People, Jul. 8, 1935

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

Thirty years ago a young gold prospector named Thomas E. Latimer returned from the Klondike, married a girl of Hilliard, Ohio. Three months later they separated. Prospector Latimer lost track of his wife, heard only that a son was born but soon died.

Thomas E. Latimer was preparing for his inauguration as Mayor of Minneapolis (TIME, June 24), when a young man called on him, introduced himself as Ira H. Latimer, Chicago radio news commentator. Brought up under the...

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