Married. Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July 6).

Married. U. S. Senator Daniel 0. Hastings of Delaware; and Miss Elsie Saxton, of Dover, Del.; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Katherine Towle Parrott, 30, author (as Ursula Parrott) of best-selling Ex-Wife and Strangers May Kiss (she divorced Newshawk Lindsay Parrott in 1928); and Charles T. Greenwood, 41, Brooklyn banker; in Manhattan.

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Anne Cannon Reynolds, 21, daughter of Joe F. Cannon (towels) of Concord, N. C.; from Zachary Smith Reynolds, 19, son of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (Camels); in Reno. Grounds: incompatibility. Two years ago the bride's father escorted the couple to York, S. C. at 2 a.m. one day to see them married. They soon separated. Lately Mr. Reynolds settled $1,000,000 on his wife and year-old child. Last week he flew her to Reno in his airplane, departed saying, "The whole trouble was I liked small parties, Mrs. Reynolds liked big parties."

Awarded. To Jane Addams, co-founder of Chicago's Hull House: the annual $5,000 Achievement Award (for women only) of Pictorial Review for her work in social welfare and international peace. She announced she would give the money to Chicago's unemployed. '-?/

Honored. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: with the John Fritz gold medal, top U. S. engineering award: *for his achievements as "scientist, engineer, author and inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone circuits by inductance coils." .

Died. William Henry Williams, 57, board chairman and president of the Wabash Railroad, director of 70 major corporations; of heart disease; in St. Louis. He devoted his life to railroading from the time he was 16 years old and took his first job as cashier in a Pennsylvania Railroad freight office in Toledo. Working for many railroads, he rose rapidly and in 1915 became board chairman of Wabash. In 1924 he became board chairman of Missouri Pacific, was ousted in 1930 by the Brothers Van Sweringen. Close associate of Leonor Fresnel Loree in his plans to build a fifth great eastern trunk line, Railman' Williams put forward a plan of his own in 1929, two years after Mr. Loree was frustrated in his efforts. Partly because of the strong position of Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wabash plans failed. Railman Williams, a famed breeder of stock and poultry, was exhibiting at the National Dairy Show in St. Louis (see p. 13) when he died. Died. Rt. Rev. Theodore Irving Reese, 58, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Southern Ohio; of paralysis; in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bishop Reese had been ailing since his elevation to the bishopric in 1929.

Died. Milton A. Strauss, 61, of Chicago, vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); after long illness; in Los Angeles, Calif.

Died. Milo Merrick Belding, 66, one-time (1912-25) president, and son of one of the founders of Belding Bros. & Co., largest silk thread manufacturer and distributor in the U. S. before it was merged in 1925 with Heminway Silk Co.; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Manhattan.

Died. Ernest R. Ackerman, 68, U. S. (Republican) Representative since 1919 of the 5th New Jersey District, onetime president of the New Jersey State Senate, member of the House Appropriations Committee; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. An ardent philatelist, he owned $1,000,000 worth of postage stamps, had swapped with King George V and King Victor Emmanuel III.

Died. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, 70, chairman of the corporation and one-time (1923-30) president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped to live 100 years.

Died. Samuel Mather, 80, shipping, mining and steel tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.), first citizen of Cleveland; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Son of Samuel Livingston Mather who founded Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the family fortune, he was a famed philanthropist, a director of U. S. Steel and many another great corporation. Holder of 60,000 shares of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., he battled Cyrus Stephen Eaton over a proposed merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp., won last week when the project was finally dropped. Steelman Mather's 15-year-old grandson took his own life (hanging) last month (TIME, Sept. 28).

Died. Thomas Alva Edison, 84; of uremic poisoning, Bright's disease, diabetes and stomach ulcers; in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. (see p. 52).

* Amonag previous John Fritz medalists: Herbert Clark Hoover, Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, Ralph Modjeski, Guslielmo Marconi, Alfred Noble (see p. 53)-

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