Born. To Dr. Joan MacDonald MacKinnon. 25, second daughter of Ramsay MacDonald, and Dr. Alastair MacKinnon: their first child, a daughter; in Leeds, England.
Born. To Lawrence Tibbett, singer, and Jennie Marston Adams Burgard Tibbett : their first child, a son, weight 7½ lb.; in San Francisco. Baritone Tibbett has twin sons, aged 13, by his first marriage. Mrs. Tibbett has three sons by two previous marriages.
Eloped. Janet Elizabeth Snowden, 19, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden, sister of Marion Snowden who eloped with Prince Girolamo Rospigliosi (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931); and Prince di Sirignano don Francesco Caravita of Naples, 24; in Manhattan.
Married. Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, 49, "America's richest bachelor," yachtsman, contract bridge expert; and Gertrude L. Conaway, 32, of Philadelphia ; quietly in Manhattan.
Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 20, Philadelphia banker's scion, great-grandson of Jay Gould; and Helen Avis Howard, 21, Atlanta socialite; in Walhalla, S. C.
Divorced. William Powell, cinemactor; by his second wife, Carole Lombard Powell, cinemactress; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty ("a very emotional man, cruel and cross in manner of language").
Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor ; by his third wife, Kathryn Carver Menjou, cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (fits of rage, profanity).
Left. By Mrs. Mary Louise Dickerman Woodin: $355,300, to her son, Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin.
Left. By Sir John Reeves Ellerman, shipping, breweries, real estate tycoon, reputed wealthiest Englishman: £17,000,000 (currently $75,160,000), in a will which disposes of his estate "so far as can at present be ascertained." Total value of his estate is expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright and $3,000,000 in trust;* to his son, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, $3,000,000 outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund for any relatives who may have been forgotten, orders a cut of one-third in the bequest of anyone who contests the will. A final codicil increases all bequests by the amount the pound has dropped since England left the gold standard.
Elected. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retiring president of Harvard: to be chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, succeeding the late Dr. John Grier Hibben, president-emeritus of Princeton; in Manhattan.
Died. Chester Ellis Wright, 36, No. 9 U.S. War ace, onetime (1916) holder of all Harvard strength records; after a two-year fight against Hodgkin's disease (progressive enlargement of lymphatic glands), in Boston.
Died. Alan Francis Winslow, 37, one-handed assistant chief of Pan American Airways' foreign department, first U.S. aviator to bring down a German plane in the War; when he fell from a third-floor hotel window; in Ottawa.