Milestones: Oct. 6, 1930

Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart’s son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of “moral turpitude.” Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl of Craven, never her husband.

Married. Eleanor Steele, operatic soprano, prima donna last year of Brooklyn’s Little Theatre Opera Company, daughter of Morgan Partner Charles Steele, sister of the wife of retired Poloist Devereux Milburn of Westbury, L. I.; and Hall Clovis, operatic tenor, singer of leading roles for two years with Little Theatre opera; in Chicago. Mrs. Clovis has had two previous husbands: Count Jean de la Greze of Paris (divorced), Dr. Louis Debonnesset of Paris (died).

Elected. William Phene Neal, London solicitor: to be Lord Mayor of London for a year.

Elected. To the presidency of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College: Col. Albert Thompson Perkins, vice president of City Utilities Co., St. Louis bus owners, onetime president of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the U. S., holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and Britain’s Order of St. Michael & St. George. In 1887 Col. Perkins was graduated by Harvard, magna cum laude. He started then with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, became a leading force in St. Louis railroading. He was an adviser to many cities on their terminal systems. He brought the United Railways (St. Louis street cars) through long years of wavery receivership into reorganization as the Public Service Co. During the War, he left the British Army to manage transportationof munitions for the A. E. F.

Elected. Alanson Bigelow Houghton. onetime (1922-25) U. S. Ambassador to Germany and (1925-28) to Great Britain: to succeed Economist Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia University as president of the Academy of Political Science.

Sued. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, famed cinemactress: for $5.000; by Beltran Masses, Spanish painter; in Paris. Senor Masses alleged that Pola Negri had ordered a $5,000 portrait of herself, that she had specified a background to contain a dim, spectral Rudolph Valentino, that when the portrait was finished she refused to pay. Pola Negri said Senor Masses had begged for permission to paint her. He refused her offer to settle for $1,000.

Murdered. Maxwell Cunningham Byers, 52, president of Western Maryland Railroad; by Dudley Guy Gray, vice president of the road, who then committed suicide; in Baltimore (see p. 51).

Died. William C. Hammer, 65, since 1921 Democratic Representative in Congress from the 7th District of North Carolina, previously (1914-20) U. S. attorney in the western district of North Carolina, owner & editor of the Asheboro Courier; second Representative from North Carolina to die last week (see below); after a heart attack, in Asheboro, N. C.

Died. Daniel Guggenheim, 74, famed copperman and philanthropist, father of U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, brother of Simon Guggenheim, onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father’s metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado Rockies, to plunge the first Guggenheim money into copper. Eventually the Guggenheims held chief influence in three of the world’s greatest copper combines, in the nitrate industry of Chile, in the diamond fields of the Belgian Congo. Recently Daniel Guggenheim resigned from association with 14 great corporations.

Pet of his philanthropies was aviation. He gave: $2,500,000 for the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics, $500.000 for Airship Institute at Akron, the same for a department of aeronautics at New York University, $908,000 to other universities for aviation. Chief other philanthropy (with his brother Murry): the free concerts of Edwin Franko Goldman’s band at the Mall in Central Park, Manhattan, and their radio broadcast costs.

Died. Mrs. James J. (Emma Cliff) Couzens, 81, mother of Senator James Couzens of Michigan; after a hemorrhage, at her home in Detroit. Besides Senator Couzens, four other children survive: two daughters, two sons.

Died. Charles Manly Stedman, 89, for the past 20 years Democratic Representative from the 5th District of North Carolina, oldest member and only Civil War veteran in Congress; the 22nd member of the present Congress to die; of apoplexy, at Mount Alto Hospital in Washington. Before the Civil War, Stedman persuaded authorities of the University of North Carolina to confer his degree three months early so that he could join the Confederate Army before fighting began. With Lee’s army he was thrice wounded. He entered Congress when he was 69. All his life he bathed once or twice, frequently three times, per day, never was ill until the past year.