Born. To U. S. Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. and Mrs. Rachel Young La Follette; a daughter who died six hours later; in Washington, D.C.

Engaged. Joyce Wethered, four-time British Women's golf champion, now retired from major competition; and Major C. K. Hutchinson, able Scottish amateur golfer.

Married. George McGill, U. S. Senator from Kansas; and a Mrs. Virginia Parker of Oklahoma City; in Wichita, Kan.

Remarried. Gloria Swanson, 31, cinemactress; and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; at Yuma, Ariz. They were illegally married last August at the Greenburgh, N. Y., summer home of Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, before Cinemactress Swanson's divorce from her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, became final.

Resigning. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 66; as general secretary of the International Committee of Y. M. C. A.'s of the U. S. and Canada, a position he has held since 1915; to devote more of his time to the World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A.'s, of which he has been president since 1926, and the International Missionary Council (national councils in some 35 countries) of which he is chairman.

Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 79; John Philip Sousa, 77; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 74; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 30.

Died. Rev. John Walter Vinson, 50, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, brother of President Robert Ernest Vinson of Western Reserve University; stabbed and decapitated by bandits who had kidnapped him after looting the mission and the town of Wangjiagieh.

Died. Robert Harris Ripley, 55, vice president since 1905, senior vice president since 1929 of American Steel Foundries, successor in 1929 to U. S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament as president of General Steel Castings Corp.; after two weeks' illness; in Evanston, Ill.

Died. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, 55, retired head of the department of Norwegian Language & Literature at St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), author of Giants in the Earth, Peder Victorious, Their Fathers' God, best-selling novels of pioneer Norwegian life in the WTest, written in Norwegian and translated into English; of heart disease; in Northfield.

Died. Dr. Carl Joachim Stimming, 55, general director of North German Lloyd; of an embolism after a fall in which he suffered concussion of the brain and kidney injuries; in Hamburg. Prior to the World War Dr. Stimming was employed by the Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded in raising a $20,000,000 loan in the U. S., sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping, he arranged mergers of small lines, finally concluded a pooling agreement with the Hamburg-American Line.

Died. Harry McLeary Wurzbach, 57, U. S. Representative from the 14th Texas District; after an appendectomy; in San Antonio, Tex. (see p. 13).

Died. Mrs. Eleanor Herron More, wife of Dean Louis Trenchard More of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, sister of Mrs. Helen (William Howard) Taft, for whom she substituted more than once as the Land's First Lady; after long illness; in Cincinnati.

Died. Richard Teller Crane Jr., 58, president since 1914 of The Crane Co. of Chicago (plumbing fixtures), brother of onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.).

Died. Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, 60, U. S. Senator from Arkansas; of coronary occlusion (constriction of heart arteries), after an operation for kidney stone; in Little Rock, Ark. (see p. 12).

Died. Charles A. Greathouse, 62, Democratic National Committeeman from In- diana, secretary of the National Committee since 1924, president and treasurer of Bookwalter-Ball-Greathouse Printing Co.; after an operation; in Indianapolis, Ind.

Died. Dr. Lewis Taylor Robinson, 63, engineer in charge of General Electric Co.'s general engineering laboratory; of heart disease; in Schenectady, N. Y. Head of General Electric's standardizing laboratory since 1896, he became engineer-in-charge when it was merged in 1919 with the consulting laboratory which the late great Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz founded. Under Dr. Robinson's direction were brought out the oscillograph, the mercury arc rectifier, the photophone.

Died. Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, 73, inventor of the Lewis machine gun of which more than 100,000 were used by the Allies in the War; in a railroad station near his Montclair, N. J. home; of heart disease.

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