Married. Doris Dudley, 18, stage & screen actress (End of Summer, A Womat Rebels), daughter of Manhattan Critic Bide Dudley; and Jack E. Jenkins, Beverly Hills restaurateur; in Yuma, Ariz.

Divorced. Laurence Stallings, 42, one legged Manhattan author & playwright (The Big Parade, What Price Glory?) by Mrs. Helen Poteat Stallings; in Reno Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty.

Appointed. Brigadier General Thomas Holcomb: to be Commandant of the U. S.

Marine Corps with rank of Major General succeeding retiring Major Genera John Henry Russell; in Washington.

Celebrated. The 50th wedding anniversary of President Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific System and Harriette Flora Gray; with a dinner for 1,400 in the Omaha. Neb. Municipal Auditorium. Railroad presidents present were Milwaukee's Henry Alexander Scandrett, Chicago & North Western's Fred Wesley Sargent, Northern Pacific's Charles Donnelly, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Ralph Budd.

Died. Charles Leslie Thrasher, 47, magazine illustrator famed for his quaint Saturday Evening Post covers; of pneumonia contracted after he was overcome by smoke in a fire which razed his home at Oldfield Village, N. Y.; in Port Jefferson, N. Y.

Died. Glover H. Gary, 51, Democratic Representative from Kentucky; of hemorrhages following pneumonia; in Cincinnati.

Died. Jessie George Conrad, 64, relict of Novelist Joseph Conrad; in London.

Died. Gustav Oberlaender, 69, co-founder of Reading, Pa.'s Berkshire Knitting Mills, world's largest hosiery manufacturers; of heart disease; in Reading. In 1931 he set up a $1,000,000 Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk."

Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan.

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