People, Jul. 27, 1936

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

Returning to Baltimore on the excursion boat State of Virginia at the end of a two-day cruise on Chesapeake Bay with 235 Automobile Trade Association Conventionites, Maryland’s roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship’s whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia’s side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: “Don’t wait up for me. Be home late. Boat sprang a leak.”

At a national convention in Los Angeles, Florida’s Governor Dave Sholtz was elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

At a military review in Paris, both U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus and General Henri Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, keeled over in dead faints, had to be helped home.

Ontario’s Minister of Public Welfare David A. Croll, one of the Dionne Quintuplets’ three official guardians, announced that their father, Oliva Dionne, had asked the Provincial Government for permission to open a hot dog & soda water booth opposite his daughters’ nursery in Callander, Ont. (TIME, July 20 et ante). Said Minister Croll: “He is going to operate a stand and we are going to see to it that he has the necessary electric energy for refrigeration.”