People, Mar. 25, 1935

PEOPLE

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

That he can no longer venture outside Suffolk, Va. without having his identity mistaken is the well-founded conviction of Suffolk's Mayor Otis S. Smith who told newshawks of his latest adventure. On a trip to Manhattan, Mayor Smith went one evening to see his old schoolmate James Bell in Tobacco Road. Between acts he stepped into a restaurant to buy cigarets. The master of ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us...

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