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

In her biography of Owen D. Young (see p. 51), Authoress Ida Minerva Tarbell relates how he arranged a meeting of John Pierpont Morgan and Belgian Banker Emile Francqui during the Young Plan conferences. Next day Banker Young asked the Belgian how the meeting went. Said M. Francqui: "Fine, Owen Young. I say wow-wow to Mr. Morgan, Mr. Morgan say wow-wow to me, and we go home."

Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted.

Two famed New York underworldlings, Owen ("Owney") Madden and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, were discovered to be taking flying lessons, independently of each other, at New York airports. Ex-Convict Madden, who says he is in the "laundry business," has ordered an elaborately equipped biplane from his instructor, Major Thomas Lanphier, U. S. A. retired, partner of Col. Lindbergh in Bird Aircraft Co. Rumrunner Higgins. who calls himself a "lobster fisherman," is said to own an Ireland amphibian. When they arrive at Roosevelt Field for lessons, their first questions are: "Madden been here today?", "Higgins around?".

Authorities of Brockton, Quincy and Lowell, Mass, refused entry to Walter L. Main's circus unless it eliminated from its program a sideshow in which Negro William Allen told how he discovered the body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Circusman Main withdrew Negro Allen following his New Bedford debut, which aroused slight interest.

Attired in rough garb Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the Philippines, stopped at a farm hut near the tip of Luzon, solicitously asked the native farmwife how her hens were laying. The woman replied they were not laying at all, offered the Governor a coin worth 10-c- so that he might buy eggs in the village.

Salvatore ("Salvy") Spitale, engaged by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh as an underworld go-between during the kidnap negotiations, was arrested in a Manhattan speakeasy for carrying a loaded pistol, discharged next day because he had a permit from a rural county.

At Canberra, Australia, where he was giving joy-hops at $3, Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith learned that he had been knighted by George V. Currently earning his Jiving as a barnstormer, Sir Charles is believed to be in line for the post of Controller of Civil Aviatioa of Australia.

Frank Taberski, onetime world pocket billiard champion, nicknamed "Iron Man" for his coolness in match play, found his Schenectady billiard parlor on fire, fainted.

Returning from a business trip Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, received a kiss of welcome from his daughter Frances Ratcliffe, 6, who had just recovered from an attack of mumps. Soon President Hutchins, sore-jawed, sent for a physician, was quarantined for two weeks.

Towering several inches above him, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam danced with Edward of Wales at the Derby Ball in Grosvenor House, London. After playing "Home" and "Day by Day," the orchestra burst into "Tiger Rag," a fast foxtrot, then stopped. Leaving the floor H. R. H. was heard to grumble: "We need more like that." Obediently the orchestra struck up again "Tiger Rag" and H. R. H. speedily led Mrs. Putnam back to the floor for another dance. When finally an announcer asked that the guests leave the ballroom for supper, H. R. H. remarked to his partner: "That man is horrible, isn't he?"

Grover Jr., II, son of Manhattan's one-time Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, fell from his bicycle, gashed his neck on a picket fence.

Burglars entered the Paris home of James Hazen Hyde, onetime vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, overlooked a safe and an art collection, ate some asparagus.

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