Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child).
Born. To Jose de Leon Toral (assassin of Mexico's President-Elect, General Alvaro Obregon, a son; at Mexico City.
Engaged. Virginia Willys, debutante daughter of John North Willys (Willys-Overland); to Luis Marcelino de Aguirre, Argentine scion.
Engaged. Allene Tew Burchard of Manhattan, widow of onetime vice chair man Anson Wood Burchard of General Electric Co.; to Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, widower of Princess Victoria Margarette of Hohenzollern. Until 1918, the House of Reuss ruled over two principalities on the Polish frontier of Germany. For many centuries all Reuss princes have been named Henry. At the end of every 100 years, the numbering begins at I again.
Married. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., brother of Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos (onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten) and son of Col. Henry H. Rogers, onetime Standard Oil partner of John D. Rockefeller; to Virginia Lincoln, daughter of Dr. William R. Lincoln of Cleveland; in Cleveland.
Married. Meraud Guinness, 24, British- American artist, onetime contributor to Vogue, daughter of Benjamin S. Guinness (Dublin brewing, Manhattan banking); to Alvara Guevara, 35, Chilean artist. "We are going to live for art," said she.
Elected. E. S. Gorrell, vice president of Stutz Motor Car Co., to be president; succeeding F. E. Moskovics, retired.
Resigned. Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of Victor Talking Machine Co.; to go camera-hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much-bruited differences of opinion between himself and the Cathedral's Bishop William Thomas Manning (TIME, Jan. 14).
Died. Athanase Vagliano, called "The Greek," famed as the Premier Gambler of Europe; at Roquebrune, French Riviera (see p. 23).
Died. Peter J. Hill, onetime chess champion; of old age; in Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill.
Died. Col. James Elverson Jr., 59, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, early and ardent Hoover supporter, delegate to the last four Republican National Conventions; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Publisher Elverson was a famed philatelist, yachtsman, clock-collector.
Died. Oscar W. Underwood, 66, Democrat, member of the House and Senate for 32 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his Virginia home, Woodlawn (see p. 11).
Died. William Sidney Rossiter, 67, census expert, president since 1916 of the Rumford Press;* of heart disease; at Concord, N. H.