Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London.

Appointed. Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, 53, Commander of the Control force of the U. S. Fleet; to be Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; succeeding Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison. retiring. During the World War Admiral Hart commanded Submarine Divisions 4 and 5 in European waters, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal. Since 1923 he has commanded the Mississippi, served as supervisor of New York Harbor, commanded the Submarine Divisions of the Battle Fleet. He became a Rear Admiral in October 1929, Commander of the Control Force in May 1930.

Appointed. General Charles Pelot Summerall, retired Chief of Staff of the Army; to be president of The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina at Charleston; succeeding Col. Oliver James Bond.

Retired. Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, 70, British Consul General, dean of foreign consuls in Manhattan, whose term in office has been twice extended beyond the age limit (60) because of "special conditions." New Consul General is Gerald Campbell, transferred from San Francisco.

Born. To Plutarco Elias Calles, 52, onetime President of Mexico, and Senora Calles (Leonora Llorente), 28; a son (tenth child of Senor Calles; nine were born to his first wife, Natalie Chacon, who died in 1927. Senor Calles married Senorita Llorente last August.

Died. Dr. Luis Philander Berne, 48, Manhattan plastic surgeon; of heart disease, while operating on the nose of Mrs. Muriel Sisnan Dodge, second wife of Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan.

Died. Alfred Watterson McCann, 52, pure food expert, author (Starving America, God--or Gorilla, The Science of Keeping Young, et al.);of heart disease, shortly after broadcasting a pure food lecture; in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter.*

Died. Frank Edson White, 57, up-from-the-bottom president of Armour & Co. (meats), vice president of Armour Leather Co., a director of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., Stock Yards National Bank, American Surety Co., and Chase National Bank (New York); by falling from a seventh-story apartment; in Chicago. Night before, at a dinner at the packing plant restaurant, he had fallen accidentally from the speakers' platform, hurt his head. It was not believed that the injury was serious, but he complained of feeling unwell. His friend Treasurer Philip L. Reed of Armour & Co. left him alone in a bedroom. A few minutes later Mr. White's sister-in-law passed the doorway, found the room empty, the French windows wide open. A coroner's jury of Mr. White's friends returned the verdict of vertigo, accidental death.

Died. Lieut. Col. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, 59, senior member of McAlpin. Kauffman, Merle-Smith & Smart (Manhattan lawyers), onetime (1908-11) inspector general of the New York National Guard, son of General Edwin Augustus McAlpin who helped found Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel, director of Greeley Square Hotel Co. (which operates the hotel), and of Women's Hotel Co.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Edgar Steiner Thomson, 59, ophthalmologist, eye-surgeon and director since 1902 of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, onetime secretary and vice chairman of the ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association; in Manhattan.

Died. Professor Allen Johnson, 60, historian, editor since 1926 of the Dictionary of American Biography, onetime (1910-26) Lamed Professor of American History at Yale, editor (1918-21) of Chronicles of America, author of many a historical work (Stephen A. Douglas, Union and Democracy, Jefferson and His Colleagues, et al.); of shock after being struck by an automobile; in Washington, B.C.

Died. Albert Kuppenheimer, 64, retired Chicago clothing manufacturer, son of the late Bernard Kuppenheimer who founded B. Kuppenheimer & Co.; of heart disease; in Los Angeles.

Died. Professor John William Burgess, 86, political scientist, Civil War veteran, founder in 1880 of Columbia University's School of Political Science and dean until 1912 of its faculty, first Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions (1906-07) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin; in Brookline, Mass.

*Last week Magistrate George W. Simpson, resigning under fire, was discovered to have banked $100,000 in excess of his salary over a period of twelve years.

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