Eloped. Stevens H. Hammond, 23, Chicago sportsman and socialite, vice president of Whiting Corp. (steel); and one Madelyn La Salle, model who posed for Sculptor John H. Storrs's figure of Ceres on the Chicago Board of Trade Building; in Chicago.

Married. Devadas Gandhi, 21; and Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariav, 20; in Poona, India (see p. 18).

Married. Ruth H. Kresge, 30, often rumored engaged, eldest daughter of Sebastian Spering Kresge (5-c--10-c--25-c- stores); and Henry W. Nugent Head, 35, Wall Street broker, onetime British Army officer in India.

Married. Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush, 56, Wall Street trader, president of American International Corp. (investment trust), reputed to be richest U. S. bachelor of his age; and one Elizabeth Hunger, 33, his private secretary; in Larchmont, N. Y. Because of his knowledge of market operations, he was called to testify at the U. S. Senate's investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns 2,200. He once had two live elephants carried to the roof of the old Waldorf-Astoria to entertain his guests.

Divorced. Marie Louise Wanamaker Munn, granddaughter of the late John Wanamaker; from Gurnee Munn, Manhattan socialite; at Stuart, Fla. Proceedings were secret.

Birthdays. King Gustaf of Sweden, 75; Liederkranz Cheese, 40.

Died. Osee Lee Bodenhamer, 40, one-time (1929-30) national commander of the American Legion; of burns suffered in an oil field near Henderson, Tex. when he, 150 yd. from the nearest well, set off a gas explosion by lighting a cigaret; in Shreveport, La.

Died. Josef Rosenblatt, 51, world famed synagog cantor and concert singer; of a heart attack after completing a film for the American-Palestine Fox Film Co.; in Jerusalem. An orthodox Jew, he would not remove his vast beard even when offered $3,000 a night to sing in La Juive for the Chicago Opera Company.

Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge.

Died. Jenny Davidson Hibben, 70, wife of the late John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton; of fractures of the skull and pelvis sustained in the automobile collision in which her husband was killed; in Manhattan, Ill since the accident occurred May 16, she developed pneumonia, was never told of her husband's death. Died. Horace H. Rackham, 74, Detroit attorney and charitarian; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Disregarding the advice of bankers, he mortgaged his real estate, borrowed $5,000, took 50 shares in the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. In 1919, Henry and Edsel Ford bought him out for $12,500,000.

Died. Clara Zetkin, 75, "grandmother of German Communism''; of heart disease; in a sanatorium outside Moscow. Her oldtime friend Lenin called her "the best man the German Communists have." Last year, in the face of Nazi fury, she insisted on her rights as oldest deputy to open the Reichstag, was carried in on a stretcher (TIME, Sept. 12).

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