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

Driving with his wife through Muncy, Pa., on his way from Washington to his McCook, Neb. home, 73-year-old Senator George William Norris slowed down to 15 m.p.h. to look around for a tourist home. Suddenly a 9-year-old youngster darted in front of the machine. Senator Norris swerved, braked--but too late. The front wheel of the car passed over the boy's body, killed him. Senator & Mrs. Norris attended the funeral, were cleared by a coroner's jury, drove carefully on toward McCook.

To signalize the partial removal of New York Central freight tracks from Manhattan's cluttered west side and the completion of a vast freight station in Lower Manhattan, President Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal public works, went through the observation car's glass door, rump first. No one was hurt.

Gossip engaged Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to Ethel du Pont, daughter of Sportsman-Horticulturist Eugene du Pont, director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Fumed the du Fonts: "There is absolutely nothing to the report." That evening the President's third son was a house guest at Miss du Pont's Wilmington debut.

Throughout the U. S. 20,000 persons kill themselves each year. To deter them from suicide is the prime purpose in the life of Rev. Dr. Harry Marsh Warren of Manhattan, founder-president of the Save-a-Life League. To the Civitan International meeting in Toronto Life-Saver Warren declared: "Among professional men physicians are most inclined to take their own lives. . . . Not more than one-third of those who kill themselves are mentally deranged. Unmarried mothers have the greatest propensity for suicide. Love is the most terrible thing in the world. . . . Women have gone to the dogs, and men have changed very little."

In Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture.

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