Engaged. Mrs. Lucy Smith Doheny, president of the Los Angeles Junior League and relict of the late Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil (Teapot Dome) tycoon; and Leigh Battson, vice president of S. W. Straus & Co. Doheny Jr. was shot and killed by his secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself, in February, 1929.

Married-- Barbara Rose Schurman, daughter of Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime U. S. Ambassador to China (1921-25) and to Germany (1925-29); and Vladimir Petropavlosky, Russian explorer; in Peiping (see p. 34).

Sued for divorce. Thomas Graham McNamee, famed radio announcer; by his wife. Josephine Garrett McNamee. Grounds: adultery. She testified that, accompanied by two friends, she visited the roof on which McNamee had a penthouse, peeked through the bedroom window, saw her husband with another woman.

Elected. Dr. Steadman Vincent Sanford, 60, English professor, dean since 1927 of the University of Georgia: to be its president. Since 1860 the University has had not a president but a chancellor. Mathematician Charles Mercer Snelling, 69, chancellor since 1926, now becomes chancellor of the whole Georgia University system which comprises 26 separate institutions.

Died. Richard Edgar Horatio Wallace, 56, prolific author, playwright, producer, critic, race-track dopester, chairman of British Lion Film Corp.; of lobar pneumonia-- after a two-day illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Apparently feeling a premonition of death before coming to the U. S. last November to write scenarios for Radio-Keith-Orpheum. he bought a -L-10,000 three month life insurance policy, paying a premium of 1 to 90. As everyone knows, he turned out his some 150 novels, 20 plays, innumerable articles, at incredible speed. To transcribe the torrent of words he poured into a dictaphone, two secretaries labored incessantly. He employed no ghostwriters. Annual sales of his "thrillers" topped 5.000.000. In London once he had six plays running simultaneously. Often he wrote 20 hours, puffed 80 cigarets, drank 30 to 40 cups of weak tea a day.

Died. Dowager Empress of China Yi, 76. official mother of the ''Boy Emperor," Henry Pu Yi; after a long illness following shock; in Peiping. The shock is presumed to have resulted from word that her official son had departed for Mukden, to become a Japanese Puppet (see p. 20).

Died. Mrs. Libbie Goldston. 100, who left 202 descendants, five children, 61 grandchildren, 118 great-grandchildren in the U. S.; of old age; in Pittsburgh.

* Had pneumococci of Type I been the cause of the pneumonia, he could probably have been cured. Involved may have been Type III, for which a remedy is newly indicated (see p. 22).

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