Sued for Divorce. By Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 47; Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, ex-musicomedienne, ex-wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the late financier Otto); after ten years, two separations; in White Plains, N.Y. She is his third wife (second was Cinemactress Estelle Taylor) and mother of his two children, Joan Hannah, 8, and Barbara, 6.

Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France in 1941.

Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory and God tells me what to do."

Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward was a promotion, a D.S.C.

Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90DEG temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that he had discovered a death ray capable of killing a million men, had been in touch with Mars. Once he figured he would live to be 135 but changed his mind when Prohibition died, boosted the figure to 150.

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