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

Reluctant to refuse when it was offered to him by President Roosevelt at the White House, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles Ben Ross smoked his first cigaret in 20 years.

So eager was impetuous Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to meet the S. S. Carinthia, inbound from Nassau, that he could not wait until the ship docked at Manhattan. Assisted by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, he arranged for a Coast Guard automobile to carry him to Floyd Bennett Field. There, swaddled in a heavy flying suit and parachute, he boarded a Coast Guard amphibian which shortly deposited him beside the harbor tug Manhattan in the lower bay off Quarantine. Taken to the Carinthia by the tug, he bounded blithely up the gangway, scowled blackly when he ran square into a bevy of newshawks. Backing away, his fists clenched, he snorted to photographers : "No pictures ! I'm warning you ! Don't do it!"

Getting a grip on himself, the President's third son presently calmed down, posed, remarked: "It's not you I try to dodge-- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again -- blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irenee du Pont.

When James William Ellsworth, father of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, died in 1925, the village of Hudson, Ohio, collected some $60,000 in taxes from his estate, spent it for a sewage disposal plant, fire equipment, street paving. The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the village to refund $34,505,77 to Son Lincoln because Hudson had overtaxed the Ellsworth estate. Having splurged the $60,000, Hudson's Mayor Carman unhappily revealed that the town had only $154.47 left to pay Explorer Ellsworth.

In Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name."

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who has already ruled on AAA, NRA, TVA, was baffled when a Louisiana attorney, defending his State's oil tax before the Supreme Court, persistently rattled off the phrase "B S and W."

Explained the lawyer: "Basic sediment and water deductions from crude oil."

In the Washington Star appeared the following: "Holmes, Oliver Wendell -- In sad remembrance of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, who passed to his reward one year ago today, March 6, 1935. Death is the gate to endless joy, but we dread to enter there. By his old messenger, Arthur A. Thomas."

Found tending the door of the new Supreme Court building, grizzled, 74-year-old Messenger Thomas, a Negro court servant for 35 years, explained: "Judge Holmes didn't have no kinfolk hereabouts, and I something." thought somebody ought to do something."

* Cracked Columnist Walter Winchell next day: "Nice way to talk about your mother!"

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