"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince Nicholas had come down with scarlet fever. At "Barley Thorpe," Oakham, Rutland-shire, England the sporting and highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen, "Can't you see I'm LONSDALE!", the loud Peer boasted: "I shall be glad to give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected to fill the French Chamber seat of Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise of the late Vicar General John Joseph Dunn of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York that he would leave her one-third of his estate, a Mrs.

Mary F. Stanard sued his executor, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, for $66,666. Near Pontoise, France, ghouls tunneled into the tomb of munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharos, pried open the mahogany casket of his wife, supposedly in search of jewels falsely reported to have been buried with her corpse.

General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper.

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