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

Up to the reservations desk in a Chicago hotel bustled a woman and two men. From the clerk they reserved three seats on the Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers."*

In his Washington office, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins picked up a telephone, heard a voice say: "This is Louis Howe speaking. I want to talk to you about the works relief resolution." From beneath an oxygen tent in his sick room at the White House, Presidential Secretary Howe talked for ten minutes. Said Administrator Hopkins: "You could have knocked me over with a feather."

With a short speech, Alfred Emanuel Smith handed Mrs. James Roosevelt Sr. a tiny gold "cornerstone"' in Macy's Manhattan department store. With another short speech, Mrs. Roosevelt tucked it under a gleaming doll castle owned by old-time Cinemactress Colleen Moore.

Nine feet square and twelve feet high, the castle took nine years to build, cost Miss Moore $435.000. Each room is built around some fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take her "pet extravagance" on a world tour, donate the proceeds of 10-c- and 15-c- admissions to hospitals for crippled children.

On his way back from the Antarctic, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd reached Balboa, C. Z. looking grey but jaunty. Said he: "Oh. I am feeling much better but not in football trim."

Gloomed Utah's longtime (1903-33) Senator Reed Smoot, one of the Twelve Apostles of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: "The country is going farther & farther into debt. I hope and trust that we Latter-day Saints . . . will live within our means. Without the assistance of God . . . chaos will be the end."

To a Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service. . . ."

Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper, 32-degree Mason, became a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine when its imperial potentate, the potentate of Almas Temple (Washington), one deputy imperial Potentate and one plain Shriner marched into his office, conducted a private initiation, marched out again.

*When Lawyer Edward J. Reilly presented a bill for $25,000 for conducting the Hauptmann defense, Mrs. Hauptmann last week dismissed him, made C. Lloyd Fisher chief counsel to prepare her husband's appeal.

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