Married. August Belmont 3d, Harvard graduate, son of the late August Belmont Jr.; and Elizabeth Lee Saltonstall, Boston socialite, daughter of John Lee Saltonstall, onetime (1911-12) member of the Massachusetts Legislature; in Hamilton, Mass.

Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie Jr., 34, fun-loving Manhattan and Philadelphia socialite-sportsman, divorced secretly last March by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, niece of the late great tobacco tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck"') Duke, daughter of the late Benjamin Newton Duke who left her over $50,000,000 in 1929; and Mrs. Margaret Boyce Thompson Schulze, 34, only daughter of the late mining tycoon Col. William Boyce Thompson who died last June (TIME, July 7, 1930) leaving an estate of over $85,000,000: in London.

Married. Eleanor Pratt, granddaughter of the late Charles Pratt who was a co-founder of Standard Oil Co. and founder of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior).

Married. Margaret G. Spence, foster-daughter and heiress of the late Clara B. Spence who founded Manhattan's socialite Spence School for Girls, ward of Principal Charlotte S. Baker of the school; and George Callendine Heck Jr., Manhattan socialite, Harvard man (1930); in Manhattan.

Married. Margaret Morton Eustis, granddaughter of the late Levi Parsons Morton, banker and vice president of the U. S. (1889-93); and David Edward Finley, Special Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; in Oatlands, Va.

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Eva Baur Hansl; from Raleigh Hansl, retired Manhattan stockbroker; in Bridgeport, Conn. She called her husband an "incurable Princeton man," because he made her live in Princeton from 1918 to 1921 while he took graduate courses, and suggested that they should live together as "college chums."

Elected. Pierre Benoit, French novelist; to be a member of the French Academy (traditionally limited to 40 members); succeeding the late dramatist Georges de Porto-Riche.

General Max Weygand, commander-in-chief of the French army, to succeed the late Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre.

Left, By Mortimer Leo Schiff, Manhattan banker and philanthropist who died last fortnight (TIME, June 15); an estate estimated at $100,000,000. Of this $1,000,000 goes to his son John Mortimer Schiff, $750,000 to his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall, $250,000 to her husband Richard Brown West Hall (to revert to the residuary estate should the Halls die childless). To philanthropic and educational institutions goes $1.001,000, of which $500,000 is for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before he died), $50,000 to his alma mater, Amherst College. To his family retainers and to every employe of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. go gifts ranging from $100 to $20,000. City and country houses and three-fifths of the residuary estate are left, in trust, to Mrs. Adele Gertrude Schiff, the remaining two-fifths in trust to the two children. Upon the death of Mrs. Schiff two-thirds of her share goes to John Mortimer Schiff provided he has not married without her permission. One-third goes to Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall. Died--William Edwin Rudge, 54, famed printer; in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

Died, William Thurston Hincks, 61, founder (with his brother Robert Stanley) of Hincks Brothers & Co., investment bankers; after three months' illness; in Bridgeport.

Died, George D. McLaughlin, 67, Chicago clubman, merchant (Manor House coffee), brother of Sportsman Frederic McLaughlin; as the result of an automobile accident near Lake Forest, Ill.

Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing.

Died. Anna Adams Gordon, 78, nine years world president of the W. C. T. U.; in a sanitorium at Castle, N. Y.; of a general breakdown. She served the Dry cause for 54 years, was 21 years secretary to Founder Frances Willard of the W. C. T. U.

Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey.

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