Married. William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, brother-in-law of David Sinton Ingalls, Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite; in Rye, N. Y.

Died. William Alfred Moore, 13, able assistant editor & circulation manager of the mimeographed Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald (TIME, May 25, 1931); by drowning, when he slipped from a log into the Copper River at Chitina.

Died. Violet Sharpe, 28, of Tupps Clump, England, maidservant in the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow; by her own hand (cyanide); in Englewood, N. J. She had been sharply questioned by police investigating the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. She seemed timid, reticent. Just before she was to be questioned further regarding one Ernest Brinkert. taximan of White Plains, N. Y., with whom the police were led to believe she went riding on the night of March 1, Maid Sharpe took her life, apparently in a fit of nerves. Later the police were forced to exonerate not only Taximan Brinkert but also one Ernest Miller who said he, not Brinkert, had been Maid Sharpe's companion.

Died. Michael William ("Billy") Minsky, 41, ablest of Manhattan's four famed burlesque-producing Brothers Minsky; of a lung infection; in Brooklyn.

Died. Seth Edward Thomas Jr., 55, president of the clock company founded by his great-grandfather in 1813, board chairman of General Time Instruments Corp. (holding company for Seth Thomas and Western Clock); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Jersey City. Clockmaker Thomas was the last of his line.

Died. William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Lord Brentford, 66, British statesman, Stanley Baldwin's Secretary for Home Affairs (1924-29); of heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike.

Died. George Payne McLean, 74, long-time U. S. Senator from Connecticut (1911-29) and its onetime governor (1901-03); of heart disease; in Simsbury, Conn. Senator McLean was a close friend and political adviser to Calvin Coolidge.

Died. William Cox Redfield, 74, President Wilson's Secretary of Commerce; of heart disease; in Brooklyn.

Died. Catherine T. Coll Wheelwright, 74, mother of President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State; after long illness; in Rochester, N. Y. An Irishwoman from Bruree, County Limerick, she bore President de Valera by her first husband (Vivian de Valera, a Spanish sculptor and musician long dead) hard by where Manhattan's Chrysler Building now stands.

Died. Frank Gordon Bigelow, 84, one-time president of Milwaukee's First National Bank who pleaded guilty to a $1,500,000 embezzlement, onetime president of American Bankers' Association; of old age; in Milwaukee. Rising from runner to head of his bank and national fame, Banker Bigelow plunged into the wheat market in the wake of John Warne ("Bet a Million") Gates. With the connivance of subordinates, he tapped the bank's funds to finance his speculation. The Gates corner in May wheat collapsed in 1905; Banker Bigelow was trapped. Since serving six years of a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth, he had lived in obscurity.

Died. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90, one of the surgeons who attended Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth (TIME, April 4); of old age; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. William Williams Keen, 95, famed brain & nerve surgeon, wit, professor emeritus of surgery at Jefferson Medical College; of old age; in Philadelphia. Twice captured and exchanged during the Civil War, he was an Army surgeon during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home. A vulcanized rubber jaw was inserted, his speech was not affected, Wall Street never knew. Not until 1917 did Surgeon Keen publish the story.

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