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4000 MORE WPA EMPLOYES BE
DISCHARGED ANNOUNCES NICHOLS
r . A full explanation as to why 164
white women were discharged and an
| announcement that 1000 addition il
men and women will lose then- jobs
before June Ist. was made this morn
ing by Donald Nichols, district admin
istrator for the WPA.
Mr. Nichols, statement was forth
ccming when a representative of the
, 3 Dally Times placed before him a cur
( rent charge made by spokeswomen for
; the dlschargeed employee that the
white women had been dismissed
while no negro women had yet been
discharged.
i ’ “The report on my desk shows that
164 white women and four negro wo
men were discharged here this week"
-►lid Mr. Nichols. “This however, does
not mean there has been any discrimi
nation. The negro women arc to be
discharged next week.
, “It so happened that the 'comfort’
project, that group of women employ
,-jed engaged in the making of bod cov
&J*rlng came under the classification
k/known as 'inefficient’ or inexperi-
K gnced workers. Specific orders from
call for the dismissal of
units. Obviusly, there is no need
Hfcow for the making of comforters
<elnce the winter season is over.
B * “The project’ was made up
Ref women who had no former exper
ience in the business world and could
nothing but sew. Some could hard
ly do this. Hence we placed a few
| “leaders with them to direct the
} work.
i - “When orders came from Washing
' ton to close out the projects of less
1 importance and those composed of
workers of the inefficient class, natur
ally this unit fell squarely under this
classification. Hence they were dis
missed.
“As to the comparison of white
workers let out with those colored
employes, the figures show that in
this district, to date, 320 white women
and 347 colored women have been dis
missed. This m. kcs a total of 694.
“I have heard the charge that there
is a discrimination against women em
ployes for males. This too, is not sub
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stantiated by facts. To date there have
been 549 men let out of the service.
“These figures, of course, apply to
the entire district, including the fol
lowing counties: Bryan, Brantley, Bul
loch, Camden. Candler. Charlton. Chat
ham, Effingham, Glynn. h,
Long, Liberty, Tattnall, Pierce, Ware,
Wayne.
“Next week, there will be a sharp
reduction in the number of negro
women employed at the nvttrcss fac
tory, on the community farm and in
the sewing room. When this has be*n
accomplished the scales will be bal :
anced. insofar as the color line is <• n
cerned.
There are now 6025 persons cmnloy
<d by the WPA in this districa. When
WOO of these are let out June Ist,
there will still be 5025 left on the pay
roll. Just what is ta become of them,
I’m sure nobody knows. If the orders
stand unchanged, we will all be cut
of jobs.
“Os course, there are large numbers
of those who have lost their WPA
jobs who are now gainfully employed
in seasonable work—on farms espec
ially. By investigation, I find that
instead of the farm w’rker coming to
the city to secure a WPA job—as is
the popular and common belief, the re
verse is true. In Ware county, we have
turned hundreds back to the farms,
for example. In Savannah unfortu
nately. we have few surrounding
farms, so the situation presents a
different problem.
Several hundred more women In
the Works Progress Administration
will be swept out of employment on
a great wave of reduction on April 15,
it was disclosed in a ccnfe r ence yester
day afternoon at the City Hall be
tween Mayor Gamble,, Miss Lillian
Windau, director of certification and
intake, and a delegation of women
recently cut off from the comforters
section of the sewing proqect. The
women, Mrs. Lucille Lane, Mrs. Ruth
Barnard, and Miss Evelyn Gray called
on the mayor to voice their protest
sgaimt being discharged while others
are retained.
The solution the women gave to the
problem was to cut the wages of all
in order that none might be without
income. Representing nearly two hun
dred women cut ‘ off without notice
Monday, they voiedt their protests
against being left with their dependent
families to face starvation.
SHY PARTY PLANS
MAY CONVENTION
NIAGARA FALLS, April 10 (TP)
—ls the prohibitirn party pulls a
surprise next November and sweeps
the country in a landslide vote, one
of three men named today will walk
into the White House.
