Born. To Dr. Joan MacDonald MacKinnon. 25, second daughter of Ramsay MacDonald, and Dr. Alastair MacKinnon: their first child, a daughter; in Leeds, England.

Born. To Lawrence Tibbett, singer, and Jennie Marston Adams Burgard Tibbett : their first child, a son, weight 7 1/2 lb.; in San Francisco. Baritone Tibbett has twin sons, aged 13, by his first marriage. Mrs. Tibbett has three sons by two previous marriages.

Eloped. Janet Elizabeth Snowden, 19, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden, sister of Marion Snowden who eloped with Prince Girolamo Rospigliosi (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931); and Prince di Sirignano don Francesco Caravita of Naples, 24; in Manhattan.

Married. Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, 49, "America's richest bachelor," yachtsman, contract bridge expert; and Gertrude L. Conaway, 32, of Philadelphia ; quietly in Manhattan.

Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 20, Philadelphia banker's scion, great-grandson of Jay Gould; and Helen Avis Howard, 21, Atlanta socialite; in Walhalla, S. C.

Divorced. William Powell, cinemactor; by his second wife, Carole Lombard Powell, cinemactress; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty ("a very emotional man, cruel and cross in manner of language").

Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor ; by his third wife, Kathryn Carver Menjou, cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (fits of rage, profanity).

Left. By Mrs. Mary Louise Dickerman Woodin: $355,300, to her son, Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin.

Left. By Sir John Reeves Ellerman, shipping, breweries, real estate tycoon, reputed wealthiest Englishman: -L-17,000,000 (currently $75,160,000), in a will which disposes of his estate "so far as can at present be ascertained." Total value of his estate is expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright and $3,000,000 in trust;* to his son, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, $3,000,000 outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund for any relatives who may have been forgotten, orders a cut of one-third in the bequest of anyone who contests the will. A final codicil increases all bequests by the amount the pound has dropped since England left the gold standard.

Elected. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retiring president of Harvard: to be chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, succeeding the late Dr. John Grier Hibben, president-emeritus of Princeton; in Manhattan.

Died. Chester Ellis Wright, 36, No. 9 U.S. War ace, onetime (1916) holder of all Harvard strength records; after a two-year fight against Hodgkin's disease (progressive enlargement of lymphatic glands), in Boston.

Died. Alan Francis Winslow, 37, one-handed assistant chief of Pan American Airways' foreign department, first U.S. aviator to bring down a German plane in the War; when he fell from a third-floor hotel window; in Ottawa.

Died. Ezekiel Sarasohn, 69, longtime (1905-28) editor & publisher of the Jewish Gazette, founded by his father in 1874, and the Jewish Daily News, first Yiddish papers published in the U.S.; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. Anton Witek, 63, Bohemian-born violinist, concertmaster of the Berlin (1894-1904), Boston (1908-1918), Frankfort (since 1918) Symphony Orchestras; suddenly; in Winchester, Mass.

Died. Benjamin Thaw, 74, Pittsburgh socialite banker and philanthropist, half-brother of Harry Kendall Thaw; after long illness; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Frederick Starr, 74, famed anthropologist, authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students.

Died. John H. Waters, 74, president of National Radiator Corp., of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at the Treasury Department during a hearing on the reorganization of Johnstown, Pa.'s. United States National Bank, of which he was president; in Washington.

Died. John Milton Dodson, 74, long-time (1901-24) dean of medical courses at the University of Chicago and dean of students at Rush Medical College, one-time editor of Hygeia; of uremia; in Chicago.

Died. Philip Alexander Bruce, 77, historian of the U.S. South (History of Colonial Virginia, Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers), brother of Maryland's onetime U.S. Senator William Cabell Bruce: after long illness; in Charlottesville, Va.

*In 1927, Mrs. MacPherson divorced Robert Menzies McAlmon, penniless Greenwich Villager whose poems she had read during a visit to the U.S. in 1921. Because Poet McAlmon was awed by her wealth, she proposed the match herself, married him two weeks after their first meeting.

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