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Asserting he is the son of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S., and that he passed his 125th birthday last Fourth of July, bewhiskered, squinting, eccentric "Major" Edward James Monroe of Jacksonville, Fla. came forward at a 50th annual convention of Confederate veterans in Washington to claim: "The Japanese Government gave my father . . . jewels. The last I knew they were all locked up in the Treasury. I should have them—great boxes of diamonds, but I don't know. Nobody turned them over to me. Crooks in high office. It's a disgrace."
In New York City it was reported that Wendell L. Willkie had renewed his apartment-house lease at No. 1010 Fifth Ave. for another year, but inserted a 30-day cancellation clause.
Pretty Violet Mulvenna, 19-year-old American Legion champion drum-majorette, student at University of Mississippi, stepped off a train at Atlanta for the Georgia-Mississippi football game, tossed her twirling baton in the air. When it came down it broke her nose. Next day, between halves of the game (score: Mississippi, 28; Georgia, 14), doctors let her get up. Nose-patched, baton-twirling, she led the parade.
When Pianist Vladimir Horowitz canceled a concert his three physicians explained: "traumatic tenosynovitis of the flexor digitorum sublimis and profundis muscles at the metacarpophalangeal joint." He had a sore hand.
White House Peanut Vendor Steve Vasilakos, who for 24 years has donated a day's gross receipts to the Red Cross, became a U. S. citizen, donated two days' gross by way of celebration.
Because his appointment as a reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation.
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