Married, William Thompson Dewart Jr., on the centenary of the New York Sun (see p. 24), of which he is secretary and his father editor-publisher; to Mrs. Catharine Ashbrook Smith. Wilmington, Del. socialite; in Alexandria Bay. N. Y.

Married. Ralph Isidor Straus, eldest son of President Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), nephew of U. S. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; and Matilda Bradford Day, Manhattan socialite; in Kidders-on-Cayuga Lake, N. Y.

Married. Mary Lilian Uppercu. daughter of Inglis M. Uppercu, Cadillac agent; and George Winthrop Haight, Manhattan lawyer; in Rumson, N. J.

Married. Eleanor Holm, 19, Olympic swimming champion, film actress; and one Arthur Jarrett, 26, radio singer; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Frank Clifford Wykoff, 24, onetime University of Southern California sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.): and one Ethel Mae Richardson of Glendale, Calif.; in Glen- dale.

Married. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 34, carpet tycoon, international poloist; and Film Actress Mary Duncan, 28; in Manhattan.

Reelected. Nahum Sokoloff, president of the World Zionist Congress; at Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Died. Paul Charles L'Amoreaux, 47, president of Parmelee Transportation Co.; of angina pectoris; in Manhattan. An attorney, in 1922 he arranged the merger of Chicago's Checker, Yellow and Parmelee taxicab companies. Last year he became president of Parmelee, vigorously advo- cated municipal control of New York City's swarming cabs.

Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones.

Died. Francis William ("Iron Major") Cavanaugh, 57, football coach at Fordham. Dartmouth, Boston College, Holy Cross for which he produced many a potent team during his 30-odd years in the sport; of cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following an operation; on his chicken farm at Marshfield, Mass.

Died. Right Rev. Christian Schreiber. 61, first Catholic Bishop of Berlin since the Reformation, close friend of onetime Chancellor Heinrich Bruening; in Berlin. Hostile at first to Hitler, he changed his mind after the Papal Concordat with Germany, proclaimed: "Our Chancellor has been appointed by God."

Died. Warren A. Bechtel, 61, president of Six Companies, Inc. (syndicate of contracting companies building Boulder Dam, of which his W. A. Bechtel Co. is one); of an overdose of insulin (diabetes remedy) ; in Moscow, en route to inspect Dnieprostroy Dam.

Died. Dr. Jan Herman van Roijen, 62. Dutch Minister to the U. S. since 1927; in The Hague, where he was on vacation.

Died. Right Rev. John Joseph Dunn, 63, Bishop Auxiliary and Vicar-General of the Roman-Catholic Archdiocese of New York, right-hand man of Cardinal Hayes; of heart failure; in Manhattan.

Died. Georges Jean Claude Leygues. 74, onetime (1920-21) Premier of France, longtime (1917-18, 1921-33) Minister of Marine, known as the "father of the after-War French navy"; of apoplexy; in St.-Cloud.

Died. Dr. Paul Van Dyke, 74, longtime (1898-1933) professor of Modern European History at Princeton University, preacher, author (The Age of the Renaissance, Renaissance Portraits, Catherine de Medicis), brother of Princeton's late patriarchal Henry Van Dyke (TIME, April 17), whom he preceded on the Princeton faculty; at his summer home in Washington, Conn.

Died. Cecile de Wentworth, 80, U. S.-born painter, resident in France since 1886; in poverty at the Municipal Hospital at Nice. For her portrait of Pope Leo XIII she was made a papal Marchesa; for many years she and the late famed Rosa Bonheur were the only women painters to hold the Legion of Honor cross; her work hangs in the Vatican Museum, Paris' Luxembourg, Manhattan's Metropolitan.

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