"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Two days before his son began to win the British Amateur Golf Championship, Robert Tyre Jones won a handicap tournament at Eastlake Country Club, Atlanta, with a net score of 68 for 18 holes. He had a handicap of 10.

"But oh, my gosh! I've well understood. Why is he repeating?" asked Benito Mussolini, sitting round-eyed beside the telephone in his study at the Villa Torlonia, Rome. On the other side of the earth, in an airplane 7,000 ft. above the Pacific. Count Alberto Mellani Ponce de Leon, Italy's vice-consul for southern California, had ito finish repeating his prepared statement before Mussolini could say: "Mussolini speaking. Mr. Consul, I thank you for your salutations, which I return full-heartedly to all Italians who are guests of that great Republic of the Stars and Stripes.

"I also beg to salute Mr. Hearst; also his always surprising countrymen. I am greatly pleased with this experiment's complete success. Go ahead, please."

Other speakers in this Hearstpaper publicity stunt, supervised by Radio Chief Herbert Hoover Jr. of Western Air Express, included Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (at London), people in Berlin, Ottawa, Manhattan.

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. became a Tenderfoot Boy Scout at Lakewood, N. J. Said he, receiving the badge, distributing dimes: "I'll get some more of the older boys to join your outfit--boys that will help contribute."

Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison ordered an Army aviator to fly some silverware from his Washington home for a party at his Sands Point, L. I., home. The plane was forced down by fog at Trenton, N. J. Mrs. Davison had to borrow silver from the neighbors.

Harold Lloyd, cinemactor, offered $500 reward to anyone who would tell him who had poisoned his Great Dane dog (value: $3,500).

George Jessel, cinemactor, returning from Europe, told of meeting onetime Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany. Said Cinemactor Jessel: "Pardon me, but aren't you--" "I was," replied Frederick Wilhelm Hohenzollern.

William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston, 4th-ranking U. S. tennis player in 1926, made known that he would play no more this year, that he would remain two months longer in a sanatorium at San Rafael, Calif., where he is recuperating from a lung ailment.

A suit for 1,000,000 francs ($39,200) brought by Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, against a Nantes newspaper was thrown out of court at Paris. Violinist Thibaud, having driven through a snowstorm last winter, arrived late for a sparsely attended concert at Nantes. The newspaper intimated that he had tarried at a mughouse, had not been able to appear.

John Pierpont Morgan went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) to have his eyes examined by famed Dr. William Holland Wilmer.

Joan, seven-year-old daughter of Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of New York State Penitentiary at Ossining (Sing Sing) signed a three-year contract with Fox Film Co. to make motion pictures. Her first vehicle will be Up the River, a comedy of prison life." Joan was born at the institution; inmates call her "Cherie." Last month she managed to skip across some scenes which a cameraman was taking at the prison. Because she photographed well, she got the job.

Raymond Duncan, eccentric, toga-wearing brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan, walked to Manhattan's Battery (south end), ladled up ten bucketsful of harbor water, entered a taxi, returned to his apartment to manufacture salt which he said he was going to take to Europe and send to Mahatma Gandhi as evidence of his sympathy for Indian independence.

The Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman, new archbishop of Dubuque, addressed a dinner of welcome given him by Knights of Columbus, said: "Prohibition has killed sociability and has made real conversation a lost art."

At the request of his wife, Joseph Austrian of Greenwich, Conn., retired suspender manufacturer ("Wire Buckle" brand), onetime president of the Cross Word Puzzle Association, was committed to a sanitarium.

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