Milestones: Dec. 1, 1924

Married. Miss Dorothy Speare, author of Dancers in the Dark, a “wild young people” novel which—published three years ago—”did for Smith College what Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise did for Princeton,” to one Franklin Butler Christmas; at Newton Centre, Mass. Say critics today : “Miss Speare artfully exploited the looseness of modern times, achieved literary notoriety, pecuniary laurels.”

Married. Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores President, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed bankers; in Manhattan. Present were Guilio Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Lucrezia Bori, Antonio Scotti, John McCormack, Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew W. Mellon, Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Charles D. Gibson and 1,000 others. The wedding cake was seven feet high.

Married. Princess Nobuko Kuni, sister of the Crown Princess Nogako of Japan, to one Kosei Sanjo, commoner ; in Tokio. To marry one below her in blood, she was obliged to forfeit her rank.

Died. Thomas H. Ince, 44, famed cinema producer; in Hollywood, following a sudden heart attack. An actor in his early years, he scorned the cinema, took his first motion picture job only because he was penniless. He established the first studio on the west coast at Santa Monica, Calif., christened it “Inceville,” there made the first cowboy pictures.

Died. Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ; assassinated in Cairo. (See FOREIGN NEWS.)

Died. Lucie Walker Daughterly, wife of onetime Attorney General Daugherty; at Columbus, Ohio, of pneumonia. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.)

Died. Dr. Edmund C. Sanford, 65, onetime President of Clark College (1909-1920); of heart failure, in Boston.

Died. His Eminence Michael Cardinal Logue, 84, Primate of all Ireland; at Armagh, Ireland. (See RELIGION.)

Died. Florence Kling Harding, 64, widow of President Harding; in Marion, Ohio, of chronic nephritis. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.)

Died. Charles Stebbins Fairchild, 82, Secretary of the Treasury in 1887, during President Cleveland’s first term; in Cazenovia, N.Y.