Born. To Premier Benito Mussolini a son, Romano Mussolini; at the Villa Carpena, Forli, Italy (see page 18).

Born. To Newton Diehl Baker, onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War; a grandson, first child of his daughter, Mrs. John McGean; in Cleveland.

Born. To Charles Stedman Garland, 28, onetime (1920) member of the Davis Cup tennis team and onetime (1927) non-playing captain, a son, Charles Stedman Garland Jr. (8 pounds 11 ounces); in Manhattan.

Engaged. Miss Elsie McColm Butler, daughter of Ellis Parker Butler (Pigs Is Pigs); to one Harold Everett Walker, of Kewanee, Ill.

Engaged. Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann Jr., son of the late Fleischmann, famed Cincinnati yeast man, to Miss Doreet Kruse, onetime (1926-27) Cincinnati debutante.

Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent.

Married. Miss Nora Alvarado, daughter of Felipe J. Alvarado, vice president of Costa Rica; to one Roberto S. Mata of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Her father was present.

Married. Lady Jane Grey, descendant and namesake of the tragic 10-day Queen of England; (beheaded February 8, 1587 in the Tower of London upon the order of her successor, Queen Mary) to the Reverend P. H. Turnbull, Anglican clergyman; in the chapel of Westminster Abbey founded by King Henry VIII, great-grandfather of the first lady Jane Grey.

Married. Dorothy Michelson, 21, daughter of Albert Abraham Michelson, famed scientist (University of Chicago); to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president A. B. Dick Co., Chicago, manufacturers of labor-saving devices; suddenly, in Manhattan.

Married. Lieutenant William V. Davis, U. S. N., winner with Arthur C. Goebel of the Dole airplane race from San Francisco to Honolulu; to Miss Margaret Carey; at Pensacola, Pla.

Married. Elinor Dorrance, daughter of Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of the Campbell Soup Co., to Nathanial Peter Hill, grandson of the late onetime (1879-85) U. S. Senator Nathanial Peter Hill of Colorado.

Married. Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. Best man was Robert S. Pirie, son of John T. Pirie, vice-president of Carson, Pirie, Scott, rival department store.

Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew.

Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff.

Sued for Divorce. By the onetime Varvara I. Pupin, daughter of Michael Idvorsky Pupin, famed scientist (Columbia University); one Louis Graham Smith of Buffalo.

Died. Austin Peay, 51, three times governor of Tennessee (1923-25, 1925-27, 1927) of cerebral hemorrhage; in Nashville.* In 1925 he signed the Tennessee general assembly bill, prohibiting teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. He was opposed in the nomination race for governor (1924) by John R. Neal, later famed defender of John Thomas Scopes at the evolution trial in Dayton (1925).

Died. John Ford, 62, brother of famed Henry Ford; of heart disease; at Fordson, Detroit. His fortune ($750,000) he himself collected (in farming and mostly in real estate). Proud, he would accept no cash from Henry. There lives a third brother, William.

Died. Azariah Smith Root, 65, "Dean of U. S. College Librarians" and one of the founders of the Anti-Saloon League of America; of heart disease; at Oberlin, Ohio.

Died. Edward R. McDonald, 66, "Paul Revere of the Johnstown Flood" at Ebensburg, Pa. In 1889, on horseback, he dashed through the valley, loudly warned thousands of the oncoming waters. Overtaken by the flood, he and his horse reached safety.

Died. Festus John Wade, 67, potent St. Louis banker; of cancer of the throat. Irish, he came to the U. S. in 1860. In 1899 he helped found the Mercantile Trust Co. of which he was president.

Died. Willem Einthoven, 67, famed professor of heart diseases, winner of the 1924 Nobel prize for medicine; in Amsterdam, Holland.

Died. Svante August Arrhenius, 68, famed Swedish physicist and chemist, winner of the 1903 Nobel prize in chemistry, director since 1905 of the Nobel Institute Physico-Chemical Department; in Stockholm.

Died. Edward Everett Darrow, 81, Chicago high school teacher, brother of famed Clarence S. Darrow; in Manhattan.

Died. John A. Clay, 85, grandson of famed Henry Clay (1777-1852); at Great Falls, Mont.; of pneumonia.

* Henry Horton of Marshall, Tenn., state senator and speaker of the upper house, automatically became governor.