"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: The Swedish Press boomed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In East Prussia, Reichsfuehrer Hitler, Field Marshal von Mackensen and many another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspraesident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed.

An airplane returning from London to Portland with Admiral Sir Roger Roland Backhouse, Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet (see p. 4) plumped down on Portland Harbor, capsized in the midst of the fleet. A boat from the Nelson picked Sir Roger out of the water.

Residents of Berwyn Heights, Md., neighbors of Minnesota's Senator Thomas David Schall, have started recently at the sight of the blind Senator trotting about his farm on horseback. No novice, Senator Schall in his youth was a constant rider. One day in 1907 he leaned over a cigar lighter which flared up in his eyes, blinded him, ended his riding. Six weeks ago. still totally blind, he mounted his first horse in 28 years, found he could ride without difficulty. Scorning help, the strongwilled, strong-tongued Senator allowed companions only to call "To the right" or "To the left" at sharp turns. Fortnight ago he began riding daily at / a. m. with his wife or daughter Padgett. Last week he swapped his first horse for a jumper named Rascal, cantered down a field, took his first jump.

In the will of one Mrs. Hansi Glogau, filed in White Plains, N. Y., newshawks spied the following passages: "I have had various operations on my head which Dr. Harvey Gushing, now of New Haven, Conn., most skillfully and generously performed; I believe that a study of my head after my death may serve the advancement of science, and I therefore direct that it be severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland.

Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face, the jury retired briefly, awarded her $90,000.

Syndicating an account of her dalliance with Actor John Barrymore, Elaine Barrie gushed: "We idled and idylled away that week of pure companionship in that dear hospital room. . . . Let other lovers praise the rose and the violet. The perfume which penetrates to my heart is that of a hospital corridor, and to the day I die I shall sniffle a bit whenever I sniff iodoform."

"My Insurance Man" was the title of a fond article once written by Will Rogers. Client Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period of seven years he had used equally simple methods to bilk W. C. Fields, Mrs. James J. Walker (Betty Compton), Vivienne Segal and others of $300.000, relying on his careless clients not to notice. Next day in court Prisoner Kemp dazedly set the figure at about $50,000, mumbled: "I'm sorry to have caused Mrs. Rogers any trouble."

Libertarian John William Davis, at the Founder's Day exercises of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: "A mystical faith, similar to that of uncivilized mankind for their idols, is springing up around us. a faith by which we are called upon to submit all our problems to a being called the Government. . . . There have been people who lived rent free. Their economic status was perfectly secure. But they lived where other men told them to live and they worked where other men told them to work. They had security. They were the slaves of the South before the Civil War."

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