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PAGE SIX WATER WORKERS WELCOMED HERE FOR CONVENTION Tornado Keens Some Delegates From Attendance At Opening The eighth 4 nnua l convention of the Southeastern Section of the American Waten Works Association opened with a registration of more than a hundred delegates from Mississippi. Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, this morning at the ! DeSoto Hotel. Although 250 delegates were ex pected, a great many who planned to attend have been held up by the storm that struck Gainesville and the surrounding country yesterday, it was announced at tine convention headquarters. At least eleven high ways are known to be closed, and two South Carolina towns and one I Georgia town failed to get repre ! sentatives through to the meeting. Mayor Thomas Gamble welcomed the convention to Savannah this morning, |iis greeting being follow ed by an addressby B. C. Little of New York, secretary of the A. W. W. A. Dr. Charles Herty then gave a talk on the fitness of deep well > water in the manufacture of pulp and paper from slash pine. During the afternoon session the following speakers will be heard: Charles F. Cole of Richmond, pres, ident of Virginia Machinery and Well Company; R. R. Schweitzer of New York, president of Layne Atlantic Company; R. W. Smith of Atlanta, state geologist; A. E. Johnson of Columbia, S. C., United State gelological survey; J. E. Gib eon. of Charleston, manager of water works. The business meeting will be fol lowed by a shore dinner at the Ger man Country Club at 6 o’clock. It was announced this morning that the annual national conven tion of the association will open at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles June 6-12. This will be the 56th annual meeting of the water works Industry. Over a thousand delegates have expressed their intention of attending. ! KIWANIANS TO HEAR TALK ON ECONOMY Economy and efficiency in the educational system will be the theme of the regular weekly lunch ' eon meeting of the Kiwanis Club I tomorrow at 2:15 at the DeSoto Hotel Maj. Henry Blun, president I of the Board of Education, will ad. ' dress the meeting on this subject. Lowry Axley, chairman of the j committee on economy and efficien -1 cy in the public schools, will pre sent Maj. Blun. Claud H. Ethridge, chairman of program, is in charge of entertainment. MARY AND HER POODLE LEAVE HOME, SCHOOL BUT RUN INTO COPS BROCKTON, Mass., April 7 (TP) —Fifteen-year-old Mary Glynn felt disgraced whep she flunked her ex. aminations in school. Mary was a’ student at the Junior High School £n Lynn, Mass. After she saw her, examination marks, she decided sttie couldn’t face any of her friends except one. The one • exception was her pet poodle, j Mary wrote her mother a note telling her not' to worry. Then she | took te poodle and left home. The ' weather turned bad, but Mary’s I courage stayed high. She reached Brockton late yesterday carrying the curly poodle in her arms. ’ Police had been notified of the girl’s disappearance. One of Brock ton’s finest saw her trudging wear ily along the street. She admitted > her identity. A few hours later ! Mary’s father arrive to take her and the pet dog hack home. RETRIAL PLEA MADE BY SHERMAN STUDIED J BOSTON, April 7 (TP)—The Massachusetts Supreme Court has taken under, advisement the appeal ' of Newell Paige Sherman for a new trial. I Sherman is the Sutton, Mass., machinist and choir-singer who has ! ben convicted of the “American ’ Tragedy” ya slngfihol BiHMHMRF ' Tragedy” slaying of his' young wife ■ by drowning last June. f The court must decide whether ? Sherman gets a new trial or is to \ be sentenced to die in the electric ■ chair. ' LISTEN, FOLKS! TO WILLIAM RITT NOW THAT ONE-WAY police ra dio has been so generally accepted by American communities that there are some 200 cities with police forces so equipped, the two-way police ra i dlo is about to make its bo ,w i First inkling of this is the an -1 nouncement that Evanston, 111., will have a city ambulance and 10 cars equipped with two-way radio. The Evanston setup is so planned that during a police chase