At Cherbourg surrounded by French detectives, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh boarded the Aquitania, bound for the U. S. "on business" -- his first return since he and Mrs. Lindbergh came for two months in 1937. Said Chairman Morris Sheppard of the U. S. Senate Military Affairs Committee : "I think he could give us some valuable information."

To Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling him to graduate with his class in 1941.

Detained at Ellis Island was 25-year-old Thomas Bat'a, son and namesake of the late Czech boot tycoon (died 1932) and step-nephew of President Jan Bat'a. The trouble: Thomas Bat'a's Czecho-Slovakian passport, which proclaimed him as a citizen of a non-existent country. Later he was released on his recognizance, pending appeal.

Announced Washington Tailor George Tudor after fitting William Orville Douglas, new Supreme Court Justice, for his judicial robes: "Justice Douglas has a nice figure . . . he was easy."

Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended."

Lilly Doche, swank Manhattan milliner, defended the present preposterousness of women's hats: "These are anxious times and conditions are disturbed, so it is no wonder that women go out and buy gayer hats than usual. ... To be attractive women should have what the French call esprit both inside and on top of their heads."

Appointed to assist U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill in Manhattan was Raymond Ickes, 26, onetime CCC foreman and son of U. S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Mrs. Vincent Aston, chairman of the Fair's Advisory Committee on Women's Participation, returned from playing hooky in Egypt. Said she: "I am a week late, but I thought it would be silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford Motor Co. building were Henry Ford, 75, Son Edsel Bryant Ford, 45, and Grandson Henry Ford II, 22, a Yale junior. Keynoted Ford I: "Great things are ahead!"

Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and beauteous Crown Princess Ingrid, who are making a 34-day goodwill tour of the U. S. Same weekend, his "farewell tour" almost completed, appeared Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski.

*Not to be confused with Negro Boxer Henry Armstrong.

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