Engaged. John Marshall Budd, Yale senior, son of Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Ry., and Frances, daughter of Stanley Hale Bullard (Bridgeport manufacturer) ; at Fairfield, Conn.

Engaged. James Waterman Wise, publicist (Jews Are Like That), son of Stephen Samuel Wise (famed "liberal" Rabbi); and a Miss Elizabeth Halle Kraus; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Dorothy Cadogan Byrne, relict of Author Donn Byrne (The Wind Bloweth, Messer Marco Polo), and M. M. Willoughby Craig, Irish sportsman; at Oban, Scotland.

Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support.

Reelected. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson; as chairman of the Pan-American Union; at Washington.

Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola Negri, Alice Terry and Claire Luce among her shipmates.

Birthday. Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy; at Rome. Age: 60. Because of the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18), and his only son Crown Prince Umberto's engagement to Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Nov. 4) great was Roman rejoicing.

Birthday. Ignaz Jan Paderewski, peerless pianist, onetime (1919) Prime Minister of Poland; at Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is recuperating from an appendectomy. Age: 69.

Died. James J. Riordan, 48, president of County Trust Co. of New York, long-time friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; by his own hand with his cashier's pistol; in Manhattan

Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four") R. R.

Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership.

Died. Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, 69, founder of the Anti-Noise Society of America, onetime President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, originator of "Safe & Sane" Independence Days; at Deal, N. J. Annoyed by toots of Hudson River tugs, she sound-proofed her home on Riverside Drive, Manhattan.

Died. Sir Robert Balfour, 85, shipbuilder (Balfour, Williamson & Co); in London. Because his heir died in 1923 and his younger son was killed in the War, the baronetcy is now extinct.

Died. Jack L. Dempsey,* oldtime turf writer, chart maker for Daily Racing Form; at Dallas; of heart failure. The day he died he picked five out of six winners at Arlington Downs track (between Dallas & Fort Worth).

Died. Alex S. D. Hill, 90, brother of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill; at Guelph, Ont.

Died. Norman Magnus Macleod of Macleod, 90, "The Macleod," 23rd chief of his clan; at Horsham, England.

*Not to be confused with fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey.