Born. To Mrs. Jack Sharkey, wife of Fisticuffer Sharkey, a nine-pound son; in Manhattan.

Eloped. Mark Hanna 3d, great-grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna ("the President-maker"); with Miss Catherine Backus, daughter of a Cleveland pump agent; from Cleveland, Ohio.

Married. William C. De Mille,' 50, cinema-director (What Every Woman Knows, Nice People) ; and Clara Beranger, 42, scenario writer (Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde); in a Pullman drawing room, at Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht.

Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant of the U. S. battle fleet. From 1923 to 1927 he was Chief of Naval operations, the Navy's highest post, now held by Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes.

Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board.

Died. Major Carlo P. del Prete, Rome-Brazil flyer (TIME, July 16); following the amputation of his right leg, injured in an airplane crash; in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

Died. George Kellogg Morris, 45, Chairman of the New York State Republican Committee; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. John Hornby, 50, lost explorer; of starvation; in a solitary cabin on the Thelon River, west of Hudson Bay, Canada. Hornby departed northward with two nephews in June, 1926; a search was instituted in December, 1927; last week the Canadian Mounted Police reported discovering the three bodies.

Died. Henry Clay ("Dick") Silver, 54, reporter, broker, political writer, who stood beside President McKinley when he was assassinated; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Miss Jessie Claire McDonald, 59, for 15 years principal of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington, D. C., trustee of Wellesley College; in Preston, Canada.

Died. George Brenton McClellan Harvey, 64, editor since 1899 of The North American Review, and of the defunct Harvey's Weekly; "discoverer" of Woodrow Wilson, 1912; supporter of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1920; Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23; of heart disease; in Dublin, N. H.

Died. Leos Janacek, 74, prolific Czech composer (Jenufa, Sinfoinetta), who wrote more than 30 operas after he had passed 60 years of age; of pneumonia; in Maehrisch-Ostrau, Austria.

Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued at $3,500.

Died. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 90, famed British statesman and historian (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, The American Revolution), onetime member of the Gladstone Cabinet, nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay; after a critical illness, in Northumberland, England.

* On March 10, 1876, Inventor Alexander Graham Bell summoned his assistant over the telephone, said: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Mr. Watson came.