D-10 Bedtime Story. Page C-6 Vital Statistics. Page C-2 Crossword Puzzle. Page D-5 City News in Brief. Page D-6 Young Washington. Page B-10 Nature's Children. Page C-6 Letter-Out. Page D-6 Winning Contract. ^ Page C-7 _ I Oil Worker and Student Describe Horrors in Class Rooms. P> tnr Associated Press NEW LONDON, Tex,. March 19 — Don Nelson. 24, oil field worker, tem porarily turned class room supervisor. I related today his experiences in the ! London consolidated school explosion ; disaster. His mother, for whom he | substituted briefly in a class room, was ; killed. "I went to the school a little before 3 o'clock, about 30 minutes before the explosion,” he said. "My mother, Mrs. J. D. Nelson, wished me to take her place for a little while in the elementary school department. I went to the fifth grade room, where I was to supervise tem porarily 25 youngsters. I don't suppose their ages run .more than 10 or 11 years. I am not a teacher, as I am em ployed by the Humble Oil & Refining Co. in the oil fields. Shortly after 1 arrived my mother went to another part of the building. "The explosion came without any warning. Everything was quiet in my room. I was leaning against a window. "There was a loud noise. It wasn't deafening, but it was plenty loud. The walls and floor shook. The plaster started falling. Herded Children Out. ‘‘I am just human, and I thought for a split second of that window. Then two or three of the kids started run ning toward me. I didn't have an other thought but to stick. While the tumult and roar continued. I had no idea what it was. I herded them out into the open. In less than a minute after the first thunder we were all out. “My room was the only room so fortunate. I didn't have a child in jured. Maybe one or two got scratched after we got out. I am not sure about that. “As soon as we were all out I ran around the corner of the wall which was still standing, and then I began to get an idea of what happened. "The first thing I saw was the rest of the building sprawled out on the ground. I saw a child lying 20 yards away. It was dead. Then I saw other bodies in the school yard. Some of the kids were hollering. There was so much confusion I can’t remember much about the screaming. “With two or three other men who rushed up, I went into the ruins. "The first thing we came upon was a crumpled bookcase, tilted over some j desks. The space under this pro ! tecting bookcase was alive with chil | dren. _^'There were about 10 kids under i See SURVIVORS, Page A-4.) ——-• BLUM TO ACCEPT DEBATE ON RIOTS Given Free Hand to Clear Up Aftermath of Affair Without Endangering Regime. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 19.—Premier Leon Blum, given a free hand to clear up the aftermath of the bloody Clichy riots without endangering his coali tion government, announced today he would accept parliamentary debate on the crisis after investigations have been completed. • Efforts to avoid debate failed when a Rightist deputy, Tixier Vignancour, ! insisted on questioning the Chamber j on yesterday's half-day general strike, called in protest against the killing of five leftists demonstrating against a Rightist mass meeting. Boy Actors Free Agents. HOLLYWOOD, March 19 OF).— Billy and Bobby Mauch, 12-year-old twin film actors, were free agents to day because their mother protested court approval of a contract sharing $250 weekly from advertising indorse ments with their^tudlo employer. TOLL MAY BE 600; BLAST BLAMED ON GAS SEEPAGE Frantic Parents Search Tangled Wreckage as Rain Hampers Rescue Work of Hundreds. LEGISLATIVE PROBE IS SOUGHT BY TEXAS HOUSE TO FIND CAUSE Sudden Explosion, Worst in L. S. His tory. Virtually V ipes Out \ oun^er Generation in Rich Oil Field Area. Two Full Pages of Wirephotos of School Disaster on Pages A-6 and A-7 B? tfic Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Tex., March 19.