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PAGE THREE THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA-, TUESDAT, DECEMBER 22. Pretty Romance Lies Behind GAY GRANTED RESPITE; Syracuse, N. before moving to Georgia. A letter yesterday from his son, 23. of Chesterfield, notified the father that the son was unable to raise money for a trip to the prison for a last visit.

Fire Kills Child. JASPER, Dec. 21. (JP) A spark from an open fireplace set fire to the clothing of 4-year-old Pauline Carlton yesterday, causing burns which proved fatl four hours later. Georgia Artist's Rise to Fame GASKIHS ELECTROCUTED "Continued from First Page.

Cotton Blooms Again On Farms in Georgia While the south is to do something to curb King Cotton the old boy is merrily on his blooming way to such an extent that in mid-December he's blooming again. Two evidences of the midwinter blooming were reported Monday when S. P. Wright, Columbus coal, denier and Muscogee -ounty farmer, brought to The Constitution a bloom he found on his farm Sunday, and Gordon Aven, son of Dr. C.

Aven, 429 Park avenue, displayed a bloom he found on a farm just outride of Xewnan. Trustees of Grady Discuss 1932 Budget board of trustees of Grady hospital met in the committee room of Sterner clinic Monday nicht, as the Kuests of John 15. Fiwiklin, superintendent of the instiution, and considered the problem of the hospital's needs for 1932. After a session which lasted four hours, however, members of the board emerged from the meeting andSie-clined to make public their discussion other than to announce that they had been of a fiscal-mature. It was understood that agreement on the 1H52 brideet was impossible at Monday night's meeting, and that it adjourn none of whom called on him in the death celL The 1.400-volt shock, administered at 11:20 a.

only five minutes after he had walked into the execution chamber, cut-short some. further mumbled comment. He wore to the death chamber a white rose' pinned in his lapel by the Rev. E. C.

Atkins, prison chaplain, with whom he had spent the morning in prayer and song. As guards led Gaskins out of the death cell to the execution chamber M. A. another condemned prisoner, silently shook. hands.

Shortly afterward Gay was granted a respite by Governor RusselL; The chief executive and the prison commission previously had denied clemency to Gaskins, whose, conviction was upheld by the state supreme court in an evenly divided opinion. Gaskins clung until the last hours to hope that some means would be found to save him from the electrifi Chair. He said he believed "God has answered my prayer that I wonld kins, when the latter walked, from the cell to the electric chair. The respite granted to Gay was the second given by Governor Russell to 'men doomed to die this week. Major Johnson also sentenced to die 'was eranted respite Saturday to permit bis attorneys to file affidavits Running mate of the Bremen europa, in a cruise de luxe to the will be held in his offices at 4 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, at which time ed temporarily.

efforts will be mnde again to reach a Samuel C. Dobbs chairman of agreement on the budget the board, said that another meeting I for the hospital. never go from the death cell to the Turkey Spain Riviera North Africa Italy Greece Holy Land Madeira 67 DAYS 28 POUTS "YOU TRY SOMEBODY ELSE" and on the other side "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER" Another Ted Black Record JAN 30 Sailing from New York Reduced rates, $950 up. 1 1 in the case. Johnson was convicted for the slaying of his brother-in-law, Tobe Roberts.

B. L. Weston, attorney, who obtained -Gay's respite, said Gay has maintained from the time of his arrest that while he would be convicted and sentenced to death he wonld eventually cheaf the electric chair. The prison commission was to have heard Gay's petition -for clemency Monday. Illness of the brother of H.

B. Edwards prevented the lattef from pleading Gay's cause Monday. PROTESTING INJUSTICE" GASKINS DIES IN CHAIR MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 21. (JP) English Gaskins, protesting to the last moment that he had not premeditated murder, was executed at the state prison farm here today.

The 45-year-old meat cutter was conficted of the fatal slashing of nis estranged wife in April, 3929, at the home 6f her brother, near Metter. The killina followed a call by Gaskins in an effort to effect a "My crime was not premeditated." the' slayer said as he was strapped in the electric chair, "and I should have been sentenced for manslaughter." He prayed fpj. those "who know not what they do," and asked protection for his 10 surviving children, Iff II I Kit andoothe "MflBY in Love LUUILLC other fide lYlMK I With You)" Apply to Walter Ward, General Passenger Agent, 68 Broad St-, N. Atlanta, Tel. WAInut 5336, or your local agent.

electric cnair. He was convicted in May, 1930, ia Candler superior court. Throughout the case he had maintained he did not plot the slaying of his He said she slapped him as he- attempted to caress her when she left him after he had pleaded that she return to their home, and that he slashed her in a sudden fit: of anger. After cutting his wife Gaskins drove away from her brother's home, leaving her in front of the house where she had talked to him in his automobile. He said he drove back to his home in Liberty county and surrendered there several days later without knowing the outcome of hig wife's wounds.

