Married. Lyla M. Townsend, daughter of Delaware's Senator John G. Townsend Jr.; and Prew Savoy, Washington attorney; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City; in the Mayor's office.

Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons.

Died. John Drinkwater, 54, British poet & playwright; in his sleep, of a heart attack possibly induced by excitement over the Oxford-Cambridge boat race; in London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself.

Died. Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A boyhood playmate of Artist Charles Dana Gibson who cut silhouets while he modeled in chewing gum, Sculptor MacMonnies made his biggest news in 1932 when his Civic Virtue was condemned by New York feminists because a male figure had his foot on a female figure's neck.

Died. Benjamin K. Focht, 74, long-time Representative from Pennsylvania, editor & publisher of the Lewisburg Saturday News since 1881; of heart disease; in Washington, where he had served seven terms in Congress since 1907.

Died. William Morgan Butler, 76, one-time (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts, manager of Calvin Coolidge's 1924 Presidential campaign; of heart disease in Boston. A co-receiver of Hoosac Mills Corp., he brought the suit which led the Supreme Court to declare the AAA's processing tax unconstitutional.

Died. Frederick Louis Maytag, 79, world's greatest washing-machine maker, father of Maytag Co.'s President Elmer Henry and onetime President Lewis Bergman; in Los Angeles. An Illinois-born farm boy, he first sold farm tools, lumber and threshing machines, lost $100,000 in railroading. $300,000 in motormaking and $1,000,000 in Maytag Co. before he began making his fortune at 65.

Died. Gilbert F. Heublein, 87, founder of Hartford, Conn.'s Heublein Hotel and G. F. Heublein & Bro. (Ai Sauce, liquors); of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford.

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