or ambu lance emergency run the driver can icommunlcate instantly with head- I quarters or city hosoltal by remov j ing a telephone receiver on the dash \ board. ■ ■ THIS ACTION immediately puts into operation a 15-watt transmitter mounted in the rear of police car or ambulance enabling the driver to put through a call for additional help whether it be extra police or medical aid. It is also pointed out that the two way radio will enable the ambulance driver, while en route to the hos pital, to flash word a sto the condi tion of the patient and whether or not an operating room should be plac ed In readiness. THE MOBILE TRANSMITTERS are to be concealed within the body of the cars which, in patrol cars, <. will act as protection against gunfire Bruno Hauptmann Leaves Prison at Last K tS | ' I »v B The body of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Jmey for the murder of the Lind bergh baby, is shown leaving Trenton State York mortuary. The Rev. G. D. Wer- ner? who was unfrocked by his church for his activftfcshfigtße cage, and who was one of the two ministers to walk with Hauptmann to the chair, accompanied the body. (Centred Press) FATHER IS STUMPED WHEN COURT ASKS HIM TO PICK OUT KIDDIES CHICAGO, April 7 (TP—An es tranged husband, William Kamke, was called to testify in his fight against paying $4,000 back-alimony. His former wife's attorney said: “Why, you wouldn’t know your own children if you saw them.” Kamke answered: “Sure I would.” Mrs. Kamke leaped to ther feet. "We’ll see if you cm,” she tsaid. “Two of your own children are in this courtroom right now. Pick them out!” Kamke glanced out among the spectators. A bewildered look came into his eyes. Said he, finally: “You win. I don't know them.” Superior Judge Desort ordered the two children, sixteen year old Mildred and 20 year old Wilbur, to come forward. Then he gravely introduced Father Kamke to his children. MORRIS R ABH AM OPENS AIR-CONDITIONED STORE FOR MILADY’S NEEDS The first air-conditioned store in Savannah was opened by Morris Rab han at 23 East Broughton Street yesterday, when a complete stock of women’s and misses’ smart weari n g apparel was put on display for the la dies of Savannah. Rabhan’s originally started at Mont gomery and Broughton streets in 1896 and has mover along with the shop ping center of Savannah to its new location. The staff of employes will remain unchanged, and Morris Rab han will be the manager of the store. The buyer, Mrs. Fances E. Rab han ecently returned from northern markets with lovely new summer ap parel, including dresses for misses and juniors, finer hand-made gar ments, underwear and hose of na tional brand, and chic millinery. Assisting Mrs. Rabhan in purchasing were Miss Faye Cohen, Mrs. Mae Richards, Mrs. Bessie Hprovitz. NOON MARKETS NEW YORK, April 7—(TP)—The stock market drifted in narrom price channels today. Rails and industrials tnded lower. Such recent favorites as tre steels and motors suffered losses oup to a point. Utilities were active and steady. Corporate bonds were irregular. The federal list showed an easier tone. Wheat was mixed. Cotton advanced a few points. GAS BLAST INJURES SIX CINCINNATI, April 7 (TP)—Six members of a single family were injured today when a terrific gas explosion wrecked the home of Ben Sowers. Sowers, his wife and their four children were hurt in the blast. putting the sending set out of com mission. The Evanston plan calls for a 15- watt transmitter and receiver to be established in police headquarters. NOTES — Construction of the co axial cable between New York and Philadelphia has begun. This is the first step toward establishing the television line between these two ma jor cities The coaxial cable Us to be installed in sections, as it is manu factured in Baltimore, Md. -In de parting on his one-weeek vacation Lowell Thomas brought to an end the currently longest continuous broad cast series Thomas has been on the ahr, with but three one-day in terruptions, for six years Anna Kafkas of Bridgeport, Conn., and Arthur Caron of England are the firts two singers chosen for Metro politan opera stardom via radio au ditions Miss Kasgas is a contral to and Carron a tenor Radio Guild will present Maurtce Maeter linck’s “Mary Magdalene” over a net work, Thursday, April 9—The same day America’s Town Meeting of the Air will present a discussion of “Does American Prosperity Depend on For eign Trade?”