Married. Robert Johns Bulkley Jr., Harvard law student, only son of Ohio's junior Senator; and Lorraine Warner, Boston socialite; in Cambridge, Mass.
Sued for Divorce. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 51, New York's one-time Mayor; by Janet Allen Walker, fortyish, onetime vaudeville singer, daughter of the Chicago Evening American's first city editor; in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Fla. Charge: "Willful" desertion . . . "guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed the window. In the next few days he said he would contest, would not, left the decision to his lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles with Writer Frank Scully and hobnobbing with Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. He had given up writing an autobiography. He said his friend Betty Compton, with whom he is living, had finished her autobiography which "ought to be a swell book because she sure is one swell woman." Of his wife, who once in vaudeville sang his song, "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" and wept in Miami recently when a cabaret orchestra played it, he said last September when she saw him off for Europe, "She's one brave woman."
Awarded. To Robert Thompson Pell, retiring as press attaché of the U. S. Embassy at Paris: the Cross of the French Legion of Honor. To Silk Man Joseph Gerli: the decoration of Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy for boosting Italian art traditions.
Suit Won. Against Victor Talking Machine Co. (now RCA-Victor Co.); by David Graves George, 67, Southern Railway Co. employe, onetime Virginia hillbilly; for an accounting of profits on the record, "The Wreck of the Old 97" which George claimed he wrote in 1906 when a crack mail train plunged off a trestle near Franklin Junction, Va. Probable royalties: over $375,000.
Birthdays. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 92; Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 83; Adolph Simon Ochs. 75; Lillian D. Wald, 66; Albert Einstein, 54.
Died. Marjorie Easton Woodhouse Procter Leidy, 30, second wife of Philadelphia Socialite Carter Randolph Leidy (first wife: Josephine ["Fifi"] Widener), divorced wife of Frederic William Procter, Ivory Soap heir; by drowning when her husband's car, to avoid another, plunged through a guard railing, landed upside down in the shallow Bronx River.
Died. Dan P. Hoover, 47, vice president of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners), son of the founder; by jumping from a fifth floor window at Cleveland Clinic while under observation for a stomach disorder.
Died. Edgar French Strother, 49, intermittently literary coach of onetime President Hoover and associate editor of the late World's Work (merged last year with Review of Reviews), Democrat; of pneumonia; in Washington, D. C.