Born. To Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, Daughter Joan of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney, sister of Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; a daughter.

Married. Henry H. Sprague, 72, inventor of the Sprague gas meter, president of Sprague Meter Co. of Bridgeport, Conn.; and his nurse-companion, Hattie Magness, 33, of Forrest City, Ark.

Retired. William Gillette, 74, oldtime U. S. actor (The Admirable Crichton, Dear Brutus, Diplomacy), dramatist (Held by the Enemy, Too Much Johnson, Settled Out of Court, Sherlock Holmes), member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters; from the stage; after a final performance in Pittsburgh of his revival of Sherlock Holmes (TIME, Dec. 9).

Elected. Herbert Hoover Jr., 29; to be president of the Aeronautical Radio Corp., which he organized to transmit aeronautical and meteorological information to air lines. Said he, interviewed at Chicago: "Father forbids my talking with newspaper men or posing for pictures."

Retired. Bliss Perry, 69, onetime (1899-1909) editor of The Atlantic Monthly, professor of English at Harvard. Closing his famed "English 41" course, devoted to the history of English literature from Elizabethan times, he said: "These rambling talks have come to an end. Gentlemen, I am going to read the authors."

Birthday. H. R. H. Alfonso Pio Christino Eduardo Francesco Guillermo Carlo Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Age: 23. Date: May 10. Celebration: festivities in Madrid, signing of the Prince's autograph album by many a personage, announcement of decided improvement in H. R. H.'s health. (He has haemophilia-- TIME, May 14, 1928.)

Birthday. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, tea tycoon, yachtsman. Age: 80. Date: May 10. Celebration: grooming his Shamrock V for the America's Cup races off Newport, R. I., Sept. 13.

Birthday. David W. Clark, vice president of Madison & Kedzie State Bank of Chicago. Age: 90. Date: May 6. Celebration: work as usual. "Learn a trade, work hard, never retire," said he.

Birthday. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, oldest U. S. Congregational minister, active in Manhattan and his home, Norwalk, Conn. Age: 97. Date: May 11. Last fortnight his brother, Edwin Beard, 92, was elected president of the South Norwalk Savings Bank, succeeding the late Alden Solmans, who died at 95, oldest active U. S. bank president.

Died. James Oliver Curwood, 19, namesake son of the late novelist (The Courage of Captain Plum, Philip Steele of the Royal Mounted, God's Country and the Woman, Nomads of the North); of a broken neck, a fractured skull; when his airplane hit a tree at Owosso, Mich.

Died. Tom Brown, onetime mayor of Stratford, Ont., embezzler of $250,000 from his law clients, since Jan. 1 fugitive under false names (John Thomas Boyd, Eric Hauser); of alcoholism and pneumonia; in Mexico City. Accompanied by a lively brunette known as his sister, he arrived in Mexico during January, stayed at the best hotels, spent lavishly, moved to cheap quarters, stayed drunk his last three weeks alive.

Died. Charles Sydney Gilpin, 52, Negro, creator of the title role in Dramatist Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones, playwright (Her Other Husband; Listen, Dearie); after a year's nervous breakdown partially due to discouragement; near Trenton, N.J.

Born in Richmond, Va., he started to work at 7, was successively printer's devil, "hoofer," pressman, barbershop porter, Canadian Jubilee Singer, actor.

Said the New York World: "Such an opportunity [Emperor Jones], he said, must ... be an accident in the life of a Negro in the U. S. . . . After the show closed . . .he gave himself over to this despondency."

Died. Harry D. ("Curly") Brown, 67, racehorse breeder, owner, racer, builder of racetracks (Chicago's Arlington Park, Tia Juana, Havana's Oriental Park, Laurel, Md.), onetime president of the Cuban-American Jockey Club; of heart disease due to high blood-pressure; at Glendale, Calif.

Died. "Arthur M. Winfield" (Edward Stratemeyer), 67, manager of Stratemeyer Syndicate, producers of stories for boys & girls, author (The Rover Boys series, The Dave Porter series, the Soldiers of Fortune series, the Putnam Hall series); of heart disease; at Newark, N.J.

Died. Richard William ("Deadwood Dick") Clark, 84, onetime Custer Scout, Pony Express rider, Deadwood Gulch stagecoach guard, inspiration for 64 Deadwood Dick dime novels by Edward L. Wheeler, friend of the late Wild Westerners Captain Jack Crawford, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Poker Alice Tubbs, Calamity Jane, Madame Mustache, and of Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Turner of Norfolk, Neb., their last survivor; of a lung infection; at Deadwood, S. Dak.

By airplane he went from his home to Washington in 1927, to invite President Calvin Coolidge to summer in the Black Hills. Then, in buckskins and Stetson, swinging an oldtime .45, he strode Chicago's "Loop," laughed at Chicago's gunmen. As he wished, he will rest in a solid-rock grave, blasted from the summit of Sunrise Mountain, overlooking Deadwood Gulch.

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