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

On Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul. . . ."

Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont Jr.

(Frances Kent of Chicago), daughter-in-law of the Secretary of Commerce, made her professional stage debut with a Denver stock company as Sadie Thompson in Rain.

Sinclair Lewis, in Paris, discussed his new book. The heroine, Anne Vickers, "will be a sort of female Babbitt playing a reverse role, but she is not intended as a sarcastic interpretation of that glorious class of American women who help make the wheels of business spin. She will live on Main Street and Dr. Arrowsmith will be her family doctor."

Theodore Miller Edison, youngest son of the late great inventor, was granted his first patent, on a device to eliminate vibration from any kind of machinery, from a phonograph to a truck.

Less famed than "Mickey Mouse" is the animated cartoon "Betty Boop." Claiming that the latter is a too palpable imitation of her own lisping seductive mannerisms, Singer Helen ("Boop-Boopa~ Doop") Kane filed suit against the Max Fleischer Studios and Paramount-Publix Corp. for $250,000.

Prince Youssef Kamal, cousin of King Fuad of Egypt, renounced his rank & title. Said he at Cairo: "I have nothing to say except that hereafter I desire to be known as Youssef Kamal."

Col. William Sparks, industrial patriarch of Jackson, Mich. ("Sparton" radios, auto horns, refrigerators) went happily forth to the presentation and opening ceremonies of a 600-acre public park--complete with lake, golf course, club house, cascade lighting--his gift to the City of Jackson.

With many bottles of sekt (champagne), former officers of the Imperial German Army last week celebrated the 50th birthday of long-necked Friedrich Wilhelm, onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Granting an interview to the foreign Press for the first time since his return from exile (1923), he said: "... I cannot avoid hitting straight from the shoulder. . . . Have you proud and free Americans any inkling of what it means to make a proud people submit to special laws and regulations? . . ."

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