Hibben East Relief. His report of the effects of the famine and the inefficiency of the relief organi- zations was submitted to a Senate investigating committee and printed as a government docu- ment, tut for some reason was almost immedi- ately destroyed. It was rcpublished in pamphlet form by the Nation (An American Report on the Russian Famine: Findings of the Russian Com- mission of the Near East Relief). Later, as sec- retary of the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, he did a valuable humani- tarian work. Of his sympathy with the Russian Revolution Hibben made no secret He believed in the idea which animated the Revolution—the idea of abolishing privilege and founding a government based on social justice. Although during his last years he was affiliated with radical organisa- tions in the United States, he was no doctrinaire communist. He was too much of an individualist, indeed, ever to have worked successfully with any organization exacting unquestioning obedi- ence of its members. It was his misfortune to be misunderstood and distrusted alike by conserva- tives and radicals. His activities occasioned, in 1923, a military inquiry in which he was defend- ed by General Bradley. The charges were nebu- lous ; none the less, two members of the Board reported against him. The third member, how- ever, submitted such a strong report in his favor that the War Department disregarded the find- ings of the majority and renewed his comnus* sion, which he retained in spite of a second in- vestigation in September 1924. After his death his services to Russia were recognized; his ashes were sent to Moscow, received with distin- guished honor by the Russian government, and interred with public ceremony in the Novo-De-* vichy Monastery, The last three years of his life were devoted to literary work. His Henry Ward Beecher; an American Portrait, a brilliantly written but hos- tile biography, appeared in 1927. At the time of his death he had written twenty-one chapters of a life of William Jennings Bryan, which was completed by C Hartley Grattan and published in 1929. On Oct 17, 1916, Hibben was married, in Athens, to Cecile Craifc of Montgomery, Ala. They had one child, Jean Constantine, born in 1921, for whom King Constantine stood god- father. Hibben was a fellow of the Royal Geo- graphic Society (1909), member of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, chevalier of the Czarist Order of St Stanislas, and officer of the Greek Order of the Redeemer. {Information has been supplied by Mts, H&ben, Hlb- Hibbins — Hichborn fcen's brother, Thomas Htblwn, hi* life-Knur Claude Bowers, ami his friemf Gcnrral Br,**Hry Jit* diplomatic record \yas furnished by thr Sutr J>rjtt A biographical mrtc is to be tnumi in II hl\\ tthtn America, !9.*S» death in 1654* and also served as colonial agent in England. Before his death he lost much of his money, and these losses, together with hi* death, were said to have "increased tin* natural crabbedtutts of his wife's temper** (HutchiiMw, postt I, 187}* She became unpopular with her neighbors and fell under church censure, In 1655 she was accused of being a witch and was brought to trial* The jury found her guilty but the magistrates refused to accept the verdict and the case went to the Cicneral Court, One of her English sons hastened to Massachusett* to help her but arrived too late, Huhbart! says that "mr populi went sore agaimt her, and was tlu* chirfett part of the evidence against her, as some thought11 (Hubbard, post, p, 574)* In spite of the (act that an examination of her papers and the usual humiliating examination of her body revealt**! no guilt, she was condemned and sentenced to lie hanged on June 19, 1656. Gov. John Endecuu pronounced the death sentence. Her will, made on May 27, was a calm and sensible documrm and was executed by influential friends, The Rev, John Norton said that she was executed be- cause she had "more wit than her neighbors," CSee Thos, Hiiichinsoa, The //wf, * «rM vol», I (1885) «n«f IV (1889) : «nd Record* of tkt Gov, and Company of iks SSK B?y ™ **im B»W**j vol IV, pt, i { t«ji), Ann Hj^ins1 name !» often 0peHed Hibbeni, In the record of her will, NwEng. Hut. and Gtntat, 8tg,t July x8sa, it appears as it is given here,] I T A, HICHBORN, PHILIP (Man 4, i839~W*y ,f 1910), naval officer, advanced by his own talenu from the place of shipwright apprentice to the grade of chief constructor with the rank of rear admiral. According to tradition, he was descend-