Milestones: Oct. 20, 1930

Married. Lawyer John Charles Straton, second son of the late loud Baptist Preacher John Roach Straton of Calvary Church in Manhattan (died a year ago, TIME, Nov. 11); and Helen Sanford, daughter of Lawyer Francis Baird Sanford of Warwick, N. Y.; by Preacher Hillyer Hawthorne Straton (Lawyer Straton’s brother) at the Reformed Church in Warwick, N. Y.

Married. Mrs. William Whitman (Anna Heaton Fitch) Farnam, 43, widow of the late Treasurer Farnam of Yale University who was 85 when he died last year; and Vincenzo Ardenghi, 28, Italian chauffeur who motored her about Europe the past summer; in Paris.

Married. Lee De Forest, 57, electrical inventor (pioneer in radio, sound cinema, television), uncle of Cinemactress Bebe Virginia Daniels; and Marie Mosquini, 41, oldtime comic-film actress, friend of Miss Daniels; secretly, two weeks ago, at Tia Juana, Mexico, a few days before the formalization of his divorce from the second Mrs. De Forest, Singer Mary Mayo of Manhattan.

Suing for Divorce. Alicia Patterson Simpson, daughter of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News (tabloid) and Liberty, vice-presi-dent of the Chicago Tribune; from James Simpson Jr., son of President Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store); in Chicago.

Suing for Divorce. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, Polish cinemactress; from Prince Serge Mdivani; in Paris for the second time in two years. Named: Mary McCormic, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera.

Sued for Divorce. Burleigh A. Grimes, for 15 years a big league baseball pitcher, crack spitballer of the St. Louis Cardinals (National League champions); by Mrs. Florence Ruth Grimes; at Canton, Ohio. Charge: he was cruel, gossiped, wrote to other women. Last December Grimes unsuccessfully sued Mrs. Grimes for divorce. He alleged she gossiped, made him unpopular with the team.

Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away.

Birthday. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of England. Date: Oct. 12. Age: 64. Celebration: tramping in the woods of “Chequers” (country estate of Prime Ministers in Buckinghamshire) with Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia so both might be fit for the opening next day of the Imperial Conference in London.

Died. Allan Pinkerton, 54, horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton’s first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard), son of the late president, great-grandson of the founder.

Murdered. Louis Bush, 60, Washington philanthropist, president of Gray Lines Motor Tours Inc. of Washington; by a footpad who hid in the Bush garage, shot Mr. Bush thrice as he was putting his motor away for the night.

Died. Josiah Marvel, 64, leading attorney of Wilmington, Del, president of the American Bar Association, unsuccessful candidate last month for Democratic nomination for the Senate; suddenly, of heart failure, at his home in Greenville, Del.

Died. Charles Forrest Curry, 72, since 1913 Republican Representative from the third California district, previously for twelve years California’s Secretary of State, unsuccessful champion in Congress of a scheme to combine the air activities of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Postoffice Departments under a single Secretary of Aeronautics; after an operation following an illness of several months, in Washington.

Died. Milton Alexander McRae, 72, newspaper man and philanthropist, with the late Edward Wyllis Scripps founder of the oldtime Scripps-McRae (since 1921 Scripps-Howard) news combine from which he retired in 1907, ex-president of Harper Hospital of Detroit, vice-president of Scripps Memorial Hospital and Scripps Metabolic Clinic in La Jolla, Calif., one-time president of the Boy Scouts of America; after an abdominal operation, at Scripps Memorial Hospital.

Died. Mrs. Mary Chandler Hale, 82, daughter of the late Senator Zachariah Chandler who was a leading force in the founding of the Republican Party in Michigan, widow of the late Republican Senator Eugene Hale of Maine (1836-1918), mother of Republican Senator Frederick Hale of Maine who is chairman of the Senate’s Naval Affairs Committee; of an apoplectic stroke; at Ellsworth, Me.

Died. Mrs. Kiel (Anne Randall) Heald, 88, widow of a California lumber dealer, sister of the late Mrs. Jesse Clark (Hulda Randall) Hoover, aunt of President Hoover and of Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of the Engineering School of Stanford University; after long illness, at East Palo Alto, Calif., where she had lived 30 years.