Born. To Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers (Standard Oil, railways, public utilities, banks), an eight-pound grandson, child of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos (Millicent Rogers). In 1927 she divorced her first husband, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, by whom she had a son, Peter.

Married. Mildred Barclay Vander Poel 'of Manhattan, descendant of famed Colonial Dutchmen; and Sherburn Merrill Becker Jr., of Manhattan, descendant of Thomas Danforth, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts; in Manhattan.

Married. Edwin Crane Wilbur, play-wright-actor, who co-starred with once-famed Cinemactress Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline; and Beatrice Edna Blinn, actress-niece of Actor Holbrook Blinn; in London. Actress Blinn is Actor Wilbur's third wife. His second, Suzanne Caubet, a niece of the late Sarah Bernhardt, divorced him in 1927.

Divorced. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hirsute & dynamic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan soprano, on the ground of incompatibility, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. "We are the best of friends," stated Soprano Alda, "and I shall continue happily at the Metropolitan under his direction."

Nominated. Findlay S. Douglas, one-time U. S. amateur golf champion (1898), of Manhattan; to be President of the U. S. Golf Association, to succeed Melvin Alvah Traylor, Chicago banker.

Elected. Harrison K. McCann, (H. K. McCann Co.), and John Benson, (Benson, Gamble, Johnson & Reed); to be respectively Board Chairman and President of the A. A. A. A. (American Association of Advertising Agencies).

Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn; to be President of the Yonkers Electric Light & Power Co. Mr. Sloan now heads five light & power companies in Greater New York, which form the second largest public utilities unit in the U. S., exceeded only by American Tel. & Tel.

Elected. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of Dayton, Ohio, commercial aviation tycoon (Pratt & Whitney) who supervised the development of famed Wasp and Hornet airplane engines; to be a Director of the National City Bank of New York. .

Died. Bernette Gernsback III, daughter of Hugo Gernsback, Manhattan publisher of science and radio journals; when hit by a taxicab while stooping for a lost penny; in Manhattan.

Died. Eliot Wight Stillman, 19, nephew of famed Manhattan capitalist James Alexander Stillman, of Mrs. Percy Avery Rockefeller & Mrs. William G. Rockefeller; in an automobile accident; near Seligman, Arizona.

Died. Mrs. Lavinia Abercrombie Lovett, wife of famed Chairman Robert Scott Lovett of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad; in Locust Valley, N. Y.

Died. Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, 45, inventor of luminous radium paint; from aplastic anaemia due to radium poisoning; in Orange N. J. (see p. 40).

Died. Viscountess Pamela Grey, 57, since 1922 wife of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, previously sister-in-law of Margot Asquith; at Salisbury, England. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Viscountess Grey & her two sisters has long been famed as The Three Graces.

Died. Lala Lajpat Rai, "The Lion of Punjab," leader of the Indian Nationalist Party in the Indian Legislative Assembly, leader of the seditious Punjab uprisings of 1906, world-traveled preacher and propagandist, perhaps the most influential Indian next to Mahatma Gandhi; at Lahore, India, of heart disease.

Died. John MacVicar, 69, five times Mayor of Des Moines, first President of the League of American Municipalities (1898); in Des Moines.

Died. Col. Henry Aaron Guinzburg, 72, famed Jewish merchant & philanthropist of Manhattan; from heart disease; in Manhattan. Col. Guinzburg lived in St. Louis until 1898, where he was a potent Democrat, declining nominations for Mayor, Lieut. Gov. of Missouri, refusing the post of Minister to Mexico under President Harrison. As treasurer of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies he has, in the last eight years, disbursed more than $32,000,000.

Died. William Wallace McClench, 74, Chairman of the Board of Directors & longtime President of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Mass.; from a heart attack; in Springfield.

Died. Emeritus Prof. Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 85, famed geologist; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago (see p. 40).

Died. Dr. George Harding, 85, father of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding; from a paralytic stroke; in Santa Ana, Calif.

Died. "Uncle Bose," 86, after 39 years in the State prison at Milledgeville, Ga. In 1888 he was convicted of double murder, sentenced to life imprisonment. Later he was offered a pardon which he refused, saying he wanted another trial to clear his name.

Died. George Washington Brown, 87, shoe machinery tycoon, Vice President and Trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music, onetime machine shop timekeeper, of Newton. Mass.; in Boston.

Died. Mrs. Eleanor Coates Tylden, 106, Lady of the Manor of the Ingoldsthorpe, Norfolkshire, England, who inherited her estate from the late President of St. John's College, Oxford; at Ingoldsthorpe. On her 100th birthday Mrs. Tylden was visited by six queens--Queen Empress Mary, Dowager Queen Empress Alexandra, Queen Maud of Norway, Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Queen Marie of Rumania, and the late Tsaritsa Marie Feodorovna of Russia.