Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan.

Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world records; in Melbourne.

Died. Jean Hersholt, 69, veteran Hollywood character actor, best remembered for his kindly radio portrayal of Dr. Christian; after long illness; in Hollywood. A sometime painter, book collector and translator (a complete English version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales), Danish-born Actor Hersholt became one of filmland's best-loved personalities.

Died. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, 71, Wisconsin's famed North Woods woman doctor; of complications following surgery on a broken hip; in Wausau, Wis. Kansas-born Kate Newcomb had an ever-widening practice in a 70-mile circle around Woodruff, Wis. (pop. 550), where it was always hard sledding. Fame came to her after a "million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel on Snowshoes (by Adele Comandini), the name her wilderness patients had known her by for 25 years.

Died. Matthew Woll, 76, veteran (since 1906) labor leader, a longtime (1919-55) vice president of the old A.F.L. and a vice president (since its merger last year) of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., president of the International Photo-Engravers' Union of North America (1906-29), sometime author (Labor, Industry and Government); in Manhattan. Short (5 ft. 2 in.), swart and dapper, Luxembourg-born Matthew Woll was long identified with the Republican conservative wing of the U.S. labor movement, fought Communist efforts to infiltrate unions for more than 30 years. Once willed the job of American labor chief by A.F.L. Founder-President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis, who railroaded William Green into the slot left by Gompers' death in 1924. Matt Woll stayed on, a hard and able worker, and a visual standout in his natty garb--he favored striped pants, a gates-ajar collar and bow tie.

Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commerce head in 1945 to make way for Henry Wallace. (He later called Wallace "an incompetent meddler with screwball ideas," denounced F.D.R. as a ruthless "total politician.") His lifelong passion was power ("I am a trustee for all of the people"), and in wielding it he made many enemies, who called him "Jesse James" and "Ten-Percent Jones." To his admirers he made democracy a safe risk.

Died. Ada Galsworthy, 89, widow of Britain's Nobel Prizewinning Author John Galsworthy, desultory travel writer (Over the Hills and Far Away) and model for Irene in Galsworthy's monumental trilogy The Forsyte Saga; in London.

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