Monday, Aug. 07, 1933
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March 24,
1930.) Oklahoma's Representative James V, McClintic said he was fishing off Solomons Island in Chesapeake Bay when an 18-ft. fish yanked him into the water. Three friends, including Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, National Prohibition Director, hauled him back into the boat. The fish yanked him overboard again. His friends hauled him back. The fish took the boat in tow, hauled it 15 mi. in two and one-half hours, finally bit the line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never to have taken it up in the first place."
With a party of fisherman friends, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped for a fried chicken dinner in Willows, Calif. Outside the hotel a bystander asked one of the party's Chinese chauffeurs if Mr. Hoover was a good fisherman. Answer: "He's a good fisherman, but he can't catch any thing."
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki.
Appointed a trustee of the University of Chicago was James Henderson Douglas,
34, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who last week sailed for a European vacation on the same boat with his onetime boss, Ogden Livingston Mills.
Early last year three robbers entered the Manhattan apartment of Hairnet Maker Harry C. Glemby, bound him, his wife, daughter and two servants with wires, escaped with Mrs. Glemby's jewelry, valued at $349,000. Early this year robbers broke into the home of Mrs. Isaac Keller, mother of Harry Glemby, stole $50,000 in jewelry. Last April, as clerks of the Glemby company entered an elevator with a $1,349 payroll, two men held them up, made the operator take the elevator up while they escaped with the money. Last week a single robber entered the Atlantic City hotel room of Harry Glemby's brother Philip, bound his wife with a towel in the bathroom, clipped the telephone wires, walked out with jewels worth $100,000.
At Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver cup.
James Minotto, Arizona-ranching son-in-law, had played once prior to the tournament--the day before. He & Wife Ida May were allowed a handicap of 75. Their gross, combined nine-hole score: 161. But high net (for which there was no prize) went to Mr.& Mrs. Gordon Phelps Kelley (granddaughter) who posted a 91 after a handicap of 41. Low net went to Mr. & Mrs. Huntington Badger Henry (daughter) with a 77 after a handicap of 41.
Down to the footlights in a Los Angeles theatre stepped corpulent Baritone David L. Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, whom he is suing for divorce. He smirked to the audience: "I'm very glad to be back in the City of the Angels. You know, I married an angel." When he opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn't that too bad? But the way of the transgressor is hard."
At Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue.
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t>>y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed at $2,029,193.
*Meat-Packer Armour after the War lost $1,000,000 a day for 130 days, died insolvent in 1927. But the oil-cracking process of one Carbon Petroleum Dubbs, in which he had plunged, made Mrs. Armour wealthy again.
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