Born. To Mrs. & John S. Martin, Book Editor of TIME, a daughter, Barrie (8 1/2 lb.), in Cleveland.

Reported Engaged. Prince Leopold, 25, heir to the Belgian throne; to Princess Astrid of Sweden, 21, "prettiest Princess of Europe." She has been reported engaged to the Prince of Wales, Prince Olaf of Norway, etc.

Married. Joan Bennett, youngest daughter of Actor Richard Bennett and Actress Adrienne Morrison Bennett (now divorced) ; to one John Martin Fox, son of steel and lumber merchant; at London. The now Mrs. Fox has two sisters: Constance, who married rich Philip M. Plant last year; Barbara, who was the onetime dancing partner of Maurice Mouvet.

Married. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith,* to one Phillip E. Brast, oil operator; at Covington, Ky. While on her honeymoon she stopped in Manhattan to visit the trial of Harry Micajah Daugherty. Two years ago she had testified against the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General during the Senate investigations. Newspapers called her "Daugherty 's giggling nemesis" (TIME, March 24, 1924).

Married. General Erich von Ludendorff, 61; to Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, at Tutzing, Bavaria. He wore his general's uniform, all his medals, his spiked helmet; so did his best man, Major Siry, ex-adjutant. Also, he gave motorcycles to the two schoolboy sons of his new wife.

Married. Lew Cody, 39, (real name Louis Cote), cinema actor; to Mabel Normand, 28, cinema actress, suddenly/- by the county recorder at Ventura, Calif.

Died. Seiji Hayami, 57, Japanese Finance Minister; at his villa at Kamakura, of a "lingering illness."

Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers.

Died. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia.

* Harry M. Daugherty's life-long friend, who in 1923 suicided in the onetime Attorney General's apartment in Washington, D. C.

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