Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates.
Marriage Revealed-Buster Keaton, 36, film, funnyman; and one May Scribbens; as of Jan. 8 in Ensenada, Mexico, seven months before Keaton's divorce from Natalie Talmadge will become final. Said Keaton: "The marriage is okay in Mexico." Said the Ensenada judge: "I know Mr. Keaton but I have never married him to anybody."
Married. John Randolph Hearst, 23, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and Gretchen Wilson of Alexandria, La., great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson; at "La Cuesta Encantada" (Enchanted Hill), the Hearst ranch at San Simeon, Calif.
Married. Philip Mattiessen Chancellor, 25, $9,000,000 heir of the late Illinois zinc man F. W. Mattiessen; and one Elsa Klecker, 28, Viennese; in London. The groom's 1927 elopement marriage to Helen Carroll Baines, daughter of a Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, was annulled.
Married. Norman Bel* Geddes, 39, stage & industrial designer; and Frances Resor Waite, his assistant in costume design, Cincinnati socialite; in Manhattan.
Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia.
Resigned, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, warden for the past 13 years of St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y.), Episcopal offspring of Columbia University; because of budget reductions and a proposed change in educational policy. Beetle-browed and peppery, Dr. Bell had sponsored a tutorial system at St. Stephen's, plumped for academic atmosphere, thundered publicly at the "untrained cubs" in most U. S. colleges.
Died. Walter Hiers, 39, fat (258 Ib.) film comedian; of bronchial pneumonia; in Hollywood, Calif.
Died. Henry Booth Hitchcock, 45, U. S. Consul in Nagasaki, survivor of the 1932 bombing & burning of Nagasaki's U. S. Consulate; after an operation; in Yokohama, Japan.
Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson for Mayor in 1931 made him Democratic boss of Chicago. Last year's election of Henry Horner as his candidate for Governor made him Democratic boss of Illinois, a national party power. He was the second "World's Fair" Mayor of Chicago to be assassinated.* At his death Florida swiftly indicted Zangara for first-degree murder.