Married. Jouett Shouse, new president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, divorced from his longtime (1911-32) wife; and Mrs. Catherine Filene Dodd, daughter of Boston Storeman A. Lincoln Filene, divorced wife of Alvin E. Dodd, onetime Assistant Attorney General; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Janet Sheppard, 21, eldest daughter of U. S. Senator from Texas Morris Sheppard (18th Amendment); and one William Graves, 21, fellow student in a drama school; in Manhattan.

Married. Phyllis Pratt, youngest daughter of Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt (defeated Nov. 8), granddaughter of Standard Oilman Charles Pratt; and Paul Henry Nitze, Manhattan bond salesman (Dillon. Read & Co.). only son of Professor William Albert Nitze, University of Chicago's Romance Language department head; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. By Jane Thurston Harris, 21, daughter of Conjurer Howard Thurston: Harry Harris. 29, Pittsburgh theatre scion; in Pittsburgh. Charges: because she refused his backgammon advice, he hurled backgammon board, glasses and a ginger ale bottle, tore off her clothes before guest. Not mentioned: the 1931 fight in a Detroit hotel between Defendant Harris & Father-in-law Thurston, leaving two Thurston ribs broken, Harris nearly blinded by a volley from Thurston's tear gas fountain pen.

Divorced. Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of three Georgian brothers (others are divorced from Film Actresses Pola Negri and Mae Murray); and Princess Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, Manhattan socialite; at The Hague, Holland. Prince Alexis, son of the late Tsar Nicholas' aide-de-camp, lost his standing as "unofficial ambassador from Georgia" at Paris, by a new non-aggression pact signed last fortnight by France and Soviet Russia.

Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical physics.

Convicted. Conrad Henry Mann, 61, thrice president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, onetime Grand Worthy President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of which he is now financial director, called to Washington last summer by his good friend President Hoover to sit in his National Business Conference; of conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery which he helped organize for the Eagles; in Manhattan's Federal Court. The Government showed that ticket holders put up $1,759,273, out of which Eagle Mann pocketed $230,000 after cash prizes amounting to $75,000 were distributed. Possible sentence: three years in prison, $12,000 fine.

Sentenced. Dr. Townley T. French. 57, Boston doctor, onetime Harvard Medical School prodigy; to 15 years imprisonment; for shooting dead his wife Grace as "an act of mercy" last September when faced with privation; in Boston.

Died. Maurice Delarue Caron de Beaumarchais, 60, French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of famed French Playwright Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais (Le Mariage de Figaro, Le Barbier de Seville); of an operation; in Paris. Playwright Beaumarchais sold war supplies to the American Colonies during their Revolution. His descendants still hold the unpaid bills.

Died. Count Stefan Przezdziecki, 56, Polish Ambassador to Italy; of heart failure; in Warsaw.

Died. Marie Cole, postmistress for U. S. tribes of Spanish, Russian, Rumanian. English & French gypsies, since her appointment 20 years ago by Spanish Gypsy King Steve Costello; in Fort Smith, Ark. Qualification for the post: as a non-gypsy she was not likely to decamp.

Died. Alexander J. Porter, board chairman of Shredded Wheat Bakeries; of heart disease; in Niagara Falls. N. Y.

Died. Clement Studebaker Jr., 61, Chicago public utilitarian, wagon & automobile scion; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Presidencies: Illinois Power & Light Corp., Illinois Traction Co., Illinois Traction, Inc., Des Moines Electric Light Co., Iowa Power & Light Co., Kansas Power & Light Co., Kewanee Public Service Co. Board chairman: Illinois Terminal Co.

Died. John H. Borden, 62, uncle of Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley's wife, teller of Philadelphia's First National Bank; of a heart attack brought on while watching from Secretary Hurley's box an exciting play in the first quarter of the Army-Navy football game (see p. 29); in Philadelphia.

Died. Lilian Pritchard Bigelow. 66, second wife of Poultney Bigelow, 77, historian, explorer, onetime intimate of Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern; of pneumonia & heart disease; at Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y.

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