Married. Katharine Gamble Rogers, only daughter of Architect James Gamble Rogers; and De Forest Van Slyck. Manhattan socialite, bank employe (Lazard Freres); in Manhattan.
Awarded. To President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House: the Nobel Prize for Peace for 1931.
Transferred. Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; to Paris, where he will be able more easily to continue his useful League of Nations work. Possible successor in Washington: Julio Alvarez del Vayo, present Spanish Ambassador to Mexico.
Resigned. John Francis ("Chick") Meehan, 37, football coach since 1925 at New York University, onetime (1920-25) head coach at Syracuse University; after an editorial published in the undergraduate newspaper criticizing "bigtime football . . . recruiting of players . . . subsidization of athletes, athletic scholarships. . . ." In Bulletin No. 23 of the Carnegie Foundation, published in 1929, N. Y. U. was listed with other colleges charged with subsidization (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929).
Anniversary. Of the first transatlantic wireless signal, picked up by Guglielmo Marconi at St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 years ago; celebrated-with the greatest world-round radio hook-up ever effected. Recalling the event, Senator Marconi said that for six days, while "S" signals were being sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through.
Birthdays. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 72; Edwin Goodman (Bergdorf Goodman), 55; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, 36.
Left. By the late Iron & Shipping Tycoon Samuel Mather (TIME, Oct. 26), an estate of perhaps $50,000,000; to Western Reserve University ($2,000,000); Cleveland Community Fund ($150,000 annually); Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington; Kenyon College and its Bexley Hall (theological), and St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo ($100,000 each); to other charitable and educational institutions, a total of nearly $4,000,000. The residue goes to two sons, a daughter and daughter-in-law, in equal shares.
Left. By the late Patrick Francis Murphy, famed after-dinner speaker, president of Mark Cross Co. (TIME, Dec. 7); an estate valued at "over $10,000"; to his wife and children, save for a bequest of $20,000 to "my personal friend and employee," Lillian Evelyn Ramsgate, vice president and director of Mark Cross Co., with the "express direction" that she be appointed president.
Died. Louis G. Shields, 44, Manhattan broker (Shields & Co.) ; of pneumothorax; in Southampton, L. I.
Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building.