Monday, Dec. 08, 1930

Married. Margot Einstein, 21, sculptress daughter of Professor Albert Einstein, physicist; and Dr. Dimitri Marianov, Russian scientist-writer who with Frauelein Einstein lately accompanied Sir Rabindranath Tagore on a tour of Soviet Russia's schools; in a Berlin registry office.

Married. Will H. Hays, president of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., onetime (1921-22) Postmaster General; and Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman, relict of the late James Flynn Stutesman, onetime U. S. Minister to Bolivia.

Married. James Vail Converse, Manhattan banker; and Ruth Morgan, showgirl (Smiles), his fourth wife (Mrs. Elizabeth Walter Converse, his third, was killed in an automobile accident at Falls Church, Va., last month); at Fairmont, W. Va.

Elected. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; to be a director of Williamsburg Holding Corp., which is restoring Williamsburg, colonial capital of Virginia (TIME, June 25, 1928).

Birthday. Col. Edwin A. Parrott. Age: 100. Date: Nov. 30. Celebration: a party at his Princeton, N. J. home, to which came his brother H. Eugene Parrott, 92, his son Thomas Marc Parrott, 63, professor of English at Princeton University. Colonel Parrott chanced to be in the Governor of Ohio's office when President Lincoln called for volunteers, believes he was the first man to enlist. He became Colonel of the 1st Ohio Infantry, won medals, was later made provost of Ohio. From 1866-67 he was Speaker of Ohio's Lower House. He went to Ohio Wesleyan, is its oldest living alumnus.

Died. Gustave Maurice Braune, 58, dean (since 1922) of the School of Engineering of the University of North Carolina, onetime bridge designer for New York State barge canal, onetime director of the American Society of Civil Engineers; of pneumonia; in Chapel Hill. N. C.

Died. Edward Henry Cunningham, 61. of Cresco, Iowa, vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Most Rev. Austin Dowling, 62, Archbishop of St. Paul, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minnesota and the Dakotas, onetime treasurer, chairman of the education department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; of heart disease; in St. Paul, Minn.

Died. U. S. Representative John Francis Quayle, 63, Democrat, of the 7th New York Congressional District; of heart failure resulting from pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn.

Died. Right Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, 69, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; of a heart and liver ailment; in Evanston, Ill.

Died. Edward Cornelius Goodwin, 75, librarian since 1904 of the U. S. Senate, employe of the Senate since 1887 (secretary to the late Senator Hiscock of New York, then to the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, clerk of the Judiciary and Commerce Committees); of a paralytic stroke; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile.

Died. George Wigglesworth, 77, of Boston and Milton, Mass., philanthropist, father of U. S. Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth of the 14th Massachusetts District, onetime president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, sometime president, vice president, director of the Harvard Alumni Association, board president of Massachusetts General Hospital; in Bermuda.

Died. Dr. Ernst Fuchs, 78, world dean of ophthalmologists, pioneer in work for prevention of blindness, author of many anatomical descriptions of the eye, inventor of instruments for eye surgery; at Vienna; of angina pectoris.

Died. Charles William Buck, 81; one-time (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Peru; in Louisville, Ky.

Died. Mrs. Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, 100, Labor leader; in a farmhouse near Silver Springs, Md. Born in Cork, Ireland, she grew up in Canada, went to Michigan to teach in a convent, then to teach in Memphis, Tenn., where she married George Jones, Union iron-molder. In 1867 her husband and four children died in a yellow fever epidemic. To Chicago she went, started a dressmaking business which was destroyed by the fire of 1871. Joining the Knights of Labor, she began strike activities which lasted until 1922. In the South she battled against Child Labor conditions; through the East she led marching child workers (thus becoming known as "Mother" Jones). In West Virginia in 1915 she climbed a hill, seized a machine gun, told militia that 600 armed miners were hidden on the slopes. Later she said: "Not a thing on the hillside but rabbits, but you had to fool such rascals somehow."

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