Born. To Arthur P. Morel, building contractor, and Germaine Turmel Morel: a son, his 24th child, her 12th; in Berlin, N. H. Weight: 12 Ibs. Name: Morris Aime. Papa Morel's first dozen children were borne by a previous wife who died in 1924, the second dozen by Germaine Morel in the last 13 years. Of the 24, 20 are living.

Engagement Revealed. General Mao Tse-tung, 46, China's No. 1 Communist, once sought by Chiang Kai-shek with a price of $250,000 on his head, now a valued military ally of the Generalissimo; and Lan Ping, one of China's two top cinemactresses.* His first wife and child were killed by Chiang's men in a purge of Communists. Another wife, delicate Ho Tzu-chien, fought in battle with his Army, bore him children, gave them all away to peasants on the Army's route.

Married. Jane Howard, 25, reporter-daughter of Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard; and Lieut. Albert Carson Perkins, U.S.N., 32, on duty with the U. S. Mediterranean squadron; in Lisbon, Portugal.

Married. Joseph Curran, 35, rough, tough president of C. I. O.'s stormy National Maritime Union; and Retta Toble, 31, former shipline employe; he for the second time, she for the first; in Reno, Nev.

Married. Helen Wills Moody, 38, ex-tennist; and Aidan Roark, 34, Irish-born international poloist, scenario executive at Twentieth Century-Fox; both for the second time; after elopement to Las Vegas, Nev. In San Francisco, Broker Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 38, her divorced husband, announced his marriage to Anne Lamarre, 28, of Chicago, month ago at Austin, Nev.

Separated. Ethel Hilder (Ruby) Keeler, 30, onetime limber-limbed tap dancer and cinemactress, and Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), 53, comedian, crooner and mammy-songster, after eleven years of "The Bond Hollywood Can't Break"; in Hollywood, Calif.

Seeking Divorce. Sarah Hammond Palfrey Fabyan, 27, No. 2 U. S. woman ten-nist, tiny, ladylike winner of 29 national tennis titles; from Marshall Fabyan Jr., 28, Boston banker; in Salem, Mass.

Divorced. Horace Elgin Dodge, Detroit speedboat maker; by his second wife, Muriel Sisman Dodge; after an eight-year separation; in Detroit, Mich. Grounds: "In public and private he derided and belittled her and complained of fancied wrongs."

Died. Alice Brady, 46, longtime stage and cinemactress, daughter of old Broadway Showman William A. Brady; of cancer; in Manhattan. Doctors had told her a year ago she had only a short time to live. A tragedienne on Broadway, Actress Brady was typed as a fluttery comedienne in Hollywood, was just as good in serious parts (In Old Chicago).

Died. Harvey Deuell, 49, managing editor of the biggest (daily circulation 1,975,000) newspaper in the U. S., the tabloid New York Daily News; in an automobile accident, at Teaneck, N. J. Highest paid newspaperman in the U. S., he got $140,000 last year for reflecting in print Publisher Joe Patterson's mass-tuned image.

Died. Julius Forstmann, 68, wool dynast (board chairman of Forstmann Woolen Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Belonging to the fourth generation of a woolen family, he early left his native Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty.

Died. John Taylor Adams, 76, taciturn onetime (1921-24) G. 0. P. national committee chairman, close-mouthed campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge; after long illness, in Dubuque, Iowa.

*The other: Miss Butterfly Wu.

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