Married. Fiorello H. La Guardia, 46, widower, peppery U. S. Representative from New York; and Marie M. Fisher, 33, of The Bronx,N.Y., for 15 years the La Guardia private secretary; in Washington.

Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio.

Divorced. Clare Briggs of Manhattan, newspaper cartoonist (The Days o/ Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N.Y., on testimony that Cartoonist Briggs had been in residence with a pseudo Mrs. Briggs. The Briggses were married in 1900, have three children.

Retired. Major Thomas F. Lynch, 77, of Manhattan, Spanish War veteran, oldest civilian employe of the U. S. Army, since 1889 custodian of the Army Building in Manhattan; after 47 years of service. Major Lynch outdid John L. Sullivan in feats of strength.

Died. Briton Hadden, 31, of Manhattan, co-founder of TIME; of a streptococcus infection of the blood stream which became fatal when endocarditis developed.* Ill since early last December, he fought strongly against the infection's spread. Aided by blood transfusions every 48 hours he seemed to hold his own and even, for a week after his birthday (Feb. 18), to make progress. Death came suddenly at 4 a. m., Feb. 27, in the Brooklyn Hospital.

Publisher Hadden was born in Brooklyn, the son of the late Crowell Hadden Jr. and the present Mrs. William P. Pool. Banker Crowell Hadden, 88, is his grandfather. He went to the Hotchkiss School and Yale University (class of 1920). He edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Field Artillery.

Upon graduation, he refused many an important position in order to continue his career as a journalist which he did by becoming a reporter on the New York World under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York.

Their first office was a room in a queer two-story house on East 17th Street. After more than a year, with idea firm in mind, with friendly valuable advice from great and good friends, with what only they deemed sufficient capital,* and with a gradually assembled group of enthusiasts,/- they issued, under date of March 3, 1923, the first Newsmagazine--TIME. Thereafter to Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never.

Died. Walter Scherz, trans-Atlantic helmsman of the dirigibles Los Angeles (1924) and Graf Zeppelin (1928); of balloon gas poisoning; in Friederichshafen, Germany.

Died. Alexander M. Barbee ("The Terrapin King"); at his home on Isle of Hope, Ga. Mr. Barbee made a fortune by knowing how to hatch diamond-back terrapins artificially. Several years ago he filled a suitcase with his prepared sand and eggs, went on a terrapin-hatching tour. One magnificent hatch occurred on the desk of William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State.

Died. Royal H. Weller, 47, of Manhattan, since 1922 U. S. Representative from New York (Democrat); of lobar pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. John Dean Caton Towne, 47, Chicago financier, lawyer, inventor & socialite, onetime vice president of Yellow Cab Co.; by suicide, with a pearl-handled revolver; in Chicago. In 1879 his grandfather, William B. Towne of Boston, committed suicide in the same way.

Died. Harvey O'Higgins, 52, novelist and psychologist (The Smoke-Eaters, The Beast of the Jungle, with Judge Ben Lindsey, Clara Barren, The American Mind in Action); of pneumonia and heart disease; at Martinsville, N. J.

Died. Emmett Lawrence, 55, famed marble-mover; in New York City (see p. 38).

Died. John Conway Toole, 59, of Manhattan, since 1920 lawyer-president of the International Baseball League,** onetime National League counsel; of influenza; in Manhattan.

Died. Col. Samuel D. Lit, 69, Philadelphia department store tycoon, civic leader, philanthropist; in Philadelphia.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzsimmons Hudson, 70, of Liberty, Tex., aunt of Herbert Clark Hoover; in Liberty.

Died. Charles Lenglen, 71, father and coach of the tennis prima donna, Suzanne Lenglen; of pneumonia; in Nice, France.

Died. Martin Aquirre, 71, of Los Angeles, oldtime California sheriff; in Los Angeles. He preferred a bowie knife to a gun. "You see," he said, "if anything starts I don't know where bullets might go or whom they might hit, but I know where this knife is going."

Died. Andre Charles Prosper Messager, 75, of Paris, famed composer, organist and onetime conductor of the Opera Comique, to whom Composer Claude Achille Debussy dedicated the opera Pelleas et Melisande; in Paris.

Died. Haley Fiske, 76, of Manhattan and Bernardsville, N. J., since 1919 president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Mr. Fiske was born and educated in New Brunswick, N. J. (Rutgers College). He studied law and practiced as counsel for the Metropolitan. In 1891 he was elected vice president of the company. He spurred child insurance, expansion, bonus payments, complete mutualization (control by policyholders). He helped the Metropolitan become the world's mightiest financial institution, with more than $16,000,000,000 in outstanding insurance (more than 40,000,000 policies), and an income of more than $14,000,000 per day.

Died. Rudolph Karg, 76, for 43 years chef to German Emperors (Wrilhelm I, Friedrich III, Wilhelm II); at the home of his son, Innkeeper Eric Karg of Fair Lawn, N. J.

Died. Vincenzo Gemito, 77, Neapolitan sculptor; of pneumonia; in Naples.

Died. Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, 83, of Berlin, famed German art expert, longtime director general of the royal museums (1905-20), founder and onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found it to be by a modern Britisher.

Died. Col. William Stewart Simkins, 86, of Austin, Tex., professor-emeritus of law at the University of Texas; in Austin. On the morning of April 12, 1861 so the story goes, a Confederate sentry on duty near Charleston Harbor fired an alarm signal which opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The sentry was William Stewart Simkins.

*Of this ailment, in 1922, died Publisher Lord Xorthcliffe, whose picture always hung near the desk of Publisher Hadden. Lord Northchffe, indomitable, founded the London Daily Mail (now nearly 2,000,000 daily circulation), owned the London Times and scores of other publications, signed himself N like Napoleon. *Total paid in: $86,000. Largest subscriber, Mrs. William L. Harkness of Manhattan and Cleveland. First Board of Directors: Robert A. Chambers, Henry P. Davison, William V. Griffin, all of New York, William T. Hincks of Bridgeport, Conn.--besides Messrs. Hadden and Luce. Counsel: Judge Robert L. Luce of Manhattan.

/-As principal staff writers: Manfred Gottfried, John S. Martin, T. J. C. Martyn, Wells Root, John A. Thomas. To get circulation: Roy E. Larsen, young banker. To get advertising: Robert L. Johnson, young advertising agency man.

**Rochester, Buffalo, Toronto, Reading, Montreal, Baltimore, Newark, Jersey City.