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

At Nice, the U. S. consul asked French police to protect Gibson Fahnestock Jr., rich, U. S. .socialite on whose yacht Shenandoah III several members of the Chinese crew had started a fight. Shenandoah III is elaborately fitted out with Oriental antiques, has a great staring eye painted on her bow. Mr. & Mrs. Fahnestock and four children are world-cruising on it. Once before, at Singapore last December, the Chinese crew mutinied, knocked down the captain and Owner Fahnestock.

At Apia, two stewards from the yacht Alva, on which William Kissam Vanderbilt & friends are touring the South seas, complained to a Samoan court of ill treatment. The court cleared Yachtsman Vanderbilt, found the stewards "prohibited immigrants," fined them -L-100 each. They could not pay, were jailed for six months.

Among rich U. S. families none is more secretive than the Hartfords, who control Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. A minimum of publicity ensued when onetime President John A. Hartford of A. & P. divorced his wife, married his wife's modiste, divorced her, remarried his first wife (TIME, April 23, 1928). John A. Hartford's brother's widow--Mrs. Edward V. Hartford--and her son George Huntington II got in the news last week. In Boston, a Miss Mildred King, pretty blonde, sued Mrs. Hartford for $100,000. Miss King said that she had been asked to woo George Huntington II, a Harvard sophomore, away from an unnamed Manhattan siren with whom he had become infatuated. In return, Miss King said that Mrs. Hartford had promised to make a settlement on her or adopt her. Miss King said she had fulfilled her part of the bargain. Mrs. Hartford had not. Mrs. Hartford made no public comment.

The Spectator, insurance magazine, made known the names of 391 U. S. citizens carrying at least $1,000,000 worth of life insurance. Top five: Pierre Samuel du Pont, gunpowder maker ($7,000,000) ; John C. Martin of Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc. ($6,540,000); William Fox, cinemagnate ($6,500,000); Herbert L. Dillon, stockbroker ($6,000,000); Marshall Field II, drygoodsman ($5,500,000).

About to lose his land near Bradenton, Fla. in default of back taxes, George O. Lea, State Legislator, deeded it to Mahatma Gandhi, President Hoover, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, Will Rogers, Clara Bow,

Warren K, Billings, imprisoned since he and Thomas Mooney were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade, announced that henceforth his defense activities would be independent of Mooney's. Complained he: "I have become a mere nonentity in the case."

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