Divorced. Richard Joseph Forhan, toothpaste manufacturer ("Four Out of Five") ; from Julia Anne Forhan; in Reno. Grounds: continuous quarreling.

Sued. Robert LeRoy ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, 38; by Marion Ohnick (Haru Onuki), U. S.-born Japanese opera singer; for $500,000. Charge: breach of promise to marry. Said Miss Onuki, "I love Bobbie as much ... as I did when I first promised to be his little Japanese sister." Cartoonist Ripley is currently seeking new incredible facts in Australasia.

Sued. Max Bilgray, cabaret keeper of Colon, Panama; by David Hutton; for $1,000,000. Charge: defamation of the character of his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, famed evangelist. In honor of Mrs. Hutton's recent visit to his cabaret under the alias "Betty Adams," gracious Barkeep Bilgray devised a cocktail, published its formula, named it "Halleluiah."*

Died-- Mrs. Matilda Allen Coffin, 51, wife of Howard Earle Coffin, automotive engineer; of heart disease; in Sea Island Beach, Ga. Next day Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover was to have been her guest at Sapeloe Island, famed home of the Coffins, at which have vacationed Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh.

Died. Johanna Gadski, 59, famed Wagnerian soprano, of a fractured skull received in an automobile crash; in Berlin. German-born, she was brought to the J. S. by Walter Damrosch in 1895 and, though young and inexperienced, was acclaimed by Manhattan. In recent years she toured the U. S. with the German Grand Opera Company, a mediocre organization which her rich young idolizer Geraldine Hall Bangs, Manhattan socialite, subsidized so that Gadski could go on singing in opera. Mrs. Bangs was driving the car which crashed last week with a Berlin trolley. She and Captain Hans Tauscher, Gadski's husband, were badly hurt.

Died. Mrs. Carrie Bell Reed Walsh, 65, Washington socialite, relict of the late mining tycoon Thomas Francis Valsh; of pneumonia; in Washington. Her daughter, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, is suing the publisher of the Washington Post for divorce. Longtime Belgophiles, the Walshes incorporated a special suite in their mansion for the late King Leopold, but he was forced to cancel his trip to the U. S. Later, however, King Albert and the Prince of Whales were among Mrs. Walsh's guests.

Died. Mrs. Harriet Converse Moody, famed restaurateur, relict of the late Poet-Playwright WilliamVaughn Moody; of bronchial asthma; in Chicago. While she was a young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food and wit.

Died, Austin O'Malley, M. D., 73, scientist, oculist, author, brother of Writer Frank Ward O'Malley; of arteriosclerosis after a lingering illness; in Philadelphia. As a young bacteriologist, he was credited by Sir William Osier with being the foremost figure in the U. S. in arousing medical interest in the then new diphtheria antitoxin. For seven years he was Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Forced to resign because of poor health, he researched in eye diseases, gained fame as an oculist.

Died, Bernhard von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 74, author, youngest brother of President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany; in Luebeck, Germany. Under the pseudonym of Bernhard von Burgdorff he wrote novels, a popular biography of his famed brother, a play (Galileo) depicting the conflict of church and science, which attracted interest at the time of the Scopes trial in Tennessee (1925.

Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust.

Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck & Co.).

Died. Old Fred, 43 (alleged), "world's oldest horse," owned by Hon. George Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Commissioner in London; of natural causes; in Kemptville, Ont.*

*The formula, as printed in postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking.

*World's Biggest Horse" is Sillon B, 12, pure white, foaled in France, owned by C. H. Van Wickle, of Waterloo, N. Y. Weight: 2,960 Ib. Girth 8 ft. 10 in. Height: 21 hands. Average height for equus: 15 hands. Says Owner Van Wickle: "He's just getting his growth."

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