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

In Fishkill, N. Y. last month Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk."

Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. ("Jimmie") Allred, whose campaign promise of "no more pardon peddling" has been faithfully kept, nervously told of his latest nightmare: "I dreamed I was one of the condemned men and called for a secretary to prepare a proclamation commuting my sentence. But there was a question of whether I could sign it. Perhaps, I dreamed, the Lieutenant Governor in such a case would have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes. Guards started carrying me into the little green room. It was then that I awoke in a cold sweat."

Setting his square jaw, Governor Allred thereupon refused two more appeals from convicted murderers.

On the theory that the U. S. screen needs more pictures dealing with home life, homespun Producer Carl Laemmle Sr. gave homespun Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest a long-term contract with Universal Pictures Corp. On the basis of a single screen test, "Uncle Carl" bubbled: "I look upon Mr. Guest as one of the great film stars of tomorrow. He is a leader in the field of modern American wit, vision and understanding. He knows American minds, hearts and homes. . . ."

With equal gusto, Producer Laemmle's pressagents added: 'Guest has been a newspaper writer nearly 40 years. He has never quit a job or been discharged in his life. He has been connected with the Detroit Free Press ever since he began writing. His writings appear daily in 200 leading newspapers. His weekly radio broadcasts have proved so popular that within the period of two years he has risen from 48th to ninth among the nation's air favorites. His unique Universal contract provides that he will never be cast in anything but a straight role and that his dialog will be of his own writing."

Universal expected to feature Cinemactor Guest in a picture suggested by his most famed verse, "Home":

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home,

A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have t' roam. . . .

Back from a 9,000 mile automobile trip taken to show his grandson the country, old (77), shaggy-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, canny president of Delaware & Hudson, reported Iowa corn and wheat "beautiful," U. S. businessmen "anti-Administration," U. S. railroads burdened with 90,000 miles of track which ought to be torn up. Said Railroader Loree, who thinks all passenger traffic a nuisance: "I do not feel discouraged about the railroad business. . . . The short-haul business has never paid us. Why should we fuss about it?"

In Ireland New York's onetime Mayor James John Walker heard that the U. S. Department of Justice had decided not to indict him for income tax evasion, talked of coming home.

In Brighton, England Lady Watson, widow of famed British Poet Sir William Watson (TIME, Aug. 26), frequently mentioned in his lifetime as a possible Poet Laureate of Britain, registered at an employment agency seeking work as a secretary or domestic servant.

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