Milestones: Jun. 9, 1930

Born. Six children, all within an hour, to a Senhora Hansen, 23, already mother of two others, at Parintins, Brazil.

Awarded. The Roosevelt medals for distinguished service: to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, and Penologist Hastings Hornell Hart (onetime president of American Prison Association) by the Roosevelt Society at Roosevelt House, No. 28 E. 20 St., Manhattan, Roosevelt’s birthplace.

Elected. Julius Howland Barnes, U. S. Chamber of Commerce board chairman, chairman of the National Business Survey Conference; to be president of General Bronze Corp., succeeding John Palachek. Simultaneously was reported Mr. Barnes’s imminent retirement from the grain brokerage business (Barnes-Ames Co., Duluth).

Retired. Waddill Catchings, from the presidency of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp. and from the firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., thus (as the firm’s representative) from directorships in Manufacturers Trust Co., Warner Brothers Pictures Inc., Sears, Roebuck & Co., Continental Can Co., Endicott-Johnson Corp., B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., but not from the directorates of Blue Ridge Corp. and Shenandoah Corp. Elected to succeed him: Walter Edward Sachs.

Resigned. Frederick James Kelly, one-time vice president of Clyde Steamship Co., from the presidency of the University of Idaho, charging that the State Board of Education had “thwarted [his] scholastic, financial and educational policies.”

Died. Prince Mircea Cantacuzene, ardent supporter of abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania; at Baneasa, Rumania; when an airplane from which he had been dumping pro-Carol pamphlets over Bucharest suddenly went down out of control. Two years ago Prince Carol himself chartered a plane, started to fly from England to Bucharest to distribute aerial propaganda, but British authorities restrained him (TIME, May 14, 1928).

Died. William Marshall, D. S. O., 57, Commodore (since January) of the White Star Fleet (in whose sailing ships he served his apprenticeship); after several months’ illness: at Southampton, England.

Died. Hugo Pam, 60, judge of the Superior court of Illinois, onetime President of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, Wartime chairman of Legal Advisory Board No. 4, Jewish philanthropist; after a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Andrew Lawrence Riker, 61, early automobile inventor, rated (by the American Automobile Association) with Henry Ford, Alexander Winton, Charles Duryea as among those who staked their lives to learn speed lessons; first president of the Society of Automotive Engineers; of heart disease; at West Fairfield, Conn.

Died. Brig.-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, D. S. M., 70, Wartime director of finance, onetime (1922-29) director of the budget; at Washington; having been in poor health (stomach trouble) for the past year. Maine-born, he began his military career by enlisting in the Army as paymaster during the Spanish-American War. Because of his insistence on government thrift, he was unloved by political jobholders. He once said: “A director of the budget should be the most disliked man in Washington. When he becomes popular he should be dismissed.”

Died. Mrs. Rose Sturgess, 70, famed English ratcatcher, descendant of generations of ratcatchers; of natural causes; at Paddock Wood, England.

Died. Daniel Miner Lord, 85, “dean of advertising men,” onetime collector of daily receipts from Chicago horsecar conductors, runner of errands who took an electrotype advertisement to a sectarian newspaper, discussed it, was engaged as an advertising salesman, became experienced, eventually founded one of the pioneer Chicago advertising companies, Lord & Thomas, now Lord & Thomas and Logan. So successful was Lord & Thomas that Mr. Lord could refuse a $1,000,000 contract from a leather tannery when a guarantee of results was demanded. In 1904 he retired, sold his controlling interest in the firm to Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board.

Died. Louis Henry Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, 87, War hero; of bronchial pneumonia; at Rheims. In 1914 at Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended the wounded, held Mass wherever he could, sometimes underground, remained until forced by military authority to retreat from the city in April 1918. In 1927 he consecrated the rebuilding Cathedral (not yet completed). To announce his death, the Cathedral’s chimes tolled the number of his years.

Reburied. Abraham Lincoln II, son of the late President Robert Todd Lincoln of Pullman Co. Abraham Lincoln II died in London, aged 16, in 1890 while his father was Minister to Great Britain. He was buried in the national Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., beside his famed grandfather, his grandmother and his Uncles William (“Willie”) and Thomas (“Tad”). He was reburied in Arlington National Cemetery beside his father.

Reburied. Charles S. Gilpin, Negro actor (Emperor Jones), buried May 12 but disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: “We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace.”