Sunday, March 25, 1934

Mother and I went to Sunday school and church. Gweyn and Pauline and I went up to the church on 27th Street this evening.

March 25, 1934

This dramatic photo expertly captured the drama as on March 25, 1934 men working
 with molten Pyrex glass were pouring what was then the biggest mirror ever made. This
casting was unsuccessful, but a second attempt to pour the 200-inch Pyrex disc was
successfully completed on December 2, 1934.

Thursday, March 22, 1934

Daddy took me to school. In the evening Gweyn and I went up to Irving to see the Open House program the kids gave.

Horton Smith - AKA "The Missouri Rover"
Won the first Masters golf championship with a score of 4-under 282

March 22, 1934: The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
Georgia’s most famous golf championship was won three days later by Horton Smith.
He edged Craig Wood by one stroke, finishing at 4-under 282.

The Masters was so new in 1934 that it wasn't even called The Masters. Co-founder
Clifford Roberts wanted from the start to use that name for the event, but co-founder
Bobby Jones thought the name too presumptuous. So in 1934 the tournament was
born as the "Augusta National Invitation Tournament." In 1939 it was officially
named The Masters.

Tuesday, January 30, 1934

Pauline and I rode the streetcar. We are writing Morality Plays in Expression. Making a History scrapbook.

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960)
Born: Cadiz, Ohio
Died: Los Angeles, California
Height: 6'1"
Nicknames:
Gabe
The King
The King of Hollywood
Pa (by Carole Lombard)

Clark Gable's mother died when he was seven months old. At 16 he quit high school, went to work
in an Akron (Ohio) tire factory and decided to become an actor after seeing the play "The Bird
of Paradise". He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. In 1924 he reached
 Hollywood with the help of Portland, Oregon, theatre manager Josephine Dillon, who coached
and later married him (she was 17 years his senior).

After playing a few bit parts he returned to the stage, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel
 Barrymore. After several failed screen tests(for Barrymore and Darryl F. Zanuck), Gable was signed
in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in "Dance, Fools, Dance"
(1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in "A Free Soul" (1931) the same
year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in "Red Dust" (1932) made him MGM's
 most important star. At one point he refused an assignment and the studio punished him by
loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's
"It Happened One Night" (1934), which won him an Oscar. He returned to far more substantial roles
 at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) and Rhett Butler in
"Gone With the Wind" (1939).

When his third wife Carole Lombard died in a plane crash returning from a War Bond drive,
a grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years,
flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as
excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the
box office. He announced during filming of "The Misfits" (1961) that, for the first time,
he was to become a father. Two months later he died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest
 beside Carole Lombard at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Thursday, January 25, 1934

Sure cold this morning. Pauline and I walked to school. I went up to Nadine’s in evening. Made candy. Wrote story for Ruth R.

927 North Second Avenue
Tucson, Arizona
Rental house where John Dillinger was arrested on January 25, 1934

On January 15, 1934 while robbing a bank in Indiana, Dillinger was confronted by
Officer William O’Malley, who shot him several times. Dillinger, who was wearing a bullet
proof vest, was unharmed but in turn he allegedly shot and killed Officer O’Malley.

Dillinger and his gang (Russell Clark, “Fat Charles” Makley, and “Handsome Harry” Pierpont)
eventually made their way to Tucson, Arizona in January 1934. Dillinger rented a house
located at 927 North Second Avenue. Gang members Clark and Makley checked into the Hotel
Congress under aliases. On the night of January 22, 1934 a fire started in the basement of the
 hotel and spread up to the third floor. The desk clerk notified them of the fire and the two
escaped by aerial ladders. As the story goes, Clark and Makley asked two firemen
 to retrieve their luggage.

The luggage revealed their true identities and the fireman notified the Tucson Police
 Department. Dillinger and his gang were arrested at his house on January 25, 1934.



Friday, January 12, 1934

Walked with Pauline to school. I went swimming. Mrs. Raifert came over. Played pinochle. Mr. Mitchell came over.

King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam

After a military coup challenged King Prajadhipok's (Rama VII) suspension of the
constitution in 1933, and the failure of a counter-revolution in support of the royal
government, the king departed on January 12, 1934, for a visit to Europe and did
 not return. The execution of the counter-revolutionary leaders led to King Prajadhipok's
 abdication in March 1935, in favor of his ten-year old nephew, Ananda Mahidol.
 The country was ruled by a Council of Regency, headed by Prince Aditya Dibabha.

Tuesday, December 26, 1933

Don't have to go to school this week. I straightened up the house. Daddy and I played dominoes. He beat.

Current Nissan Logo

December 26, 1933 - Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan

The name 'Nissan' originated during the 1930s as an abbreviation used on the Tokyo stock market
 for Nippon Sangyo. This company was the famous Nissan "Zaibatsu" (combine) which included
Tobata Casting and Hitachi. In 1930 Nissan purchased controlling shares in DAT Motors. At this
time Nissan controlled foundries and auto parts businesses, but did not enter automobile
 manufacturing until 1933, when it merged Tobata Casting's automobile parts department with
DAT Motors. In 1934, Nissan separated the expanded automobile parts division of Tobata
 Casting and incorporated it as a new subsidiary, which was named Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Saturday, December 23, 1933

Mother and I went to town. Went to the show. I got a few of my Christmas gifts. Stayed at Mrs. Raifert's.

Liberty
[v10 #51, December 23, 1933] ed. Bernarr Macfadden (Liberty
Publishing Corporation, 5¢, 55pp, standard, cover by Leslie Thrasher)
Canadian Magazine

Contents

5 · Transient Lady [Part 1 of ?] · Octavus Roy Cohen · sl

12 · How You Can Prevent Crime · Homer S. Cummings · ar

16 · Tiny Tim · Mazo de la Roche · ss

20 · The Private Life and Loves of Jean Harlow [Part 2 of 3] · Adela Rogers St. Johns · ar

27 · Her Excellency the Governor · Nina Wilcox Putnam · ss

36 · The Fighting Jew [Part 3 of ?] · Tex O'Reilly · te

40 · When Winter Comes to the Potters · J.P. McEvoy · ss

42 · Tarzan and the Lion Man [Part 7 of ?; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · sl

48 · Happy Days · Anna Roosevelt Dall · cl

49 · Gentle, Glittering, Gruesome · Beverly Hills · mr

53 · Vox Pop · [Misc.] · lt

54 · To the Ladies! · Princess Alexandra Kropotkin · cl

55 · Pig Tale · Hugh Fullerton · ss

Sunday, October 29, 1933

Mother and I went to Sunday School and church. We went out east and rode around a lake in the afternoon.

Lake Lotawana

Lake Lotawana was developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s
in eastern Jackson County by Milton Thompson. Legend has it
that Jesse James and the Quantrill's Raiders used to hide out in the
area where Lake Lotawana was later developed. In fact, the tale goes
on to say that Jesse James actually had a cabin on the lake ... though
no one has ever been able to confirm said cabin's location.

Today, the City of Lake Lotawana is home to over 2,000 residents.