Born, To Elliott Roosevelt, Manhattan advertising man, second son of President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt; a son. Weight: 8 Ib. (see p. 12).

Sued. Norman Wadsworth Harris, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, only son of Board Chairman Albert Wadsworth Harris: by one James G. Clark; for $300,000; in Chicago. The Clark charge: When he came home one July midnight last year to Madison, Wis., to find Harris with baggage and Mrs. Clark,. Harris agreed to pay $200,000 in trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking and revolting . . . against public policy and corrupt and void."

Sentenced. Daniel J. O'Connell, 47, bankrupt investment banker; to five-to-ten years in Sing Sing Prison at hard labor; for having swindled Catholic priests and laymen of over $2,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 7).

Dropped. The case of North Carolina v. Elsbeth Holman ("Libby") Reynolds, 26, & Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19; by a nolle-pros action; in Winston-Salem, N. C. Cleared, not exonerated, were defendants Reynolds & Walker of the murder last July (TIME, July 18; Aug. 15) of Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, eccentric heir to the Camel cigaret fortune.

Birthdays. Benedictus de Spinoza, 300; Gerhart Hauptmann, Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 70; Billy Sunday, 69; Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, General Henri Gouraud, 65; John Nance Garner, 63; Oklahoma, 25 (see p. 14); Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 20.

Died. Robert Myron Cutting, 50, nominated last fortnight for 1933 president of the U. S. Golf Association, president of Chicago's R. M. Cutting Co. (truck manufacturers) ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Chicago.*

Died. Frank Clinton Smythe, 59, night watchman at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania R. R. station. Princeton 1894 valedictorian, able civil engineer who chose watchman work instead of unemployment; of injuries when beaten by unidentified hoodlums while on duty; in Philadelphia. Said Mrs. Smythe, cousin of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam: "We are proud of him."

Died. Oramel Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate.

Died. Wesley Livsey Jones, 69, senior U. S. Senator from Washington; of heart strain from kidney trouble; in Seattle. His defeat Nov. 8 by Democrat Homer T. Bone ended 33 consecutive years in the U. S. Congress (Representative 1899-1909, Senator 1909-32). An embattled dry-drinking Dry (he once drank one spoonful of brandy while unconscious), he was nationally marked as the author of the Jones "Five-and-Ten" law (five years' imprisonment, or $10,000 fine, or both, for first violations of the 18th Amendment). Senator Jones did not sponsor the bill, merely introduced it at the request of the Department of Justice (Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt). Last August he switched to the drive to resubmit Prohibition to the people. Other legislative interests: U. S. Mercantile Marine, reclamation of waste lands, control and distribution of water power, Alaska; uniform international marriage & divorce laws, U. S. entry into the World Court.

Died. Clinton Scollard, 72, poet, Hamilton College professor of English literature; of heart disease; at Bull's Bridge near New Milford, Conn. Among his 46 books of verse: Pictures in Song (1884), Songs of Sunrise Land, The Lutes of Morn, A Christmas Garland, The Cloistering of Ursula, Let the Flag Wave and Other Verses, Songs Out of Egypt (1930).

Died. Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 74, famed Negro author of North Carolina Negro stories (The Conjure Woman, The House Behind the Cedars, The Colonel's Dream), longtime Cleveland lawyer and court reporter, 1928 winner of the Spingarn Medal (Negro achievement); in Cleveland.

Died. Robert Somers Brookings, 82, famed three-career man; of pyelonephritis (kidney trouble); in Washington. At 46 he pocketed his woodenware fortune, renovated Washington University (St. Louis) with $5,000,000, gave it a fine medical school and a site on top of a hill overlooking the city. When a new chancellor, the late Missouri Governor Herbert Spencer Hadley, complimented Brookings on his home, he gave it to the university at once as a permanent Chancellor's House, walked out with only hat & overcoat. The Washington University job finished, he entered Government research work. President Wilson appointed him chairman of the price-fixing committee of the War Industries Board, a member of the post-War Capital & Labor Commission. After the War he founded the Institute of Economics (international fact-finding) ; the Institute for Government Research, the Robert Brookings Graduate School in Economics & Government, in 1927 amalgamated them into Brookings Institution, endowed with a $400,000 income, to cover the whole range of social sciences.

*Once before a nominee for the U. S. G. A. presidency died before taking office: in 1927 Nominee Charles Pfeil, deceased, was succeeded by Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor.

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