Married-Princess Erik of Denmark, 39, onetime Lois Frances Booth of Ottawa, whose marriage to Prince Erik of Denmark was annulled this year; to Thorkild Juelsberg, 34, her Danish secretary; in Zurich.

Seeking divorce. Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody, eight-time U. S. women's tennis champion, from Frederick Shander Moody Jr., San Francisco goodfellow; in Reno. They were married Dec. 23, 1929. Her statement: "I wouldn't go so far as to say there isn't another man in my life."

Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani.

Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from 1889 to 1935.

Elected. Author Charles Spencer Hart (George Washington's Son of Israel and Other Forgotten Heroes of History); to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, succeeding David Sholtz. former Governor of Florida; in Denver.

Died. The Maharanee of Indore, 22, daughter of the Jagirdar of Kolapur; after an operation; at Samaden, Switzerland. When she was 10 she married the Maharaja of Indore, who next year packed off to Oxford. He succeeded to the throne in 1930 when British pressure forced his father, who had ordered the execution of the lover of one of his dancing girls, to abdicate just before his marriage to Nancy Miller of Seattle. The Maharanee's palace at Indore was the first air-conditioned building in India.

Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers.

Died. Lieut. Commander Winfield Liggett Jr., 56, who, after 14 years in the U. S. Navy, retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China.

Died. Julius L. Meier, 62, onetime president of Meier & Frank, famed Portland, Ore., department store, onetime (1931-35) Governor of Oregon; of heart disease; at his estate, "Menucha," east of Portland.

Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan Act.

Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station.

Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband in 1909, her Newport mansion, "Miramar," her huge annual tennis-week balls.

Died. Chester Alan Arthur, 73, sportsman and art collector, eldest son and namesake of the 21st U. S. President; of a. heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Died. George S. Parker, 73, board chairman of Parker Pen Co.; in Chicago.

Died. Dr. Walther Simons. 75, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court; in Berlin. At the end of the World War, Dr. Simons was director of the Legal Department of the German Foreign Office. He went to the Peace Conference at Versailles as Commissioner-General, resigned a week before the treaty was signed, thereafter became one of its most stubborn opponents.

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