—Gov. James M. Cur ley of Massachusetts says “No,” and will argue the negative. Eugene Thomas, National Foreign Trades council, will have the affirmative. MOLLIE BERNSTEINS PORTRAIT AMONG SAVANNAH ART OLUBS EXHIBIT FEATURES A portrait of Mollie Bernstein, j — and accomanlst to Dusolina Giannini, the Metropolitan Opera star, will be one of the most interest ing features of the Savannah Art Club exhibit, which opens Thursday at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences. The portrait is the work of Sol Stern. Its lovely coloring has caused the delighted comment of many people, who point out that the fair complexion and dark eyes of the mbject are won derfully life-like and executed with delicacy and artistry. Mr. Stern has painted Miss Bernstein in an eve ning coat of dull, tawny gold, with a very small part of a white satin dress visible. Approximately thirty-five artit •will contribute to this exhibition. All the various types of art will be represent- DEEPER WATERWAY TO BE DISCUSSED A proposition to deepen the intra coastal waterway between Cape Fear, North Carolina and Savannah to twelve feet will be heard at a special meeting called by Capt. Frank Spencer .chairman of the rivers and harbors committee, for Friday at 11 o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce building. Col. Creswell Garlington. men> ber of the board of inquiry, will be present, as will managers of oil con cerns and other representatives of intra-coastal shipping. , Th© object of the meeting is to discover what interest the Savan nah industries have in deepening the route. If the Savaanahians are favorable to the proposition, a deb egation will be selected to attend a hearing on the subject in Charles ton next Monda ■ April 13, at which time the board of United States Engineers will meet in the post of fice building to discuss the advan tages of a deep waterway and to hear the opinions of representatives in cities and towns along the route. MRS. HEWITT TOO ILL TO APPEAR IN COURT JERSEY CITY, N. J.. April 7 (TP) —Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt was”unable to appear in court yes terday when her daughter’s charges against her come up for a hearing. The wealth widow is ill at the Jersey City Medical Center, where she was taken after what police described as a suicide attempt. Yes terday was the date set for a hear ing on a California warrant obtain ed by the ill woman’s daughter, Anne Cooper Hewitt. The girl charges that Mrs. Hewitt ordered an operation performed in a move to control the vast Hewitt fortune. Doctrs attending the widow say her condition is too serious to permit a court appearance. “TOO MANY JIMS,” SAYS WARDEN TRYING TO FOIL THREATENED ESCAPE JOILET, ni., April 7 (TP)—War den George Sehring of the Joliet Penitentiary picked up an envelope lying outside a prison work-shop. Inside he found a note, which read: “Jim, sit tight. We’ll have you out pronto. Destroy this note.” Warden Sehring strode into the work-hop. He called out, "Jim!’ Siv convicts straightened up to at. tention. Said one, “Which Jim, sir? —There’s six of us.” That was too much for Warden Sehring. He dldnt try to find out which Jim was Involved in the es cape plot. Instead he doubled the guard at the work-shop. BORIS ISSUES AMNESTY SOFIA, April 7 (TP —King Boris of Bulgaria has bowed to the Eas ter season by issuing a general amnesty for political prisoners. The King's lenten grace affected 341 imprisoned persons. Os these more than 300 were released at once so they might enjoy Easter outside the prison walls. 24 men condemned to die were given commutation to life imprisonment. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 7,1936 i, ed. Including oils, crayon and pencil a drawings , pastels, and water colors, a The senes are for the greater part ;• familiar subjects in and around t> Savannah, though still life studies e will also have their space, and there i. will probably be one or two portraits >1 besides the one of ’'Lss Bernstein. 