People, Sep. 30, 1935

“Names make news” Last week these names made this news:

Said Henry Ford: “Me a candidate for the Presidency? I wouldn’t have it!” Said Publisher Bernarr Adolphus MacFadden (Physical Culture, True Stories, True Romances}: “If the nomination should come to me, it is an honor no American could afford to refuse. . . .” Said General Smedley Darlington (“Old Gimlet Eye”) Butler: “Give me $5,000,000 and I’ll elect a Chinaman President.”

Reconciled after violent protest to the requirement that he remove his shoes when he makes his projected goodwill call on Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, Vice President John Nance Garner worried: “They tell me William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan got their socks mixed and made some kind of social error on account of their feet not matching. I’ll have to be sort of careful.”

On the 81st birthday of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, was published Gracious Lady, a biography of her by Rita S. Halle Kleeman (Appleton-Century, $3.50). In it appeared a quotation from a diary in which Husband James Roosevelt, 26 years older than she, exulted thus over the birth of their only child: “Monday, January 30, 1882. At quarter to nine my Sallie had a splendid large baby boy. He weighs ten pounds without his clothes.”

Facing his first stiff re-election fight in years, Idaho’s Senator William Edgar Borah turned up at the Parma, Idaho, Fall Festival, treated each & every Parma moppet to a merry-go-round ride.

Ill of pneumonia in Moscow early last month fell Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene. Bedded in the Hotel National, he slowly recovered. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow late last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill ofpneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois’ flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition “extremely critical,” summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris.

Into a Los Angeles municipal courtroom was wheeled a stretcher bearing Busby Berkeley, No. 1 Hollywood creator of bizarre cinemusicomedy dance effects. Eyes tightly closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. “In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed,” said the judge, ordered Defendant Berkeley held on a charge of second degree murder.