"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Last fortnight's obituaries of H. P. Re of Coldwater, Mich, said he had "the shortest name in the country." Immediately protests were made by Ed Py of Newcastle, Ind., Fin Ax of Indianapolis, J. Ur of Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory.

John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample Ryan verses:

DEDICATION TO MY WIFE To the girl I love To the girl I hate To the girl I fight with When tired of fate. . . .

THE MEADOW OF DREAMS No Man's Land lies before me, That once was a Meadow Where fairies foregathered And Elfs made their play; 'Tis the saddest, most desolate Hell of a Meadow From Dante's Inferno, Since Huns had their way. . . .

Said Henry Ford: "People are doing a lot of thinking today. They've got to get used to a new era. We are in a different era and we have got to face it."

Harry Richman (Reichman), Manhattan nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames which burned him severely, seized Miss Walsh, jumped overboard. Miss Biddle, who was pushed with Miss Glad through the front hatch by Richman's chauffeur, was burned badly about the legs and ankles. As a commandeered car rushed Miss Walsh to the hospital, she wailed: "I don't care where I'm burned so long as it's not my face! My face is my living!" Her face and front were so badly burned she later died.

Fire destroyed the luxurious 23-room Manhattan apartment of President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. It was closed for the summer while Mr. Kelley & family were in Butte, Mont. Strange sulphurous fumes overcame seven firemen. Estimated loss: $200,000.

Near Lawrenceburg, Tenn. an automobile containing Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton skidded, crashed into a telephone pole. The Governor's scalp was lacerated, he bled freely.

Playwright Robert Cedric Sherriff, 35, (Journey's End) announced his intention of matriculating as an undergraduate at Oxford University next autumn. Reason : "Then if I fizzle out as a writer, I shall be qualified to turn my hand to something else--possibly schoolmastering."

Mme Chinda de Mejia Colindres, wife of the Honduran president, being in need of a surgical operation which she thought could best be performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital, flew from Tegucigalpa to the U. S., held a Washington Hotel reception, proceeded to Baltimore in a White House motor car provided by President Hoover.

To the Vermont Historical Society Novelist Sinclair Lewis sent his Nobel Prize for Literature medal "as a permanent loan." Said he: "I hope the gift may serve to indicate my affection for this, my adopted State."

Sir John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went on his way.

It would be possible, said Dr. Clarence Cook Little, 1925-29 president of the University of Michigan, since 1929 student of mouse heredity at Bar Harbor, Me., "to pick the most reactive mice or chickens or dogs by the method we use today to pick our college students and by which we retain them. . . . Co-education is not safe at the present time. . . . Most of the problems of our American students arise from unwise or stupid use of their leisure time."

King Prajadhipok and Queen Ram-baibarni of Siam took a 7-hr, cruise in the dirigible Los Angeles over New York City, Long Island and the New Jersey coast, napped a while in the commander's cabin. In the party were a Siamese lady-in-waiting and Mrs. William B. Sayles, wife of a Brooklyn Navy Yard captain. The ladies were the first ever to ride in the Los Angeles. Next day the Siamese court left the U. S. for Canada.

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