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Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley...
...Anna Case Mackay is one of our most beautiful Japanese irises. She is now in full bloom in all her glory with many more glorious Japanese irises, acres of them, a sight not to be forgotten. I invite you to come and see. . . . You will not be sorry...
...Most advanced Federal settlement is the Dyess Colony, 18 mi. from Osceola, named in honor of the late State WPAdministrator William Randolph Dyess, killed in the crash of the The Southerner airliner five months ago (TIME, Jan. 27). At Dyess last fortnight 480 neat-looking cropper families gaped at Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who, beaming with pleasure, addressed a few words of encouragement, shook hands with one & all. Wrote Columnist Roosevelt in her diary, My Day: "They have a community house, a recreation hall, and a small hospital. All of these expenses are prorated back on the general expense...
...Yale's Gothic Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, now split into two Yale colleges, was the gift of his mother, Anna M. Richardson Harkness...
Next day the President gave to the heroes and history which Texas is advertising in its six-month Centennial (TIME, June 8). After a drive through Houston, he rode on a yacht down Houston Ship Channel to the battlefield at San Jacinto where General Sam Houston wiped out Santa Anna's army, won Texas' freedom in 20 minutes. There President Roosevelt praised Liberty and Peace, called on his 20,000 listeners to enlist in a "national war for the cause of humanity without shedding blood." Nor did he forget to mention ''my old friend" Texas...