Married, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval, 23, daughter of France's peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineto de Chambrun, 28, nephew of the late great Nicholas Longworth, longtime Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Paris.

Separated. Edward F. Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp. and Zonite Products Corp., founder of E. F. Hutton & Co. (brokers), uncle of Countess (Barbara Hutton Mdivani) Haugwitz; and Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post (Postum). Reported settlement: $5,000,000.

Appointed. Mrs. Adena Miller Rich, fortyish, longtime resident social worker at Chicago's Hull House, onetime secretary to its late great founder Jane Addams: to succeed Jane Addams as the institution's head resident.

Awarded. To Editor Edna Woolman Chase (Mrs. Richard Newton) of the London, Paris and U. S. editions of Vogue, mother of Actress Ilka Chase (Mrs. William Murray): the cross of the French Legion of Honor; in Paris. Upon Albert Feugas, waiter at Galatoire's Restaurant, New Orleans, was bestowed the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his World War Service, which included five wounds. To His Eminence William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest honor of the French Republic.

Died. Humorist Will Rogers and Pilot Wiley Post; in an airplane crash; near Point Barrow, Alaska (see p. 32).

Died. Charles Stanley Mitchell. 53. board chairman of the $175,000,000 Bank of United States when it closed in 1930; of heart disease, at High Hill, L. I. Indicted with other officers of the bank, he turned State's witness, helped send them to Sing Sing for misapplication of the bank's funds.

Died, Sir William Watson, 77, "dean" of English poets, longtime "neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt:

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue, The haggard, cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned, words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand,-- Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, condemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave.

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