Monday, Apr. 09, 1934

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Asked in Madison. Wis., why she gave up smoking, Anarchist Emma Goldman explained: "The first time I went to jail, they wouldn't give me any tobacco and I found it quite painful to break myself of the habit. Because I was never sure when I would go to jail again I decided I'd better not acquire a need for tobacco again."

In Hades the Ladies, 88th annual show of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, showing difficulties which might arise if Boston debutantes attended Harvard, appeared:

Sophomore Theodore Roosevelt III, grandson of the 26th President, as a chorus girl; Junior Irvin McDowell Garfield Jr., grandson of the 20th President, as a chorus boy; Junior Robert Houghton Hepburn,* younger brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, as a chorus girl.

Trippers to Washington in Mid-April will see Eleanor Roosevelt crowned queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival, will recognize her as the daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Roosevelt.

While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD--FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang: "I can't give you anything but love, father." Between hymns they chanted steadily: "He is God, he is God, he is God." Silently the sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital. "Get up out of yo' beds. Get up an' be healed," shouted a girl's voice. "He is God," intoned the others. Overhead hung the red autogiro. After two hours marching, they streamed into great, dim Rockland Palace, praying, chanting, sweating. They began to stamp their feet. Divine appeared. "Oh Father Divine is so sweet, is so sweet," they chanted. On the platform Divine said nothing, rocked gently from side to side. Then he left for nearby Faithful Mary Mission, one of his many "extensions of Heaven," where his followers ate the turkey, the cold meats, the cakes, the pickles he had provided for them free.

Informed that his first flying teacher, Major Ira O. Biffle, was desperately ill of heart disease and destitute in Chicago, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh contributed $50 to a fund for his medical care.

To the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants said Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, U. S. N. retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going to sea. . . ."

Four men climbed into a big limousine one morning in Palo Alto. The plump man was Herbert Hoover. The others were two secretaries and a chauffeur. Heading eastward across the U. S. the limousine took Mr. Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John Cowles; 11 Cedar Rapids, to see Republican Committeeman Harrison Spenglar; and 12) Chicago where Arch Shaw popped up again. Then Mr. Hoover climbed out of his limousine and, next day, on a train to return to Palo Alto.

Into the S. S. Excelsior at Odessa were hoisted two Soviet-made Fords, bound for New York and Dearborn, a gift from the Gorki automobile factory to Henry Ford, a reminder from the Soviet Government that he had sold it his patents.

*Russell Sturgis Hepburn, a Harvard classmate of Robert Houghton Hepburn but no kin, last week committed suicide in Cambridge by shooting himself through the heart.

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