People, Aug. 24, 1931

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Roy T. Yates, 35-year-old New Jersey State Senator, married, father of three, sat down and started drinking gin with a Miss Ruth Jayne Cranmer, whom he was maintaining in a Manhattan apartment. After their fourth bottle of gin, they fell to quarreling about Miss Cranmer's allowance and apartment rent which seemed too expensive to Senator Yates. Later still Senator Yates was shot in the abdomen. Taken to a hospital, his condition was so serious that police were unable to question him. Miss Cranmer was arrested, said she was not sure who fired the shot. When checks were found in her possession showing that she was on New Jersey's payroll, a movement was launched to impeach the wounded politician. Declared Mrs. Yates: "I know it was only a temporary affair, just as a bad little boy strays from the home hearth. . . ."

John Rockefeller Prentice, the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller who worked his way through Yale as a telephone operator and is now a student at Yale's law school, wanted a swim. He and a crony who works for an undertaker went to Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington, and to the Americus Republican, Dequesne and Atlantic clubs of Pittsburgh.

Word came that Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), eccentric fisticuffer who was imprisoned six years ago for killing a woman, would be paroled from San Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary in December 1932. Ford Motor Co. of Detroit agreed to be responsible for him for the next six years, will give him a job.

On a yachting cruise, Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina, daughters of one-time King Alfonso XIII of Spain, landed at the little Irish village of Portaferry. Astonished townsfolk whispered to each other, giggled, pointed to the Infantas' flannel yachting trousers. Infanta Beatriz blushed, tried to hide behind her fiance, Don Alvaro Antonio D'Orleans.

John Edison Sloane, 12-year-old grandson of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, found a 24-oz. meteor near his camp in Maine, said he would present it to Harvard University.