Married. Kathryn Schrafft, plump opera-singing daughter of the late Candy Tycoon George F. Schrafft; and Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths, handsome London barrister; in Newton, Mass.

Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom.

Died. Gaston LaChaise, 53, French-born sculptor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. Famed was he for figures of mighty contours and vast dimensions, one of which, a tremendous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL, was last year acquired by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, July 23, 1934). A massive man who somewhat resembled his own work, LaChaise used to say: "My statue grows, it has to be big. I cannot help it."

Died. Henry M. Kimball, 57, U. S. Representative from the Third Michigan District since February 1934, fifth successive Representative from his district to die in office since 1920; of apoplexy; in Kalamazoo.

Died. Sidney Smith, 58, comic strip artist ("The Gumps'') ; instantly, when his automobile collided with another and crashed against a telegraph pole (his head was almost torn off) ; near Harvard, Ill. He had just signed a five-year renewal contract for "The Gumps" at $150,000 a year.

Died. Bertha M. Sprinks Goudy, 67, world's ablest woman printer, wife & partner of famed Type Designer Frederic William Goudy; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Died. Thomas Ventry ("T. V.") O'Connor, 65, longtime (1924-33) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, onetime president of the International Longshoremen's Association, onetime tugboat fireman; in Buffalo. He retired in the midst of bitter Senate charges of waste and favoritism, which included the accusation that a shipper paid a $510 tailor bill for him.

Died. Emil Lederer, 67, arbiter of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference since its formation in 1932 to spread shipping business fairly, longtime Hamburg-American Line executive; after long illness; in Vienna.

Died. Sir John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 71, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, holder of 14 peerages, chieftain of the clan Scott, prospective father-in-law of George V's third son, the Duke of Gloucester (TIME, Sept. 9); in Selkirk, Scotland.

Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Henderson, 72, president of the stagnant World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, Nobel Prizewinner for Peace (1934), in London (see p. 18).

Died. Major-General William Luther Sibert, 75, builder of the Atlantic division of the Panama Canal and of the Gatun Locks, manager of many another important Army engineering job, organizer and director (1918-20) of the Chemical Warfare Service; at his country home near Bowling Green, Ky. Although he quarreled with Goethals and went home before the Canal was finished, Soldier Sibert, unlike Soldier Greely (see below) got his Congressional thanks right away.

Died. Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, 91, famed oldtime Arctic explorer, one of the founders of the National Geographic Society; of complications following formation of a bloodclot; in Washington. In 1881 Lieutenant Greely led a party of 25 into the Arctic to establish scientific bases, reached a new "farthest North," 450 mi. from the Pole. When relief was delayed starvation set in. 18 men died (one by shooting for stealing food). Rescue came in time's nick for the surviving seven. While his exploit was officially ignored, Greely laid thousands of miles of telegraph line in the Orient, the Caribbean, Alaska. Last March the old soldier was belatedly honored by award of the Congressional Medal (TIME, April 1).

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