"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Walter Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith, was arraigned on a charge of manslaughter after his automobile struck and killed an elderly unemployed man in upper Manhattan. He was accompanied by an instructor in Manhattan College, whither they were returning at 2.30 a.m. Police first gave out the youth's name as "Walter Slith, 35." When newsmen learned his real identity they were barred from the room where the charge of manslaughter was being entered against him. During the arraignment photographers were expelled from court. Walter's brother, Lawyer Alfred E. Smith Jr. and his cousin, Lawyer John J. Glynn defended him, got a week's postponement on $1,000 bail so that he could attend college examinations. They told newsmen that the victim had stepped in front of Walter's automobile, that Walter tried to swerve out of the way but was blocked by another car. The city toxicologist reported finding alcohol in the dead man's brain. In Boston Leo Curley, 16, son of Mayor James Michael Curley, had his driver's license revoked. Last month he was freed of charges after his automobile killed a woman.

Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant.

On Form 10161 J, complete with "article submittal notice" and return envelope, the technical press editor of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. offered newspapers an illustrated story stating that Westinghouse engineers had examined the hair of Film Actress Jean Harlow with a Westinghouse color matcher and found it real platinum color.

When the porter who opens packages addressed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein found a heavy wooden box he was wisely suspicious and promptly summoned building guards. The guards called police. The police suggested the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Standards referred them to the Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines thought the bomb should be opened at the Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets--a new form of concentrated heat--on behalf of an inventor friend who wanted an opinion on their marketability from encyclopedic Julius Klein.

Berthed for $5,000 aboard the S. S. Monwai from New Zealand, Phar Lap (Senegalese for "Wink of the Sky"), the "red terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March.

Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, dressed in Arab costume, gave a lecture in her Holy Land garden and shrine on Long Island. Said she:

"The Depression is just another link in the chain of evidence which is fulfilling the scriptural prophecies about the second coming of Christ, of Armageddon and the 1,000 years of peace to follow. . . .

" Get a flock of goats and sheep and live on their milk and cheese, and clothe yourself from their fleece. . . . Get back to Abraham . . . when subways and elevated railroads and skyscrapers were not dreamed of.

" Everything has stopped moving. The world is waiting for something . . . for Christ is coming soon to take His children who believe in Him out of the world.

"Don't think that I am just raving. Read your Bibles. It's all there.

"Small, dusky-faced, kinky-haired Crown Prince Asfaou-Ouossan, 15, of Abyssinia, with his sister Princess Tananie-Ouorq and entourage of nine, spent a whirlwind week in London before going to Paris in their tour of European capitals. The imperial children, neither of whom speaks English, went to Sandringham to have luncheon with King George & Queen Mary and to deliver the greetings of their father, Emperor Haile Selassie, They took tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury and stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth of jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen on pneumatic tires and coaster-hubs, developed a fondness for English porridge, consuming three servings of the latter at breakfast before bacon & eggs which he attacked with a spoon.

From the Long Island home of smart, slim Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Utilities Corp., leisurely thieves took four prized paintings, frames and all. Among them: a Gainsborough, a Watteau, a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by Richard Wilson, valued to gether at about $50,000. Detectives ar rested a butler and cook recently dis charged by the Odiums, recovered the paintings.

Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck by an automobile in Manhattan last month, ex tended his convalescent visit at Nassau. because his recovery was so slow that he could not raise his arms above elbow-height.

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