Married. Mrs. Nancy Traylor Swift, 23, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, divorced last June from Nathan Butler Swift, meat-packing scion; and Marcy T. Weeks, 25, onetime tintype concessionaire at the Century of Progress Mexican Village; at Chicago's City Hall. For a witness they chose Bartender Dino Sbragio "because we hoped to avoid publicity .... The marriage itself was a very mechanical affair."

Married. Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school.

Married. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, widowed Papal Duchess, most prominent U. S. Roman Catholic laywoman (TIME, Feb. 22); and William J. Babington Macaulay, 44, Minister to the Vatican from the Irish Free State; by Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, Minn.; in Manhattan, after which they sailed for Italy.

Married. Mrs. Dorothy lona Campbell Hurd, 53, only woman golfer ever to hold simultaneously the American, British and Canadian championships (1911); and Edward L. Howe, 66, widowed Princeton, N. J. banker, "just a beginner" at golf; in Elkton, Md.

Appointed. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, 53, of the Bank of England, member of the League of Nations Financial Committee since 1922; to be president of the Bank for International Settlements, succeeding Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip of Holland; in Basle, Switzerland.

Died. Howie Morenz, 34, star center of the Montreal Canadiens and one of the world's greatest hockey players; of heart failure in a Montreal hospital where he had been since breaking a leg in a game with Chicago last January.

Died. Benjamin Thaw, 47, onetime First Secretary to the U. S. Embassies in Brussels, Paris and London, husband of the former Consuelo Morgan (sister of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt and Lady Furness); of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. John Ellis Martineau, 63, Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, onetime (1927-28) Governor of Arkansas, brother-in-law of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson; of influenza, complicated by heart disease; in Little Rock. Last December he sentenced Paul Peacher after he was convicted of slave-keeping, in the first case ever tried under a 70-year-old anti-slavery statute (TIME, Dec. 7).

Died. Mrs. Mabel Sedgwick, 64, wife of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; after long illness; in Boston.

Died. Mrs. James A. Naismith, 67, wife of the University of Kansas professor of Physical Education who invented basketball at Springfield Mass, in 1891; of heart disease; at Lawrence, Kans. She played on the first girls' basketball team.

Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays.

Died. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 82, caustic, crusading wild life conservationist, first director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn.

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