1 The work of the pupils of Eliot ;, O’Hara, famous water color artist, who i conducted classes at the Telfair Acad i- emy for several weks in March, will i most likely be included, it was au s nouned this morning. Members of the ?- Savannah Art Club have studied i with Mr. O'Hara every spring for the s past three years. Mrs. Hattie Saussy is president .1 of the club and will assist in the or a ganlzation of the exhibit. The paint • Ings will remain on view for two weeks. BUSINESS GIRLS i DISCUSS PROBLEMS - Y. W. C. A. Group Meets b Women’s Organizations i For Talks a-- - " The Business Girls’ Committee of 3 the Young Women's Christian As r sociation will meet with represen tatives of various women’s organiz- I ations this afternoon at 4 o’clock j at the Y. W. C. A. for the purpose of discussing the interests and t problems of the business girl. Mrs. Luther A. DeLoach, chair- > man of the committee will preside - over the discussion. Invitations ; have been sent to numerous wo. > men’s clubs in the city and a large - gathering of delegates is fixpected. 1 Other members of the Business - Girls Committee are Mrs. E. E. i Behnken, Mrs. George Oliver Tay j lor, Mrs. Mary Mann, Mrs. W. W. - Wilder, and Mrs. Lowry Axley. > BEGINS 50-YEAR TERM 5 FOR KILLING NEIGHBOR EASTLAND, Texas, April 7 (TP) , •—Twenty.flve-year-old Raymond ‘ Henry prepares to start a 50-year 7 prison sentence today, t Henry was convicted on charges -of murdering his neighbor H. L. s Mcßee, in one of Texas’ wierdast slayings. Testimony at the trial b showed Henry stabbed Mcßee to s death in 1933 and burled his body, a A short time after the stabbing, i- Henry allegedly exhumed the body '- and hung it from a tree in a dense i- forest. Last December, three hunt *, ers found the skeleton dangling J from a limb. 1— e MAN 83, WIFE 80, DIE '• 15 MINUTES APART r 1 KANONAH, N. Y., April 7 (TP)— Back in 1873, ojseph E. House mar ried the smiling, apple-cheeked girl , who had been his childhood sweet- 2 heart. “ —For better or for worse,” he ■- said on that wedding day, “until t death do us part.” e Today the old couple are still i. together. Death failed to part House a and hia wife for more than 15 min utes. t Mrs. House, who was 80, died yesterday, after a long illness. Fif. e teen minutes later, House, who was 83, followed the girl he married, 63 . years ago. ? ANNUAL DOG SHOW TO CLOSE TONIGHT The second annual Savannah Dog Show comes to a highly successful close tonight. Held at the Municipal Auditorium, the show has attracted entries from s far and wide. A great number of i- Savannah dogs made fine records at .1 the exhibition. ' e The show was licensed by the 1 American Kennel Club and its spon- , „ sor was the Savannah Kennel Club „ of which Mrs. J. Clark Rowland Is D president. The benching committee 0 for the show consisted of W. Lathrop 0 Hopkins, Mrs. John L. Strong, Mrs. e Rowland, F. J. Howden and E. W. Gabriel. NICHOLS SWORN IN ! AS WPA DIRECTOR No New Allocations For This District Declares New Chief Donald G. Nichols, new Works Progress Administration director of this district, signed the oath of of fice before a notary public this morning, and the document was sent immediately to Atlanta whence it will go to Washington for the national files. Mr. Nichols said this morning that he is expecting no new alloca tions for this district, as most of the funds for projects here have been paid in up to June 1. Things are running smoothly and quietly after the recent cut off which brought the number of employes let out since February up to 690. Mr. Nichols was formerly district engineer. His appointment as dis trict administrator was the result of the recignation of Thomas M. Hoynes, who was elected last Fri day to the office of tax receiver. CHAMBER AWAITS ELECTION RETURNS Ballot Counting To Pick Dir ectors Starts At Four O’clock Returns of the election of direct, ors of the Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber will be re vealed around 7 o’clock