People: Sep. 15, 1930

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

An airplane bearing Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 85, returning to Manhattan from Los Angeles sped east over Kansas into a thick storm, had to turn back, land at Wichita where it had taken off.

It was reported that Edward, Prince of Wales, weighs 132 Ib. (less than he weighed before last spring's trip to the Congo where Edward was chased by an angry bull elephant, had subtertian malaria).

The famed Paul Smith's Hotel, near Saranac Lake, N. Y., was completely destroyed by...

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