Milestones: Aug. 2, 1926

Married. Captain Lowell H. Smith, “Magellan” of the aroundthe-world airplane flight in 1924; to Mrs. Madelaine C. Symington, in Los Angeles. Married. Louise Brooks, 18, piquant cinema ingenue (most recently seen in It’s the Old Army Game, TIME, July 19, CINEMA), youthful veteran of George White’s Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Louis the Fourteenth; to Edward Sutherland, cinema director, in Man-hattan. Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, “The Black Pope of Bolshevism.” (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville, N. C., of heart disease. He brought together a score of struggling makers of lamps 25 years ago and took them into the National Electric Light Association; developed Nela Park, Cleveland, into the “University of Light” whose diplomas are esteemed far and wide; instituted a sales system which puts dealers into such eager competition that they are practically rationed with lamps; made MAZDA a household word.

Died. Joseph Murray, 82, one-time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and president of the Pullman Company.

Died. Henry Thompson Douglas, 88, “last surviving Confederate general;” at Providence Forge, Va.

Died. Colonel Washington Augustus Roebling, 89, Civil War hero, who monumentalized the profession of his father by building the Brooklyn Bridge; at his home in Trenton, N. J.