"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Newton Diehl Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that he would not dally with the "law reports of that learned man, William Shakespeare, especially the case of the Daughters v. King Lear." Federal Judge Smith Hickenlooper listened, pondered.

Generals James G. Harbord & John J. Carty (president of the Radio Corporation of America and vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., respectively), last week recommended communication by a universal language, for the sake of world peace and world efficiency. General Harbord showed that embarrassment and hesitancy between individuals of different nationalities would be reduced. General Carty said that 750,000 of the total world population 1,748,000,000 now knows and uses Esperanto.*

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. since January have been in Liberia (Africa) inspecting the two 50,000 acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president's son.

Paul Poiret, famed Parisian couturier, declared last week that he will transfer his business domicile from Paris to Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew.

Charles E. Brickley (famed Harvard football captain, fullback and dropkicker of 1914) was sentenced to 15 months in jail for running a bucketshop (TIME, March 12). The judge, the prosecuting attorney, the assistant court clerk and Mr. Brickley's counsel were all Harvard men. Said Mr. Brickley to the judge: "I want to thank you for the fairness and consideration shown me during my trial. I am very sorry that anyone lost money through my trading in the stock market, and if the wheel of fortune ever turns my way again I hope to be able to pay back all my obligations."

The late Amy Lowell, poetess, left an estate of $843,555 when she died on May 12, 1925. Last week it became known that she had willed $627,000 to Harvard University, of which her brother, A. Lawrence Lowell, is president.

Henry Ford, who has long possessed an Indian squaw made of wood, sought to buy a male wooden Indian to be her companion. He purchased for $100 from one Albinus Elchert, farmer, an old cigar store savage called variously "Seneca John," or "The Tiffin Tecumseh." This wooden Indian is a noted member of his vanishing race; he was made by Arnold Ruef, Tiffin, Ohio, woodcarver, a half century ago. In Cleveland, recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize of $50. Now Seneca John will be taken to Dearborn, Mich., and given a permanent place in Henry Ford's museum of U. S. antiques.

George Edgar Vincent (president of the Rockefeller Foundation) was the chief speaker at the fifth birthday dinner of the American Laboratory Theatre in Manhattan. Housed a year ago in a beer garden, the A. L. T. now uses a remodelled brewery, where the dinner was served last week and a $300,000 endowment sought.

Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico and onetime Morgan partner, was jarred and jiggled, last week, in the drawing room of the U. S. Embassy by a series of earth tremors which continued for 28 minutes, but did not terminate a conversation which he was carrying on with Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institute. Though the Embassy suffered no shattering damage a large and drafty crack opened in the wall of the Ambassador's bedroom.

Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, retired tobaccoman, has not been out of his house at No. 1076 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME, Dec. 21, 1925).

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (student, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.) was elected vice-president of the sophomore class at Dartmouth College. Milton C. Emerick was elected president.

Rin Tin Tin (famed cinemadog) was at home in Los Angeles, asleep. Burglars came, ransacked, walked off with a silver coffee urn, spoons, knives, forks. Rin Tin Tin did not awake, neither did his master, Lieut. Lee Duncan.

*Artificial language based on 2,642 roots borrowed from the Romance, Germanic & Slavonic dictionaries. Its author: Dr. L. Zamenhof.