Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938

Born. To Ethel du Pont Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; a son, their first child, eighth grandchild of the 32nd U. S. President; in Philadelphia. Name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt III. Weight: 7 Ib.

Married. Katherine Mackay O’Brien, daughter of Postal Telegraph’s Clarence H. Mackay, older sister of Mrs. Irving Berlin; to Attorney Robert Ziemer Hawkins of Reno; in Reno. Mrs. Hawkins’ first husband (divorced 1937) is New York Supreme Court Justice Kenneth O’Brien.

Sued for Divorce. Potter D’Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago’s rich hotel family;* by his third wife, Pauline Warren Palmer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota, Fla.

Divorced. Linda Gaddy Bilbo; by Mississippi’s U. S. Senator Theodore Gilmore (“The Man”) Bilbo; in Poplarville, Miss. Grounds: cruel & inhuman treatment of the Senator.

Divorced. Oliver Burgess (“Buzz”) Meredith. 29, actor (Winterset, High Tor) ; by his second wife, Margaret Perry, 25, actress (Strictly Dishonorable); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty.

Died. Charles P. Howard, 58, president of American Federation of Labor’s International Typographical Union (TIME, June 6, et ante), secretary of John L. Lewis’ strongly anti-A. F. of L. Committee for Industrial Organization; at Colorado Springs; of a heart attack.

Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway.

Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: “When you call me that, smile!”

Died. Prince Franz Paul I, 85, who four months ago abdicated as ruler of the 65 square mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles between Greater Germany and Switzerland; at Castle Felsburg, Czechoslovakia; after a lengthy illness.

*Not to be confused with his less ebullient first cousin, Potter Palmer III, who is still happily married to his first & only wife, the beauteous Rose Saltonstall Movius of Boston.