Show news review of current events the world over explosion kills more afore than children in texas rural school justice rebuke to critics of supreme court by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on T THE HE east texas oil field was the scene of the worst school dis a aster st er in history the london con sol soli dated rural school a few miles north of henderson was demolished by a tremendous gas explosion and more than children and their teachers were killed the horror that followed wrought such concu con fulon aon that gov james V allred declared martial law in the vicinity of the school and ordered national guard troops to the scene he previously had ordered all state highway patrolmen in the area to proceed there president roosevelt hearing at warm springs about the horrible disaster was most distressed and urged the red cross and all of the government agencies to stand by and render every assistance pos sible albert evans flood disaster head bead in little rock ark and his staff rushed to the stricken texas town and all communities within reach gave aid to the extent of their capacity the blast smashed to bits the main structure of the educational plant that was termed the largest rural school in america and the richest in the world about children and 38 teachers were in the building at the time and nearly all who were not killed out right were injured of the latter it was believed many would not re cover fifty or more mothers of the young victims were attending attend mg a par ent teacher association meeting in the school gymnasium a separate building when the explosion came sending the mangled bodies of their sons and daughters flying through the air the women raced to the wrecked structure with screams of agony and tore at the ruins with their bare hands for a few minutes after the roof caved in leaving lagged jagged remnants of wall standing like the ruins rums of a medieval castle flames shot out above the wreckage but the build ing was of fireproof construction and the blaze having almost nothing to feed upon coon died out W C shaw superintendent of the school whose son was one of those killed had just left the building I 1 was standing about fifty feet away from the building when the ex came he said there wasn gasn t much noise the roof just lifted up then the walls fell out and the roof fell in m it was all over in a minute no less than that half a minute it s unbelievable highway police national guards men and workers from all the nearby oil wells managed to re store some semblance of order at the scene roping off the campus and systematically carrying on the task of getting out the bodies of the dead from the oil well machine shops were brought acetylene torches to burn away the steel girders while trucks hauled on heavy iron chains pulling the debris away from the building the great force of the blast was taken as proof that the dis disaster acter was caused by the ignition of natural gas which was used to heat the school plant unable because of all the confusion to ascertain the cause of the explosion it was theorized that someone attempted to light a heater which accidentally had been left turned on the wet gas used which cames comes from oil wells on the school campus is odor odorless leca and so would have given no warning E of good sportsman ship is to accept the outcome when one has had a chance to present a fair case to a fair tribunal said associate jus 1 tice jame jamec C me reynolds of the su preme court in an extemporaneous talk at a fraternity banquet in washington I 1 it was the first time a member of the court had expressed his views on rela tion ship of the court to the government since the president justice made his proposal McK eynolds for packing the tribunal and opponents of that plan were enczur aged to hope other of the justices might be induced to appear before the senate judiciary committee and tell what they think of it justice who is seventy five years old has voted against the new deal fourteen times and for it twice near the end of his talk the jus tice said I 1 should like to be optimistic ti I 1 should like to tell you that the situation is rosy I 1 can t but I 1 I 1 ke to believe in the courage of the american people and I 1 hope they may make a solution of which they may be proud edward S corwin professor of constitutional law at princeton was heard by the senate committee in support of the presidents bill and he got along very nicely until sen ator burke leader of the opposition called his attention to a speech the professor made a year ago and a book he wrote 25 years ago in both of which he expressed views vie ws quite different from those he seemingly now holds then senator tom con nally took a hand in the question ing now you say the court is biased you want to add six new justices who will be biased in the other di don t youa professor corwin evaded a direct answer for some time but senator connally demanded to know whether he did not support the president presidents s plan for this purpose well that is one of the reasons the witness said the american federation of la bor like its opponent the C 1 I 0 has favored the president presidents s court plan though rather mildly but president william green when he appeared before the senate commit tee was even less emphatic in his approval of it he denied that the court as now constituted has as fumed dictatorial power or that its members have not the mental ca lacity or the necessary learning senator wheeler said he was un der pressure from organized labor because of his position against the roosevelt program but he declared he would not change he said maj george L berry the president presidents s coordinator ord mator for industrial co opera tion and also head of labor labors s non partisan league ha had a man traveling through montana at gov emment expense stirring up activity against me SENATORS indulged in an indig nant debate concerning the sit down strike and there were de mands for a congressional invests gation of this new weapon of labor majority leader joe robinson said manifestly the sit down strike is un lawful it is not within the rig rights of any individual or group of individuals to seize or retain possession of property to the exclusion sen c u of the employer for the purpose of enforcing demands against the employer however he added it was dim cult for the federal government to do anything in the matter until the supreme court has passed on the validity of the wagner connery labor relations act senator johnson of california gave a general warning that the sit down strike is the mot ominous thing in our national life today bad for the government and in the long run worse for labor the democratic