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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 15

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The Tennesseani
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
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15
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wife, Mrs. Sarah Lacey Nicholas. 18-A THI NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Sunday Morning. Oct. 22.

1950 The third recital In the serlee Apropos will be held Wednesday, Nov. 15, of Georgia Tann PETROIT CP) The first 2nd Faculty Recital Slated at Peabody The second faculty recital of the division of music at Peabody college will be held Monday, Oct. 30, Dry Air Mass Takes Punch From Storm TAMPA, Fla. IT) A welcome by Miss Evelyn Messmore, so prano, Sha will be accompanied by Miss Marian Haines. Carthage was destroyed In 148 RC.

Father Favored Music, She Saw Greater Need by Louis Nicholas, tenor, It was announced yesterday. The recital will be held in the Social-Religious building at 8:30 with a group of visiting members of the bar. Never in the world, she said in at Columbia university in New York. Her education completed, the woman to apply for De-troll's new reserve police force walked Into the office of senior Inspector San-ford W. Shoults.

"Your name please?" asked the inspector politely. "l'olice," said the woman sweetly, "Yes, I understand that," said Shoults, "hut I want your name." 'Tolire," sho said again. "P-0 I E. And my first name is Catherine. Catherine Police, age 28." She was sworn In.

P.m. He will be accompaniend by his young woman returned home to relating this story, would she forget the expression on her father's TITANIA GEMS This is the first in a series of articles concerning the late Mis Georgia Tann, executive secretary of the Tennessee Children's Home Society at Memphis. Around Miss Tann at the time of her death last month, a national baby black market scandal buzzed as the 1 state charged she profited by begin her career as a social worker In her native state. She wore shirt waists with long Carburetor Too Rich Makes Motorist Too Poor Car owners who are wasting money and not getting proper gas mileage due to over-rich mixture! will he pleased to learn ol a Wisconsin in-ventor who has developed a very clever unit that helps save gasoline hy It is automatio ind operates on the supercharge prin parents and placed in custody of the court. Found Life's Work Three weeks she found a home for the children with a responsible Mississippi family.

The boy, sha said, grew tip and was graduated from Columbia university and the girl went to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, married later and had a family of her own. Chancellor's daughter not only found a home for these youngsters Tht only thing on earth mo ft brilliant, th only known rival of tha diamond, at 8 tiny traction of tho cost. sleeves and skirts that swept the ground as she went about the com mass of dry air yesterday tock all the starch out of a tightly packed little hurricane that for hours gave this area a scare. The middle Florida west coast was set to take on winds of 75 miles per hour and higher. The biggest fear, though, was of high tides.

Instead, the gulf hurricane aimed at the Tnmpn-St. Petersburg area (population 475,000) lost its punch. It skidded far off its estimated course and knocked itself out over wastelands. The storm crossed the coastline slightly north of Cedar Key, which took a bad beating from the Labor Day hurricane. This town Is about 10O miles north of Tampa.

Meteorologist W. W. Talbottt of the Tampa weather' bureau explained the dry air mass played havoc with the hurricane. munlty visiting families in distress with a growing concern over the tha young social worker that she found little time to participate in See Them At Ynur I.acnl Agent W. E.

SNODDY S27 Sroekoll Sr. Ph. 6-1332 Saturday and Sunday or Alter 6 P.M. Weekdays fate of helpless children. thousands of dollars through illegal traffic in babies.

Nellie Kenyon, reporter for THE the social functions of her town Later she went to Texas where sho engaged in social work for a fare. The jurist-father with his customary dignity managed to say, "Gentlemen, this is my daughter." Georgia stood in front of the group. Beside her was a sturdy policeman. In Georgia's arms was a small baby. It was a door step infant.

Tha policeman didn't know what to do with the baby and had called on the chancellor's daughter, who was a volunteer social worker by then, for assistance. Miss Tann also recalled an occasion when sha visited her father's court to find two children, a hoy, 5, and a girl, 3, huddled In a corner. Sho passed up invitations to dances and parlies to help those less for but through this and other expert short time gaining additional ex-jperlence in her work before re tunate folk residing on the other side of the tracks. turning to the South. SCHOOL BAND INSTRUMENTS NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, spent a week in Memphis obtaining information for her series of articles.

By NELLIE KENYON i Georgia Tenn, aee 5, Rat at ciple. instulled in a lew minutes. Tits all cars, trucks, tractors. The manufacturers, the Vacu-matio Carburetor 7hl7 678-M State Wauwatosa, are offering a Vacii-matic to anyone who will install it on his car and help introduce it to others. They will gladly send full free particulars if you write them or just send your name and address on a penny postosrd today.

Adv. The dominating spirit which first showed up in tho child of rebelling against her father soon became embedded In the character The chancellor had lost in his effort to make of his daughter a musician of note. The unopened piano stood in the. old-fashioned ences In her father's court she also found what was to become her life's work. She had long since caM aside her ambitions to enter the legal profession.

