Milestones, Aug. 24, 1936

Married. Mrs. Lita Annenberg Howard, 26, daughter of Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg of Daily Racing Form, Miami Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer (TIME, Aug. 10); and Manhattan Lawyer Joseph Harrington Hazen, 38, assistant to Cinemagnate Harry Morris Warner; at Great Neck, N. Y. Simultaneously wed were her sister, Mrs. Enid Annenberg Bensinger, 29, and Ira Haupt, 47, Manhattan stockbroker.

Married. James (“Jimmy”) Wallington, 29, radio announcer; and Betty Jane Cooper, 23, musicomedienne (George White’s Scandals); in Detroit, Mich.

Married. John Kinley Tener, 73, old-time National League baseballer, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Pennsylvania; and Leone Evans, 48; in Portland, Me.

Sued. Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of Alphonse (“Al”) Capone, who is serving an eleven-year term in California’s Alcatraz Prison for evading income taxes; for evading $51,498.08 income taxes during the period 1926-29; in U. S. District Court, Miami, Fla.

Divorced. Mrs. Queena Marion Tillotson Pelletier (Queena Mario), 40, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Wilfred Pelletier. 40, since 1916 the Metropolitan’s assistant conductor; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty.

Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city’s first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana’s Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary.

Died. Michael Dole, 2, grandson of Founder James Drummond Dole of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; of a streptococcus infection; in San Francisco.

Died. Horace Bushnell Cheney, 68, of the South Manchester (Conn.) silk family, longtime chief Silk Association lobbyist; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Died. Frederick Samuel Fish, 84, one-time president (1911-15) and chairman (1915-35 ) of Studebaker Corp., son-in-law of Co-Founder John Mohler Studebaker; in South Bend, Ind.

Died. Frederick George (“Peckham”) Banbury, First Baron Banbury of Southam, 85, famed old parliamentary curmudgeon; at Highworth, Wiltshire, England. A Tory diehard, who boasted that his home was illuminated only by candles, he blocked admittance of peeresses to the House of Lords lest the body “lose dignity to secure efficiency.”