Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France.

Chilean Heavyweight Arturo Godoy drew order number 3981 in the draft, fumed: "I want to fight . . . Hitler, Mussolini or Joe Louis, any way, any time." Disgusted at being called "Liz" for short, Elizabeth Emerson, 16, of Summit, N. J., daughter of Sumner B. Emerson, vice president of Morgan Stanley & Co.

(J. P. Morgan's underwriting offshoot), went to court to change her name to Charlotte Elizabeth--at Elizabeth, N. J.

"Terribly bored" by his detainment at a Seville hotel, Rumania's ex-King Carol II ordered up a thousand sheets of foolscap, commenced to pencil his memoirs.

A seasoned broadcaster himself, Pope Pius XII received Rome's radio announcers, admonished them sagely and piously: "You have a powerful voice which reaches the four corners of the world. Let us hope that voice will always speak words of truth, enlightenment and love." Refereeing his first labor fight (by court appointment as an arbitrator), Jack Dempsey, ex-heavyweight champion and Manhattan restaurateur, gave 27 office workers a 10% pay raise, a 40-hour week, time-and-a-half overtime, a modified closed shop.

Attending a performance at San Francisco's Opera House, portly, dignified Russian-American Basso Alexander Kipnis remained seated long after others had left. Not until mechanics took his chair apart, freeing his coattails, did Basso Kipnis depart.

Into Los Angeles' Federal Building to obtain her first papers for U. S. citizenship, like a mouse crept Greta Lovisa Garbo.

For sponsoring a Finnish convict's libelous book about his adventures in a Swedish prison, Sweden's Supreme Court sent Mme. Elsa Kleen Moller, whose husband is Minister of Social Affairs and a potent Social Democratic Partisan, to jail for two months, clapped on a 6,500-krona fine.

At Keuka College, N. Y., his widow received the millionth copy of General Henry Martyn Robert's parliamentary classic, Rules of Order.

Handsome, snow-haired Mrs. Harry Houdini pshawed at suggestions she might communicate with her late, great magician husband. "Plenty of other women say they have heard from him but I have not. And that," explained she, "does not sound like Houdini."

Back in Detroit for a long weekend holiday, National Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen and his wife called in 29 friends to celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary, the 21st birthday of youngest daughter Martha ("Girlie") Knudsen.

Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national.

To make poisonous snakes safe to handle, Dr. Raymond L Ditmars, curator of mammals and reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, put them in refrigerators, chilled them into docility.

Tribute to quip-lipped Columnist Walter Winchell's caterwauling against the fifth column came from the Mount Airy, N. C. Times: "We propose an honor to this American--who fears no man, party, or power: let 'God Bless America' be changed to read, 'God Bless America and Give Us More Walter Winchells.' " At his Finnish home, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim,

73, hero of his country's three-and-a-half-month fight with Russia, lay seriously ill of stomach ulcers.

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