Birthdays. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 72; praying and spinning (see p. 28) at his Sevagram home. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 70 (see p. 14).

Born. To Princess Marie-Mercedes and Prince Juan, claimant to the Spanish throne: their fourth child, a son, named Alfonso after his late grandfather, XIII; in Rome.

Married. George Frederick Schrafft, 22, candy heir, speedboat racer; and Susan Stone Stephenson, sister-in-law of Victor Mature; in Manhattan.

Married. Peggy Anne Landon, 24, daughter of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon; and William M. Mills Jr., 25, Topeka attorney; in Topeka.

Married. Pennsylvania's Governor Arthur Horace James, 58, a widower; and Emily Radcliffe Case, 48, ex-Cornell housemother; at Doylestown, Pa.

Divorced. Singer Ethel ("Panama Hattie") Merman; by William J. Smith, actors' agent; in Santa Monica. He said she left him two months after their marriage last November.

Died. Mary Kirk Simpson, 45, successor to the present Duchess of Windsor as wife of Ernest Simpson; in Wiltshire, England. She introduced Wallis to Simpson.

Died. Poetess Aline Murray Kilmer, 53, widow of Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees); in Stillwater, NJ.

Died. Ernest Whitworth Marland, 67, onetime (1935-39) Governor of Oklahoma, who made and lost two oil fortunes; in Ponca City, Okla. As Governor he drilled oil wells on the Capitol grounds, made the State some $3,000,000.

Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate.

Died. Mme. Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska, 83, only sister of the late, great Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski.

Died. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 84, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; of a heart attack; in Washington (see p. 16).

Died. Wilhelm Kienzl, 84, composer of the popular opera Der Evangelimann, given some 300 productions so far; in Vienna.

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