The prohibition party has sched
uled its national convention for
Niagara Falls on May 5. According
to a committee which met in Phil
adelphia to arrange plans for the
convention, the three most prob
able presidential nominees are
Clinton Howard, of Rochester, N.
Y.; Will Martin of Hasbrouck
Heights, N. J., and Leigh Colvin
of New York City.
The prohibitionists will meet in
New York on Monday to elect the
convention keynote speaker.
MORTUARY
MRS. AVERY
Funeral services for Mrs. Geral
dine Airey, who died Wednesday af
ter a short illness, will be held this
afternoon at 4:30 at St. John’s Epis
copal Church, of which she was a
member. The Rev. C. C. J. Carpen
ter, pastor of the church will con
duct the services assisted by the
Rev. David Cady Wright, pastor of
Christ Church. Interment will be in
Bonaventure Cemetery.
Mrs. Airey’s home was formerly in
Macon. She came to Savannah to
make her home upon her marriage to
the late Charles T. Airey, and her
unusual charm and lofty character
endeared her to Savannahians old
and young throughout the city. She
was a graduate of Wesleyan College
and was a member of the Froebel
Circle of the King’s Daughters and
of the Rector’s Aid Society of her
church.
Pallbearers will be Blair Burwell,
Jr., of Jacksonville, Mercer Lang,
Guerard Bond, Hammond Rauers,
Nephew King Clark, Royce A. Hoyle,
Guerard Simkins, and W. A. Win
burn, Jr.
Mrs. Airey Is survived by a sister,
Mrs. E. M. Burney of Macon, and
several nieces and nephews.
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MRS. SHEAHAN
Funeral services for Mrs. Isabelle
Shehan of 106 Price Street, who died
yesterday morning, were held at 8:30
this moring at the chapel of Irvine
Henderson. The Rev. J. C. C. Brooks,
pastor of Trinity Methodist Church,
conducted the rites, following which
the body was sent to her sister, Mrs.
Annie Stafford of Newington, for
final services at the Middle Ground
Church.
Surviving Mrs. Sheehan are her
husband, T. P. Sheehan, two sisters,
Mrs. Mollie Bright of Savannah and
Mrs. Annie Stafford of Newington,
and one brother, William Lee.
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MRS. REED
Mrs. Marion Gertrude Reed of
Norway, S. C., who died yesterday
afternoon at the home of her son,
J. M. Reed, 134 West Fiftieth, whom
she had been visiting for three
months, will be buried this afternoon
at 4 o’clock in Bethel Cemetery near
Norway. Funeral arrangements are
being made in Norway, to which the
body was shipped at 12:09 today over
the Seaboard Airline Railway by the
Irvine Henderson Funeral Home.
Surviving Mrs. Reed are four sons:
M. F„ H. E., J. M., and R. S. Reed;
a daughter, Mrs. Eulie Williams of
Norway; a sister, Mrs. Betty Ash of
Augusta; and a number of grand
children.
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FRANK M. JONES
Frank Monroe Jones of 117 West
Charlton Street, wlio died yesterday
afternoon in a local hospital, will be
buried Saturday In the Dußoise Cem
etery at Eastman. He was a flagman
of the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
and his body was shipped by Fox
and Weeks over the line at 8:30 this
morning to Eastman.
Mr. Jones is survived by his son,
Frank M. Jones, Jr., and two daugh
ters, the Misses Martha and Edith
Jones, all of Helena; his mother, Mrs.
Mary Jones, of Eastman; two broth
ers, Robert L. Jones of Hawkinsville
and Sam P. Jones of Helena. He was
a member of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen No. 824 of Americus
and of Masonic Lodge of Ocilla
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BEDFORD W. WARREN
Funeral services for Bedford W.
Warren of Ellabell, who died Wed
nesday i na local hospital, were held
this morning at 11 o’clock in the
Black Creek Baptist Church. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
The body was sent to Black Creek
by Sipple Brothers.
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MRS. TRAVERS
The long illness of Mrs. Hennie
Goodson Travers ended in death
this morning at 8:30 o’clock at the
residence, 214 West 41st street.