today, with counting of ballots getting under way immediately after the closing of the polls at 4 o’clock this after noon. J. M. Mallory will supervise the counting of the senior body’s votes, while Capt. William H. Robertson will have charge of the election of the Junior Chamber A crew of volunteers will assist as tellers. The ballots cast so far, it was learned this morning from Thomas R. Jones, executive vice-president of the senior organization, indicate that the entire membership of both boards of trade will be represented. IRREGULAROLOSE FOR STOCK MARKET NEW YORK. April 7 (TP)—The stock market was narrow and ir. regular at the close. All major groups were under light pressure. Bonds were mixed. Wheat and cotton held steady. ILLINOIS WORKERS GET BELATED PAY CHICAGO, April 7 (TP) Sixthou sand state paychecks are pouring out of the State Treasurer’s office today. The cheks have been held up for more than a week by charges of pay roll padding. Treasurer John Stelle refused to issue the checks. He charked the Govenor Henry Horner padded the payroll with 3,000 political workers. Stelle finally decided to issue the checks.. He warned, however that re cent employes will be investigated on the padding charges. Gov. Horner said the move was a “cheap political trick” by his democratic opponents. HANGSMAN’S JOB ENDS WETHERSFIELD, Conn.. April 7 (TP) —Connecticut’s official hang ing machine took its last life today. The 29-year-old policeman killer, John Siemborski, was hanged as the last victim of the death ma. chine. Hereafter, all Connecticut executions will be by the electric chair. This was edcreed in 1935 by the state legislature. When the legislture outlawed hangsings—the means by which he was sentenced to die —Siemborski claimed he could neither be hanged nor electrocuted. Supreme Court Justice William Maltbie ruled, how ever, that Siemborski could legally be hanged. CALL FOR BOWERS •' •.' • * • /• : hi Claude G. Bowers A hasty call is said to have been sent to Claude G. Bowers, United States ambassador to Spain, to return to Indiana to run for the Democratic guber aational nomination. Observers say the former Ft. Wayne and New York newspaper editor may be able to compose the differences among Hoosier Democrats, who have split into three parts ever the guber natorial nomination. Bowers ah so is considered to have the best campaign voice, next to President Roosevelt, for nation al purposes. WPA Worker Dies in Cave-In <-■ /MbK SHMih' - > - ■' r <W Wi X?Mr <j " '*v " E ?1 “‘ : <.>■ This picture was taken just before a third landslide took the life of Anthony Mecceldi, 25, of Walpole, Mass. At work in a sewer-trench, Mecceldi was buried as the walls caved in. Near rescue when he was buried in the first collapse of the walls, a second landslide buried him again. A moment after this picture was taken, and before he could be removed from the trench, another portion of the wall caved in. He was J dead when fellow workers uncovered him. ••4 •■*-*- 4» ( C entral Press) LAMSON, FREE, TURNS TO DAUGHTER '. ■; '> ■ ■ '• '■ ';'' '■ ■ ’ dBSI* i ■? 1 |Mb Hl • J ' B" Mis j •i< w W ; j 'j tM vV Ibr-**' i-••$ • ■»« sisßlW* - t *>£ \ ' •• '- < ’ ma 1 W I ' ' vv v \ - 'i i . ■„ * i mHHL jK. l- ; jOm f W W! David Lamson with his daughter It’s a renewal of acquaintance for David Lamson and his daugh ter Ellene Genevieve Lamson—an acquaintance stopped nearly three years ago when the former Stanford university press executive was arrested for the murder of his wife. Lamson, who won his freedom from the murder charges when the case was dismissed against him at San Jose, Calif., plans a career of writing. Juries disagreed three times, thus the prosecution decided it would be useless to push the charge further. VEF \ STRETZ’S HAPPIEST MOMENT ' / Ji H / X x MM v f& XM C IBM ift jH < / ' " ||l y w# MML ? >.. wfe * " ; V-J = RMMBF; ? Wfogaimifcfel \ \- Vera Stretz being kissed by father Vera Stretz, freed by a jury on a charge she killed Dr, Fritz Gebhardt, receives a kiss from her father, Frank Stretz, in New York courtroom. This dramatic picture is a Central Press sound photo, transmitted by wire