Married. John Lord Booth, son of U. S. Minister to Denmark Ralph Harman Booth; and Winifred May Wessel, daughter of Chilean Minister to Denmark Harry Wessel; in Copenhagen.
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days.
Honored. Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd.
Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover.
Suit Won. By Mrs. Dorothy Russell Calvit, daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell, who married the late Ambassador to Spain Alexander Pollock Moore: to obtain a re-accounting of her mother's estate and to withhold distribution of the Ambassador's $600,000 estate. Charge (upheld in Pittsburgh Orphans' Court): that Ambassador Moore had "fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while acting as executor thereof." Mrs. Calvit's claim to one-half the Moore estate, under an alleged pre-nuptial agreement between her mother and stepfather, will be adjudged after the estate has been accounted.
Left, By Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger. Philadelphia theatre-owner who was killed last month by his wife in Nice (TIME, March 23); some $725,000, one-third of the income of which goes to Mrs. Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger, who now awaits trial for murder, the balance to their two children, a previous wife, and a secretary; the whole at last to charity.
Died, August ("Garry") Herrmann, longtime (1903-27) president of the Cincinnati "Reds" baseball club (National League), chairman (1903-20) of the old National Baseball Commission which he controlled with the late "Ban" Johnson until a year before it was dissolved, sponsor in 1905 of the first official World Series; after long illness; in Cincinnati. He was the third of baseball's great pioneers to die within a month, following President Ernest Sargent Barnard of the American League and onetime President Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson of the American League (TIME, April 6).
Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan.