Married, William Thompson Dewart Jr., on the centenary of the New York Sun (see p. 24), of which he is secretary and his father editor-publisher; to Mrs. Catharine Ashbrook Smith. Wilmington, Del. socialite; in Alexandria Bay. N. Y.
Married. Ralph Isidor Straus, eldest son of President Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), nephew of U. S. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; and Matilda Bradford Day, Manhattan socialite; in Kidders-on-Cayuga Lake, N. Y.
Married. Mary Lilian Uppercu. daughter of Inglis M. Uppercu, Cadillac agent; and George Winthrop Haight, Manhattan lawyer; in Rumson, N. J.
Married. Eleanor Holm, 19, Olympic swimming champion, film actress; and one Arthur Jarrett, 26, radio singer; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Married. Frank Clifford Wykoff, 24, onetime University of Southern California sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.): and one Ethel Mae Richardson of Glendale, Calif.; in Glen- dale.
Married. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 34, carpet tycoon, international poloist; and Film Actress Mary Duncan, 28; in Manhattan.
Reelected. Nahum Sokoloff, president of the World Zionist Congress; at Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Died. Paul Charles L'Amoreaux, 47, president of Parmelee Transportation Co.; of angina pectoris; in Manhattan. An attorney, in 1922 he arranged the merger of Chicago's Checker, Yellow and Parmelee taxicab companies. Last year he became president of Parmelee, vigorously advo- cated municipal control of New York City's swarming cabs.
Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones.
Died. Francis William ("Iron Major") Cavanaugh, 57, football coach at Fordham. Dartmouth, Boston College, Holy Cross for which he produced many a potent team during his 30-odd years in the sport; of cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following an operation; on his chicken farm at Marshfield, Mass.