Born. To Mrs. Stephen Lloyd, daughter of England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain; a daughter, the Prime Minister's second grandchild (Mrs. Lloyd has a 2-year-old son); in Birmingham, England.

Divorced. Malvina Cynthia Thompson ("Tommy") Scheider, fortyish, secretary and companion of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recently called her "the person who makes life possible for me"; from Frank J. Scheider, New York public school manual training instructor; under a District of Columbia law which makes five years' voluntary separation grounds for divorce; in Washington.

Elected. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera; to the Presidency of the League of Nations Assembly; in Geneva.

Died. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 31, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites.

Died. Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, Prince of Connaught, 55, grandson of Queen Victoria, elder child & only son of the 88-year-old Duke of Connaught, close friend & first cousin once removed of the Duke of Windsor; of cancer of the throat; in London.

Died. Henry W. Gaines, 82, "dean of Long Island commuters," who in 58 years had traveled more than 1,000,000 miles on the Long Island Railroad; in Huntington, L. I.

Died. Homer D. Boughner, 89, football pioneer; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. In the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U.S., Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869, Mr. Boughner was one of the Princeton team of 25. Rutgers won, 6-4.

Died. Hilda, 8, the Prospect Park Zoo's 3,000-lb. Indian elephant who fortnight ago was knocked into a 25-ft. moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth.

* Meantime, in Ohio, Drs. Stepner and Taplits announced that their hemophilia research (TIME, Sept. 5) was at a standstill because of a shortage of 1) funds, 2) hemophiliacs.

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