—Horror of the Nation's worst school disaster mounted today as tangled wreckage of the London consolidated school yielded scores more of crushed bodies. The known dead reached hundreds. Walter Elliott, Texas highway patrol captain, re ported to his Austin headquarters that 500 bodies, including those of 17 teachers, had been wrested this morning from the explosion-ground debris of the lux urious school, built by oil wealth of the vast East Texas fields and wrecked yesterday by a blast be lieved caused by seeping gas from those same fields. The rescue work was seriously impeded by a tor rential rainstorm at 10:45 a.m. Estimates Set Final Toll at Over 600. Some estimates of the ultimate death toll ranged about 600. Elliott added that order was restored to the stricken community, where Gov. James V. Allred de clared martial law last night after in-rushing sight seers and rescue workers, mingling with frenzied parents, brought about chaotic conditions. “Work of examining building for bodies should be com pleted today.” Elliott's message said. Assistant Adjt. Gen. Gaston Howard, reporting to Austin, fixed the number of bodies recovered at only388. Acetylene torches, cutting the twisted steel beams of the massive building: tugging cranes and bare hands worked together in uncovering the bodies. Nurses in an emergency hospital set up immediately in the rear of the building revealed they were rushing preparations to care for “about 75 more bodies" expected to be exhumed from the basement of the south wing. Production Supt. H S. McGarry of the Humble Oil & Refinery Co. estimated at 9 a.m. that 450 bodies had been identified and added he was confident “there are others still unidentified—26, I understand.” Several of the injured died in hospitals. Roosevelt Orders United States to Give All Aid. Directed by President Roosevelt to “render every assistance” in “this shocking tragedy.” Albert Evans. Red Cross disaster di rector. was flying here this morning from St. Louis. He was relied upon to organize relief work. President Roosevelt also asked Government agencies to assist in the relief work. The Texas House of Representatives adopted a resolution pro viding for a legislative probe to determine the cause of the blast. The resolution goes to the Senate for concurrence. Major oil company executives and Overton Citv officials also joined in delving into probable causes of the tragedy that virtually wiped out the rich oil sector's younger generation Workmen dropped out at intervals after 19 steadv hours of boring into ruins of a $250,000 structure that was proclaimed the title of the world's wealthiest rural school. Disaster Toll List of Identified Dead in London Consolidated School Tragedy. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Tex., March 19 — The list of identified dead in the New London Consolidated School blast fol lows: A Ruth Apple. Betty Ruth Apple. Jeveline Anderson. Beatrice Alderman. Louise Arnold, teacher, Arp, Tex. Boyd Abercrombie. Lillian Anderson. B Laverne Barton. Bobbie Lorraine Brown. - Blackabee. Virginia Lee Blanton. Marvin Barton. John Robert Busby. Laura Bell, teacher. Nellie Barnes, teacher. Pauline Barrett. L. L. Barber Allanv Barber. Owen Byron. C Corrinne Carr Val Carr. Betty Lou Curlee. Annabell Crim. Jimmie Crumley. Billy Childress. Charlie R. Collins, jr. Marcella Cummings. D Adus Franklin Dorsey. Sue Dunken. , (Continue^ on Fifth Page.) Work stopped in the fields, largest petroleum sector in the world, and schools were closed tight. Community Grieves. Dismal, drizzling dawn found New London adults red-eyed in grief. Only tiny tots had slept. An information clearing agency was established at the Overton City Hall. There anxious km gave descriptions of their youngsters. “My Bobby was wearing a brown shirt, corduroy pants and brown shoes. He was such a little boy. Weighed about 110 pounds.” Two or three minutes later the mother swooned when informed he was alive in a Tyler hospital. Telegrams of condolence piled high in telegraph offices. Kin and friends of the dead packed the little office and scribbled death messages to all cor ners of the Nation. Telephones were in constant use. Voices were heard. "We have found Mary, mother. No. I don't think she suffered much. Her face had sort of a smile on it.” “Can you come tomorrow, Tom? They haven’t found the boy yet.” Thousands stood silently in a vast semi-circle around the shattered build ing. Occasionally workers would pause while a tiny body was lifted from beneath brick and steel. Stretchers were there, and parents surged for ward to peer at the form. Oil Wells on Campus. Official cause of the blast was sought as one official advanced the theory of gas accumulating in the building. .Seven producing oil wells are on the school campus. There were 700 students and 40 teachers in the two-story Consolidated School, unit of a $1,000,000 block of educational structures, when the ex plosion at 3:20 p.m. yesterday, near (See* DI£^LSTERTPage~A^i~)