Heir Expected; by Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the sole U. S. family to have its expectancies almost invariably made known.

Heir Expected; this summer, by H. R. H. Princess Martha of Norway, 29, wife of Crown Prince Olaf, 26. They were married March 21, 1929.

Born. To Mrs. John A. Warner, wife of New York's Superintendent of State Police, daughter of onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith: a second daughter. Name: Emily Smith Warner.

Married. Evelyn Tuttle, daughter of Manhattan's U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle; to Lieut. Charles Frederick Home Jr., U. S. N.; in Manhattan.

Married. Alice Bigelow Lee, daughter of Ivy Ledbetter Lee, potent "adviser in public relations," and Chandler Cudlipp of Manhattan & Jersey City, N. J.; fashionably in Manhattan. Rev. Drs. George Arthur Buttrick & Harry Emerson Fosdick officiating.

Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, onetime wife of the late Edward R. Thomas, New York Morning Telegraph publisher: Colonel Lytton Gray Ament; at Reno, Nev. Introduced to each other at Washington in 1926 by Queen Marie of Rumania, they were married secretly, went to Rumania as guests of the Queen, honeymooned royally, romantically.

Sued for divorce. By Julia Tiffany Parker, 'twin granddaughter of the late jewelry tycoon Charles Lewis Tiffany: Gurdon S. Parker, Manhattan architect; at Reno.

Divorcing each other. Irving T. Bush, 60, president of the Bush Terminal Co. (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Bush Terminal Buildings Co., Bush Terminal Railroad Co.; and Mrs. Maude Beard Bush. Mr. Bush has. completed two-thirds of the required three-months' residence at Reno, Nev., while Mrs. Bush has established residence in Westchester County, N. Y. and is consulting a White Plains attorney. Result: a legal race.

Divorced. By Colleen Moore, cinemactress: John McCormick, cinema producer, her onetime business-manager. Charge: that he had ugly moods.

Divorced. William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, portraitist; by Frances Starr, famed Belasco-developed actress; in Reno, Nev.

Divorce disclosed. Cosmo Hamilton, author, dramatist; from Mrs. Julia Curry Bolton Hamilton, "more than a year ago, in Paris." Commentators on marriage have been Mr. Hamilton, and Mrs. Hamilton's onetime playwright husband Guy Bolton. Said Mr. Hamilton: "If a man doesn't make love to his wife at least once a day, another man will. Marriage is not a 50-50 relationship. It is nearer 90-10.'' Said Mr. Bolton: "Marriage is a process, not for prolonging the life of love, but for mummifying its corpse."

Elected. Dr. George Craig Stewart, 50, of Evanston, Ill.; to be Bishop Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; automatic successor to recently elected Bishop Sheldon Munson Griswold.

Elected. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 51, "liberal" secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, sociologist; to succeed the late Herbert Shipman as diocese suffragan bishop. The result of the vote brought the diocesan convention to its feet with applause. Mrs. Gilbert watched from the organ gallery.

Elected. By the National Industrial Conference Board, prime discussion group of U. S. big businesses: President, Mangus Washington Alexander; chairman. Charles Cheney; treasurer, Fred I. Kent; vice chairmen, Irenee duPont. Herbert Farrington Perkins, William Carter Dickerman, Thomas John Watson; executive committee, all those and John Henry Hammond. Howard Heinz, Ralph Clinton Holmes, Malcolm Bowditch Stone, Loyall Allen Osborne, Albert Farwell Bemis, Cornelius Francis Kelley, Matthew Scott Sloan.

Died. Herbert Croly, 61, author, editor of The New Republic; after long paralysis; at Santa Barbara, Calif, (see p. 66).

Died. William John Locke, 67. English novelist (The Beloved Vagabond, Stella Maris, The House of Baltazar, The Great Pandolfo), dramatist (The Lost Legion, The Man from the Sea); of a relapse following two severe abdominal operations; at his home in Paris. In accordance with his last wish, his body will be cremated at Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, buried in London.

Died. Fridtjof Nansen, 68, famed Arctic explorer, potent patriot, onetime nominee for the kingship of Norway.* League of Nations High Commissioner to all World War refugees, onetime (1906-08) Norwegian Minister to the Court of St. James's, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (British), Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1923), honored scientist, author; suddenly, of heart paralysis following phlebitis (vein inflammation) of the leg; at Oslo, Norway.

Died. Max Valier, famed German inventor of rocket motors, student of astronomy, meteorology, mathematics, physics; when a new gas he had invented exploded in the carburetor of his test car; at Berlin.

Died. H. H. Nawab Sultan Jehan Begum, 71, the dowager Begum of Bhopal (second largest Moslem State in India), "the Queen Victoria of India," last of a female dynasty, builder of schools, hospitals, postomces, railroads, student of hygiene, European traveler, onetime (1926) pompous petitioner at the British India office for permission to abdicate; after an operation; at Bombay.

Died. Mary Elizabeth Hawley, 72, spinster daughter of a late hardware millionaire, astounding local benefactress; of natural causes; at Newtown, Conn. Her gifts to Newtown: a $750,000 Town Hall; the $155.000 Hawley School, endowed for $100,000; a cemetery with artificial lake, memorial gates, impressive vaults costing $225.000; a large park along the New-town-Bridgeport turnpike. In addition, her elaborate Japanese garden, illuminated extravagantly, was thrown open yearly to the public at the Christmas season.

Died. William Emlen Roosevelt, 73; in his sleep after several months illness; in Manhattan (see p. 54).

Died. Mrs. Helen M. Barrett, 98, one of nine living daughters of Revolutionary War soldiers; of old age; at Richland, Mich. Her father, Soldier Johannes Van Dolson, served under General Washington at Trenton, at Yorktown, had nine children by each of three wives, had her when he was aged 78. When first married, she spun & wove her children's clothes; baked, made soap, candles, over a hearth fire.

Born. To a purebred Holstein cow at Chester, N. Y.; triplet calves, all heifers. In addition, the mother produced 20,000 Ib. of milk last year.

* He was No. 1 man in Norway's successful negotiations for freedom from Sweden (1905). Popular gratitude prompted a movement to crown him King.

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