People: Oct. 6, 1930

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

John Jacob Raskob Jr. whose engagement was news fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 29) made further news when he bought himself a much-used 1925 model Ford for $20. Newshawks remembered his father is a Board member of General Motors.

Three days later his sister Betty made news when she was notified that her $2,000 diamond ring had been recovered by Columbus, Ohio, police.

George Bernard Shaw, asked by Hearstpapers what he would have the U. S. do about Publisher Hearst's recent expulsion from France (TIME, Sept. 15), replied for publication in Hearstpapers: ". . . make him President. The United States can do no less, unless it is prepared to take the outrage lying down. . . . America is more afraid of Hearst than France is, or Britain; that is why I take him very seriously."

Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose great & good friend William Randolph Hearst was ejected from France (TIME, Sept. 15), delivered herself thus when she reached Manhattan (on the British ship Majestic) last week: "England is much more charming than France. I don't think I'll ever buy any Paris gowns again. In Paris it is difficult to get a dress or an evening frock for less than $300, and an average price is $700 to $800, which is ridiculously high."

Phil Scott, foul-claiming English heavyweight fighter who lost to Jack Sharkey last March at Miami when Sharkey punched him in the stomach (TIME, March 10), opened a beauty parlor at Thornton Heath, England.

Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant.

William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, leaving a reception given him at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, had his arm caught in the open door of a passing automobile, received a bloody wound. "It won't bother me. It's nothing at all," said he. But friends took him to have the wound sewed up.

John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar.

Curtis Dwight Wilbur, onetime (1024-29) Secretary of the Navy, walked into a drug store at Arbuckle, Calif., gave a clerk 10¢ for a stein of root beer which he had drunk in 1920 and had not paid for.

Albert Duke of York, "playing in" as Royal & Ancient golf captain at St. Andrews, Scotland, made a creditable first drive of 200 yds. (Eight years ago his brother Edward of Wales all but whiffed his presidential drive.) Next day York played for fun, was interrupted first by a nursemaid leisurely pushing a perambulator across his course, then by the town dustman trundling his cart.