Born. To flyer & Mrs. Bernt Balchen; a son, weight 8 3/4 lb.; at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.

Married. George Huntington Hartford II, Harvard sophomore, heir to Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. millions; and a Miss Mary Elizabeth Epling, of Welch, W. Va.; secretly, at Covington, Va. in April. The bridegroom's mother Mrs. Henrietta Guerard Hartford of Newport and New York was sued last fortnight for $100,000 by a Miss Mildred King of Boston who asserts she was hired to protect young Hartford from a New York adventuress and received no pay for her successful efforts (TIME, Sept. 21).

Married. Mary Sybil Lewis, Arkansas-born Metropolitan opera singer and cinema star; and Robert L. Hague, vice president of Standard Shipping Co., onetime Shepherd of the Lambs Club; secretly; in Manhattan. The bride was once married to Basso Michael Franz Bohnen of the Metropolitan, the groom to Mme Edith Bobe, dressmaker.

Divorced & Married. Rev. Guy Edward ("What-a-Man!") Hudson from Mrs. L. Margaret Newton-Hudson; in Las Vegas, Nev. Next day the Rev. Hudson married at Boulder City, Nev. Mrs. Minnie (''Ma") Kennedy, estranged mother of newlywed Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, for the second time. Their first marriage was annulled several months ago when "Ma" Kennedy Hudson discovered the existence of Margaret Newton-Hudson. "What-a-Man!" said "Ma" of her bigamist husband to reporters last July when three other women claimed him as their own. "My boy is mine," she said. "Of course I didn't marry a man that no other woman wanted. My boy has 'it' and I have him."

Divorced. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, barytone opera singer and cinema star; by Grace Mackay Tibbett; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty, fame & family not mixing.

Elected. Guy A. Thompson of St. Louis; president of the American Bar Association; at the annual convention in Atlantic City.

Sued. James Irving Bush, New York broker who lately married Mrs. Virginia Van Sant Alvord (TIME, Sept. 14); by Roberta Law, onetime chorus girl; for $20,000 which she claims he agreed to pay her when he decided not to marry her. Said she: "Even if I lose I hope it will teach him a lesson."

Left. By Edward William Bok, editor who died last year: $23,718,981. Federal inheritance tax, $3,609,070; State of Pennsylvania, $2.886,730. The largest holding was stock in Curtis Publishing Co. (Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, et al.) valued at $17,445,839

Died. Samuel Livingston Mather Jr., 15, son of the Cleveland steel tycoon, by hanging himself with a belt looped over the top of a door in his bedroom; in Mentor, Ohio. Reason assigned: grief for his mother who died last June. His father was just landing in Europe when the news came.

Died. Parker Lloyd-Smith, 29, Managing Editor of FORTUNE; by jumping from the balcony of the 23rd-floor Manhattan apartment where he lived with his mother. Reason: unknown, except that he left a note for his mother, who was in the country, which contained the remark, "Heat is frightful." Son of the late Justice Walter Lloyd-Smith of the New York Supreme Court, he was educated at The Hill School (1920), Princeton University (1924, Cap & Gown Club, active in theatricals) and Magdalen College. Oxford (one year). When called to TIME in 1928 he was on the staff of the Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker Press writing editorials and in charge of the Sunday magazine. Brilliant both as writer and analyst, he soon became TIME'S Business Editor. In 1929 he was selected to lay the groundwork for FORTUNE, being named Managing Editor when the magazine appeared in January, 1930. By last week he had seen FORTUNE establish a reputation for being, according to various estimates: 1) the most readable and most thoroughgoing magazine on the subject of business; 2) the "most beautiful magazine in America." Having attracted 46,000 subscribers at $10 a year, it was showing a profit and continuing to grow, strongly. Managing Editor Lloyd-Smith's name and career were made. Other publications sought his advice. He had lately renewed his keen interest in aviation, was planning to buy a plane. Day before his death he was at his desk as usual, worked late, dined and went to the theatre in all good cheer with a school & college friend. His act dumbfounded his associates. An airplane set out from Anchorage, Alaska, to notify Wilton Lloyd-Smith, lawyer brother, off hunting with his wife and small daughters in the Rainy Pass district.

Died. Marvin Hart, 55, heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1905; at Ferncreek, Ky. The title was conferred upon him by James J. Jeffries after the latter had retired and Hart had knocked out Jack Root of Chicago. After eight months Hart lost to Tommy Burns in a 20-round fight at Los Angeles. Out of his championship he realized only $10,000, lived to complain: "I was born 20 years too soon."

Died. Maurice Fromkes, 59, Polish-born U. S. artist noted for his paintings of Spaniards; in Paris. In 1908 he won the Salmagundi Club portrait prize. His technique was "hard, dry, brilliant, with an enamel-like brilliance." His portrait of the late Cardinal Merry del Val hangs in the Vatican.

Died. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, 65, in Flatow, Germany. He was a cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II who once boxed his ears, tore the decorations from his uniform, banished him from the army and Germany for beating Princess Louisa Sophie (his wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer.

Died, Henry C. Bohack, 66, president of H. C. Bohack Co., Inc., a chain of 740 grocery stores; of heart disease; in Kew Gardens, L. I. Born the son of a German farmer, he went to the U. S. when he was 17, got a job clerking in a grocery store for $7 per month & board. In three years he saved enough to go into business with a friend, whose sister he later married. He opened the first store under his own name in 1887 at 1291 Broadway, Brooklyn. It is still in operation. In later years he told an interviewer: "Wherever I see baby carriages, I open a new store." In 1900 when he had five stores he retired, went to Germany for a year, but returned and formed the present company. His ambition: to have "the biggest grocery chain in the country--perhaps in the world."

Died. William H. Wattis, president of Six Companies Inc., the syndicate which is building Hoover Dam; of cancer; in San Francisco.

Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward." In 1924 he received the Raphael Hermann peace prize of $25,000. A Cornell graduate, he was president of the National Educational Association in 1915, member of many a learned society, an advocate of simplified spelling. Pioneer "liberal" among educators. Dr. Jordan built up Stanford University, was its well-beloved first president from 1891 to 1913, guided it through difficult financial litigation in 1893, rebuilt it after the earthquake of 1906.

Died. Colonel Zack Mulhall, 84, first Sheriff of Oklahoma, cattleman, Wild West showman; at Mulhall, Okla. where he once claimed 500,000 acres as his "Kingdom," independent of the U. S. He first introduced Will Rogers in a show at old Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. In 1897 he arranged the McKinley inaugural parade, led by Drum-Major Tom Mix at the head of the Oklahoma Territorial band.

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