People, Oct. 12, 1931

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

In a barn on the estate of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams near the shore at Scituate, Mass, police found 600 cases of liquor valued at $50,000, arrested three men. Informed of the seizure at the World Series in Philadelphia, which he attended with President & Mrs. Hoover, Secretary Adams smiled. "It is perfectly possible that a cargo of liquor was landed on that rough point," said he.

Stout Irene Schoellkopf-Carman, fiftyish, wealthy onetime wife of the late Frank Barrett...

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