Divorced. Conrad Potter Aiken, 48, famed poet (Time in the Rock; Preludes for Memnon), by his second wife, Clarice Lorenz Aiken, 30; in Boston. Grounds: infidelity.
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin.
Sued. By Jackie Coogan, 23, onetime child cinemactor (The Kid); his mother and stepfather; on charges that they are continuing to withhold from him $4,000,000 which he earned as a minor. Young Mr. Coogan, who recently married Cinemactress Betty Grable, declared himself broke.
Assassinated. Dr. Herman Chanen Liu U. S.-educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai.
Died. Christa Winsloe Homolka, 24, Hungarian actress and novelist (Maedchen in Uniform), formerly the Baroness Vally Hatvany; of blood poisoning; in London.
Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London.
Died. Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, 65, famed Russian basso (Boris Godounov); of pernicious anemia; in Paris. A prodigious eater and drinker, he disliked Communism and his four estates in Russia were confiscated by the Soviet Government.
Died. Suzanne Valadon, 70, noted artist and mother of famed Painter Maurice Utrillo; in Paris. Once a model for Renoir, Lautrec, Degas, she studied under them, later taught her son to paint.
Died. Dr. George Bird Grinnell, 88, founder of the Audubon Society; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa, 90, Scottish shipbuilder and landowner; in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1930 the Marquess bought St. Kilda's Island, one of the Hebrides, ordered the inhabitants to evacuate it, said he would never again permit it to be settled because of its barrenness.