Born. To Cinemactress Virginia Bruce and husband J. Walter Ruben, film director: a son, 6 Ib. 11 oz., their first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Her first, Susan Ann Gilbert, 8, is the daughter of the late John Gilbert. Married. Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and the late Senator Medill McCormick, granddaughter of the late President-maker Mark Hanna; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr. of Rockford, Ill.; near Rockford.

Married. Francelia Tobey, daughter of isolationist Senator Charles William Tobey of New Hampshire; and Dr. Edward Ten Eyck Munson of Rochester, N.Y.; in Temple, N.H.

Married. Frances Lulu Wheeler, daughter of isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana; and Allen Sayler, FCC employe; in Sandy Springs, Md.

Divorced. Dancer Tony de Marco; by Dancer Renee de Marco; his longtime teammate; in Reno.

Died. Noel Charles Scaffa, 53, private detective; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His specialty was the recovery of stolen jewels after the police had given up. Some of his recoveries: $600,000 of Mrs. James P. Donahue's jewels in 1925, $100,000 of Joshua S. Cosden's in 1924, $185,000 of Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell's in 1935. His confidential methods of recovery led to his conviction for perjury and the revocation of his detective license in 1935.

Died. Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, 59, the Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan, once reputed to be the British Empire's biggest taxpayer; of heart disease; in Burdwan, India. Senior Hindu Prince of Bengal, he had an annual income estimated at $15,000,000.

Died. Charles Hodgdon Schweppe, 60, president of Lee Higginson Corp., investment bankers; a suicide by shooting, because of illness; in Lake Forest, Ill.

Died. Major General Robert Alexander, 77, commander of the U.S. 77th Division in its drive through the Argonne Forest; in The Bronx.

Died. Stephen Henry Horgan, 87, inventor of halftone engraving; in Orange, N.J. In 1880 as a photographer on the New York Daily Graphic, world's first illustrated newspaper, he worked out the process which made possible the general reproduction of photographs in the press.

Left. By the late Ignace Jan Paderewski: a net estate of $35,000, in New York County. No will has yet been found.

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