Milestones, Jul. 29, 1940

Born. To Don Ameche, 32, cinemactor, and Honore Prendergast Ameche, 32, a son, their fourth, five weeks after the release of his latest movie, Four Sons: in Hollywood.

Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields.

Divorced. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, 27, darling of U. S. and British tennis galleries; from Marshall Fabyan Jr., 28, socialite Boston architect; in Reno (after she had failed to get a divorce in Massachusetts).

Died. Elmer Henry Maytag, 56, president and son of the founder of the Maytag Co. (washing machines); in Lake Geneva, Wis.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan’s Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to “sell” religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash.

Died. Charles J. Duveen, 68, antique furniture connoisseur; younger brother of the late Lord Duveen (Duveen Brothers), with whom he was in business before establishing the U. S. firm, Charles of London; in Yonkers, N. Y.

Died. Dr. Sigard Adolphus Knopf, 82, internationally famed authority on tuberculosis; in Manhattan. His Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It, first published in 1900, has since been translated into thirty languages.

Died. John George Howard, 87, who 41 years ago helped Prisoner of War Winston Churchill escape from his captors, the Boers; at Johannesburg. He hid Churchill, who had a £25 reward on his head, in a mine pit for three days, later concealed him among bales of wool, arranged for his transportation to friendly Portuguese territory.

Died. Dora Delano Forbes, 92, maternal aunt of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; longtime resident of Paris; in Balmville, N. Y.