Married. Mary Leslie Dana, St. Louis socialite; and Channing McGregory Wells Jr. (American Optical Co.); at Wianno,

Mass.

Married. Antoinette Wood Frissell, sister of Explorer Varick Frissell, lost last year in the Newfoundland explosion of the sealing ship Viking; and Francis McNeil Bacon III, Manhattan socialite; at Greenwich, Conn.

Reconciled. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooner; and Fay Webb Vallee. At midnight of her first day in Reno, Mrs. Vallee telephoned "many many minutes" to her husband in Atlantic City. Next day she said: "I was just a little fool. . . . We love each other more than ever now." He exhibited to reporters a telegram: "I will love only you always." Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Julia Davis Adams, daughter of famed Democrat John William Davis: Boston Socialite William McMillan Adams, who has been U. S. Rubber Co.'s representative in Denmark. Died. Professor William C. Schluter, 38, able professor of finance in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia. At his death were detectives with a warrant charging him with attempted rape of Negress Victoria Jones, 21. Died. Gerardo Scarpato, 42, Brooklyn racketeer; of strangulation. He was the fifth man to die in supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant at Coney Island. Although Scarpato presented a perfect alibi, he lived in mortal dread of vengeance, insisted that police record his fingerprints, had his full name tattooed on his left arm. Died. Florence Agnes Amberg Hurley, 47, second wife of famed Chicago Businessman Edward Nash Hurley; of injuries received in an automobile accident; at Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties, was attending a directors' meeting of Central Illinois Co. when he was told of his wife's injuries. He reached his wife five minutes after her death, resolved on an investigation of the Illinois Central grade crossing where a locomotive hit Mrs. Hurley's La Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from injuries inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y. Died. Magnus Washington Alexander, 62, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An expert on industrial planning, in 1928 he called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty, The Right of Way, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Trespasser, The Power and the Glory, etc., etc.) ; after a heart attack; in London. At Trinity College, Toronto, he passed his examination for deacon's orders in the Church of England, turned literature lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever seen. Having burnt them all, he noticed a woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress Amy Van Tine in 1895, was knighted in 1902, raised to a baronetcy in 1915 in recognition of his services as U. S. chief of British propaganda. In 1920 he went to Hollywood to arrange the picturization of The Right of Way, returned intermittently for ten years, was seriously hurt in a California automobile accident.

Died. Charles Gimbel, 70, board chairman of Gimbel Brothers (store), Jewish philanthropist; of heart disease; at Lake Placid, N. Y. Third of Bavarian Adam Gimbel's seven sons, he helped expand the original Vincennes, Ind. fur trading post, from which grew the Milwaukee store (1887), the Philadelphia store (1894), the Manhattan store (1910), which absorbed Saks Thirty-fourth Street and Saks Fifth Avenue stores (1923) and the Kaufman & Baer store in Pittsburgh (1926).

Died. Francis La Flesche, 75, son of the last chief of the Omaha Indians, able ethnologist; near Macy, Neb. At 15 he was a runner to locate buffalo herds, could run 100 mi. in 18 hr. His book Middle Five records his life in the Presbyterian Mission School in Sioux City. In his books he pointed out that the Indian had survived the white man's whiskey and rifle, could not survive intermarriage, was racially doomed. Longfellow called his late sister Suzette ("Bright Eyes"), wife of Newsman and Indian Scout Thomas H. Tibbles, the embodiment of his character Minnehaha. In the last years of his life La Flesche's Indian blood and erudition made him one of the Smithsonian Institute's leading ethnologists.

Died. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, 78, real estate tycoon, president of Los Angeles Steamship Co.; in Los Angeles. One of his largest exploits was the purchase and subdivision of the entire 15-mile San Fernando Valley. He headed the syndicate which subdivided Hollywood 30 years ago. With his partner, the late Eli P. Clark, he built and controlled electric interurban lines, consolidated them into Pacific Electric Railway, affiliated with the Southern Pacific System.

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