Born, To Queen Astrid of the Belgians and King Leopold III; a second son, Albert; in Laeken (see p. 20).

Adopted. By Lolita Armour Mitchell, granddaughter of Chicago's famed Packer P. D. Armour, and her husband, John J. Mitchell Jr.; a 6-month-old, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl; to be named Lolita Sheldon Mitchell. Year ago, the Mitchells adopted a boy, John J. Mitchell III.

Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom.

Died. Parke Davis. 62, attorney, football authority; of kidney disease; in Easton. Pa. At Princeton, where he was coached by Thomas Woodrow Wilson, he was a star tackle. When he was coach at Amherst one of his assistants was Calvin ("Red") Coolidge.

Died. Thomas William Jackson, 67, humorist; by his own hand (revolver); in Mineral Wells. Tex. Most famed of his works was On a Slow Train Through Arkansas.* one of 13 pulp booklets widely sold for 25-c- each by "news butchers" on Western and Midwestern local and "accommodation" trains 30 years ago.

Died. Maggie Cline (Mrs. John F. Ryan), 77, famed vaudeville singer during the go's; of apoplexy; in Fair Haven, N. J. Her most popular song, which she sang 6.000 times, was "Throw Him Down, McCloskey."

Died. Frederick Delius, 71, blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival.

Died. Jesse Root Grant, 76, mining engineer, youngest son of President Ulysses Simpson Grant; in Los Altos. Calif." A Democrat, he unsuccessfully tried to get his party's Presidential nomination against William Jennings Bryan in 1908.

--On a Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached him.

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