Divorced. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime Mayor of New York; by Janet Allen Walker, plump onetime vaudevillian; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville Jr.

Divorced. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Socialist Review, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator; and Esther Murphy Strachey, daughter of the late Patrick Francis Murphy, head of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), famed after-dinner speaker; in London.

Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids.

Birthdays. Inventor Elihu Thomson (80), Andrew William Mellon (78), Associate Justice George Sutherland (71).

Died. Dr. Fonsa A. Lambert, famed football rule-maker and official; of a bullet fired by his 17-year-old son when Dr. Lambert, intoxicated, turned from choking his wife to attack the boy; in Columbus, Ohio.

Died. James Mitchell Hoyt, 47, senior partner of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Prince & Whitely, which failed in October 1930 owing some $15,000,000 to more than 5,000 customers; of abdominal complications; in Manhattan.

Died, Charles E. Eveleth, 57, vice president of General Electric Co.. War-time developer of a submarine detector which Allied forces used to destroy 15, cripple 35 German U-boats; after long illness; in Schenectady, N. Y.

Died. Raymond William Stevens, 58, onetime president of defunct Illinois Life Insurance Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Highland Park. 111. (see p. 50).

Died. William C. State, 62, consulting engineer of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., inventor of a tire-building machine, builder of Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock; of complications following three months' illness; in Akron.

Died. Louis Ullstein. 70. head of Berlin's great Ullstein publishing house; in Berlin. Second and favorite of the founder's five sons, he was credited with building up the firm to its present reputed position of world's largest. Its Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (weekly) has a circulation of some 1,750,000. The circulations of its Vossische Zeitung (daily), Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung am Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications to principal German cities. Though Louis Ullstein and other members of the family tried to forget their Jewish origin, both firm and family have lately been targets for Jew-hating Nazis (see p. 16).

Died, George Tourny, 71, president of San Francisco Bank, treasurer of University of California's Board of Regents; after an attack of influenza; in San Francisco. He started with San Francisco Bank 55 years ago as a $20-a-month office boy, became its president in 1923. Ultraconservative, he made his bank's stock one of the country's highest priced, with a reported bid of $10,000 a share, a book value of $12,000. It pays regular quarterly dividends of $60 a share, an extra dividend of $75, last Christmas paid a special dividend of $50.

Died, Elizabeth Brine Lansbury, 72. wife of Britain's Labor Party Leader George Lansbury; of bronchitis; in London. Parents of four sons, eight daughters, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1930.

Died, Louis Sloss, 73, pioneer Alaskan trader and shipper, president of Sloss Securities Corp., vice president of Alaska Commercial Co.; of a heart ailment; in San Francisco. In 1870 his father's Alaska Commercial Co. obtained sole right to take fur-bearing animals (seals) from two Aleutian islands, held it 20 years. made millions. He and his brother Leon founded Northern Commercial Co., many another trading and mining enterprise. lost most of their fortune in 1917 through bad investments.

Died. Walter Brooks, 77, director, onetime treasurer and grandson of the founder of Brooks Brothers (clothes'-; after a long illness aggravated by shock at his wife's death in February; in Manhattan.

Died, Matthew ("Matt") Byrnes, 80. famed oldtime jockey and trainer for August Belmont, John Jacob Astor, Pierre Lorillard, James Ben Ali Haggin, Marcus Daly; of pneumonia; in Long Branch, N. J.

Died, Eleanor Dean Roosevelt, 81, mother of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, relict of Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt who was a fourth cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and second cousin of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. ; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died, Henry Norman, 87, famed Negro evangelist; in Boston. Huge grandson of an Abyssinian king, he fought in the Civil War, later ran a boxing school. When "some Christian people took an interest" in him he burned his boxing equipment. Thereafter for years he nightly laid his hat on the sidewalk in Boston's Pemberton Square, evangelized respectful crowds. His Thoughts I Met on the Highway sold 100,000 copies.

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