senate whip sen ator james hamilton lewis of illi nois vehemently criticized sit down tactics of labor and demanded in vesti gation by congress Is the united states a government 9 lew is asked every form of corn com merce is being torn apart under the name of controversy between employer and employee leading to the danger of national riots IT DOWN strikers ordered by u circuit ju judge dge alien allen campbell of detroit to evacuate the chrysler Ch plants defied the court when the writ of injunction was served on them and declared they would re main to the death the sheriff said he had done his full duty until he received further instructions from the court and the judge was await ing application from the chrysler lawyers for writs of contempt meanwhile gov frank murphy who had hurried home from flon flori da set up a committee to con ciliate the many strike in that area and to devise a legislative program to dispose of future labor bisp disputes utes rev frederic Sl siedenburg S J executive dean of the unive university rosity of detroit was named chairman of the committee it has twentythree twenty three members drawn from re presenta tives of civic industrial induct rial religious and labor institutions since the committee was limited to four members for labor homer home r martin international pres president dent of the united automobile workers of america the union waging the city s outstanding strikes against chrysler corporation and hudson motors rejected the governor governors s in vi tation to U A W A member ship on the committee A MELIA EARHART left oak land calif in her flying laboratory for what promises to be the greatest adventure of her ad venturous life a 27 mile flight around the world following gen brally the equator her first hop of 2 miles took her to honolulu with her in the lockheed electra twin motored plane were capt harry manning and fred noonan navigators who were to leave the plane at hawaii and paul mantz amelia s technical adviser who was to continue with her to darwin northern australia M ARRINER S ECCLES chair L man of the federal reserve board started something when he issued a warning against the dan gers in inflationary price rises which are due he says chiefly to foreign armament demands k strikes and monopolistic practices by certain groups in both industry and organized labor he argued for contina ance of low interest rates but said the 31 S eccles cedes budget should be balanced and taxes on incomes and profits should be raised if feces sary to sustain the volume of re lief and at the same time bring the budget into balance and permit the paying down of public debt as private debt expands the federal reserve system said mr eccles is powerless to main tain a stable economy unless other essential factors nee essary to stability are brought into line either by private interests or by the government this statement presumably made with the approval of secretary mor and the knowledge of pres ident roosevelt aroused a lot of talk in washington and the admin leaders were discussing taxes and receipts generally they agreed that there will be no exten sive tax change merely a resola tion in june extending for one year in nuisance levies it may be the eccles warning will serve to curb the demands of van vari ous department heads and congress men for more huge appropriations p OPE PIUS in a long encyclical 1 condemned communism as the rum ruin of family and society and called on christian employers ev ery where to combat it by rec recognize mg ing the inalienable rights of the working man he accused the corn com of having played upon the susceptibility of the working classes with promises of alleviation of many undeniable abuses tor IP HAT controversy between may or la guardia of new york and the german nazis degenerated into a not riot of abusiveness on both sides german ambassador luther again asked and received an apology from secretary hull after la guardia had called fuehrer hitler satis a man without hon or and mr hull politely expressed his weariness with the whole squab ble in berlin ambassador dodd was telling foreign minister neu rath that the ami anti american cam laign in the german press should be stopped and both those diplomats were pictured as ready to call it all off M ADELINE LA FERRIERE a i 1 beautiful Pansi Paris enne lenne stirred up a pretty scandal when she shot and slightly wounded count charles de chambrun former french am cassador bas to italy the young worn wom an asserted the count had caused her to lose the love of a great italian man of state whose affect eions she had won in recent interviews she has made many trips to rome where she was received in diplomatic society and is known to have been granted several interviews by premier benito mussolini pans paris papers did not mention mus but the london daily mirror did not hesitate to say that he was the great italian involved R 0 EMINGTON RAND INC large lv manufacturer of office equipment was accused by the federal labor relations board of violating the wagner connery act and of us arg ruthless methods in trying to break the strike of 6 workers in six of its plants the corporation was ordered to cease alleged interference with union activities of its employed emp loyes to bargain collectively with a majority of its workers to reinstate strikers without dis crimi nation and to withdraw support of so called company unions I 1 in its ilion N Y and middleton conn plants W of great britain france italy and germany started the naval patrol along the coa coasts coats ts of spam spain designed to isolate the civil wa as p ovidea for by the neutrality agreement entered into by 27 nations the two latter na eions are guarding the government coast and the two former the fascist shore line ships going to spain are required to halt at designated ports for inspection and agents of the international committee will ei ther certify that no arms or volun are aboard or will accompany the vessels to spain THE T HE creusot creuzot works of the famous old schneider armaments firm in france has been expropriated by the french government and formal poss possession assion will be taken by decree everything in the workshops and stores of the firm which has to do with the manufacture of arms tools machinery and stocks will be taken over n R ELIHU THOMPSON one of the country s famous inventors a contemporary and friend of thomas A edison died in swamp scott mass at the age of eighty eight y four his scientific fi c discoveries and inventions were numerous but hels he is perhaps best known as is the discoverer of electric welding and the invention of the centrifugal cream separator and tha centrifuge an in strument ment used in biological laboratories |