Milestones: Oct. 13, 1930

Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Henry Sturgis (Catherine Adams) Morgan of Manhattan: their fourth son. No. 16 grandchild for John Pierpont Morgan, No. 4 for Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; at Locust Valley, L.I.

Engaged. Susie Virginia Pollard, daughter of Governor & Mrs. John Garland Pollard of Virginia, official hostess for her father since her mother’s illness last spring, player of leading roles in the Junior Theatre Players (amateur) of Washington; and Herbert Lee Boatwright Jr., Washington attorney, Princeton man; in Richmond.

Engaged. Boris (III) Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislaus Zavier, 36, Greek Orthodox King and Tsar of the Bulgarians, Duke of Saxe; and the Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria, 22, Roman Catholic daughter (third) of King Vittorio Emanuele & Queen Elena of Italy; by permission of the King & Queen of Italy.

Married. Margaret Helen Phipps, granddaughter of late Steelman Philanthropist Henry Phipps (died two weeks ago), cousin of Poloist Winston Guest, niece of Socialite Mrs. Bradley Martin; and J. Gordon Douglas Jr., son of Mrs. Graf ton Winthrop Minot of New York; at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, L.I.

Married. Lucia Zuloaga, daughter of Spain’s famed painter Ignacio Zuloaga;* and Enrique Suarez Rezola, engineer; at the Villa Zumaya, San Sebastian, Spain.

Divorced. Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, president last year of the Daughters of the American Revolution, famed for her defense of the D. A. R.’s “blacklist” of liberal speakers and organizations (TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau’s face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children.

Anniversary. Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; married 25 years. Date: Oct. 4. Celebration: motoring to Boston for the opening of the convention of the American Legion.

Birthday. Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany. Day: Oct. 2. Age: 83. Celebration: at a retreat in the Bavarian Alps, gravely pondering political embroilments in Berlin. (See p. 22.)

Killed. Brig.-General Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Baron Cardington, 55, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation for the Air Ministry and its Director of Air Organization and Controller-General of Equipment during the War; Major George Herbert Scott, Commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic ocean (July 1919); with 44 others in the R-101 disaster over France (see p. 24).

Died. John J. (“Jack”) Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o’Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o’ Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which he died, he not only worked at his own routines while Sunny was in rehearsal, but coached Marilyn Miller as well, keeping her ignorant of his condition. He was a director of the Lambs Club, extremely popular with his professional contemporaries, notoriously charitable. His wife was his onetime vaudeville teammate.

Died. James Hay Reed Jr., 46, President of American Die & Forge Co. and of the Axwell Equipment Co. of Pittsburgh, brother of Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, son of the late Barrister Reed who was a leading force in welding Carnegie and Morgan steel interests and a partner of the late famed Philander Chase Knox; of pneumonia, at the Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan.

Died. Enoch W. (“Baggy”) Bagshaw, Supervisor of Transportation for the State of Washington, onetime coach of University of Washington’s championship footballers (led the Pacific Coast Conference in 1925); suddenly, of apoplexy, at Olympia, Wash. After last year’s unsuccessful season, Washington alumni and undergraduates agreed to pay Bagshaw his contract salary for two years more if he would resign. He resigned. (Last week the Washington team trounced Montana -see p. 42.)

Died. Rear Admiral Albert Weston Grant, 74, chief influence for the building of the Navy’s submarine force, crew captain at Annapolis in 1877, chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet sent around the world by Roosevelt, pre-War commander of the submarine force of the Atlantic fleet, recently commander of the Navy Yard in Washington; as a result of disorders of the stomach, at the Naval Hospital in Washington.

Died. Rear Admiral George Washington Baird, 87, U. S. N. retired (he entered the service during the Civil War); at his home in Washington. In 1891 he supervised installation of electric lights in the White House.

* Not to be confused with Zaro Agha, decrepit Turk, now in U. S. pretending he is 156 years old (TIME, Oct. 6).