"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

In the Chicago Tribune appeared the following proclamation, typewritten over the signature of Mayor Anton J, Cermak:

"I earnestly request all citizens who may have placed their money in safety deposit vaults, as well as owners of real and personal property who will soon be paying taxes, to assist their City by purchasing 1930 Tax Anticipation Warrants--a guilt-edged security paying 6% interest."

Into a women's rummage sale in Washington curiously wandered Congressman Vincent Carter of Wyoming. Respectfully, he put down his hat while he walked around. He returned to find his hat had been sold for the benefit of a hospital in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Baron Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, had a look at Sculptor Jacob Epstein's Genesis, grotesque figure of primitive pregnancy. Wrote he to his newspaper: "I regret to say that, in my opinion, Epstein is almost certainly guilty of an error in diagnosis. The lady, I think, is not pregnant. . . . The abdominal tumor in position and in salience is not that of pregnancy. . . . The mammary condition is that of an adipose virgin and not of a primiparous woman whose delivery is drawing near. . . . On the available evidence ... I believe that the hopes of her admirers will be disappointed, and that no new birth is about to reward her for her obvious suffering. I can almost fancy that her expression indicates that she herself is beginning to realize this."

In Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls.

Ill lay: Queen Mary, in Sandringham, of a cold; Edward of Wales, in York House, London, of a chill suspected of indicating malaria; Editor Charles H, Dennis of the Chicago Daily News, in Chicago, of overwork; Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Manhattan, following an operation for acute mastoiditis; Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank, at Warin, German, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; John Work Garrett, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, at his Baltimore home, with a broken foot suffered when he tripped on a rug; Lieut.-Commander George Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole and transatlantic nights, in Manhattan, of alcoholism and grave injuries suffered when he stepped in the path of a taxicab; Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, following an operation on her foot; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Chicago, of bronchitis; Film Actress Ann Harding, in Jacksonville, Fla., of a dislocated shoulder caused she knew not how.

Manhattan Realestatesman Robert Walton Goelet gave a shoot at Chateau Sandrincourt, near Paris, for the Duke of Toledo (Alfonso of Spain).

For loss of memory suffered when the steel-soled slipper of a girl dancer in the Folies-Bergere flew off and struck him on the forehead, John G. Hopper, explorer, onetime mining partner of Herbert Clark Hoover in Mexico, collected $6,600. He had sued for $12,000, settled out of court.

The Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay -L-16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years ago.

Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley bought 1,200-acre Belmont Plantations near Leesburg, Va., recently sold under foreclosure by Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post; denied a report that he had loaned $100,000 to Publisher McLean.

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