People, Apr. 6, 1936

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

In Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with me."

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Because the high ceilings permitted him to display his Oriental tapestries and African trophies to best advantage, 20 years ago bearded, rotund Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts took a lifetime lease on an apartment in Washington's Arlington Hotel. Six months ago, when New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration rented the building, Representative Tinkham stood on his legal rights, refused to budge.

Last week, having waded for six months through a sea of Government stenographers whose desks are shoved up to his living room door, doughty Republican Tinkham still refused to move, declared: "They can't resettle me!"

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Singer Lily Pons went to see the monkeys kept by Menton's famed Rejuvenating Dr. Serge Voronoff, got too close to a cage, was soundly bussed by an ape named Rastus.

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In Syracuse, 74-year-old William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, famed Anti-Saloon Leaguer, heartily endorsed Senator William Edgar Borah's candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination but declared he would make no speeches for the Idaho Dry because: "The more I make, the wetter the country gets."

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Demolishing the old New York County Penitentiary on Welfare Island, wreckers uncovered traces of the large window which in 1874 embellished the cell of New York's notorious William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed.

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In a natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers.

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Unable to raise $3,000 bail, Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, great grandson & namesake of Cleveland's late great industrialist and President-maker, was clapped into Cleveland jail to await a Grand Jury hearing of a charge that he forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral.

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