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...provided by a widely circulated picture showing grey, bespectacled Mayor Shaw seated in an automobile with President & Mrs, Roosevelt with the National Capitol in the background. The picture's caption: "This heretofore unpublished photo shows President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Los Angeles' dynamic Mayor, Hon. Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through Los Angeles in the Roosevelt car during...
Died. Captain the Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, 61, polo-playing onetime (1921-22) British Secretary of State for Air, cousin of British Tory Winston Churchill, father of famed U. S. Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; of pleurisy; at Sunbury-on-Thames, England. His wife, steel heiress Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, backed Amelia Earhart Putnam's first transatlantic flight in 1928 when Captain Guest dissuaded her from attempting the adventure herself...
...Navy's traditional might shown by Rightist aviators off Mallorca. They impudently dropped 15 bombs, none of which hit the British destroyer Gallant, were repelled by her shellfire, and when London asked apologies these were profusely given -but still those Spanish aviators had been "unprecedentedly" cocky. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, weary of office and about to retire as Prime Minister, was doing his best to think chiefly of the Coronation, but all Europe realized that Russia, Italy, Germany and France were feverishly cheating on their pledges of neutrality toward Spain, daily running heavy risks that their machinations...
Died, The Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns Hope, Dowager Marchioness Linlithgow, mother of the Viceroy of India (see p. 22); in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...wedding of Margaret Annis ("Peggy") Best, 24, daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Matthew Robert Best who commands the British Navy's America & West Indies Station, was postponed a month when she and Bridesmaid-to-be Ruth Dora Backhouse, daughter of Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse who commands the British Home Fleet, both suffered severe brain concussions in a bicycle accident near Hamilton, Bermuda...