People, Oct. 9, 1933

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

During an audience in Vatican City, Pope Pius XI told 450 jobless Englishmen: ”If the Divine Providence caused you to be deprived of work. He did it for your own good. Being without work, you therefore will be all the more appreciative of work when it returns.”

Said Producer Daniel Frohman, 83: “One reason I admire my stomach so much is because it never has failed to talk back if I abused it.”

When news photographers snapped him at the first practice session of candidates for Harvard’s freshman crew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. jumped out of the shell, exclaimed: “I’ll punch you in the nose. And I really mean it.” In the boathouse he met a committee of two photographers, told them: “I quit football because I didn’t want to be hounded by photographers and I thought you’d leave me alone here. My father is in politics, but I’m not. He has nothing to do with this. I don’t want my picture taken because by next week I may be cut from the crew squad and then what would my friends say after seeing me advertised everywhere as a great oarsman?”

“Merely because we wanted to see such an interesting country,” the Lindberghs flew from Sweden to Russia, were enthusiastically welcomed by Soviet officials and newspapers in Moscow. At a Russian ballet, when a man in the audience cried “Hurrah for Lindbergh!” in Russian, the entire audience rose and cheered for several minutes.*

In San Francisco, while Dr. William Mills was performing a caesarean operation on Mrs. John Vergez, wife of the New York Giants’ third baseman, her pulse stopped. Dr. Mills immediately lanced his left arm, performed a blood transfusion, finished the operation. The child died, Mrs. Vergez was recovering.

Because he rarely uses his full name, Storeman Abraham Lincoln Filene, treasurer, board chairman of Boston’s William Filene’s Sons Co., brother of Edward Albert Filene, petitioned a Boston court to let him drop the Abraham.

Philip Fox La Follette, onetime (1931-33) Progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, said that two masked men waited in ambush for him at a Lake Geneva, Wis. cottage, went away before he returned late from a political meeting. Said Progressive La Follette to newshawks: “I want you fellows to know that the mere fact that there are a couple of fellows hanging around with guns is not going to prevent me from continuing to expound my economic and political theories.”

Appointed Kansas State Treasurer to succeed Tom Boyd, being held for trial in connection with the forgery of municipal bonds by Ronald Tucker Finney, Emporia bond dealer & speculator (TIME, Aug. 21), was William Marion Jardine, retiring minister to Egypt, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture.

Arrested on complaint of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., son of the Manhattan oil tycoon, was his chauffeur, John Spinks, charged with forcing Son Rogers & wife out of their automobile into the rain during a night drive on a lonely road near Wayne, Pa., firing a pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car’s lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they were scuffling.

Federal Court in Chicago issued a temporary injunction against withdrawals from the Harris Trust & Savings Bank account of a Greek named Constantine S. Eftax. One Gus Lowry of Sullivan, Ind. charged that Eftax is really Samuel Insull, fugitive utilities magnate; that he deposited $1,000,000 in securities and gold bullion before he fled to Greece, draws $150 to $400 weekly interest on it. Lowry declared that “Eftax” recently tried to get $50,000 in gold out of the U. S., that the account should be appropriated for Insull stockholders. Harris Trust replied that the account amounts to only $100,000, that there really was a Constantine S. Eftax, that he had no connection with Insull. The newspaper Greek Star said it knew a Constantine S. Eftax who had been a druggist in Chicago, returned last year to Greece.

*In 1927, only one Russian newspaper mentionedLindbergh’s transatlantic flight. Regarded as “bourgeois sensationalism,” it wasreported three days late, given three lines of type.