Milestones: Jun. 2, 1930

Born. To Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt; a second daughter.

Engaged. John Hay (“Jock”) Whitney, 24, sportsman son of the late Sportsman Payne Whitney; and Mary Elizabeth (“Liz”) Altemus, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dobson Altemus Eastman. Marriage date: early in September.

Engaged. Barron G. Collier Jr., Yale senior, son of the car-card and billboard advertising tycoon; and Miss Helen E. M. Greef, of Manhattan, Smith sophomore.

Engaged. Grover Cleveland Loening, airplane (amphibian) inventor, onetime chief aeronautical engineer of the U. S. Army Air Corps, onetime assistant to Orville Wright; and Marka (Margaret) Truesdale, Manhattan socialite.

Married. Katherine Stevens Pillsbury of Minneapolis, daughter of potent Flourman Charles Stinson Pillsbury; and Elliott Bates McKee, Paris employe of National City Bank; at the American ProCathedral, Paris, France.

Sued for Divorce. By Jaqueline Lebaudy Sudreau, daughter of the late famed Adventurer Jacques Lebaudy; Roger Sudreau, Paris detective’s son. The late Adventurer Lebaudy was a Frenchman who in 1903 made his yacht a battleship, sailed to Africa, “seized” the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself “Emperor of the Sahara,” was exiled by France. He was later slain by his “Empress,” onetime Paris actress Marguerite Doliere, at Westbury, L. I., leaving an estate of $4,000,000. “Empress” Lebaudy also is now Mrs. Sudreau, having married the detective. Until recently, both couples sat together at the Cannes, France, baccarat tables, rapidly betting away the estate.

Sued. Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior; by the U. S. Government to recover $158,127 in back taxes plus $77,198 penalties, on monies (including a $100,000 bribe) unreported in his income tax returns but proven to have been received by him from Oilmen Edward Laurence Doheny and Harry Ford Sinclair.

Awarded. To Sir William Henry Bragg, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory: the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, for his studies in molecular and atomic structures.

Resigned. Oren Root, 57, president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., owners and operators of the Hudson River tubes (Manhattan-New Jersey subway route), onetime motorman, conductor, inspector on the oldtime metropolitan street railway system of New York. During his eleven-year presidency, Hudson & Manhattan obligations rose in the market: 1st lien 5% bonds, from 57 to 99½; adjusted mortgage income 5% bonds from 16 to 83⅜; preferred and common stocks from almost no sale to 81 and 48⅝respectively. On the preferred stock, a dividend of 2½% semiannually was instituted. Reasons for resignation: “Entirely personal.”

Resigned. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 51, Cleveland railroad tycoon, from all executive positions with railroads, except one directorship (Missouri Pacific).

Birthday. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, learned, potent, austere interpreter of the Law. Age: 60. Date: May 24. Celebration: none. Among many tributes paid him on the occasion was the statement of Henry U. Sims, president of the American Bar Association: “Probably no one has contributed so much as Chief Judge Cardozo, unless it be Dean Roscoe Pound [of Harvard Law School], toward clarifying for the legal world the function of the judge in shaping and developing the Law.” Said the New York Evening Post: “He has made our Court of Appeals rank next to the Supreme Court itself.”

Birthday. Gustave Lindenthal, designer of vast bridges (Hell Gate. Queensborough, Manhattan), president of North River Bridge Co., Jersey City. Age: 80. Date: May 21. Celebration: a surprise dinner by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Engineer Lindenthal is planning a bridge to span the Hudson River at 57th street, Manhattan.

Died. George Welch Simmons, 52, St. Louis sportsman, businessman, onetime vice president of Chase National Bank; of heart disease between chukkers of a polo game in which he was playing; at St. Louis.

Died. Julius Grossman, 64, president of Julius Grossman, Inc., shoemakers for the James S. Coward Shoe Co. stores for more than 30 years; after long illness; in Manhattan. Last month Mr. Grossman opened a Manhattan retail store, first of a prospective chain to market his own wares.

Died. Most Rev. Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth, 82, Knight Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order, onetime (1883-91) dean of Windsor and domestic chaplain to Queen Victoria, longtime (1903-28) Archbishop of Canterbury, No. 1 revisor of the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer rejected by the British House of Commons in 1928; after two years of broken health; at London.

Left. H. I. M. Sultan Ahmed Kadjar, onetime Shah of Persia, 32, fabulous Riviera gambler (said to have lost $3,000,000), donor of largesse in jewelry and diamonds (“Oh, take one!”): an unestimated estate of which some $25,000 is in New York real estate; the rest, including the famed great Mogul Diamond, which he wore in his egret plumed turban, is in Paris and Persia. Chief beneficiaries: Queen Mother Malekeh-Djahan, daughters Margam Kadjar, 15, Iran Dokht Kadjar. 14, Homayoun Dokht Kadjar, 12, son Freydoun Kadjar, and eight wives. Trustee and executor: Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.

Died. Volstead, 14, last male bactrian camel of Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo; after a four-day illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Faithful, 20, world’s highest priced ($64,539) shorthorn bull; Argentine grand champion in 1925 at Buenos Aires.