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

From Three Rivers, Mich., Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, successfully sent a letter to Pumper Stanley Jones, advertising copywriter for Gimbel Brothers department store in Manhattan, addressed thus: Mr. Stanley Catmeat Jones, Rags and metal, hides and bones, You can find him in at Gimbel's Writing ads for silver thimbles, If he don't get this it's a pity Way down there in New York City.

Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused.

Chosen "Queen of His Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes."

In its Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly, 19.

One Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, Middlesex. England, claimed that he was the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff (Basileios Zacharias), munitions tycoon, Europe's richest, most mysterious man. Hyman Barnett Zaharoff said he was born of a secret marriage between Sir Basil and a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski. which was dissolved when he was seven.

On his way to California, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Ogden to talk with Utah's former Senator Reed Smoot told reporters: "I have discovered a new method of enjoying life. To those who seek relaxation and to those who want to know how to go about enjoying the best in life. I recommend that they take an automobile out on the highway. Never mind about where you are going. Just go. If you want to turn down this byway, do it. If you want to drive farther and turn down another side road, do that. It's delightful."

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