Seeking Divorce? William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, fisticuffer; from Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey, cinemactress; in Reno, Nev. whither he went for a "rest." Said he: "We've had a scrap. I might file a divorce action. ... It depends mostly on letters I've written to her. ... I want to patch the thing up. ... But I want a home, a family and family life. . . ."

Said Cinemactress Taylor: "I'll never let him get a divorce. ... I don't believe he said any of those things. ... I have given up dozens of engagements in order to be with him. ... I have always wanted babies more than anything else in the world."*

Died. Lee La Follette Siebecker. 40, Milwaukee lawyer, nephew of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette, cousin of Wisconsin's Governor Philip Fox and Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr.; by his own hand (hanging), because of ill health and financial difficulties (his law partner was a suicide in 1929); in Milwaukee.

Died. Kahlil Gibran, 47, Syrian philosopher, artist, poet (The Prophet, The Earth God; Jesus, the Son of Man); of cancer of the liver; in Manhattan.

Died. Tom Santschi, 50, hulking, fighting cinemactor (The Spoilers, The Hell Cat, Three Bad Men); of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Famed was his battle with oldtime Actor William Farnum/- in The Spoilers; but their attempt to duplicate it last February in Ten Nights in a Bar Room (TIME, March 9) was a pathetic shambles.

Died. General Lazaro Chacon, 56, President of Guatemala who, stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, resigned last December (TIME, Dec. 29); after a paralytic stroke; in New Orleans, La. He became Provisional President in 1926, following the death of President Jose Maria Orellana, was soon elected for a full six-year term. Quiet, businesslike, he governed ably, suspended the Constitution once, kept Guatemala's perennial rebels in check until his physical breakdown. Four Presidents have followed: Dr. Baudilio Palma, General Manuel Orellana. Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade, General Jorge Ubico.

Died. William Stevenson Baer, 58, orthopedic surgeon, clinical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wartime chief orthopedic consultant of the A. E. F.; after a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore, Md. His chief discovery: a method of injecting sterilized oil into a stiff joint to prevent the reformation of adhesions. A later observation: that bone infections could be cured by the use of bluebottle fly maggots.

Died. Mary Desti, 59, friend and biographer of the late great Dancer Isadora Duncan, mother of Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) who is the son of her first husband, Solomon Sturges of Chicago (she divorced him, married Capt. Howard Perch, from whom she later separated); of superabundance of white corpuscles in the blood, a rare disease which she contracted soon after the death of Dancer Duncan in Nice in 1927; in Manhattan.

Died. Nicholas Longworth, 61, 40th Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; of pneumonia; in Aiken, S. C.

Died, Samuel Woolner Jr., 64, president of the Rubber Association of America, retired (two months ago) president of the Kelly-Springfield Rubber Co.; in Manhattan; after a lingering illness.

Died. Col. Michael Friedsam, president of B. Altman & Co. (Manhattan department store), art collector, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Manhattan some 70 years ago (not even his friends knew his exact age), son of Collector of Internal Revenue Morris Friedsam, he entered at 17 the employ of his cousin Benjamin Altman. In 1913, at Mr. Altman's death, he became president of the store and of the Altman Foundation (philanthropic). His military title was earned as Quartermaster-General of the New York National Guard during the War. His $10,000,000 art collection he bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provided it be kept intact.

Died. Isaac Gimbel, 74, board chairman and retired president of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Gimbel Bros, and Saks, seven department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired in 1927 in ill health caused by a fall when riding horseback.

Died. George Henry Hathaway, 86, president since 1903 of Redpath Lyceum Bureau Inc., one of the oldest chautauqua bureaus; after a fall last fortnight; in Boston, Mass. He booked as lecturers Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humorist Mark Twain, Preacher Henry Ward Beecher; Singers Liza Lehmann and Lillian Nordica.

Died, Major Laban K. Miles, 87, uncle of President Herbert Hoover, onetime (1878-95) U. S. agent for the Osage Indians; after long illness; in Pawhuska, Okla. Known to the Indians as "White Father," he lived on the Osage Reservation for 53 years, advised, aided them in their local government. Young "Bert" Hoover lived in his home for a year at the age of 9, and at 14 after his father's death.

*''Babies? Neice'" said Cinemactress Taylor two months ago (TIME, Feb. 9).

/- Whose wife (married 1906, separated 1928) sued him for divorce last week. Charge: desertion.

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