Engaged. Joyce Love Allen, only daughter of Louisiana's Governor Oscar Kelly Allen; and Frederick A. Stare, Ph. D., research chemist at Washington University (St. Louis).
Engaged. Evangeline Davey, 24, only daughter of Ohio's Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith, 25, of Kent, Ohio.
Engaged. Jean ("Bounding Basque") Borotra, French tennist; and Mme Edouard Barrachin, Biarritz socialite. For M. Borotra it will be a first marriage.
Engaged. Lieutenant Commander Herbert Victor ("Doc") Wiley, 43, longtime U. S. Navy airship officer, commander of the Macon when it crashed (TIME, Feb. 25), one of three survivors of the Akron disaster (TIME, April 10, 1933); and Charlotte Mayfield Weeden, San Francisco divorcee.
Engaged. Lorenz Iversen, sixtyish, Danish-born president of Pittsburgh's moneymaking Mesta Machine Co. (TIME, March 4), widower, father of five; and one Fleda Foust, fortyish, of Pittsburgh.
Died. Herman Bernstein, 58, onetime (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Albania, founder and first editor of The Day (Jewish daily), brother of Author Hillel Bernstein (L'Affaire Jones); of heart disease; in Sheffield, Mass. In his The History of a Lie, Herman Bernstein exposed as a forgery the famed "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" (TIME, Nov. 12). He sailed on Henry Ford's peace ship, later sued Mr. Ford for anti-Semitic libels in the Dearborn Independent, got an apology.
Died. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, 62, wife of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; when an automobile in which she was riding overturned; near Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism."
Died. Childe Hassam, 75, painter & etcher; after nearly a year's illness; in East Hampton, L. I. A pioneer importer of French Impressionism, he was sometimes pigeonholed as a "luminist" for his deft dealing with illumination and color won little recognition until after 40. In 1920 he reported earnings of $100,000. Said Childe Hassam: "There is no such thing as modern art; there is only good art."