Married. Laura Taylor Pope Day, daughter of Manhattan Realtor Joseph Paul Day; and James Elmer Barrett, 1929 Harvard football captain; in Short Hills, N. J.
Married. Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake, 76, of the 2nd Colorado Congressional District, rich beet-sugar advocate; and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, 32, onetime headwaitress at the George Washington Inn; in Washington. Divorced. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman, godson of the late President Jefferson Davis of the U. S. Confederacy; and Marcelle Jenny Favrel Cohn (Marcelle Chantal), French cinema and stage actress, his second wife (first wife: Florence Bottomley, daughter of Britain's late Publicist Horatio Bottomley). Mutual charges: that she played in the cinema against his will; that he liked other women, stood in the way of her
Invited. Professor Albert Einstein; to be 1931 Cecil Rhodes memorial lecturer at Oxford University. Terms of the bequest require that he spend the summer in Oxford. He accepted.
Died. Thomas Edward Hambleton, 44, president of Hambleton & Co., Baltimore investment bankers, brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel John A. Hambleton who was vice president of Pan American Airways, killed last year in an airplane accident; by his own hand, after returning from a hunting trip to Indo-China and finding his wife had gone to Reno to seek divorce; in Lutherville, Md.
Died. William Louis Courtleigh, 61, actor (Fedora, Electro., Tiger Rose, L'Aiglon, The Ninth Guest), onetime (1913-17) Shepherd of The Lambs (Manhattan theatrical club); of acute in digestion; in Rye, N. Y.
Died. William Jay Robinson, 62, proprietor of the Stage Coach Inn at Locust Valley, L. L, oldtime newspaperman (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune) and Klondike miner, founder of the Optimists Club of America (membership 300,000); in Locust Valley. He took the first shipment of gold out of the Klondike, made a fortune, lost it in the panic of 1907, founded his club soon afterward.
Died. Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, 62, newspaper caricaturist who created "Abe Martin"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis, Ind. Working for the Indianapolis News since 1891, he had for the last 26 years done a daily drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Kin Hubbard spent all his life in newspaper work.
Died. W. Barklie Henry, 63, Philadelphia, socialite, yachtsman, retired partner of Henry & West (now West & Co., brokerage firm), father of Barklie McKee Henry who married Barbara, daughter of the late Harry Payne Whitney; in Palm Beach, Fla.