Gaskins and the slain woman had three children. His other children, numbering 11 of whom our had died, were by an earlier marriage. His first wife still lives in South Carolina. Gaskins was a native of Chesterfield, S. C.

He lived in Deland, and 'YOU TRY SOMEBODY ELSE" on the other side 'CALL ME DARLING" Another Columbo Record 'BLUE OF THE NIGHT" "PRISONER OF LOVE" 7 Www i Ur ri I 1 1 j- -rrr-ij An RCA Victor Product Hear theta today I The music you want w'tn juu wa Mrs. Mary Arthur Tompkins, of Athens, now residing in Italy, photographed beside one of her paintings. Mrs. Tompkins, wife of Lawrence Tompkins, of Atlanta, recently created widespread interest in London art circles with her exhibition in Leicester Gallery of a large number of her paintings, many of which were sold during the first few hours of the exhibit. A noted Georgia beauty, Mrs.

Tompkjns before her marriage posed for James Montgomery Flagg, and was a Follies girl for one season. Associated Press photo, TgBH ifwewCtirB ARGAINSS cially my Italian friends. I "get on well with Italians, particularly the everyday people one meets. I like them and they like Someone suggested that she exhibit her work and she went to London with a half-dozen pictffres. The gallery asked her to make 40, from which it might select enough for; an si exhibition.

All of her friends, she miEimiiJCDisin) TTdD 5 Nash Cars Brand new current series. Startling allowance for your present car if you trade BY EDWARD LONDON, Dec. 21. (P) One of the pleasantest romances outside of books lies behind the paintings of Mrs. Mary Tompkins, tall and tan young artist from Georgia, U.

whose work recently was exhibited at the London gallery. Mrs. Tompkins was born in Georgia and one of her childhood playmates was her husband, Lawrence Tompkins, the sculptor who designed Bernard Shaw's theater. "When she came to Europe with him to live she tried first to act, but "I was just awful. You can't imagine how bad I was." That remark really begins the romance.

She went in for social life and two years ago became seriously ill. She recovered finally and her husband told her she was going to-paint. So they went to a little island in DOW EW Qj ASH FDAWAA re IT were shocked some feared she might even "shame the family name." Her friend. Bernard Shaw, thought her "mad," but when he saw the -exhibit he bought a painting. The critics liked them too ami spoke of her strong feeling for colors.

"One always, feels excited before her pictures," said one critic. She. likes warm, colorful things, flowers and flesh, and paints mostly nudes and flowers. Now of course, she intends to make painting a career, on her little island with her husband and 13-year-old son. Her acquisition of the island was almost as romantic as the beginning of her career.

One night at dinner she sat next to Prince Borronio and she asked if he was connected with the Borronio islands, ile replied that he owned them. "Then I want the small one," said Mrs. Tompkins, and the purchase was arranged. is the Isle San Giovanni, which has an old monastery, now remade inside but with ap untouched exterior. 00 a ri aefi Lake Maggiore.

She "took a brushl 3776 vLqbs. and started." "I just painted for myself at first," she said, "with "no thought of a career, but my friends liked them, espe- SCHNEER'S BONDED DIAMONDS Increase 10 In Value Yearly 50c weekly ''s. 7 DIAMONDS 3 DIAMONDS 5 DIAMONDS COUNTESS PASSES AT HOME IN PARIS PARIS. Dec. 21.

(JP) Countess Jeaa le Kergorlay, born Marie Louise Carroll, died early today at her home, aged 72. She was a daughter of John Lee Carroll, a governor of Maryland, and the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Born in New York in 1S59. she was married in 1886 to the Count de Kergorlay. They had four children, of whom thrpp are living.

Funeral services will be held Thursday and burial will be at in (he department of Oise, of which her husband was at one time mayor. WALTER Ij. PARSONS. ROCKINGHAM, N. Dec.

21. (IP) Walter L. Parsons, 73. former lawyer, legislator and cotton mill owner, died of a heart attack while eating breakfast in his- home here today. CLARENCE HANDYSIDE.

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Mounted with Make your down payment a gold inTt'af. Jy? 3Lft ''rir ive op an act we Clarence Handyside. an actor who appeared for more than 50 years on the American stage, died yesterday following a paralytic stroke in the Edwin Forrest home here. He was 77. VIRGIL MORES IIILLYER.

BALTIMORE. Dec. 21. (Virgil Mores Hillyer, 56. an educator international reputation, died yesterday at Union Memorial hospital, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis.

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The Rev. B. F. Fraser and the Rev. H.

H. Jones will officiate, and interment will be in West View cemetery. Members of the police department who will act as pallbearers are Captaij A. J. Holcombe, Captain J.

T. Butler, Detective J. E. Chandler and Patrolmen C. P.

Hill, J. V. White and Paul Mr. Hooten had been on th force for 33 years, and was retired five years ago on the police pension fund. He served gs a traffic officer in the uptown district many years ago.

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