In Mexico City, the Government press bureau announced that Mexicans may now telegraph complaints direct to President Lazaro Cardenas, free of charge.

Fat "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson), Father Divine's onetime chief female angel, who quit last year after declaring: "He's just a damned man--he ain't no more God than you're God," returned to his Harlem colony from Los Angeles when he sent her a diamond and sapphire ring. Said Faithful Mary: "He really is God."

Exiled Novelist Thomas Mann gave his theory of Adolf Hitler's personality (see p. 11): "He is half genius, half criminal."

Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing him."

At a Manhattan night club in the basement of a onetime church, cafe-society playboys (including Peter Arno, Lucius Beebe, Jules Glaenzer) gave a coming-out party to end all coming-out parties. Debutante: Wilhelmina ("Tugboat Minnie") Frances Vandenbaard, professional model (under the name of Wilma Baard) and daughter of a barge captain. The party was timed to fill the papers a few days before the debut of cafe society's current Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Gowned gratis and gloriously by Macy's, Miss Vandenbaard from 11 p.m. till dawn greeted guests who came to laugh, remained to roar. Said the only socialite debutante present, Elvira ("Vivi") Fairchild: "Debs would have more fun if they could have this type of a party." Said Tugboat Minnie: "My feet hurt. ... Do you think I should have let myself in for this stunt?" Twenty-five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden:

OLSEN AND JOHNSON, WALTER HUSTON, TEDDY HART, SOPHIE TUCKER, HELEN CLAIRE, BILL GAXTON, VICTOR MOORE OR GLADYS COOPER. YOU LEFT YOUR MUFFLER IN MY OFFICE. WILL YOU PLEASE SEND FOR IT?

In Britain's Genealogists' Magazine, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms Anthony Richard Wagner produced a genealogy showing Neville Chamberlain to be a 19th-generation descendant of Edward I (1239-1307), who was known alternately as "Longshanks" and "The English Justinian."

To 1,000 Rumanian peasants, as Christmas presents, King Carol of Rumania gave 1,000 plows.

Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody.

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