Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan; a daughter, their fourth (one died), legally unfit to inherit Emperor Hirohito's throne. Weight: 3,365 grams (7.4 lb.). Length: 49 centimetres (1.6 ft.)

Reported Engaged. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Field Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London. In 1926 Miss French was engaged to Henry Bradley Martin, Manhattan socialite. In 1929 she rushed to the U. S. to minister to him after he was injured in an automobile accident in Colorado. The engagement was subsequently broken.

Engaged. Jane, daughter of President T. George Lee of Armour & Co.; to William Edward Graham of Chicago; in Chicago.

Married. Roberta Star Semple, 19, daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the late Missionary Robert Semple; and William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser of the S. S. President Wilson; in Singapore. Purser Smyth met Evangelist McPherson and her daughter at the beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiance in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went to the altar when she was 17, so Roberta, being 19, waited much longer than either of us."

Rolf McPherson, 18-year-old son, became engaged last week to one Lorna D. Smith, 19, of Alva, Okla.

Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 26, one-time Olympic swimmer, amateur world record-holder in seven short and middle distance events, professional since 1929; and Roberta Leone ("Bobbe") Arnst, musicomedienne (Simple Simon, Rosalie); secretly, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a two-week acquaintance.

Married. Richard Bird, British actor* (on Broadway, Havoc, Candida, The Fanatics); and his longtime friend Joyce Barbour, British actress (on Broadway, Havoc, Sky-High, Present Arms); in London.

Married. Hyrum, 73, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; to his neighbor, Mrs. Hannah Lyle Chapman, 37; by Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Bishop Edward L. Solomon; in Salt Lake City. Father Dempsey divorced Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, mother of "Jack," in 1919; married Lottie Dexter Blasingame in 1924, was divorced by her five months later. Said Mother Dempsey to inquiring reporters: "None of the public's business when we were divorced, if we ever were divorced. I don't care what he does. That's his business."

Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court.

Appointed. Ottawa's handsome Major William ("Bill") Duncan Herridge, K. C., 42, winner of the D. S. O. Military Cross, and Brigade Majorship in the War, widower of Rose Fleck Herridge, granddaughter of the late John R. Booth who was Canada's richest man (lumber); to be Canadian Minister at Washington.

Birthday. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice, "Grand Old Man" of the Supreme Court of the U. S.; in Washington, D. C. Age: 90. Date: March 8.

Died. Grace Coburn Smith, 59, wife of Chairman George Otis Smith of the Federal Power Commission; in Washington.

Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced him he married Elizabeth Mary Countess Arnim, anonymous authoress (Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April).

Died. Thomas Fleming, 78, political cartoonist; at Maplewood, N. J. hospital; following a physical breakdown in Florida last year. An oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East.

Died. J. B. Lazear, 92, oldest West Point alumnus, appointee of Jefferson Davis, student under Superintendent Robert E. Lee and Instructor Winfield Scott, classmate of George Custer; in his Omaha home. Lazear, never graduated, had been for 39 years a bank examiner.

* Not to be confused with Richard Evelyn Byrd, retired near-admiral, U.S.N.

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