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

Three months ago in Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley: $60,000.

In Manhattan Raymond Moley was

appointed receiver of the Hotel St. Regis in a foreclosure suit brought by his good friend, Vincent Astor.

King Prajadhipok of Siam bedded himself in a private London clinic where Sir Stewart Duke-Eldor probed from his left eye a reformation of the cataract which the King had removed in Manhattan three years ago (TIME, May 18, 1931). King Prajadhipok will sail for the U. S. Sept. 8, to undergo a cataractomy on his right eye.

"There are in the world today four or five powder magazines and lots of people playing around with matches," said Walter Duranty to Manhattan Republicans. "Japan and Germany are the two most dangerous nations in the world. If you will examine their imports--nickel, nitrate, and other things used in munitions --you will see what I mean. I can't see how an explosion can long be postponed."

On his estate near Doom, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern told Newshawk Randolph Churchill, 22-year-old son of British Statesman Winston Churchill: "Chancellor Hitler has done a marvelous work in putting a new life and soul into the German nation. . . . The German people turned me out and if they want me back they will have to come and fetch me.".

After offering Harvard University $1,000 for a scholarship, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of Adolf Hitler, sailed from Germany to attend the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard. In his baggage were said to be busts of German Composer von Gluck, German Philosopher Schopenhauer, German President von Hindenburg.

Of cinema and vaudeville offers made to his kidnap-recovered daughter, June Robles, Fernando Robles said: "I plan to accept one of the offers and take $1,500 of the proceeds and set it aside as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers."

Sister Jansci ("Jenny") Dolly was fined $750.000 and given a suspended three-day jail sentence in Paris for evading a luxury tax of $33,000 on a 51-carat diamond costing $185,000. Said she: "I cannot pay even $1,000 of it."

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