Monday, Sep. 19, 1932

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

Clara Phillips, famed "hammer murderess" doing 35 years in California's San Quentin Prison, lost a chance for parole when caught flirting with a Los Angeles burglar who delivered dental supplies to the women's quarters.

Commented Josephus Daniels, Wilsonian Secretary of Navy, upon a Navy order forbidding Annapolis graduates to marry until after two years' service: "Pretty high-handed. ... I am a strong advocate of matrimony."

King Albert of the Belgians, experienced mountaineer, scaled the sheer pinnacle of Crozzon di Brenta, 10,247 ft. high, one of the most difficult climbs in the Lombard Alps. It took him ten hours.

Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck.

From Stockholm, near where she occupies an island home (not the home of the late Ivar Kreuger, which it was rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily.

Manchurian bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope of producing tropical species.

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