Born. To Boxer James Joseph Tunney, 36, and Polly Lauder Tunney, their third son; in Manhattan. Brothers: James Joseph Jr., 4, John Varick, 2.

Born. To Songwriter Irving Berlin, 48, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, 32, daughter of Postal Telegraph's Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay: their third daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Sisters: Ellin, 9, Linda, 4.

Married. Josephine Medill Patterson, 23, daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of New York's Daily News, for two and a half years a newshawk on Colonel William Franklin Knox's Chicago Daily News; and Chicago Attorney Jay Frederick Reeve, 43; in Crown Point, Ind.

Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons."

Died. Dr. Bernhard Wilhelm von Billow, 51. since 1930 German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, nephew and namesake of the pre-War Chancellor; of a lung inflammation; in Berlin.

Died. Dr. James Tate Mason, 54, Seattle surgeon, installed last month as president of the American Medical Association (TIME, May 25); of thrombosis; in Seattle's Virginia Mason Hospital which he founded 18 years ago.

Died. Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 68, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters; of tuberculosis and grippe; in his villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted as the literary patriarch of the Revolution.

Died. Benjamin Bacharach, 71, real estate man, onetime national president of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, eldest of Atlantic City's Bacharach brothers (Republican Representative Isaac, longtime Mayor Harry); of burns and shock after scalding himself in his bathtub; in Atlantic City, N. J.

Died. Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, longtime senior U. S. Senator from Florida; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington.

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