Mouthpieces

Al Capone was served with papers in a $119,367 suit against him for unpaid taxes on illegal beer vintages of the '20s. To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good."

Dr. James Edward West, the Boy Scouts' chief executive, wished the Girl Scouts would get another name. "Boys like to feel they are men when they become Boy Scouts," he said. "They don't notice there are Girl Scouts until they get around 15 years old, but when they do notice it they usually don't like it."

Marlene Dietrich met Husband Rudolf Sieber in Manhattan for the first time in nearly two years, embraced and re-embraced him for cameramen. In explanation of the longtime separation, she offered: "We've both been too busy. Haven't had time."

Tangles

Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms.

Contractor Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., ex-New Deal favorite, appeared in Atlanta with a black eye. To curious friends he handed a printed card: "... I was helping an old crippled lady . . . when her crutch slipped . . . and hit me in the eye. If you don't believe this, ask Evie [his wife], she doesn't either."

Juniors

Cadet James Harold Doolittle Jr. graduated from Kelly Field's advanced flying school, got his "wings" from his famed speed-pilot father.

Charles Edward Scripps, 21, who gets a one-third interest in the Scripps-Howard Newspapers in 1945, started as a reporter on the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press.

Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza's daughter Lillian, Apple Blossom Queen of Virginia in 1940, gets a new title Nov. 14: Queen of the Nicaraguan Army.

Wordly Goods

Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit) was fined $800 and costs of $80 in London for not offering $57,847 in U.S. assets to the British Government. Like George Arliss (TIME, Oct. 6), he pleaded ignorance, said living in the U.S. for six and a half months was unpractical on the $40 allowed him.

William Kissam Vanderbilt gave his $3,000,000 yacht, the Alva (named for his mother), to the U.S. Navy. Alva has a ventilating system that changes the air every four minutes.

Baron Edouard de Rothschild's racing stables, seized by the Government when he fled to the U.S., were auctioned in Paris, brought $150,000.

The late Otto H. Kahn estate at Woodbury, L.I. went begging at a county sale for back taxes of $9,842. New York City's street cleaners had the estate in 1939, lost it through a zoning law; Briarcliff Junior College planned to move in this fall, changed its mind. Last week no buyers appeared.

Writer John Collier (His Monkey Wife) was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay Actress Shirley Palmer Collier $150-a-week temporary alimony pending trial of her divorce suit.

Ex-Cinemactor Ramon Navarro, who retired in 1935 with $500,000, spent a night in a Hollywood jail when he couldn't raise $150 bail. Next morning when he pleaded guilty to drunken driving his lawyer paid his $50 fine, denied Navarro was busted.

Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy.

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