Born. To Winston Guest, Long Island polo player, and Helena Woolworth McCann Guest, 5-c--&-10-c-; heiress: a son, their first; in Manhattan. Engaged-- Helen Dawes, 24, youngest daughter of President Rufus Cutler Dawes of Chicago's late Century of Progress Exposition; and Louis F. Watermulder, 34, Chicago bank officer, son of Rev. G. A. Watermulder of Lawrence, Kans.

Married. Martha Boswell, 28, eldest of the radio-singing Boswell Sisters (Vet, Connie) and Major George L. Lloyd, British Wartime flyer, managing director of Aero Insurance Underwriters; in Manhattan. Revealed a few days later was the marriage, last month, of Sister Connie, to Harry Leedy, manager of the trio.

Married. Benny Leonard, 39, retired, undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion; and Jacqueline Stern, 29, his onetime secretary; in Manhattan.

Married. Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, 41, U. S. Senator from Washington; and Anne Duffy, 38, his longtime secretary; in Chicago.

Married. Isidor Jacob Kresel, 57, Manhattan attorney, counsel to Samuel Seabury during his investigation of magistrates' courts in 1930, convicted in 1933 of aiding in misapplication of funds in the Bank of United States crash (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), but later exonerated; and Mrs. Adele Gans, 45, widow of Dr. Sigmund Leon Gans of Philadelphia; in Manhattan.

Marriage Revealed. Suzanne Fisher, debutante Metropolitan Opera soprano (TIME, Jan. 6) ; and Harry Jacobsen, German-born agent for European cinema firms; in Paris last April.

Sentenced. George W. Norris, Broken Bow, Neb. grocer who in 1930 attempted to file his name in the Nebraska Republican primaries on the same ballot with U. S. Senator George W. Norris (TIME, July 28, 1930), was accused of perjury by a Senatorial investigating committee; to three months in jail, $100 fine; in Lincoln, Neb.

Died. Jay Gibson Gates, 25, insurance broker, son of President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner; of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage, presumably when its doors blew shut after he had started his automobile; in Lower Merion Township, Pa.

Died. Roland Koester, 52, German Ambassador to Paris since 1932, career diplomat whom Realmleader Hitler was lately reported ready to replace by Joachim von Ribbentrop in order to expedite a Franco-German understanding; of pneumonia; in Paris.

Died. Jay Elmer House, 65, onetime Mayor of Topeka, Kans., writer for 34 years of the daily column "On Second Thought," recently for the Philadelphia Inquirer; of bronchial pneumonia; at Topeka.

Died. Walton Lee Crocker, 67, president since 1921 of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.; after an intestinal operation; in Boston.

Died. John J. ("Boss") McLaughlin, 67, oldtime Chicago gambler, onetime Illinois State Representative, indicted in 1933 for conspiring to dispose of $250,000 in "hot" bonds, convicted last spring of helping pass $57,000 of the $200,000 ransom in the Bremer kidnapping (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934 et seq.); of pneumonia; in Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. where he was serving a five-year prison term.

Died. Harry Bache Smith, 75, librettist of more than 300 comic operas and musicomedies, lyricist of 6,000 songs; of heart disease; in Atlantic City. His most profitable work was Robin Hood (1890) with Reginald de Koven. His share of the royalties totaled $250,000 by 1912, and such numbers as 0 Promise Me and Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop! Look! Listen!, Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles (1932).

Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London.

Died. Roland, the last sea elephant in captivity; in the Berlin Zoo (see p. 63).

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