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

From a questionnaire submitted by the Children's Aid Society to 7,000 Manhattan urchins aged 7 to 21 it was learned that less than 20% had ever heard of Horatio Alger (Sink or Swim, Do and Dare, Frank and Fearless, From Canal Boy to President, Wait and Hope, Work and Win), whose centenary occurred last month. Only 14% had ever read one of his books, none owned a copy. The familiar Alger doctrine of ultimate riches for the honest, industrious, poor boy was accepted by youngsters between 7 and 1 1 . On their own experience older moppets vigorously doubted his thesis. To Russell Owen, able newsgatherer of the New York Times, Mrs. Grace H. Bell Fortescue gave her first formal interview since her arrest and indictment in Honolulu for the murder of Joseph Kaha-hawai, charged with attacking her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hedges Massie. Declared Mrs. Fortescue: "... I am glad it is all out in the open. Those days when my daughter's name was suppressed . . . were worse than these last few weeks. ... I have slept better since . . . the day of the murder than for a long time. . . . Now, of course, I realize we bungled dreadfully, although at the time I thought we were being careful." Seaman Albert O. Jones, U. S. N., held as accomplice of Lieut. Massie, proudly exhibited to Reporter Owen a fat scrapbook of news clippings about the case, pointed to a statement of his own that he was too drunk the day of the murder to remember what occurred.

In a fire which damaged the Eden Musee,-- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists.

Ill lay: Prime Minister James Ramsay

MacDonald, in a London nursing home, following an operation for glaucoma; Mayor James John Walker of Manhattan, of a bronchial cold and low blood pressure; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, in Lincoln, of injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder.

Soprano Rosa Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway.

--Successor to the more famed Eden Musee which ran for 30 years in Manhattan's West 2nd Street and was among the first cinema exhibitors (Bluebeard, in color). Most famed of all wax works, Madame Tussaud's in London, burned in 1925.

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