Married. Lucia Houston Hobson, 29, daughter of the late handsome Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson, who got the Congressional Medal of Honor and was kissed by more U. S. women than any other male after he tried to trap Spain's fleet in Santiago Harbor in 1898; and William Earle Dodge Stokes Jr., 38, sportsman son of the late rich hotel owner; in Elkton, Aid.

Married. Robert Sidney Maestri, mayor of New Orleans, member of Louisiana's political triplets who inherited the Huey Long dynasty;* and Hilda Bertoniere, 33. for 15 years his private secretary; in New Orleans.

Divorced. Lupe Velez, 28, hot-hearted Mexican cinemactress; and Johnny Weissmuller, 34, swimming cinema Tarzan; at last; in Los Angeles. Married in 1933, the Weissmullers threatened divorce in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937. Aside from his habit of throwing things at her, Miss Velez's chief complaint was: "All he say [on the screen] is 'ugh.' So he take it all out on me at home. He talk, talk, talk, talk all the time."

Died. Guy N. Collins. 66. chief botanist of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry, who introduced the avocado (alligator pear) to U. S. dinner tables; of heart disease; at Lanham, Md.

Died. Father Andreus Hlinka, 73, venerated chief of the Slovak Catholic People's Party, stanchest pre-and post-War lighter for political recognition and independence of Slovaks in Czechoslovakia; at Ruzomberok.

Died. Edith Virginia Stewart ("Mother") Willey, 76. enthusiastic Dry, for 34 years conductor of Tuesday night meetings to persuade U. S. marines to quit drinking; of heart disease; at Forest Hills, L.I.

Died. Thomas K. Heath, 85, surviving member of the most famed of all blackface song-&-dance teams, precisely one year after his longtime partner James Mc-Intyre; at Setauket, L. I. Mclntyre (dance) & Heath (song) were together off & on for 60 years, played The Georgia Minstrels for 30, The Ham Tree for almost as many, seldom had a quarrel. For some time an ailing paralytic, Heath lived his last year not knowing Mclntyre had died.

Died. Adolph Lewisohn, 89, German-born broker and copper-mining multimillionaire, whose philanthropies included a stadium (to College of the City of New York, for concerts, athletics), a school of mines (to Columbia), a chemical laboratory (to Dartmouth); of a heart attack; at Upper Saranac Lake. N. Y.

*The others: Louisiana's burly Governor Richard Webster Leche; New Orleans' suave Hotelman Seymour Weiss.

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