Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Corcoran, a daughter, their first; in Washington, day before the re-inauguration of Tommy the Cork's big boss.
Born. To Hjalmar Procopé, handsome Finnish Minister to the U. S. and his British bride of last year, a son, their first; in Washington.
Married. Glenda Farrell, 36, blonde stage and screen actress now starring in Separate Rooms; and Dr. Henry Ross, 39, West Point educated Manhattan surgeon; she for the second time; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Dolores Del Rio, 35, veteran Mexican cinemactress; from Austin Cedric Gibbons, longtime art director for M. G. M.; after ten married years; in Los Angeles. Same day youthful Actor-Producer Orson Welles, 25, announced he would like to marry Actress Del Rio.
Divorced. Major Alford J. Williams Jr., 44, Scripps-Howard columnist, Gulf Oil aviation manager, most vocal U. S. proponent of the Douhet theory of aerial Blitzkrieg; by Florence Hawes Williams, 38, after 15 years' marriage; in Reno.
Died. Major General James F. McKinley, 60, who joined the army as a buck private when his uncle was President of the U. S., fought in the Philippines, rose to be Adjutant General, retired in 1935 to assume the presidency of San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston National Bank; after a heart attack; in San Antonio.
Died. Carleton Ellis, 64, chemical inventor who held some 750 patents, more than any other American except Thomas Edison and John O'Connor; of influenza; in Miami Beach. Chemist Ellis' inventions gave birth to more than 100,000 compounds. He developed Standard Oil's tube-&-tank process of cracking oil, found the formula for cheap acetone to fireproof airplane wings in World War I, made plastics an exact and lucrative science.
Died. Dame Margaret Lloyd George, 77, three days after Husband David's 78th birthday; at Criccieth, Caernarvonshire, Wales. They had been married 53 years. Mercurial Lloyd George once jocularly observed: "One of us is contentious, combative, stormy. That is my wife. Then there is the other partner—placid, calm, peaceable, and patient. That is me."
Died. Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, elder statesman of the Southern Methodist Church, author, editor, temperance leader; in Nashville. Vowed dry Dr. DuBose in 1932: "If the Angel Gabriel should come down and tell me that he had changed his mind on prohibition and wanted it resubmitted, I would not follow him."