Milestones, Aug. 3, 1936

Engaged. Wyndham Baldwin, 32, younger son of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; and Elspeth Tomes, 34, of New York City and Lossiemouth, Scotland; in London.

Married. David Albert Lamson, 34, onetime Stanford University Press official, four times tried (1933-36) for murdering his first wife (TIME, April 13 et ante); and Ruth Smith Ranking, 33, cinemagazine writer; in Los Angeles. When California quashed its murder charge against him last April, he went to Hollywood to adapt his death-cell memoirs (We Who Are About to Die).

Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. (“Tex”) Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago.

Married. Publisher Daniel Rhodes Hanna Jr., of the Cleveland News, grandson of the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna; and Mrs. Lucia Otis Newell; in Cleveland.Two months ago Nephew Marcus Alonzo Hanna III was sent to Ohio StateReformatory for forging Publisher Hanna’s name to a check (TIME, May 4).

Left. By Arthur William Cutten, late Chicago grain speculator (TIME, July 6); to Mrs. Maude Boomer Cutten; an estate valued at $350,000. Chicago’s U. S. District Attorney announced he would attach the estate for $644,469 unpaid income taxes.

Died. Lawrence Gifford, 43, Wartime aviator, brother of President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; at Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Died. Earle Lewis Ovington, 57, first commissioned U. S. air mail pilot; after long illness; in Los Angeles. In 1911 he flew a mail sack two miles from Garden City to Mineola, L. I. on nine successive days.

Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia’s Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept. 4, 1933).

Died. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, 72; from 1911 to her retirement this year (TIME, May 25) the stately, omnicompetent “Pres. Penn” of Wellesley College; of a paralytic stroke; in Newton, Mass.

Died. Colonel Willard Young, 84, next to last surviving son of the 56 children born to Mormon Brigham Young and his 19 wives; in Salt Lake City, Utah.