Born. To William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling Jr., able fisticuffer, and Mrs. Stribling; a son, W. L. Stribling III (8½ Ibs.).
Married. Robert E. McMurray, divorced father of divorce-seeking Mrs. Charles Spencer Chaplin; to a Mrs. Nella Benjamin, at Wichita, Kan.
Married. Joseph A. Faurot, 53, finger print expert, important witness in the Hall-Mills trial; to Miss Sadie Duggan, 39, nurse.
Sued for Divorce. Moy Back Hin, 70, millionaire tong ruler of Portland, Ore.; by Leong Ho. Moy claims that Leong Ho is his housekeeper, that Ng Shee is his wife. Pearl, one of the children, claims that she has never known any other mother than Leong Ho.
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Winifred S. Hyman, 24, onetime infant prodigy, one Louis H. Hyman of Manhattan. She used a typewriter at 3, wrote meditations on "Mother Goose" at 5. Her mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, moral objector to "Mother Goose,"* is founder of the League for Fostering Genius.
Divorced. Francis Burton Harrison, 53, Governor General of the Philippines in the Wilson Administration; by Mrs. Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison. She charged abandonment.†
Divorced. Edith Day, 30, comedienne, from Patrick Somerset, 29, English actor, by default, in Minneapolis, though she was in London, he in Hollywood, Calif. They first appeared together in 1920 in the English production of Irene. She charged that he was "continually drunk," used "vile and indecent" language, struck her.
Died. Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, son of poets Louis and Jean Starr Untermeyer; hanged by his bathrobe cord, at Yale College.
Died. Edward L. Bader, 52, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J.; in the Atlantic City Hospital, following an appendicitis operation.** He was in turn newsboy (1887), dental student, veterinary student, financial student (Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania), professional footballer (1902), large scale garbage collector, contractor (rebuilt the famed Steel Pier), mayor.
Died. Dr. Moulton K. Johnson, 55, Navy hero of first Army-Navy football game (24-0 in 1890); following a fall on an icy walk, at Lafayette, Ind.
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis.
Died. Professor Charles Cleveland Nutting, 68, famed zoologist, noted for his explorations in Central America for the Smithsonian Institution; at his home in Iowa City.
Died. Frank M. Mulligan, 73, architect, whom a Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) audience once loudly cheered in the belief that he was bushy-haired Mark Twain; at Elizabeth, N. J., of an apoplectic stroke.
Died. John Francis Anderson, 78, Swedish engineer, inventor of aerial bridge patents, who directed tunneling under the Hudson River; at San Diego, Calif.