Born. To Eleanor Boardman Vidor, cinemactress, wife of Cinema Director King Vidor: a daughter (their second).

Engaged. Joan Fry, 24, British woman tennist; and a Lieut. Thomas Lakeman of the British Army tank corps; announced at Wimbledon on the eve of her Wightman Cup match against Mrs. Helen Wills Moody .

Engaged. Mary Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Idaho's Senator John Thomas; and Arthur J. Peavey of Twin Falls, Idaho.

Married. Bebe Daniels, 28, cinemactress; and Ben Lyon, 29, cinemactor; at Hollywood.

Married. Cornelia Adrienne Kelley, daughter of President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; and George Hepburn of Manhattan; at Manhasset, L. I.

Elected. Ralph Hayes, resigning as vice president of Press Publishing Co., publishers of the New York World, Evening World, to be vice president of Transamerica Corp., International Holding Company.

Promoted. Herbert Clark Hoover Jr., 29, technician in charge of radio for Western Air Express: to be the company's chief engineer.

Resigned. Albert Abraham Michelson, 77, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL. D., since 1892 head of the University of Chicago's physics department, 1907 Nobel prizewinner ($40,000): from the university.

Sentenced. Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; to three years in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary; for income tax fraud. Also to one year in the Cook County Jail and a $10,000 fine; for misdemeanors.

Died. Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, 34, British Wartime airman, world's record automobile speedster; when his motorboat, Miss England II, after establishing a new water speed record of 98.76 m. p. h. on Lake Windermere, England, struck a submerged tree branch, overturned.

Died. John Hathaway ("Jack") Skinner, 60, vice president of the San Francisco Bank of Italy, long its joint manager with now-retired Amadeo Peter Giannini; after a two-month illness; at San Francisco.

Died. Frank W. Davis, 60, farmer who tried to starve himself to death (TIME, June 16); by shooting himself; near Danville, Va.

Died. Louis Lucien Klotz, 62, War-time French Minister of Finance, deviser of many a scheme intended to restore the franc to par, who in 1928 resigned from the French Senate under charges of issuing bad checks to make up losses in the New York stockmarket, for which crime he was given a sentence, later suspended, of two years in prison (TIME, July 22); suddenly, in poverty; in Paris.

Died. Sir William Lamond Allardyce, 68, onetime Governor of the Falkland Islands (1904-14), of the Bahamas (1915-20), of Tasmania (1920-22), of Newfoundland (1922-28); after lingering illness; at London.

Died. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, inventor of the gyrocompass, airplane stabilizers, ship stabilizers, a 1,500,000,000 candlepower searchlight and many another instrument; founder of Sperry Gyroscope Co., Sperry Electric Co., Sperry Electric Railway Co.; chairman U. S. Naval Consulting Board's Committees on Aeronautics, Mines & Torpedoes, aids to navigation; after an operation for gallstones; at Brooklyn.

Died. Percy Chubb, 72, Australian-born potent Manhattan insurance man, senior member of Chubb & Son, marine underwriters, board chairman of Federal Insurance Co., famed sportsman, yachtsman, golfer, owner (for grouse-shooting) of "Cawdor Moor" (in Shakespeare's Macbeth); suddenly, on a train carrying him to fish in Canada; near Drummondsville, Canada.

Many an anecdote is told of Mr. Chubb's coolheadedness in danger. Example: during the War, he was interviewed over the telephone concerning his views on submarine attacks. Suddenly, he cut the conversation with newsmen short. ''Sorry," he said, "but it's getting deuced hot here." His home was burning down around him.

Died. Henry Clay Folger, 72, onetime president and board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, famed authority on Shakespeare, owner of one of the world's finest private Shakespeareana, some 25.000 volumes "not surpassed even by the British Museum;" after an operation; at Brooklyn.

Died. Marie Louise January Forbes-Leith. Lady Leith, 83, relict of rich Alexander John Forbes-Leith, Baron Leith of Fyvie, and daughter of the late St. Louis Steel Tycoon Derrick A. January; of old age; at her home, Hartwell House, Aylesbury, England.

Died. Judge Josiah Cohen, 89, Pittsburgh common pleas judge, "oldest active jurist in the U. S.,"* co-founder of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, director of the art department of the Carnegie Institute; of heart disease; at Pittsburgh.

*Second oldest is Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S., also 89, born March 8, 1841. Judge Cohen was born the preceding November.

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