Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought to be a rare Eastern disease; in London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died. Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark, her husband Daniel, their sons Rowland, 10, and Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine. (Attorneys found no U. S. precedent involving a woman juror, few sentences so severe for similarly guilty male jurors.) U. S. Circuit and Supreme Courts ruled that she must receive either jail sentence or fine, not both. Last fortnight two St. Paul judges chose jail, ordered Mrs. Clark to begin her term one day last week. She did not appear. Three days later a farmer found the Clark family's bodies huddled in their tightly-shut automobile, a hose in from the exhaust pipe.

Died. Clay Stone Briggs, 57, U. S. Representative from Texas since 1919, onetime (1909-19) judge of Texas' 10th Judicial District; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Sir Henry Alfred McCardie, 63, British High Court justice; by his own hand (shotgun); in London. He had lately been ill of influenza, was reported depressed by criticism of his use of the bench to air his personal opinions. A handsome, black-eyed bachelor, he was most famed for his views on women & marriage. He favored birth control, steri- lization of the unfit, compulsory abortion in special cases. Last year he ruffled Englishmen by refusing damages to a grocer whose wife had been "enticed away," commenting: "A woman's body does not belong to her husband. . . . She is a citizen, not a serf."

Died, George Campbell Smith, 75, vice president & treasurer of Street & Smith Publications Inc.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ill a month, he was not told of the death, eleven days before his own, of his brother and partner, Ormond Gerald Smith (TIME, May 1).

Died. Thomas Ewing Sherman, 76, Jesuit missionary priest, son of the late General William Tecumseh Sherman; in New Orleans. In 1906 he tried to organize a memorial march from Atlanta to the sea, abandoned it when Southern indignation made President Roosevelt withdraw the cavalry escort.

Died. Felix Adler, 81, lecturer, author, social reformer, founder & leader of the Society for Ethical Culture; following an intestinal operation last January; in Manhattan. Son of a German rabbi, he was dismissed from Cornell's faculty for radicalism, went to New York City at 24 to found the Society for Ethical Culture. Its first school was housed in a Manhattan "Gashouse District" dance hall. He lived to dedicate a $1,000,000 ($250,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr.) highschool at Riverdale, N. Y. in 1928, see his ethical religion spread to many a U. S. and European city. His belief: "Morality is inde- pendent [of theology and metaphysics] ; it is progressive."

* Convicted in a retrial, W. B. Foshay and H. H. Henley, the company's vice president, are now appealing their 15-year sentence.

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