People, Jun. 25, 1934

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"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In 1788 John Adams and his wife, Abigail, brought from England to their new home in Quincy, Mass, a Yorkish rosebush. Wife Abigail planted it behind the house, close to the library windows. That summer it bloomed, white & yellow. Last week Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed — may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope diamond. Said Mrs. McLean: "Of course it's the real Hope diamond." Next night a mile away Mrs— Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace, a $1,100 pair of diamond-studded lorgnettes. Five thousand curious Texans gathered at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch Pastor J. Frank Norris baptize Jack Dempsey Floyd, 9-year-old son of Outlaw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd. Said Jack Dempsey Floyd: "I want to be a preacher or a lawyer when I grow up." In St. Louis, detectives pulled from a freight car a young man who said he was Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin Joe. Detectives: "Where is John?" Cousin Joe: "Haven't seen him for a year." In Indianapolis three men held up Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin, Howard, collected $5. When the drought in England became so severe that every church prayed for rain and London began talk of rationing its water, good Queen Mary decided