Born, To Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., son & namesake of Wisconsin's onetime (1929-30) Governor and plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler") ; and Celeste McVoy Holden Kohler: the first daughter to join the Kohler family in 50 years; in Sheboygan, Wis. Name: Celeste Nicollette.

Seeking Divorce. Actress Sylvia Sidney Cerf, 25; from Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Random House, Inc.); in Los Angeles. Charge: cruelty.

Acquitted, Dorothea Wendt Livermore, 38, divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene."

Died. Conchita Supervia, 37, famed Spanish coloratura mezzo-soprano, wife of a British timber merchant named Ben Rubenstein; in childbirth; in London. Beauteous Mme Supervia once appeared with the Chicago Civic Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 1, 1932).

Died. John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, 64, author, producer, leading man of the historic musicomedy Chu Chin Chow; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England. Chu Chin Chow opened in London in 1916, ran straight through the War, did not close until 1921. Three million people saw the show, including thousands of Allied soldiers who made it a martial institution. For a consecutive run, its record of 2,238 performances is surpassed only by the Manhattan engagement of Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Two months ago Producer Asche, who made $1,000,000 from Chu Chin Chow, went into bankruptcy, blamed high income taxes, a $225,000 loss sustained while trying to breed greyhounds.

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Died. George R. Dale, 69, Indiana publisher & politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Muncie, Ind. In 1921 he founded the Muncie Post-Democrat, declared war on the Ku Klux Klan. Hoodlums stoned him, slugged him, smashed his presses, forced him to print his newspaper outside the State. In 1925, indicted for bootlegging, Editor Dale was sentenced to jail by a judge he had attacked, claimed he had been framed. Newspapers, led by the late New York World, rushed to his defense, carried his case to the U. S. Supreme Court where it was dismissed on a technicality. In 1932, after three years as Muncie's Mayor, George Dale was again convicted of bootlegging, again claimed a frame-up. This time he was pardoned by President Roosevelt.

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Died. Pauline Faraburgh Schwab, 93, mother of Bethlehem Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab; in Loretto, Pa.

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