People, Mar. 26, 1934

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Peering into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta's First National. The Game & Fish Commissioner did his duty, arrested them all.

On his 55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District.

On his way from the Pauline Chapel to St. Peter's, Pope Pius XI twiddled his thumbs for five minutes when the Papal elevator stalled between floors and kept 10,000 worshippers waiting.

Arrested in South Windsor. Conn, for speeding while driving the car of his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Robert B. Delano jumped his $20 bail. In Worcester. Mass. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was arrested for speeding, paid a $5 fine.

The S. S. Rotterdam stood two miles off Nassau in the Bahamas, her captain deciding it was too rough to land. Suddenly a tender came bobbing precariously out through the heavy sea. Aboard it was Patrick Cardinal Hayes, determined to get back to Manhattan in time to review the St. Patrick's Day parade.

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