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

At a party in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. to celebrate her 73rd birthday, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, told newsmen: "I do not know much about the Manchurian situation, but from what I gather there is some mysterious cause for it all that we Occidentals cannot understand. . . . Incidentally, somebody has to spank Japan and China for the way they have been acting. I wonder how that will be done?''

The Senate Committee investigating foreign loans heard that Juan Leguia, fat son of ousted President Leguia of Peru. was paid a $415,000 commission by J. & W. Seligman & Co. for helping promote $100,000,000 worth of bond issues to his country. (All of Peru's bonds are now in default.) According to the testimony young Leguia "lived at the rate of at least $250,000 or $300,000 a year for several years."

Bristle-whiskered U. S. Senator James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis defined "moratorium'' by its Latin roots thus: mora from " 'mors' meaning death; 'torium' from 'taurus,' a bull, or the 'dead bull.' "

More than 1,500 persons stood in line to see Marion Roberts (Strasmick), chorus girl consort of the late Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in a song-&-dance act at the Academy of Music, cheap movie & vaudeville theatre on Manhattan's lower East Side. The gangster's widow, plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, announced that she, too, would appear in vaudeville, in a playlet designed to '"vindicate" her husband. Said she: ''He wouldn't have known how to be a gangster."

To 3,000 men of the Holy Name Society in Boston. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, said: "I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.' No true American man would practice this base art. Of course they aren't men. ... If you will listen closely [to crooners' songs] you will discern the basest appeal to sex emotion in the young."

The name of Helen Lee Eames, step-daughter of Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, was widely publicized last year at the time of her lavish debut in Washington (TIME. Jan. 5, 1931). The N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency sent out publicity stating that Miss Doherty had conceived and executed the idea of decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace Eames Doherty, for $500.000 charging that she had invented the designs, that Mrs. Doherty had passed them off as her daughter's work.

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