Funeral services will be conducted
tomorrow at 4 o’clock at the chapel
of Fox and Weeks by the Rev. John
S. Sharp, pastor of the Grace Meth-'
odist Church. Interment will be in
Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. Travers is survived by her
husband, Harry C. Travers; her
mother, Mrs. Emma I. Fitzgeald;
and thre ©brothers, William O Gil-
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WATER WORKS
CONVENTION ENDS
Three addresses brought to a close
the business sessions of the eighth
annual convention of the Southeast
enr Section American Water Works
Association at the De Soto Hotel yes
terday. A golf tournament on the
Savannah Golf Course was the final
activity of the meeting, which open
ed here Tuesday morning with dele
gates from Georgia, Mississippi, Ala
bama, and South Carolina in attend
ance.
Two of the speakers were Georgi
ans: N. M. deJamette, chemist and
bacteriologist on the Georgia State
Board of Health, and G. R. Frith,
sanitary chemist in the city sewer de
partment, both of Atlanta. The third
was E. S. Hopkins of Baltimore, san
itary chemist of the water depart
ment of that city.
The 56th annual national conven
tion of the American Water Works
Association will open at the Bilt
more Hotel in Los Angeles in June.
Nearly a thousand water works men
are expected to attend, was the re
port today of W. H. Weir, secretary
of the Southeastern Section.
bert, and Roy M. Fitzgerald, all of
Savananh.
Pallbearers will be W. G. Currey,
M. S. Weil J. H. Horne, Sr.. L.
Horne, J. W. Blake, and G, F. Blake.
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Good Friday, Most Desolate Day
Os Holy Week, Observed Here By
Churches; Preparing for Easter
Good Friday, customarily a day
of gloomy skies and leaden atmos
phere, dawned clear and sunny
this morning.
In spite of the brightness of the
day, Good Friday is the darkest
and most desolate period in the
calender of the churches, marking
as it does the death of the Savior
on Golgotha. It is a period of mourn
ing and repentance and <ll churches
are today having services of great
solemnity and ritual.
In the Roman Catholic churches
Stations of the Cross will be said
at 3 o’clock. The Independent Pres
byterian Church will hold a mus
ical service on the crufixion at 5
o’clock, and the regular Lenten
services of the Episcopal and Luth,
eran churches will be held at their
usual hour.
Holy Saturday will bring to a
close the period of sorrow. At high
noon the purple mourning garments
shrouding the statuary in the Cath
olic churches will be discarded,
and a time of joy and thanksgiving
will begin.
This final phase of Holy Week
will reach Its climax on Easter
Sunday, when the triumphant ris
ing of Christ from the tomb will
be celebrated with high mass in
the Catholic churches and Easter
services in the othei* churches.
Spires Denies
Union Attempted
Intimidate Men
President John P. Spires of the
Savannah Trades and Labor As.
embly's Building Trades Council,
in a prepared statement to the
Daily Times today denied the
charge of Superintendent J. T. Mc-
Lellan that locaf union men had
attempted to intimidate non-union
workers in the Union Paper and
Bag Company walkout.
“We only contacted these men
and attempted to save them from
being branded as strikebreakers,
rats, and scabs,” wrote Labor
Leader Spires.
“McLellan’s statement ignored
the unendurable conditions under
which he was working these men,’’
he wrote, “keeping them on the job
from sixty to ninety hours a week,
including Sundays and holidays.’’
Here is Trades Council Presi
dent Spires’ complete written
■statement to the Daily Times:
“I do not care to enter into any
press controversy with Mr. J. T.
McLellan, Superintendent for Mer
rit-Chapman, Scott Company, gen
eral contractors for the Union Bag
and Paper Corporation, located on
the old Diamond Match Company
site, but in justice to organized
labor, especially in Chatham coun.
ty and the Savannah district, who
make up some of our best citizens
and support all civic movements for
the building of a finer and betetr
citizenship, and to do so we must
have a decent standard of living
which can only be had among work
ing people by paying them a decent
standard of wages, F want to ans
wer Mr. McLellan.”
