Milestones: Aug. 19, 1929

Engaged. Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, commander of the First Cavalry Division; to Mrs. Florence DuBois of Englewood, N. J.

Married. Marion Nixon, cinemactress, divorced wife of Prizefighter Joe Benjamin; to Edward Hillman Jr., Chicago heir, onetime husband of Actress Dorothy Martin; in Chicago.

Married. David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 27, 11th Earl of Northesk, onetime (1923-28) husband of Jessica Brown, Follies dancer; to Miss Betty Vlasto, 22, cousin of Tennis Player Didi Vlasto; in London.

Married. J. Cheever Cowdin, poloist (rating: 8 goals) to Mrs. Katherine McCutcheon Abbott, Manhattan socialite divorcee; in Bristol, Me.; during a cruise on the Cowdin yacht Surf.

Marriage Disclosed. Lenore Ulric, 35, actress (Tiger Rose, Lulu Belle, Mima); to Sidney Blackmer, actor (leading man, Mima); in Westchester County, N. Y.; May 23.

Sued for Divorce. James Stanley Joyce, Chicago lumberman, divorced (1921) third husband of Peggy Hopkins Joyce; by Mrs. Nellie M. Joyce. Alleged: cruelty.

Sued for Divorce. Edward C. Channel, director of O’Cedar Corp. (mops) son of O’Cedar President Charles A. Channel; by Mrs. Victoria Dalley Channel; in Chicago. Charged: cruelty, habitual drunkenness.

Appointed. Professor John Shapley, head of the Department of Art of New York University; to be professor and chairman of the Department of Art of the University of Chicago.

Appointed. Capt. René Pugnet; to be Captain of the French liner Paris succeeding Capt. Yves Thomas, who goes on shore duty. After a successful career of 28 years with the French line, Capt. Thomas had three accidents in 18 months, was exonerated from each.

Resigned. Henry Herrick Bond, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; to practice law in Boston.

Birthday. Sydney Farrar, father of Geraldine Farrar; in Ridgefield, Conn. Age: 70. To Father Farrar’s party went his daughter and many a retired professional baseball player who had known “Syd” Farrar when he played with the Philadelphia National League team.

Birthday. James Norris Gamble, original partner of Procter & Gamble; in Cincinnati. Age: 93.

Birthday. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin, aboard airship from France to Germany and at home in Friedrichshafen. Age: 61.

Birthday. Major S. Willard Saxton, only living member of Brook Farm;* in Washington, D. C. Age:100.

Died. Harry Charles Witwer, 39, of Los Angeles, humorous “slanguage” writer (From Baseball to Bodies, The Leather Pushers, Love and Learn, Classics in Slang); in Los Angeles.

Died. Mary MacLane, 48, of Chicago. onetime (1902) “best selling” novelist (7, Mary MacLane and Men Who Have Made Love to Ale); in Chicago.

Died. Howard W. Perrin, 53, of Radnor, Pa., onetime (1917) president of the U. S. Golf Association; in Burlington. Vt.

Died. Henry S. Pickands, 53, of Cleveland, Great Lakes coal, ore and shipping tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.); in his Cleveland office; of heart attack.

Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, “Singing Tower” at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia’s Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen’s villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia.

Died. Victor Louis Berger, 69, of Milwaukee, longtime (1911–13; 1923–27) Representative (Socialist); in Milwaukee.

Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton’s Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto.

Died. Edward Prizer, 73, of East Orange, N. J., Chairman of the Vacuum Oil Co.; in East Orange.

Died. Rear Admiral Charles Fremont Pond, retired, 73, of Berkeley, Cal.; in Berkeley. He selected the site of the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Died. William Sloane Kennedy, 78, of West Yarmouth, Mass., author (The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Italy in Chains), in West Yarmouth; by drowning while swimming.

* Unsuccessful “noble experiment” of the early 19th century (1841–47); a communal Utopia at West Roxbury, Mass, sponsored by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret (“Priestess of Transcendentalism”) Fuller and other advanced thinkers of the day.