Born. To Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China, and Jane Beck Johnson; a son, Nelson Beck; in Peiping.

Married, Pierre Claudel, 24, elder son of France's Ambassador Paul Claudel who this week left Washington for his new post at Brussels; and Marion Rumsey Cartier, 21, only child of Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier; in Manhattan.

Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan.

Died, R. E. A. C. Paley,* 25, called by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was researching, "the greatest mathematician in England and one of the greatest in the world"; when an avalanche started by his skis, swept him down Fossil Mountain near Banff, Alberta.

Died, Ethel King Wallace, 36, relict of Thriller-Writer Edgar Wallace; of influenza; in London.

Died. Genevieve Delzant Berenger, wife of France's onetime (1926-27) Ambassador to the U. S. Victor-Henri Berenger; after long illness; in Paris.

Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist.

Died. Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. (department stores), ardent Republican, brother of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress.

Died-Charles Walker Clark, 61, president of United Verde Copper Co., son of the late U. S. Senator William Andrews Clark; of a complication of ailments followed by pneumonia ; in Manhattan.

Died. Henriette Tower Wurts, relict of George Washington Wurts, onetime (1862-82) U. S. Secretary of Legation at Florence and Rome, sister of onetime (1902-08) U. S. Ambassador to Germany Charlemagne Tower; in Lucerne. An aging, dim, tremendously "important" personage in Roman society, she gave the city her magnificently landscaped Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank Mrs. Wurts for her present was rich compensation for the fading glory of her last years. Last week her entire estate went to 77 Duce.

Died. Blanche Richel Doumer, 72, relict of President Paul Doumer of France; after long prostration over his assassination last May; in Paris.

Died. Dr. Henry van Dyke, 80, author, preacher, poet, angler, patriarch of Princeton University; in his sleep, after eight months of failing health; in "Avalon," his white-columned home in Princeton, N. J. Son of Presbyterian Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Princeton footballer and graduate in 1873, Henry van Dyke held pastorates in Newport, R. I. and Manhattan before becoming Murray Professor of literature at Princeton in 1900. Onetime (1902) moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, Woodrow Wilson's Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg (1913-17), Navy chaplain (1918), he settled down after the War to be Professor Emeritus (1923) and Princeton's Grand Old Man. Small, fragile but stouthearted, Dr. van Dyke fired an opening gun in the Modernist-Fundamentalist church war at Princeton by relinquishing his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because Fundamentalist Dr. John Gresham Machen preached, he said, a "dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel." Dr. van Dyke returned to his pew when Dr. Machen relinquished his pastorship in 1924. A firm optimist. Dr. van Dyke wrote The Other Wise Man, a best-selling parlor-book, and some 50 other works. He was a philosophical angler (Fisherman's Luck, a Creel fid of Fishing Stories).

Died. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, 90, relict of General George Armstrong Custer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1864. aged 22, she married the 24-year-old "boy general with the golden locks," followed him through Civil War and Indian-fighting campaigns. At Fort Abraham Lincoln, Bismarck, N. Dak. in 1876 a slow steamer brought her word, three weeks late, of his gallant "Last Stand" against the Sioux of Little Big Horn. She kept alive his memory by lecturing and writing (Boots & Saddles, Tenting on the Plains, Foil owing the Guidon).

*No kin to Columbia Broadcasting's President William S. Paley.

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