People, Aug. 15, 1938

“Names make news.” Last week these names made this news:

Leaving Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia) with his mother, father and nurse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt III

took his first automobile ride, to the Delaware home of his grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Eugene du Pont.

Chicago Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt’s “Krum Elbow” (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York

Supreme Court, while 3,000 frenzied angels were getting ready to descend on their new heaven, liquidators of a defunct bank brought action to collect old judgments totaling $1,007 against Roosevelt-hating Howland Spencer, who conveyed the estate to Father Divine (TIME, Aug. 8).

Should they discover that Mr. Spencer got nothing for his share—which he claims to be the case—the liquidators indicated they might oppose its transfer. Meanwhile, Father Divine found his town house problems settled when some of his followers bought him (for $24,000) a brace of connecting houses on Harlem’s outskirts. Thrown into one, they contain 50 rooms, a private telephone system, rubber-tiled flooring, modernistic plumbing. A neighbor: “It will be nice to be so near heaven.”

Having recovered from an appendectomy in Washington, Don José Tormos Diego, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters what he thought of the Nationalists who tried to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship in the mayor’s home town (TIME, Aug. 1). “If I could speak the English by the books,” he spluttered, “I would blow their nose, by damn I am.

. . . These pig-dogs making too much public noise with the shoot-guns.”

When German-born Professor Franz Weidenreich, famed digger for the Peking Man, told an anthropological conference at Copenhagen that all Europeans originally came from Palestine, the only other German present got up and left.

In a Los Angeles lawyer’s office, one-time Cinemoppet Jackie (The Kid) Coogan bestowed a kiss upon the cheek of Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, his mother and bitter opponent in a law suit over his $4,000,000 estate (TIME, April 18). Mrs. Bernstein wept.

“Call me Mr. Roberts,”* said Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Owen Josephus Roberts, a democratic Republican, to his steward as he sailed for Europe on the S. S. Statendam.

Through his publicity agent, Bernarr Macfadden, 70, let it be known he had bought from Flier Jacqueline Cochran Odium a low-wing Northrop “Gamma” monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept. 3).

James Joseph (“Gene”) Tunney, chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute for good & all. His explanation: “It [the Institute] is more of a protective society than an institution for the elevation and betterment of the industry. . . . It is without social consciousness or soul. . . .”

Because he liked to sleep late, Cinemactor Lee Tracy used to tip thoughtful cinema hands who saw to it that “I wasn’t called to the studio when I wasn’t needed.” Because he considered such tipping a business expense, Mr. Tracy deducted $161 from his income tax. Because it did not care how late Mr. Tracy slept, the Internal Revenue Bureau last week refused to allow the deduction.

Elephantine Wrestler Frank S. Leavitt (Man Mountain Dean) withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the lower house of the Georgia Legislature. Said he: “When a wrestler gets personal in the ring, I let him have one right on the jaw. . . . If I stay in politics, I’ll slug somebody sure.”

Ohio’s Governor Martin L. Davey, campaigning for renomination on the Democratic ticket, delivered an impassioned speech to an audience of 100 people in the town of Chardon, was dismayed to learn that the county Democratic organization had made no plans for his appearance, that the 100 were all Republicans.

*Proper way to address an associate justice: r. Justice.”