Born. To Joan Bennett Markey, 24, cinemactress, and Gene Markey. 38, scenarist: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. Name : Melinda.

Married. Grace Green Roosevelt. 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (see p. 51), eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. Baltimore architect and sportsman; in Oyster Bay. L. I. The wedding cake was constructed by famed Mme Blanche (TIME. Jan. 8).'The 2.000-odd guests included Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and some 15 other Roosevelts.

Sued for Divorce. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, Manhattan broker's clerk, younger brother of No. 1 U. S. Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; by Mary Atwell Hitchcock, daughter of a Manhattan contractor; in Newburgh. N.Y. Charge: misconduct.

Sued for Divorce. William Buehler Seabrook, 48. voyageur. writer (The Magic Island, Adventures in Arabia, Jungle Ways'), confessed cannibal; by Kate Edmondson Seabrook; in Atlanta. Charge: undisclosed.

Divorced. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, 43, toothy Los Angeles evangelist; by David L. ("Iron Man") Hutton, 32, adipose choir & vaudeville singer, her third husband; in Los Angeles, day after Mrs. Hutton withdrew her cross-suit. Grounds: cruelty (lack of confidence, public discussion of marital intimacies).

Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution.

Died. Eugene Frederick ("Gene") Rodemich, 42, cinemusic composer, orchestra leader; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He wrote the twinkling scores for Paul Terry's animated cartoons, "Aesop's Film Fables" (see below).

Died. Gerald W. Peck, 47, Chicago investment banker, utilitarian and sportsman, grandson of Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck (Peck's Bad Boy); of a gunshot wound inflicted by one Tom Hollamon Sr., 67-year-old farmer, during a directors' meeting of Texas Hydro-Electric Co., of which Banker Peck was president; in Seguin, Tex. Witnesses said Hollamon appeared at the meeting to press an old claim for land flooded by a company dam, started to leave after a "friendly" conversation, wheeled, fired twice.

Died. John Coleman Terry, 53, cinemanimator, comic strip artist, brother and onetime associate of Producer Paul Terry who created "Aesop's Film Fables" (see above); of kidney disease; in Coral Gables, Fla,

Died. William Astor Chanler, 66. socialite, expeditionist, politician, author, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Armstrong Chaloner and the late Artist Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; in Mentone, France. A waterfall in British East Africa, some varieties of reptiles, insects and an antelope species bear his name.

Died, John Alden, 73, journalist, versemaker, gth direct descendant of the Mayflower's John Alden; in Brooklyn. For the Brooklyn Daily Eagle he wrote 10,928 poems which appeared in an unbroken daily series.

Died, Dr. Henry Churchill King, 75. longtime (1902-27) president of Oberlin College, onetime (1919-21) moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches; in Oberlin. Ohio.

Died. Annie Allegra Longfellow Thorp. 78, youngest and only surviving daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; in "Craigie House," Cambridge, Mass.

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