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

Dirk von Punessen, 24, son of Holland's Baron Henri von Duesseldorf Punessen, titled "King Scout" six years ago when he organized the Boy Scout troops of Europe, attended a Scout meeting in Milwaukee. Attempting to force a bullet into a pistol, he braced the muzzle against his stomach and pushed the cartridge base against a projection on the wall. The cartridge exploded, critically wounding King Scout Punessen.

At a Baltimore relief ball Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sang "Cuban Love Song" from his latest cinema, got tremendous publicity when six women fainted. One pushed her way through the mob, tremblingly touched his cheek, swooned at his feet. "Gee whiz!" said Baritone Tibbett, "that's too bad."

Winston Churchill, plump British statesman, visiting Manhattan on a lecture tour, tried to cross Fifth Avenue against traffic lights, was bowled over by an automobile. Injuries: sprained shoulder, abrasions of forehead & nose.

On the fourth day of an undergraduates' beard-growing contest President George Barton Cutten of Colgate University compelled his son William Francis to withdraw.

Ill lay: Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder.

Colyumnist June Provines of the Chicago Daily News retailed an anecdote illustrating how Britain's royal family regards the towering coiffures and hats of Queen Mary: Returning from the Orient, Prince Henry, third son of Their Majesties, took an orchestra and a gay group of passengers to the ship's nursery for dancing. Discovering a set of scales with height-measuring attachment, H. R. H. proceeded to weigh and measure each & every guest. When a guest with a high pompadour stepped up, Prince Henry pressed his hair down, remarked: "I have to pat you down like papa does mamma sometimes."

Refuting a claim of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission that George Washington invented ice cream, Professor May Belle Van Arsdale of Columbia University asserted that Marco Polo brought home recipes for ice cream and water ices from Japan and China.

John Zittenfeld, father of the Zitten-feld Twins, 17, who tried to swim the English Channel two years ago, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for 15 months for obtaining money on forged discount bills. He said that most of the money, more than $58,000, had been used in educating his daughters, financing their swims.

To Manhattan's marriage license bureau went large, ruddy William Angus Drogo Montagu, 55, ninth Duke of Manchester, and Miss Kathleen Dawes, 34, daughter of a London theatrical manager. Both had arrived from England few days before, preceded by news that the divorce decree of the Duchess of Manchester, the former Helena Zimmerman, daughter of the late Cincinnati Brewer Eugene Zimmerman, had just been made final. Mayor James John Walker waited at City Hall to marry them. But because the Duke had no copy of the final decree, and because New York law forbids the marriage of an adulterous divorce defendant within three years, the couple went away without a license. They announced they would go to Havana.

William Barry Wood Jr., Harvard football captain and quarterback, Phi Beta Kappa, president of the student council, was elected by the senior class to its most honored office, first marshal.

Mrs, Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia socialite, left for Nenana, Alaska, there to be joined by a guide named Mike Cooney for six months exploration of the Far North.

Chief Chetan Kinyan (Flyer Frank Monroe Hawks) of the Sioux tribe broadcast an appeal from tribesmen in South Dakota for clothing and blankets with which to face the winter.

Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world.

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