Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore.
Married. Edward William Mahan, 38, famed Harvard footballer, crack halfback during three years (1914 to 1916) when Harvard lost only one game (to Cornell, 19-15), onetime head coach of Harvard baseball, for the past three years an employe of Manhattan bankers and brokers; and Beryl Boardman of Natick, Mass., his friend since childhood; at the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan.
Appointed. Benjamin ("Benny") Leonard, longtime (1917-25) World Light- weight Champion: to coach boxing at the School of Business of the City College of New York.
Resigned. Roy Archibald Young, one-time governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis: from the governorship of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board (public office, salary $12,000), to replace the late William P. Gould Harding as governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston (private office, salary $30,000). In 1923 Mr. Harding also resigned the governorship of the U. S. board to accept that of the Boston bank. (See p. 13.)
Sued. On Aug. 28, Constance Collier, 50, British actress, for $100,000; and on Aug. 29, Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, 43, famed British-born cartoonist ("The Better 'Ole," "Old Bill"); for divorce; both by Mrs. Bruce Bairnsfather. Charges: Miss Collier alienated Bairnsfather's affections; Bairnsfather wrote a play with Miss Collier, became intimate.
Birthday. Martin Vogel, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1913-20) Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. in charge of the New York Subtreasury, author of Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on Liberty Loan publicity campaigns; in Le Touquet, France. Date: Aug. 29. Age: 52. Cele- bration: a dinner party in Algy's Bar at which Edward of Wales danced first with Mrs. Vogel. Another guest: Author Michael Arlen (ne Dikran Kouyoumdjian).
Killed. Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., graduate of Princeton last June, son of the board chairman of Remington Arms Co., great-grandson of its founder Marcellus Hartley, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; when a motor which he was driving struck a tree on the Bayonne- Bordeaux road in France where Dodge had been sent by his mother for diversion from aviation, which she considered a dangerous hobby.
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo.
Died. Frank O. Wetmore, 62, Chicago banker, board chairman of Chicago's First National and First Trust & Savings banks, director of five other companies, president of the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve System; suddenly of heart failure, at his home near Wheaton, Ill.
Died. Maj.-General Henry Tureman Allen, 71, longtime soldier, Wartime com-mander of the goth Division which participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, post-VVar commander of the U. S. Army of Occupation in Germany, holder of decorations from five nations; suddenly, when he was stricken with apoplexy and fell 15 ft. from the porch of a residence at Buena Vista Springs, Pa.