She received her college training at Martha Washington college in Virginia, later to take special social work courses of Georgia for the rest of her life Tomorrows Miss Tann's early life parlor as a sad reminder of his ambition for his child. So engrossed in her work was 205-207 Eighth N. Until 1940, Chilkoot barracks was tha only U. 3, Army post In They had been abandonee hy their in Memphis. tha piano and laboriously picked out the scales with tiny fingers because her chancellor-father said she must.

Her father was determined to make a musician out of her, but Georgia was more determined not to he a musician. "I was glued on a piano stool al 6, and I didn't get awny from it until I was grown," she said years later. Favorite Gathering Place But Ufa for the growing blue-eyed child was a happy one. in the rambling old-fashioned Mississippi Tann home, except when she was sent Into the parlor to practice the music for hours at a time. Georgia romped and played wilh Other children.

Her homo in Hick ory, was a favorlta gather-ping place for neighborhood chil dren. These neighborhood playmates had no idea then that their friend Georgia Tann would grow up to become the subject of one of the big gest scandals in Tennessee's history. The Tanns were among the first families of Mississippi. Georgia's Miss Georgia Tann At i piano stool until she was grown. father, George C.

Tann, was a noted chancellor and gained distinction by introducing probation work in Mississippi. I Her mother was a school teacher back In the day when women were almost unheard of In the business and professional world. Georgia grew Into girlhood In the early part of tho twentieth tlk tkmk century when flappers were unknown and when a woman would have been ostracized from society had she been caught using rouge or smoking a clgaret. Enjoyed Court Proceedings As the chancellor's daughter, Georgia developed an early fascination for her father's profession. While other girls were going to dances and learning to waltz and do the two-step, Georgia was finding her pleasure In sneaking away from the homo for frequent visits to her father's court.

The whole proceedings fascinated her. And she found-herself sympathetic to those in trouble, especially when children were involved. In fact, so keen was her In terest In the court that she would have chosen law as her profession nan she been born 20 years later, "All tho time my father had me PLYMOUTH Division ol CHRYSLER C0RPCRATI0I Detroit 31, Michigan glued to tho piano stool I wanted to be a lawyer," Miss Tann said In later years. "I read law with him, and passed the state bar examination In Mis sissippi. But he never would let me practice, because It wasn the usual thing and I was the only girl in the family," sho recalled.

Aware of Children's Needs It was when she was a mere slip of a girl that Georgia Tann first became aware of the fact that ONLY PLYMOUTH in the lowest-priced field-gives you: there was such a thing it: society as a need for homes for homeless or unwanted children. This early experience made a deep Imprint on her mind which she never forgot. 1 J. he man who really knows uhntyou can grt out of a car is a taxicah driver. His very living de-pends on the day-in-and-day-out performance of his vehicle.

Talk to the next cah driver you meet and you're almost certain to hear: "The car for my money is Plymouth." From their own bookkeeping, taxicah owners know about Plymouth's low operating cost. That's why they back up their drivers' judg-uient by buying more Plymouths than any Her father was always bringing other make of car; In fact of all standard-built cars used today as taxieabs there are more Plymouths than all other makes combined! The man who really knows nhaCs in a car is the mechanic who, works on it. Plymouth dealers have some of the most highly trained mechanics in the industry. They really know how good the Plymouth is. But you may think they are biased.

So talk to men in independent garages who work on all makes of cars and owe lovaltv to none; Over and over, you hear these impartial me-chanics say quite frankly: "The best engineered car in the low-priced field is the Plymouth" You can also talk to millions of value-wise Plymouth owners but, of course, they definitely arc prejudiced. You can hardly blame them. For these motorists enjoy the benefits of outstanding features found in none of the other low-priced cars or even in many automobiles costing hundreds of dollars morel children home with him. More than once she heard him say, "I wish I had a doctor, a school teacher and a good far-seeing min lster to sit as a committee and help me decide what should be done With these children." That statement impressed her above everything else In her early Safety-Rim Wheels positive protection In the event of a blowout. Safe-Guard Hydraulic Brakes consistent, controlled, predictable braking with easy pedal pressure.

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She wanted to help and would amaze her father at times by what she did. One of her favorite stories was the time she shocked her noted father by stepping out of the black marla directly in front of the courthouse. Georgia was somewhat disturbed to see the chancellor standing in front of tho courthouse talking WORLD'S TINIEST HEARING AID RECEIVER Need Not Be Worn in Ear A fascinating free booklet which tells sll about the world's tiniest hearing aid receiver has just been, published. This is the "modern miracle" receiver, based on Bell Telephone Laboratories designs, which was widely reported in newspapers and magazines recently. No other hearing aid receiver known to Audivox comes even close to being so tiny, No other it so easy to conceal.

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