Monday, Oct. 05, 1931

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

Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, chief of the city's "Secret Six" (antigang organization), told students & faculty of Northwestern University: "I Could have any man I designated killed for $200 or $300. I could have President Scott [Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern] put on the spot but it would probably cost a few hundred dol lars extra."

To President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, for his exemplary stock farm at Angora, from Manhattan sailed six U. S. pedigreed cows, two bulls, four heifers, gifts from President Wilfred Washington Fry of N. W. Ayer & Co. Hoover of (advertising), Hoover President Vacuum Herbert Cleaner W. Co., Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, et al.

A "traveling salesman'' under the name Charles Dawson visited friends in Des Homes, played golf, danced at a club, departed for Washington, was later declared to be Charles, Count of Flanders, second son of Albert, King of the Belgians.

For Collier's Weekly James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired pugilist, wrote about his spring visit to Russia. Excerpt: "One seemed to lose one's iden tity the moment the Russian border was crossed. You began to feel the meaning of: Oh, to be lord of one's self, unencumbered with a name!"

Astute Manhattan Attorneys Samuel Untermyer and Arthur Garfield Hays and astute Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using the waiver. Predictable Miss minimum fee of the three lawyers if Miss Stansbury collects $1,000,000 Artist James Montgomery Flagg was

revealed as the inventor of the visored beret with which New York's Mayor James John Walker startled the Riviera last month (TIME, Sept. 7).

Cinemactress Marion Davies had a party at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel to celebrate her return from Europe. William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner called it "the opening of Hollywood's fall and winter social season." spread pictures and lists of Marion Davies & guests over many columns. No other Los Angeles newspaper reported the event.

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