Appointed. Roland William Boyden, 66, Boston lawyer, Wartime counsel for U. S. food administration, unofficial U. S. "observer" at Reparations Commission meetings; to be a member of The Hague Court of Arbitration* vice Charles Evans Hughes; by President Hoover.

Honored. Owen D. Young, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; John Pierpont Morgan, with the Belgian Grand Cross of the Order ot Leopold.

Birthday. Clarence S. Darrow, famed attorney, defender of Evolution against the late William Jennings Bryan. Age: 73, Date: April 18.

Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. William George Krieghoff, 54, Philadelphia Public Ledger's famed portraitist, painter of the late Chief Justice Taft, Col. Lindbergh. Eva Le Galhenne; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia.

Died. R. Q. Lee, 61, U. S. Representative from Cisco, Tex.; at Washington; after a paralytic stroke five weeks ago.

Died. Charles Scribner, 75, board chairman of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan, publishers and booksellers, founder ot Scribner's Magazine; of heart disease; in Manhattan. His most famed publishing contract: $1 per word to Theodore Roosevelt for serial rights to African Game Trails.

Died. Dr. Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world--Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less than a year ago he published The Testament of Beauty, a 4,000-line poem which summed up his patriarchal philosophy, earned the great admiration of most world critics ( Dec. 2).

Died. Sir Edward James Pollock, 89, longtime official referee of Britain's Supreme Court of Judicature* after a decline following his wife's death last year at London. Died. Linda Richards, 89, first U S graduate trained nurse (1873), good friend of Britain's famed Florence Nightingale; at New England Hospital for Women & Children. Roxbury. Mass., where she trained.

Died. George Casimir Dessaulles, 10-Canada's oldest senator; of excitement alter a fire in his house; at his home at St. Hyacinthe. Quebec.

*Not to be confused with the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice), whose members it nominates for the Leagues selection.

*The Statesman's Year-Book calls it "the ultimate authority in most cases, civil and criminal in England and Wales, and in others, where there is an appeal to the House of Lords, the penultimate."

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