People, Aug. 15, 1932
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Atlanta neighbors of Asa Griggs Candlet Jr., Coca-Cola tycoon, threatened to go to court unless he removed his private zoo from its present site, just within the stone wall at the public roadside, to a remote part of his estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced apes, 13 flamingos (one of the best collections in the U. S.), hundreds of birds, from Australian parakeets to American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua, N. H. Neighbor W. B. McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst.
John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house is called "Mostly Hall" because it is that way.
Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John.
From the courthouse steps at Poplarville, Miss., short, scarred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, stormy onetime Governor of Mississippi, watched a U. S. deputy marshal sell his $50,000 "dream house," 3,000-acre estate and 400-acre pecan orchard for $500 and court costs. Reason for the sale: to satisfy a judgment in favor of a bank receiver. Asked whether he would make a bid at the sale. Lawyer Bilbo snapped: "Will you supply the money?"
Pope Pius XI decided to install electric heating in the Vatican Palaces.
In Brooklyn hulking Deputy Sheriff Vincent Glynn, nephew of Alfred Enianuel Smith, was charged with homicide after he shot & killed a jobless youth on whom he was trying to serve a warrant for nonsupport. His story: that the youth hit him and ran. Few years ago Glynn was a city policeman, was involved in a hit-&-run driving case, quit the force following a shooting scrape in a speakeasy.
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