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

Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, departing for six weeks in Hawaii, bade farewell to newshawks as follows: "All I can say is I am leaving my house in good order. My desk is cleared. ... Be as patient as I have been."

Dinner guests at the Chicago home of Hill Blackett, Public Relations Director for the Republican National Committee during the 1936 campaign, were Alfred Mossman Landon and Colonel Frank Knox. Said Mr. Landon, "We hardly had a chance to get acquainted during the campaign. We were too busy."

In Paris, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. lunched with French Vice-Premier Leon Blum, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos.

On the 20th anniversary of the day he became the first U. S. civilian to be drafted into the World War, Dr. Joseph Edward Silliman Jr., 4 2-year-old Manhattan dentist, reminisced: "We were called and taken out to Camp Upton, at Yaphank.

What a place! I'll never forget it. ... They drilled us and trained us. We loved it. We felt we were really fighting for something. . . ."

For any clue or information which would "definitely clear up" the mid-Pacific disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred J. Noonan (TIME. July 12 et seq.), her husband George Palmer Putnam posted a reward with the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau. Amount: $2,000.

For her sixth birthday, Amy Morrissey

of Medford, Mass, received six Oriental gold and spun-glass bracelets, mailed to her from Bombay, India, by her aunt Amelia Earhart.

Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., methodical young mountain climber of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America.

In his Washington, D. C., laboratory Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service allowed himself to be bitten by a baby California tick, promptly contracted relapsing fever, a highly dangerous disease accompanied by high temperatures, aching joints. Dr. Francis had previously infected himself with tularemia ("rabbit fevers''), undulant (malta) fever. Rocky Mountain spotted fever; advanced medical knowledge of each malady. Last week Dr. Francis was recovering again after having proved that relapsing fever is carried by California ticks, that female ticks infect their progeny before birth.

Dennis Stoll, U. S.-hating young British composer, received permission from Queen Elizabeth to dedicate to Princess Margaret Rose a suite for strings and harp. The four movements are entitled: To Her Hands in Prayer, To Her Feet in Dance, To Her Heart in Beauty, To Her Infinite Variety.

The Soviet-to-California-via-the-North-Pole flights of the Russians "absolutely confirm" the theory that the earth is flat, said eccentric Wilbur Glen Voliva, Zion City, Ill. clergyman. He was unprepared to concede that they could have flown over the South Pole had they wished. "There is no South Pole," said Wilbur Glen Voliva.

Ill lay: Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans.

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