Born. To Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., tennis player, and Mrs. Verle Lowe Vines; a daughter; in Pasadena. Calif. Name: Verle Carol. Weight: 6 1/2 Ib.

Married. The instigator of Mexican President-Elect Alvaro Obregon's assassination, ex-Nun Maria Concepcion Acevedo y de la Lata (TIME, July 30, 1928); to Desperado Carlos Castro Balda, convicted of attempting to blow up the Mexican Chamber of Deputies; at Islas Tres Marias, Mexico's penal colony in the Pacific Ocean. The marriage was authorized ostensibly "because the two prisoners have not been deprived of civil rights." actually for its value as anti-Catholic propaganda (see p. 20).

Divorced. Marlen Edwin Pew, editor of Editor & Publisher; by Mrs. Margaret Susan Barr Pew; in Reno. Ground: cruelty.

Acquitted. Roscoe Luke, City Court Judge in Thomasville, Ga., onetime member of the Georgia State Court of Appeals; of a charge of murdering Oscar Groover, business associate, with a sawed-off shotgun last May, allegedly because Groover knew too much about his handling of the affairs of a building & loan association now in receivership (TIME, Oct. 22); in Thomasville. As head of the association. Judge Luke is currently under Federal indictment.

Died. Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, 47, estranged wife of Federal Housing Administrator James Andrew Moffett; after falling from an eighth floor window; in Manhattan. Ill, she had been given a headache powder which police said dizzied her.

Died. Lou Tellegen, 53, oldtime stage & screen actor, onetime husband of Geraldine Farrar; by his own hand (scissors) ; in Hollywood.

Died. Alexander Grosset, 64, president of Grosset & Dunlap, publishers; of heart disease; in Riverside, Conn. His firm, which he founded 43 years ago with George T. Dunlap, was a pioneer in selling cheap reprints, its volume of business growing from 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 copies a year. Grosset & Dunlap still publish the Tom Swift and Rover Boys series, specialize in reprints of such best-selling authors as Zane Grey, Booth Tarkington, Rafael Sabatini. It also markets "motion picture editions," $1 Shakespeares, dictionaries and Roget's Thesaurus.

Died. Frank Julian Sprague, 77, electrical inventor and engineer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1887 he introduced the first modern electric trolley-car system, in Richmond, Va.; in 1892 installed the first battery of electric elevators in Manhattan. Before he lost consciousness last week he learned he had been awarded the 1935 John Fritz gold medal, for "distinguished service as inventor and engineer."

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