People, Aug. 7, 1933

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"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.

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