Monday, Dec. 03, 1928

Married. Laurence Gouverneur Hoes, of Washington, great-great-grandson of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S.; and Ingrid Westesson of Washington, daughter of a Swedish mining engineer; in Washington.

Married. John Blythe-Barrymore, 46, volatile prince of a theatrical royal family; and Dolores Costello, 22, famed blonde cinemactress; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sued for Divorce. Howard Henry Spaulding, by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of the late John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charges habitual drunkenness.

Sued for Divorce. Clare A. Briggs, famed Manhattan cartoonist (When, a Feller Needs a Friend, Skin-nay, Mr. & Mrs.); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N. Y.

Appointed. George Leslie Harrison of Manhattan; to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet with the hearty approval of the entire banking community here . . . have the additional advantage of continuing unchanged the friendly and important relations which the Federal Reserve Bank has had so many years with the central banks of issue abroad."

Inaugurated. Dr. George Morris Beltzhoover Smith, Lutheran minister, as President of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa.

Died. George Henry Jones, 56, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail.

Died. The Rev. Edgar Young Mullins, 68, for 29 years President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., potent Anti-Smith Democrat; from paralysis, in Louisville.

Died. Hermann Sudermann, 71, famed German dramatist & novelist, whose tragedy Heimat (Magda) was played by Modjeska, Duse, Mrs. Fiske; from apoplexy and pneumonia; in Berlin.

Died. Thomas Fortune Ryan, 77, 'famed Manhattan financier; from inflammation of the gall bladder; in Manhattan (see p. 54).

Died. Mme. Jacquet, 88, sister of Georges Clemenceau; in Paris.

Died. Baron O'Neill, 89. head of the O'Neills of County Antrim, Ireland; in Eralerstown, County Derry, Ireland. Oldsters said they heard the wail of the banshee on the shores of Lough Neagh, the night before his death.