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Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...
...there was screaming. In a moment oil field workers shut off the pumps under their derricks and came running toward the pile. Fathers and mothers, 100 of whom had been attending a meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association in the school gymnasium, rushed up white-faced. From the shining school buses lined up to take them home tumbled scores of scared kindergarten moppets to help dig under the debris from which appalling screams and cries could be heard. Slowly the diggers realized the extent of the tragedy as they found they had stretched, at the first count, 220 corpses...
According to the patient's story yesterday noon, he returned from a movie shortly before 11 o'clock Monday night. Finding difficulty in locating the light string. Perkins lit a match, which dropped on a pile of papers on his desk...
...Royal Freeman Hunger, financial editor of the Chicago News, gave his version of what has become a cause celebre in Chicago trust circles. Wrote he: "The [First National] bank gave his [Mr. Busby's] affairs close consideration. . . . The stocks . . . are still held today. Those dumb securities, a little pile of stock certificates with gilt edges, have reached out of the obscurity of the vaults to vindicate Traylor and cover the trust department of the bank with laurels...
...exhilarating thrill of direct action should not dull the committee's mind to the principles for which the C.I.O. stands. Harvard labor enthusiasts would do well to make sure that the C.I.O. is not building up a vast organization of long-suffering people at the bottom of the pile just to glorify the vain and egotistical ambition...