Born-- To Major William Duncan Herridge, Canada's Minister to the U. S., and Mrs. Mildred Herridge, sister of Canada's Prime Minister Bennett; a son (firstborn) ; in Ottawa.

Born-- To Novelist Louis Bromfield (The Green Bay Tree, A Modern Hero, et al.), and Mrs. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield; a daughter (third child); at Senlis, France.

Born-- To Sir Oswald Mosley, young leader of Britain's "New" (fascist) Party; and Lady Cynthia Mosley, his political colleague; a son (third child); in London.

Engaged. Florence T. Baker, granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker; and Thomas Suffern ("Tommy") Tailer Jr., Princeton sophomore, able golfer, son of the late investment banker & socialite.

Engaged. Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner; and a Miss Sylvi Laaksonen.

Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland.

Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody.

Married. Frederick Hudson Ecker. 64, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; and Ann Edith Stafford, daughter of Dr. Philip Daily de Boisboisel, Paris physician and cousin of France's onetime President Raymond Poincare.

Separated. George Gaylord Simpson, of the American Museum of Natural History's field staff, onetime Yale professor; and Mrs. Lydia P. Simpson. Her charge: He carried on correspondences with young women in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., he had met on fossil hunts. Countercharge: She made scenes in the Museum of Natural History.

Awarded. The Pulitzer Prizes for 1931; by the Trustees of Columbia University; as follows: Public Service: A $500 gold medal to the Indianapolis (Ind.) News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon (see p. 55).

Died. Very Rev. John Patrick McNichols, S. J., 57, president of the University of Detroit; of pleurisy; in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Died. General Jose Francisco Uriburu, 64, onetime (1930-32) Provisional President of the Argentine Republic; of an operation for stomach ulcers; in Paris. Nephew and great-grandson of Argentine heroes, he was a retired lieutenant-general in 1930, emerged at the head of the cadets who seized the abandoned government from President Hypolito Irigoyen. In 18 months of one-man government, President Uriburu turned Argentina's adverse trade balance into a favorable balance of $70,000,000, but lost his popularity. His nominee, Augustin P. Justo, was elected President and took office last February. General Uriburu's last official acts were pardoning Dr. Irigoyen, rescinding exile orders against opposition leaders (who issued duel challenges at once). Argentine viewed General Uriburu with mixed feelings when he sailed in March for Paris. Last week sirens screamed in Buenos Aires. Carpers, challengers were silent. Argentina newspapers rated Uriburu the Republic's only 20th Century hero.

Died. Col. Edward M. Young, 67, banker, president of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., ofttime delegate to Republican national conventions; of heart disease; in Allentown, Pa.

Died. Harry Kelsey Devereux, 72, Cleveland socialite, onetime president of the Grand Circuit Racing Association and of the American Association of TrottingHorse Breeders, model for the drummer boy in the late A. M. Willard's* painting The Spirit of '76; at Thomasville, Ga.; of heart failure.

Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis.

Died. Lee B. Durstine, 80, father of famed Adman Roy Sarles Durstine of Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Wooster, Ohio. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s "Million Dollar Club," of which he was a member, consists of agents who sell that amount or more of insurance in a year.

*Uncle of President Theodore A. Willard of Willard Storage Battery Co.

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