Monday, Jul. 01, 1929

Married. James Cash Penney Jr., son of the chain store tycoon and Prohibition zealot; to Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan and Rye, N.Y.; in Manhattan; by Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, onetime official of the Anti-Saloon League.

Married. Frank D. Comerford, 36, president of New England Power Association, vice president and treasurer of International Paper & Power Co., and a Miss Mary McLaughlin of Worcester and Boston; in Vatican City. It was the first U. S. wedding in the new-made Papal State.

Divorced. Will H. Hays, onetime (1921-22) Postmaster-General, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, President of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America; from Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays; at Sullivan, Ind.; after a marriage lasting 27 years. Reason: incompatibility.

Resigned. Major James Francis Coupal, U. S. A., 45, Coolidge White House physician; from the Army; to practice medicine in Washington, D. C.

Anniversary. Harvard University President and Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Lowell; their Golden Wedding; in Boston.

Died. Martha King Reyburn, youngest daughter of President Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan smartmart; near Innsbruck, Austria; when, suddenly swerving to avoid striking a small girl, she drove her car into a tree. Two months prior, at Ravenna, Italy, Miss Reyburn had accidentally killed a septuagenarian Italian bicyclist (TIME, May 6).

Died. Alexander Smith Cochran, 53, of New York City, carpet tycoon, yachtman, onetime "richest bachelor," divorced husband of Ganna Walska (now Mrs. Harold F. McCormick); at Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Died. Florence Busch Bull, 58. widow of Dr. William Tillinghast ("Billy") Bull, (famed oldtime Yale dropkicker and scrub-team coach), aunt of the late Editor Briton Haddon of TIME; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Sir A. Maurice Low, 68, of Washington, D. C., chief U. S. correspondent of the London Morning Post, 40 years a Washington newsgatherer; in Washington.

Died. William A. ("Bill") McCabe. 69, Police Commissioner of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. confidential adviser of James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at Poughkeepsie.

Died. George Paul Dussau, 73, of Berkeley. Cal., French-born structural engineer who bossed the erection of the Statue of Liberty in 1883; in Berkeley.

Died. James O'Sullivan, 83, of Lowell, Mass., retired originator of "O'Sullivan's" Rubber Heels; in Lowell.