Appointed. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., retired golf champion of the world; to be a captain in the organized reserve of the U. S. Army for "special and miscellaneous duty"; by President Hoover.
Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create the National Institute of Health under the Treasury Department.
Awarded. To Dr. Alexis Carrel, 57, 1912 Nobel Prize winner, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: $1,000 and the highly esteemed diploma given biennially for cancer research by Dr. Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung, 64, assistant in gynecology at Georgetown University. Dr. Carrel has devised methods of growing living cells in glass flasks where he can take micro-cinemas of their life. Results have been fundamental revelations on cell physiology, normal and malignant.
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale profit as taxable; the Vanderbilts do not.
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass., 3 shares; National Kindergarten Association, 2 shares; Dobbs Ferry (N. Y.) Hospital Association, 2 shares; Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, 2 shares; S. P. C. A. of Massachusetts, 1 share; M. E. Church, Irvington, N. Y., 1 share.
Died. Willard I. Grimmer, 27, quartermaster of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cruise under the ice across Earth's north polar cap this summer (TIME, March 23); after falling overboard as the Nautilus was entering New York harbor. W7hen Quartermaster Grimmer married one Mary Fountain three weeks ago in Philadelphia, he said: "The Nautilus has brought me luck in the last month; a chance to meet my wife and a chance to take one of the greatest trips ever planned. . . ."
Died. Herman Müller, 54, twice (1920, 1928) Chancellor of the German Republic, a signer of the Treaty of Versailles;. after a gall-bladder operation; in Berlin (see p. 16).