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For referring to him as a sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church.

The will of the late Hugh Johnson disclosed that his longtime right-hand woman, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, forfeited $40,000 when she married Colonel James B. Newman Jr. last December. The will left her mining stock worth that much, with the proviso that she stay single till after Johnson's death (last April).

Papers filed in a Manhattan court showed that Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. would get nothing from his late father's estate, because the $910.000 the son owed him was more than the share left to him, and the will stipulated the debt be subtracted from the share.

Helene Costello, cinema star of the silents, sister of Dolores, filed a petition in bankruptcy in Los Angeles. Liabilities: $2,758. Assets: $5.

Sports

The Red Sox's Ted Williams, leading big-league hitter of 1941, enlisted in the Navy, three months after he was reclassified 3-A as his mother's sole support. Playing ball for a reported $30,000 a year, he had said he wanted to play one more year, to end his mother's financial worries. Last week he passed his exams as a Naval Aviation cadet. The selection board said that in the normal course of things he would probably not be inducted till the ball season ends.

Bobby Jones, now 40, applied for a commission in the Air Force, learned from the War Department that he had a good chance of getting it, though not as a flyer.

British Heavyweight Tommy Farr lost his election fight for a seat on the Town Council of Brighton. The vote for Farr: four out of a possible 70.

From Paris, where Max Schmeling" turned up to arrange a series of exhibition bouts, came a picture of Schmeling shaking hands with "Gorgeous Georges" Carpentier, famed French fighter of the '20s, veteran of World Wars I and II.

Cleanser

Dirt-chaser John S. Sumner, predicting a war boom for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, tabulated his booty for 1941: 13,198 photographs, movie films, negatives, 8,668 books, magazines, pamphlets, 300 printed cards, one movie projector, one gambling outfit, one revolver, 10,406 unspecified "novelties."

Barrymore

John Barrymore was stricken again, and gravely. Suffering from "an abdominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments," he was rushed to a Hollywood hospital, next day developed pneumonia, lapsed into semiconsciousness, four days later was still unconscious most of the time. Elder Brother Lionel, as before, subbed for him on the air.

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