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Into B-Bar-H dude ranch north of Palm Springs, Calif, rolled the armed motorcade of Broker Franklyn Laws Hutton, father of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Mr. Hutton promptly set his force of guards around his encampment to keep out intruders. One morning, a week later, he awoke to find he was missing two pearl cuff links, two black pearl studs and a scarf pin, worth $25,000.
New York's Representative Theodore A. Peyser introduced a bill in the House to provide a $5,000 pension for Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, relict of the 23rd President.
To legislators who censured his frank murals of Missouri life in the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Painter Thomas Hart Benton replied: "I really made one mistake—I didn't paint some of those jackasses with their mouths open. . . . The Representatives seem to think the pictures should be more delicate. This is strange, because the Representatives are themselves the saltiest kind of fellows." Asked why he had omitted Missourian John Joseph Pershing from the murals, Benton cracked: "Pershing is of less importance in the social history of the State than a bucksaw. I intended to put the bucksaw in, but, strangely enough, I left it out."
Ousted in 1925 from his municipal clerkship and reinstated by court order in 1933, the Secretary of the Interior's brother John Ickes sued the City of Chicago for $51,462 back salary, had his case declared mistrial when the judge received an anonymous letter charging that he would profit by ruling for Ickes.
Touring Tucuman Province where malaria epidemics have ravaged the populace, Argentine President Agustín P. Justo was pleased to observe the rosy faces of a group of school girls, complimented the Provincial Governor on their healthy appearance. "Your Excellency will have noticed," discreetly observed the Governor, "that while nature has been kind to the little girls, it has neglected the little boys." Upon closer inspection President Justo discovered that the little girls' cheeks had been rouged by their teacher.
In Copenhagen, ex-U. S. Minister to Denmark Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde announced that her husband, Guardsman Boerge Rohde, would sail with her to the U. S. next month to accept a position with a film company.
While crowds cheered and cameras clicked, quadruplets Frances, Frank, Felix & Ferdinand Kasper were christened in a Passaic, N. J. church, were eulogized by their business manager, the mayor, and their godfather, Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. Protested Father Emil Kasper: "I didn't want all this business."
Italian Automobile Racer Tazio Nuvolari smashed into a tree on a practice run in Turin, suffered abrasions about the head and a few cracked ribs, said that would not prevent him from defending his Vanderbilt Cup on Long Island July 5.
Absent from the New York Yankees' bench as the season opened was crack Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, who had just had his tonsils & adenoids removed, was scheduled to have an infected tooth extracted, all of which his doctor hoped would eventually cure his lame arm.
After two years' retirement from the films, Leroy Winebrenner (Baby Leroy), 5, announced he would attempt a Hollywood comeback.