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Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued for $1,250,000."
Birthdays. Pope Pius XI 76, Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie 80, Samuel Unter-myer 75, King George V 68.
Died. Miltiades Melachrino, 77, cigaret tycoon; after long illness; in Queens, N. Y. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he founded M. Melachrino & Co. at Cairo, Egypt, moved it to New York in 1904, retired 15 years ago.
Died. Dr. Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, 84, Kansas University's professor emeritus of chemistry; in Lawrence, Kans. Among his students, who called themselves "Bailey's Boys," were Elmer Verner Mc-Collum, vitamin authority, and the late Edwin Emery Slosson, director of Science Service.
Died. The Right Reverend Emmanuel Abo-Hatab, Holy Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Canada and the eastern U. S., primate of Greek Orthodoxy in North America; of a heart ailment after long illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died. William Muldoon, 88, "Old Roman" and "Iron Duke" of U. S. sport, longtime member of New York State's Athletic Commission; of cancer of the prostate gland; at Purchase, N. Y. As world's Graeco-Roman wrestling champion in the 1880's, he successfully defended his title against Clarence Whistler, "The Kansas Demon," in three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday, May 25.
*The youngest son, Infante Gonzalo, 18, last week was reported courting an English girl, also against the wishes of his father who cut off his allowance, took away his automobile. Follow-ing the example of Big Brother Alfonso, Gonzalo continued his courting.
†The other three: Margaret Carry (now Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy Jr.), Ginevra King (now Mrs. William Hamilton Mitchell), Edith Cummings (unmarried).