Births and deaths

Born. To Josephine Young Case, only daughter of Owen D. Young; and Everett Needham Case. Financier Young's assistant : a daughter. Name: Josephine Edmonds Young Case (after Grandmother Young).

Born. To William Larimer Mellon Jr., grandnephew of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and Grace Rowley Mellon; a son; in Pittsburgh.

Married. Lord David Cecil, 30, author of The Stricken Deer (biography of Poet William Cowper, which won the English $500 Hawthornden prize in 1930); and Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of Critic Desmond MacCarthy; in London. Lord David is the younger son of the Marquess of Salisbury.

Divorced. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood, 31. author (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss); from her second husband. Charles T. Greenwood, 42, Brooklyn banker; in Bridgeport, Conn.

Died. Elbridge Rand Herron, Manhattan mountain climber; by falling off the Second Pyramid; at Gizeh. Egypt.

Died. Helen Brooks Davis, 50. wife of Dwight Filley Davis, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War. onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the Davis Cup for international tennis; of arthritis; in Berlin.

Died. Ralph Dayton Cole. 59, Ohio State Commander and one of the founders of the American Legion in Paris in 1918; onetime (1905-11) U. S. Representative; of a fractured vertebra suffered in an automobile accident; in Warren. Ohio. Defeated by Warren Gamaliel Harding for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator in 1914. he later declined President Harding's offers of the Ambassadorship to Belgium and the governorships of Panama and Alaska.

Died. Francis Murray Wilson, 65, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri; of cancer of the stomach; in Kansas City. Mo. Named as Nominee Wilson's successor was Guy B. Park, 60-year-old Platte City judge.

Died. Lieut.-Colonel George Cecil Beaumont Theodore Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester, 65. who had the hereditary right to wear his hat in the presence of the King of England; in London.

Died. Dr. Simon Strousse Baker, 66, onetime (1922-31) president of Washington & Jefferson College; by his own hand (pistol); at Washington. Pa.

Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel at all."

Died. Mary Robbins Hillard, 70. founder and headmistress of socialite Westover School for girls at Middlebury (Conn.); of influenza; at Middlebury.

Died. William Alden Smith. 73. long-time (1907-19) U. S. Senator from Michigan, millionaire owner of the Grand Rapids Herald; of a heart attack; in Grand Rapids. Mich.

Died. Jessie ("Bonnie") Bonstelle. old-time actress-manager, founder of Detroit's Bonstelle Playhouse which in 1924 became the Detroit Civic Theatre, longtime manager of stock companies in Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto, Rochester (N. Y.), Northampton (Mass.) and Providence (R. I); of heart trouble; in Detroit. Stars she trained: Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, William Powell, Katherine Alexander. Rollo Peters, Earle Larrimore, Joan Lowell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Morgan, Ben Lyon. Kenneth McKenna, Melvyn Douglas, Jessie Royce Landis, Minor Watson.

Died. Lura Mansfield Olmsted Reed. 76. wife of Missouri's onetime (1911- 29 ) U. S. Senator James A. Reed; of pneumonia; in Kansas City, Mo.

Died. Mrs. Jane Whiting Whipple Scandrett. 85, mother of St. Paul Railway's President Henry Alexander Scandrett and Northern Pacific Railway's Executive Vice President Benjamin Wright Scandrett; in St. Paul.

Died. Dr. Julian Daniel ("Judy") Taylor. 86, Latin professor of Colby College (Waterville, Me.) for 59 years, officially titled "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner (TIME, Nov. 9, 1931); of a heart attack brought on by helping harvest apples; at Waterville. Me. Inheriting his wife's money, he shrewdly pyramided it. Last year he gave Colby $250,000 (contingent upon raising $2,750,000 more within three years) for the "New Campus for Old Colby."

Died. The Hon. Katherine Plunket. Ill., oldest woman in the British Isles (she survived the reigns of George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses.

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