Married. Adele Astaire, dancer; and Lord Charles Canvendish, younger son of the Duke of Devonshire; at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Said Lady Cavendish: "It is wonderful to feel that Lord Charles and I are the first ones to be married in Chatsworth Chapel."

Married. Jane, daughter of General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; and one Eugene F. Nixon; in New York.

Married. Marguerite, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard (he is Herbert Hoover's close friend and business associate) ; and Graham Hoyt, New York socialite; in New Canaan, Conn. Mrs. Hoover attended.

Adopted. By Actress Miriam Hopkins, lately divorced from Playwright Austin Parker; a child, "Boy Wilson"; from an Evanston, Ill. orphanage. Said she: "I don't have to give any reasons."

Appointed. William Percival Crozier, assistant editor of the Manchester Guardian; to succeed the late Edward Taylor Scott as editor.

Jailed. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 34, Chicago hoodlum, for ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary; for tax evasion.

Released. Albert Bacon Fall, 70, from New Mexico State Penitentiary (Santa Fe), after serving ten months for accepting a bribe while President Harding's Secretary of the Interior.

Buried. The ashes of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll, famed agnostic who died in 1899, and Mrs. Ingersoll; in Arlington National Cemetery; transferred after 33 years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks."

Died. Robert M. Feustel, 47, president of Midland United Co. ($300,000,000 Insull company) and of Indiana Service Corp.; of an acute kidney infection; in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Died. Donald Mitchell Ryerson, 47, board chairman of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, independent Chicago steel company, Wartime organizer of "Four-Minute Men" to sell Liberty Bonds; by his own hand (pistol); at Lake Forest, Ill. A coroner's jury of six fellow-millionaires declared his death a suicide.

Died. Charles Fort, 57, author, heckler of Science; of acute enlargement of the heart; in New York. Year in, year out, he dug through newspaper files for stories of strange events contrary to scientific theory, put them in books (Lo!, The Book of the Damned, Wild Talents), invented supernatural theses to explain them. His "law of teleportation" explained the movement of solid objects (mud, frogs, periwinkles) through the air in magnetic paths.

Died. Mrs. John Garland Pollard, 58, wife of Virginia's Governor, daughter of Confederate Capt. Charles T. Phillips (distinguished at Gettysburg); of arthritis; in Richmond.

Died. John William Scott, 62, Chicago department store man (Carson Pirie Scott & Co.); in Chicago.

Died. Major-General Enoch Herbert Crowder, 73, "father of the draft," onetime (1917-23) judge advocate general of the U. S. Army; of a general breakdown ; at Washington. Small, calm, "whispering" General Crowder in Wartime said, "Work or fight," had a list of 13 million men to tell it to soon after Congress passed the selective draft act in 1917. Later (1919) President Wilson sent him to Cuba to reform finances and election laws. A special act of Congress in 1923 enabled him as a retired Army officer to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba under President Coolidge.

Died. John P. Clum. 80, Be-Tunni-Ki-Yea ("High Forehead' in the Apache country), captor of Apache Chief Geronimo (1877), editor of the famed Tombstone, Ariz., Epitaph; after several months' illness; in Los Angeles. He was Mayor of Tombstone in 1881 when Peace Officer Wyatt Earp and the Clanton boys met in the O K Corral shooting, rated Arizona's most spectacular gunfight (34 shots, 3 dead, in 30 sec.).

Died. Jo Lane Stern, 83, Confederate veteran, Richmond, Va. lawyer; in Richmond. Early in the Civil War, he became General Robert Edward Lee's telegrapher, aged 14. A socialite, he led the Richmond German, Virginia society's outstanding event, for 51 years.

Died. Mrs. Martha J. MacFarland Stone, 85, relict of General Manager Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press; after long illness; in New York.

Died. Rear Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, principal in the famed "Chester Concession" affair (1923); of old age; in Rye, N. Y. Appointed by President Roosevelt to work for a commercial "open door" for U. S. capital in western Asia, he obtained from Turkey a billion dollars worth of private concessions (later annulled) for oil, mines, railroads. He was one of the naval astronomers who discredited Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's North Pole claims (1908).

Died. Mrs. Anna Shouse, 90, mother of Jouett Shouse, Democratic National Executive Committee chairman; after a brief illness; in Omaha, Neb.

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