Monday, Dec. 01, 1941

Married. Elizabeth Frac,goise Swing, 27, daughter of Radio Commentator Raymond Gram Swing; and Dr. Gerald Gabriel Greene, 27, of Rockyhill, Conn.; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Ernest Tener Weir, head of National Steel Corp.; by his second wife, Aeola Dickson Siebert Weir; after 16 years of marriage; in Okeechobee, Fla.

Died. Janet Wood, 23, daughter of Poet Clement Wood; and her fiance, Frederick Rabe; by shooting; in her Manhattan apartment. Police listed her death as murder, his as suicide.

Died. Colonel Werner Moelders, 28, German flying ace; in an air crash near Breslau (see p. 23).

Died. Dr. Kurt Koffka, 55, Professor of Psychology at Smith College, of heart disease; in Northampton, Mass.

Died. Percival Christopher Wren, 56, adventure-writer (Beau Geste, Beau Sa-breur); of heart disease; in Amberley, England. A soldier-adventurer, he drew on his own experiences for much of his literary material. He was at various times a sailor, explorer, schoolteacher, boxer, major in the Indian Army. He was assistant director of education and physical culture for the Bombay Government for ten years. At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste."

Died. John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, 67, the House of Commons' "most ejected member" (1918-40); of heart disease; in Leigh-On-Sea, England. Burly Laborite from London's tenement-jammed West Ham, he heckled contemporaries as "damned liars," "assassins." referred to Commons as "the national gas works." Ejection was Commons' method of silencing him.

Died. Newton Wesley Rowell, 74, longtime Liberal leader in Ontario, president of Canada's Union Government Council in World War I, Canadian delegate to the first League of Nations Assembly; in Toronto.

Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany.

Left. To Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Manhattan surgeon, tropical explorer: the bulk of an estate assessed last week at $14,081,348.66; by his wife, Eleanor Elkins Rice, whose first husband was the late Philadelphia multimillionaire George Dunton Widener. Left in trust, the estate will go at Dr. Rice's death to his late wife's son and daughter by Widener.

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