'Names make news." Last week the {allowing names made the following news: Eugene Robert Black, governor oft the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who looks like Andy Gump, prepared to read an address to the Investment Bankers Association of America in th convention at New Orleans on "Investment Possibilities in the South." Instead he made a stirring extemporaneous speech. Excerpts: "We have been living in an automobile, a Frigidaire, a radio era and have been sitting in an atmosphere of a Corona-Corona. We cannot pay our debts and continue in that atmosphere. Let us not fool ourselves ... !"

Mrs. Frederic (Irene Castle) McLaughlin, onetime dancer, animal lover,*was thrown, suffered a broken collar bone when her hunter stumbled into a hole as he approached a jump west of Lake Forest, Ill.

Emmett McBride, 50, brother of Rev. Francis Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, was jailed in Washington for passing a worthless $35 check. Superintendent McBride called his brother's case "one of irresponsibility running over a period of more than 20 years."

Charles Brown Grace, 24, son of Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Gifford Grace, was exonerated in connection with the death of one Solomon Balsam who was riding on the running board of an automobile which collided with Grace's in Pittsburgh, night of Sept. 26. One Allan Golub, 22, of Pittsburgh, driver of the other car, was held for manslaughter.

James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Jr., son of Alabama's Pope-hating Senator, was arrested for intoxication, fined $10 and $2 costs, at Atlanta, Ga., his fourth similar conspicuous offense in two years.

Elsie Janis, musicomedienne, explained why she carried her arm in a sling: she had been wrestling, clowning with Cinemactor Ramon Novarro at her Hollywood home. Said she: "It was just too ridiculous. ... I was just about ready to claim victory when he gave his body a slight twist and my shoulder slipped out of place."

Mrs. Helen Robbins, socialite wife of Herbert D. Robbins, retired Manhattan drug man (McKesson & Robbins), just home from Europe, approached a customs inspector who was about to examine her luggage. Said she: "There are twelve bottles of liquor in my trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why--why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston Tea Party ..." jeered Mrs. Helen Robbins.

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, youthful Chicagoans who murdered young Bobby Franks "for a thrill" in 1923, were ordered to hard labor in Illinois' state prison, Leopold for the first time since his incarceration. They have never seen each other in prison. Leopold was secretary to the prison chaplain at Statesville Penitentiary. He was transferred to the workshop because he had violated regulations concerning the delivery of official prison messages. Loeb was put to work again for an unnamed offense. Twice Leo- pold has been placed in solitary confine ment for cooking in his cell. Other times he has worked in the chair factory. Last summer Leopold & Loeb were viewed in their jail by Libby Holman, famed hot-song singer. She knew "Dicky" Loeb in childhood, at a Michigan summer resort. He recognized her and, not allowed to speak, winked.

John Pierpont Morgan, Junius Spencer Morgan, Mrs. Louise Converse Morgan, John Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court of the land."

*Last winter fire destroyed Mrs. McLaughlin's Chicago dog refuge, "Orphans of the Storm," and 89 dogs. Fortnight ago she opened a new dog refuge built at a cost of $8,600, with accommodation for 150 dogs, steam heat, hot and cold water, two attendants.

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