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

Recovering from an eye operation, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald had a tooth pulled.

In a damage case in a San Francisco court Henry W. Moltke, taxicab driver, took the stand. In jest the judge asked if the witness were kin to the late great Prussian general, Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke. Replied the witness: "I am his grandson, your Honor. . . . Better a live taxicab driver than a dead general."

In an airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that nothing deserves to be worshipped but Allah, Allah . . . that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, Allah."

Red-fezzed President Khalid Sheldrake of the Western Islamic Association touched her hand, said: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace his religion, chose the air for the ceremony "because I wished it to be performed on no earthly territory."

Recently at Capetown, South Africa, where he has been taking a vacation, George Bernard Shaw took tests for an automobile driver's license. He asked the examiner: "How long have you driven?" "Thirty years." Observed Shaw: "Then you soon will drive as well as I." Last week Driver Shaw drove a rented automobile into a ditch, jolting himself severely and injuring his wife's wrist. Meanwhile he heard from London that his ten-year-old fight to have a garbage dump removed from the vicinity of his Hertfordshire home had finally succeeded.

President John Grier Hibben of

Princeton University telephoned to Herbert ("Fritz") Crisler, athletic director at the University of Minnesota, to offer him the job of coaching Princeton's football teams. "I'll be glad to accept," said Director Crisler to President Hibben, "if you'll put it in writing."

In Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin, streets were renamed for George Washington. In Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto cherry trees were planted in his honor. At Paris, Naples and Sofia there were public receptions. President von Hindenburg of Germany felicitated President Hoover. Throughout the U. S. there was much patriotic ado. Reason: the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Year ago William Robert Crissey 2nd, 26, quit his job in a Philadelphia brokerage to carry out a $2,000 wager that he could, within a year, dine with Herbert Hoover, golf with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales.

*A century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew.

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