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

Rear Admiral Newton Alexander Mo

Cully, U. S. N. retired, and five of the seven Russian orphans whom he adopted and brought to the U. S. ten years ago, were rescued from Chesapeake Bay at midnight by the crew of the S. S. Verona which rammed and sank their yacht Kikachiaka ("Sea Gull''), a converted submarine-chaser. They were on their way from Annapolis to the Admiral's South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found swimming after a half hour's search. Two other adopted daughters are Mrs. William Moritz of New York and Mrs. Alexander Lastchencoff of Detroit. Admiral McCully, a bachelor of independent income, adopted the seven when he was special agent for the Department of State in the south of Russia. He was aided by Olga Alexandra Krundisheva, a refugee whom he subsequently (1927) married, brought to the U. S. In the New York Times appeared the following advertisement:

ENTERTAINMENT HOSTS, CLUBS, SOCIETIES, desiring distinguished former American Ambassador abroad, brilliant, interesting speaker, discuss today's vital international problems communicate representative. X2521 Times Annex.

Investigation revealed the unportfolioed "Ambassador" to be John Barrett, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Rotarian, publicist, onetime U.S. Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, longtime (1907-20) director general of the Pan-American Union, quoter in Who's Who of how Theodore Roosevelt praised his work.

The day before her 41st birthday Sister Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton,

Los Angeles evangelist, and her husband Brother David L. Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised to give half the proceeds of her show to the unemployed. Sister Aimee agreed to share all takings over & above $2,600 daily rental of Boston Garden, which has a capacity of 22,000. For the first two days attendance averaged about 6,000, collections totaled about $2,200.

Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall."/-

Municipal Judge John Homer Lyle of

Chicago, candidate for the Republican nomination for Mayor last winter, engaged in a street fight with one Emil Domres, contractor, when the latter bumped his automobile into the judge's.

/- Mr. Gandhi, 4 ft. 8 in., 76 lb., is shorter and lighter than a jockey or the coxswain of a crew.

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