Daily News from New York, New York • 341

DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936 40 Schick Shavers on Credit fi AC nd DC Suicide Blast Rips Knickerbocker Apts. Gas turned on by a jobless former business executive exploded with the devastating; effect of a shell at 9:10 A. M. yesterday in Knickerbocker Village, on the lower East Side. THOMAS W.

HAMMOND amber of LmGaarJia'i Cabinet. CoL Thomas West Hammond, 55, Commissioner of Water Supply, Cas and Electricity, died of a heart Killed by the gas but untouched'" A nolice emerzencv crew held back attack Wednes- i J- day i jr. or early yesterday. A former football coach at West Point. Col.

Hammond entered -Guardia's administration a thousands of spectators who milled in the streets. The dead man's brother, Arthur Smith of 131 Gordon Ridge-field Park, N. rushed to the apartment in response to a warning letter, but was only in time to identify the body. He said the letter disclosed Benjamin's intention to end his life because be couldn't find another post, and wouldn't do menial work. The better, faster way to shave No Blades No Lather No Brush No Cutting At the nationally advertised Cash Store Price.

.4 by the blast, Benjamin G. Smith, 52, who lost his post as Controller for E. R. Squibb Co. several months ago, was found sitting in a chair ia the kitchen of a fourth-floor apartment.

Blast Wrecks Flat. Around his body lay the wreckage of the flat, rented by his sister. Miss Evelyn Gordon, employee of the State Charity Aid Society. She was out of the city. The detonation ripped down walls of apartments on either side, wrecked furnishings, and sent hundreds fleeing from the wing in C1 i 25c Down Delivers 50c Weekly sioner of Sani tation.

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Mrs. Marion Cusack, 27, was thrown from a chair in her fifth-floor apartment, but escaped with Open Every Evening MAID, 25, GETS LIFE FOR KILLING BABY Greensburg, Sept. 3 VP). A jury convicted 25-year-old Jessie Harkey, a housemaid, today of killing her employer's infant daughter and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Mrs.

Hankey, whose attorney termed her a woman "with the mind of a child of 10," heard the verdict calmly. -Defense attorneys contended the maid had been forced to feed the child a spoonful of lye by its father, Kenneth Wagner, 30-year-old laborer. Wagner "faces a separate triaL TO) TT C0 IlPH minor injuries, urosen wmaow glass showered into a court where children were at play, but none was injured. Tenants in the worst KRE IT JEWELERS 1M W. 115 M.

41 COt TLA WOT St. y0 FOftDHAM IS WIST14tkS. fsiwmMtfctt. Orr At Km, wrecked apartments were out. Hart by Flying Glass.

Across the street at 25 Monroe flying glass eut Mrs. Angelina di Mauro, 33; Mrs. Josephine Mi-ano, 34, and Mrs. Mary Miano, 52. S11 FIFTH An.

12 STEtN WAT A. 1A4-0S JAMAICA Ava, ST1 FULTON St- 1JTJ 1IOAOWA a ArMfclpi AMftTMJ. LI ter's snow removal in this City, he was transferred to the post he held at the time of his death. Col. Hammond was stricken at his desk in the Municipal Building Wednesday afternoon.

Old Friend of LaGuardia. He went to his residence in the Hotel Plaza to rest. The gravity of his condition was not realized, apparently, and he died during the Btrht. The friendship between LaGuardia and Col. Hammond began when the latter represented the War Department at hearings before the Military Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, of which LaGuardia was then a member.

A graduate of West Point, Col. Hammond returned to that institution to serve as football coach for four years. Saw Service at Front. When the United States entered the World War, he was on duty in the Philippines. He was transferred to France, and commanded unit at the front.

Hammond is survived by his wife, Clarmelita, and two sons, Lieut. Chester Hammond, a military aid to President Roosevelt, and Lieut. Thomas W. Hammond an instructor at West Point. Funeral services will be held at the Chapel at West Point, to which the hotly was removed yesterday, at 1:30 P.

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T. T. in was president from 1919 to 10-5 and chairman from to 1028. He was appointed a member of the Aircraft Board, a a year position ciurinar the World War, by President Wilson. Al GUSTO CIRIACI Catholic Action HeaJ.

Vatican City. Sept. 3 (JP). Au-gusto Ciriaci. 47, president of the Italian Catholic Action organiza tion which embroiled church and state in bitter conflict in 1931, died today.

Pope Pius sent his final benediction and celebrated special mm immediately after Ciriaci's death. Twenty thousand of the Catholic Action clubs were closed in 1331 bv Fascists, who charged the organization with engaging in politics and competing with the Fascist corporative state. When Fascists broke into the Rome head quarters of the organization they threw the Pope's portrait out a window. The issue was settled amicably in September, 1931, by a solemn promise irom trie aucao to keep the Catholic Action clubs Repeating our most sensational August Sale Value-Group regularly Simmons Twin Divan has Inner-Spring Mattress over coil spring base and covers of rust, green or brown. Also included 2 white pottery Lamps with fabric shades; 2 Studio Ends and modern Coffee Table, all with glass tops and bases of gumwood finished Walnut- 2 DOWN! Included: Simmons Twin Divan, 2 Glass-top Studio Ends, 2 Pottery Lamps, Glass-top Coffee Table out of politics.

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