“We pride ourselves as being a
part of the tax-paying public in
Savannah and Chatham county,
and naturally, we expected after
the city had donated this site out
of tax funds from the citizens, as
aforementioned, that Savannah cit
izens and mechanics should have
been protected and given prefer
ence on this construction project
at a decent living wage.
“It is really amazing to read
Mr. McLellan’s statement to the
Savannah Daily Times on April
9th. To make organize! labor’s pos.
ition clear so there will be no mis
ur.dersatnding in the minds of the
public:
STEEPLE JACK UNHURT
AFTER 80 FOOT FALL
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Anril 10—(TP)
Steeple-Jack Joseph Hurst tumbled
today from his precarious perch on
top of an 80 foot smokestack.
Watchers gasped and closed their
eyes. Someone raced to a telephone.
Frantically he called an ambulance.
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Gene Discussed
With Roosevelt
Lovett Discloses'
President Roosevelt's arch-foe in
Georgia political circles, Governor
Eugene Talmadge, came up for very
little discussion at a confeernce yes
terday at a meting of Mr. Roosevelt
with several Georgia leaders who will
be active during the coming Georgia
campaign.
This was dviulged by Judge A. B.
Lovett who has just returned from
the visit with President Roosevelt at
Warm Springs yesterday. Judge Lov
ett is chairman of the Georgia Roose
velt advisory committee.
The Savanniahian was joined in
Atlanta early yesterday by Marion H.
Allen, of Milledgeville, state director
of the Roosevelt campaign, and Fred
Scarlett, of Brunswick, another mem
ber of the state advisory committee.
“It was just a social call more than
anything else and our trip was by in
vitation’’ Judge Lovett said this
morning. He said the President was
looking exceedingly well after the
latter’s recent fishing jaunt in Flor
ida waters. Mr. Roosevelt displayed
a great deal of interest yesterday in
the damage and suffering caused by
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The Savannah Daily Times today
announces its first annual “Baby
Beauty Contest’’ in conjunction
with “National Baby Week,’’ April
26th through May 2.
There are five lucky babies some,
where in Savannah—and five lucky
parents. Just who those five are
will be decided by a committee of
five prominent Savannah ladies
who will serve as judges for the
‘beauty contest.’
Parents of youngsters, aged up
to two years, are invited to send
photographs of the babes to “BABY
BEAUTY CONTEST EDITOR’’,
Savannah Daily Times, for partici.
pation in the juvenile event.
Valuable prizes—especially adapt
able to the nursery, will be award
ed to the five selected by the com
mittee.
It is important that the parent
entering the baby in the contest,
write the full name of the child,
the parents name : / address on
the reverse side of ta 3 photograph.
In this manner only, can the return
of the photograph be guaranteed.
There is no fee nor strings tied
to the contest. Savannah parents
are simply invited to enter their
prize youngsters in the contest and
make them eligible for the prizes
which Savannah merchants have
cheerfully given.
The photographs of the winning
babies will be printed in the Sa
vannah Daily Times.
The contest will close on Satur
day, May 2.
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come to make his headquarters there.
Easter eggs of every size and color,
many decorated with the name of
the little miss or her brother for
" whom they were intended, Easter
baskets full of chickens and eggs,
Easter wagons drawn by Donald
Duck, are a few of the things on dis
play for this happy season.
Besides toys and candies, many of
the latest fashions for little girls
and boys and the older members of
the family are on display. Economy
and quality are Silver’s bywords at
this special Easter sale.
STOCK MARKETS CLOSED
NEW YORK, April 10 (TP)—
The leading stock and commodity
exchanges throughout the ■world
closed their doors today in obser
vance of good Friady.
All markets in the United States
shut down. The New York Stock
Exchange and the curb exchange
will open tomorrow, but most of
the commodity markets will remain
closed until Monday.
the tornado in Southeastern cities a
few days ago nad plied his visitors
with questions about the catastrophe.
The Savannah attorney was not at
liberty to reveal what was said about
the President’s plans for his Georgia
campaign.