from New York, MONTGOMERY, WARD MAY BUILD STORE BROUGHTON CORNER Strict Secrecy Surrounding Negotiations With Gigantic Concern That Montgomery, Ward and Com pany, one of the courtrp’s largest hiail order houses, will occupy the southwest corner of Broughton and Whitaker streets next fall was the rumor current today. Strict secrecy as to the identity of the lessees has been preserved bp J. Randolph Anderson, representative of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, owners of the property. Rumor at first had it that the fam ous Macy’s would occupy the comer. This, however, was definitely denied by Attorney Anderson. That was yes terday. Today talk In the retail dis trict mentioned several company’s thought to be contemplating a store on the Broushton street comer. But the talk of Montgomery, Ward's es tablishing a store here appeared to have the most authoritative founda tion. The building on Whitaker and Broughton now houses the Savannah Trades and Labor Assembly, the Unit ed Cigar Store, C. N. Thomas, Jew eler, the Alex Boot Shop, the Art Shop, and the H. G. Lewis Barber Shop. J. P. Spires, vice president of the Labor Assembly, said his organization nad been given notice to move by September 30. Although Labor has several places in mind for its new Temple site, including the Odd Fel lows Hall, Barnard and York streets, no definite pkns have been made, ac cording to Vice President Spires. BUSY TIME AHEAD FOR LOCAL FHA CREW Meeting Tomorrow At City Auditorium For Home Owners The Federal Housing Administra tion has a busy time ahedd, with the mass meeting of home owners and prospective home builders scheduled for tomorrow night at the Municipal Auditorium a»d the Mortgage Clinic opening Thursday morning at 23 East Bay Street. The public meeting will be held at 8:30 o’clock and will be preceded by a dinner at the Hotel Savannah at 6:30, to which a number of reserva tions have been made. Judge Waldo De Loach, state director of FHA will be the principal speaker at the din ner and at the meeting afterwards. Other speakers a* the dinner will be Henry McManus, special finance re lations representative, and L. B. Bloust, who will outline the purpose of the clinic. The speakers at the auditorium besides Judge DeLoach will be W. A. Sirmon, who will talk on the use of modernization credit, and A. O. Blalock, who will give a blackboard outline illustrating a typi cal loss as compared with old systems of home financing. Judge A. B. Lov ett, chairman of the FHA committee, will preside at both the dinner and the public gathering. A staff of experts will be on hand at the Clinic from 9 to 7 on Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday to meet the problems of the public in obtain ing FHA loans. L. B. Blount, W. B. Word, A. O. Blalock ar.d a member of the underwriting staff will be on duty. availa v ’e for confidential and personal interviews and prepared to handle all details of financing under the FHA. COUNTY POLICE SEEK THIEVES WHO ROBBED ! AUGUSTA ROAD STORE County police officers were con- I ducting a search today for thieves who got right down to the bottom of things to ransack the store of Mrs. H. D. Brigdon, located at the three mile post on the Augusta road. The marauders secured an en trance by using a brace and bit to cut out a section of floring after they had crawled underneath the establishment. The loss was discovered early yesterday morning. The haul was listed as following: five dollars in cash, one sack of rice, ?25 worth of tobacco, one case of lard, $lO ! worth of white meat, one case of milk, one case of soap, two hams and other merchandise. The case was assigned to Officers H. H. Grotheer and Talmadge Zipperer. PHONE 32783 SPECIAL IDEAL PERMANENT WAVE IDEAL BEAUTY SHOP 117 EAST BROUGHTON STREET SAVANNAH, GA. All Otner Beauty Aids Reduced Other Permanents Reduced j I Insure Against Windstorm Cyclone Tornado Hall, Falling Air Craft, Explo sion, Ricte, Strikes, Motor Ve hicle, Rental Value. Smoke from Heating Plant. ALL endorsed on fire insurance policy for Less than Storm Insurance rate, Edw. S. Sto dard INSURANCE 22< E. Bay St. Phone 4906