Married. Louise Hovick, 23, famed Burlesque Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee until she turned to the cinema; to Robert Mizzy, 25, wealthy New York dental supply dealer. Unwilling to wait the three days required in California between posting of intention to marry and wedding, they hired a water taxi, went 20 miles out to sea and in the presence of two witnesses were married by the captain.

Died. William Leslie Edison, 58, inventor, second of Thomas Alva Edison's three children by his first wife;* in Wilmington, Del.

Died. Charles Manley Smith, 69, Governor of Vermont through 1935 and 1936; in Rutland, Vt.

Died. David G. Baillie, 71, oldtime newspaperman, onetime literary secretary to Andrew Carnegie, father of United Press President Hugh Baillie; while vacationing, in Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland.

Died. Frederick Strauss, senior partner in the international banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co.; on his 72nd birthday; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Foret, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed New England tragedy, Ethan Frome. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize with The Age of Innocence.

Died. John Hodge, 81, onetime (1906-23) member of the British Parliament, British trade union leader, Wartime Minister of Labor (a post he was the first to hold) in the coalition Cabinet of David Lloyd George; at Bexhill-on-Sea, England.

Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines.

*Still living are Thomas Alva Edison's second wife and their three children; one daughter by his first wife.

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