Born. To Dolores Costello & John Barrymore, actors; a first son (second child); in Los Angeles. Name: John II. weight: 6 Ib. 10 oz.

Engaged. Joy Ivey Dickerman, daughter of President William Carter Dickerman of American Locomotive Co.; and Orson Luer St. John, son of former President Gamaliel St. John of New York Steam Corp.

Engaged. Gerard Swope Jr., son of the president of General Electric Co.; and Marjorie Lincoln Park, daughter of President Franklin Atwood Park of Safe Deposit Co. of New York and vice president of Singer Sewing Machine Co.

Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan.

Sued. Helen Hayes MacArthur, actress (The Good Fairy), wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur (The Front Page, Lulu Belle) by Playwright Mac Arthur's first wife, Carol Frink MacArthur, cinema critic of the Chicago Herald & Examiner; for $100,000. Charge: alienation of Playwright MacArthurs affections.

Died. Alexander Melville Dollar, 52, eldest son of the late Shipping Tycoon Robert Dollar, head of his own Canadian-American Shipping Co., onetime president of Canadian Chamber of Commerce; of heart disease, like his father (TIME. May 23); in Vancouver. For many years he represented the Dollar interests in Canada, resigned from his father's company in 1922 to branch out for himself. Able brother Robert Stanley has long headed Dollar Lines, was last week elected president of reorganized U. S. Lines (see p. 46).

Died. Benjamin Schlesinger, 55, founder-president of potent International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lean, rangy, bitterly intense. Founder Schlesinger was regarded as one of Labor's ablest leaders, his union as one of the strongest in the U. S.

Died. Hugh Chalmers, 58, oldtime motormaker, onetime president of Chalmers Motor Co. (merged with Chrysler) and Chalkis Manufacturing Co. (antiaircraft guns); of pneumonia; in Beacon, N. Y.

Died. James Abercrombie Burden, 61. sportsman, longtime president of Burden Iron Co.; of an embolism; in Syosset, L. I. On his estate stayed Edward of Wales in 1924.

Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage.

Died. Oscar King Davis, 66, oldtime war correspondent, secretary of the National Foreign Trade Council; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Trained under the late, great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, he scooped the capture of Guam from a Spanish commander who thought the U. S. ships were firing a salute. He covered the looting of Peking in the Boxer Rebellion, wrote the first eye-witness report of Japan's victory over Russia at the Yalu, was caught in Berlin when the U. S. entered the War. An able political observer, Correspondent Davis was publicity director of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose campaign.

Died. Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Tata, 72. Indian industrial & utility tycoon, board chairman of Tata Companies of Bombay; in Bad Kissingen, Germany. Educated at Cambridge, he built the textile, steel and hydroelectric interests of his father into India's largest industrial organization. Though irked by publicity, he habitually traveled with five servants, lived in legendary splendor. Westernized in everything but religion (he was a fire-worshipping Parsee), he endowed the Indian Institute of Science (research) founded by his father, recently established a trust of -L-2,250,000 for public purposes.

Died. Willard Duncan Vandiver, 78, onetime Congressman from the 14th Missouri District (1897-1905), reputed originator of his State's "Show Me" slogan; of pneumonia following an appendectomy; in Columbia, Mo. Banquet guests of Philadelphia's Five O'Clock Club once in 1899, Col. Vandiver and Governor Hull of Iowa discovered they had no dress suits, agreed to attend as they were. But Governor Hull surreptitiously rented an ill-fitting outfit, later eulogized the city and its tailors who, he said, made him a dress suit in 15 minutes. Wrathful at being made conspicuous. Col. Vandiver roundly abused Philadelphia, turned savagely on his fellow speaker: "His talk about your hospitality and enterprise palls on me. ... I do not believe you have either. He wants another feed. . . . I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cockleburrs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me!"*

*The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, believing the phrase older than Col. Vandiver, gives other versions. One of Col. A. W. Doniphan's men in his Mexican expedition (1847) "on hearing some of the tall stories then told . . . by muleteers and bullwhackers . . . said, 'I'm from Missouri and you'll have to show me that.' " A "Forty- Niner" who, "on hearing the seductive prospectus of a manipulator of a brace game in a mining camp gambling hell, said, 'Show me! I'm from Missouri.' "

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