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

Week after the Girl Scouts of America re-elected President Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, Boys' Club Federation of America elected Herbert Hoover Board Chairman.

After running into and knocking down Mrs. Mary M. O'Leary in Boston in March 1934, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was fined $20 for driving an automobile unregistered in Massachusetts, named defendant by her in $30,000 damage suits which he last week settled for $1.

Deserting his family's potent American Smelting & Refining Co.. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., 25-year-old nephew of one-time Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, closed up his Salt Lake City house, went to Hollywood, took a job as call boy for Selznick International Pictures, Inc.

At liberty until the baseball season opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news hawks as he boarded the Queen Mary, "Tarzan" Weissmuller tartly observed: "I suppose they'll be making me a ball player next."

To pay $51,000 income taxes, whose evasion sent Public Enemy Al Capone to jail for eleven years in 1931, plus accrued interest at 12%, the Federal Government put up for sale Capone's gaudy island estate off Miami Beach, Fla. In Moab, Utah, his old armored limousine, on tour as a crime exhibit, was junked after a wreck. To University of Chicago students Lawyer Clarence Darrow observed: ''I think Al Capone got a terribly wrong deal ... an outrageous deal."

For four days hard-looking Film Director Wesley Ruggles, brother of Cinemactor Charles Ruggles, vainly searched Chicago for a "mug," concluded: "I prowled the stockyards . . . paced through Cicero where some of the gangland mugs used to live, but I couldn't find a single mug that looked like a mug."

Rolling along an Alabama highway, Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy")

Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with a mad bee."

Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson drove into Hillsboro, Ill. in a 1933 automobile for his first visit to his boyhood home in ten years. Announcing he might soon make a motion picture in Hollywood ("I know everyone there"), he chatted with old friends, bestowed his autograph, took to bed "to catch up on his sleep." Said a Hillsboro hotelman: "We have no criticism of Harry. In fact we glory in his spunk."

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