Married. Consuelo Pani, daughter of Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City.

Married. Louis Untermeyer, 47, writer; and Esther Antin, Toledo's first woman lawyer; in Manhattan. In 1928 Poet Untermeyer, after divorcing his second wife, remarried his first wife, Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer, '"because," said he, "I usually love her." Their redivorce was revealed in July.

Married. John Luther ("Jack") Maddux, 45, president of Transcontinental Air Transport (which absorbed his Maddux Air Lines and is now the holding company for Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is first vice president); and Rowena Wright of Los Angeles; in Forest Hills, N. Y.

Divorced. Lewis Luckenbach, Manhattan shipping scion; by Delia Louise Stone Luckenbach, his second wife; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.

Awarded. To Dr. William Francis Beer, Salt Lake City surgeon who performed 300 successful operations on interned Germans during the War: the German Red Cross Medal, first decoration conferred by Germany upon a U. S. citizen for wartime services; by President von Hindenburg.

Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July 31).

Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane, 20.

Died. Jean Malin, 25, female-impersonating master-of-ceremonies in Manhattan and Pacific Coast hotspots; when he accidentally backed his automobile off a pier into the sea; in Venice, Calif., few minutes after leaving the Venice Ship Club where an electric sign blazed: "Last Night of Jean Malin."

Died. Keigen Boku, 28, Korea's only aviatrix; when her plane crashed during a "goodwill" flight to Hsinking (Chang-chun), Manchukuo; near Mount Kuroga-take, Japan.

Died. Dr. William Maddox, president of Rockford College, onetime (1925-26) president of the Federation of Illinois Colleges; and Alfred O. Wilgeroth, head of the college's music department; when their automobile was struck by a freight train; near Rockford, Ill.

Died. Harry Cushing Collins, 45, first U. S. citizen to join the Allied Forces in the World War; in a Boston rooming house, after four years' unemployment. Refused enlistment in the regular French Army, he led 26 young U. S. volunteers into the Foreign Legion, was gassed and twice wounded during service in France, Belgium, Serbia, Greece.

Died, Henry Watterson,* 60, tone-deaf "Dean of Tin Pan Alley"; of heart disease; at his home near Saratoga Springs. N. Y. He had prophetic insight into the vagaries of public fancy, demonstrated it by showing Manhattan some of the first experimental motion pictures. Chatting with Broadwayites "Diamond Jim" Brady, Berry Wall and "Mannie" Chappell in a bar one day, he heard so much about "ragtime" that he bought a music publishing firm, scoured the city for "ragtime" composers, ran across a young piano-thumper named Irving Berlin. He could not follow Thumper Berlin's melodies, but he liked their titillating tempo, hired him. Money poured in from song sheets, piano rolls, phonograph records. In 1920 Watterson saw the possibilities in radio, organized Grand Radio Co. Lately he was interested in a German health machine.

Died. John Irving Romer, 63, owner-publisher since 1908 of Printers' Ink (publishing, selling & advertising news and ideas), longtime foe of false advertising; of pneumonia; in Watch Hill, R. I. No idle theorist or windy crusader, he had a lawyer draw up a statute making false advertising a crime, hammered it into the statute books of 25 States, got the Advertising Clubs of America to bring dishonest advertisers within range of prosecution. The Senate's Interstate Commerce Committee last session pondered making his statute a Federal law.

Died. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz, poet, onetime (1888-97) literary editor of the New York Tribune, wife of the New York Herald Tribune's Art Critic Royal Cortissoz; of myocarditis; in Manchester, Vt.

Died. Mary Caroline Beard, 80, sister of Founder Daniel Carter Beard of the Boy Scouts, founder (with her late Sister Adelia Belle Beard) of the Girl Scout Society, now the Campfire Girls; in Flushing, L. I.

Died. Israel Rokeach, 92, Lithuanian-born manufacturer of kosher products; in Brooklyn. His business, which enabled him to contribute substantially to charity and to building projects in Palestine, and which in 1929 moved into a $1,000,000 plant in Brooklyn, grew up from an East Side cellar shop in which he made kosher soap.

*No kin to the late famed Editor "Marse Henry" Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

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