Born. To Dr. Marie Stopes, famed British birth control propagandist, and H. V. Roe, pioneer aviator, a son. Dr. Stopes is editor of The Birth Control News and is author of Married Love, a volume which was the subject of a libel suit last year.

Marriage denied. Ann Pennington, famed Follies dancer, and Brooke Johns, onetime student at Georgetown University, and famed Follies banjo player (TIME, March 31). Said she: "I am living in strict singleness, and Brooke tells me that he is, too." Said he: "Yes, we are not married." Both received extensive publicity.

Married. Robert Fredericks (Ed. "Strangler" Lewis), 35, world's heavyweight wrestling champion, to Miss Bessie McNear of Kansas City, Mo., in Chicago. During the ceremony the champion's manager broke out of the room, in which Mr. Lewis' friends tried to lock him, shouting: "It's the first time Ed ever double-crossed me!" Lewis was under contract not to marry while champion. Mr. Lewis was divorced last summer from Mrs. Ida Scott Fredericks, a woman physician in San Jose (TIME, July 2).

Married. Miss Camilla Lippincott, daughter of Joshua Bertram Lippincott, late Philadelphia publisher, to Gerald H. Selous, British consul at Casablanca, Morocco; in Paris. The best man was Col. James A. Logan, American observer with the Reparation Commission. Present were Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Baron Avezzana, Italian Ambassdor to France.

Died. Dr. Purley Albert Baker, 65, for 20 years General Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America; at Westerville, Ohio.

Died. Anthony Dell, 83, father of Novelist Floyd Dell (Moon Calf, The Briary Bush) ; at Jeffersonville, Ind.

Died. Ganson Goodyear Depew, 27, Assistant U. S. Attorney of Buffalo, sportsman, orator, patron of the arts, grandnephew of Chauncey M. Depew: at Aiken, S. C.