Born. To Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan; a first son, fifth child; in Tokyo (see p. 15).
Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie.
Engaged. Dwight Filley Davis Jr., 26, only son of the onetime Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Coolidge Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (tennis); and Dorothea E. Gay, 22, Manhattan socialite, niece of Painter Walter Gay.
Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg.
Married.June Hamilton Rhodes, Manhattan publicity woman and stylist; and Ferdinand Doan Sanford, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan. The bride was given away by her good friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt.
Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement age.
Died. Arthur T. Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote books which ethnologists, philologists and archeologists hailed as invaluable.
Died. James Todhunter ("Tod"') Sloan, 59, famed oldtime jockey (TIME, Dec. 11); of cirrhosis of the liver; in a Los Angeles hospital.
Died. Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai-Wang-Chu-Chueh- Le-Lang-Chieh. the Dalai Lama, 13th reincarnation of Buddha, ruler of Tibet; in Lhasa (see p. 30).
Died. Phyllis Partington (Frances Peralta), fortyish, longtime (1921-30) Metropolitan opera soprano; in Manhattan.
Died. James Southworth Parker, 66, Republican Representative from New York's 29th Congressional District since 1913; of a paralytic stroke; in Washington. As longtime chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee of the House he busied himself with railroads, air lines, bus lines.