Married. Edith Baker, 20, daughter of Banker George Fisher Baker (First National); and John Mortimer Schiff, 29, only son of the late Mortimer Leo Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb); in Manhattan (TIME, March 26).

Lost. A $250,000 suit by Singer Helen Kane; against Paramount Publix Corp., Cartoonist Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc.; in Manhattan. Charges: ''Betty Boop" cinema strips imitated the Kane face, gestures, "boop-boop-a-doop" singing (TIME, April 30).

Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray!"

Separated. Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. (former Countess Marie-Anne-Paule-Ferdinandine-von-Wurmbrand-Stuppach of Austria); from Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; after a two-month marriage; in Manhattan. Reasons: undisclosed.

Separated. Cinemactress Jean Harlow, 23; and her third husband. Cameraman Harold G. Rosson, 39; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sued for Divorce. John Gilbert, cinemactor; by Virginia Bruce Gilbert, his fourth wife; in Los Angeles. Charges: arrogance, abusiveness.

Divorced. Ludlow Ogden Smith, Manhattan insurance broker; by Katharine Hepburn, cinemactress; in Merida, Mexico. Her next husband, it was reported, would be Leland Hayward, her manager, now being sued for divorce by Lola Gibbs Hayward in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Stella Mayhew, 59, oldtime musicomedienne (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Rip Van Winkle, Hit the Deck)] of erysipelas and septicentia after gashing an ankle; in Manhattan. Once rich, she had 4-c- at the time of her death.

Died. William Hartman Woodin, 65, onetime (1916-33) president of American Car & Foundry Co., onetime (1933) Secretary of the Treasury; of nephritis and uremia following a throat infection; in Manhattan. A Republican, he supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, contributed $35,000 to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1932 campaign. As Secretary of the Treasury he worked himself into ill health during the aftermath of the banking crisis. A close friend of the President's (see p. 11), he was known for his whimsicalities ("Call me Bill''), his collection of coins and Cruikshank etchings, his musical compositions. Of the latter best known are "The Oriental Suite," "The Franklin Delano Roosevelt March," "The Covered Wagon Suite." Died. William Cooper Procter, 71, philanthropist, chairman of Procter & Gamble Co. (soap); of pneumonia; in Cincinnati. Chief beneficiaries of his philanthropies were Princeton University (Procter Hall) and Cincinnati's Children's Hospital. He was credited with being the first in the U. S. to inaugurate a profit-sharing system for his employes. He died a week after his company announced that it had sold more Procter & Gamble products in the first three months of 1934 than in any other quarter in its 97-year history (TIME, May 7).

Died. Major General Hugh Lenox Scott, U. S. Army, retired, 80; Indian fighter, Chief of Staff in the World War until September 1917; after two months illness; in Washington. Just graduated from West Point in 1876, he participated in the Sioux and Nez Perces expeditions. Learning the Indian sign language he was able to pacify belligerent Indians, was engaged in writing a work on it for the Smithsonian Institution.

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