Milestones: May 28, 1928

Married. Adolphe Menjou, 38, sartorial cinemactor (The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, A Night of Mystery), to Kathryn Carver, 25, blonde cinemactress, onetime wife of Photographer Ira Hill; in Paris. Twenty-five cameramen were present.

Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice.

Married. Mrs. Jeannette P. Colgate, recent wife of Henry A. Colgate (soap), of Manhattan; to Byron V. Dexter, poet, of Morristown, N. J.; secretly, several months ago, following an introduction at amateur theatricals. Mr. Colgate, after a conference with his wife and Poet Dexter in Paris, agreed to a divorce, will pay his onetime wife $6,000 yearly to support their three children, $6,000 yearly for herself.

Married. Major M. Robert Guggenheim, 42, husband successively of Grace Bernheimer and Margaret G. M. Weyher, son of famed Manhattan philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim, who gave $2,000,000 to advance U. S. aviation; to Elizabeth Eaton, 25, of Babylon, L. I.; in Baltimore.

Married. Horace E. Dodge, 27, Detroit speedboat manufacturer, heir to a fortune of $37,000,000; to Miss Muriel D. Sisman, 23, daughter of a Detroit contractor; in London.

Sued for Divorce. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and a director of the new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (see page 22); by Mrs. Emily O’Neil Davies Vanderbilt; at Newport, R. I. She charged neglect to provide.

Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late Horace E. Dodge (automobiles) of Detroit, famed for her speed boats and her $825,000 pearls, once the possession of Empress Catherine of Russia; from James H. R. Cromwell of Philadelphia.

Elected. Arthur Brentano Jr. of Manhattan, to be president of the American Booksellers Association; at their annual convention in Atlantic City.

Elected. Edwin Bidwell Wilson of the Harvard School of Public Health, to be president again of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Died. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when death came to him.

Died. James F. D. Lanier, 69, retired, member of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co, of New York (one of the oldest private banking houses in the U. S.); in Manhattan, following an operation.

Died. Thomas Henry (“Old Tom”) Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill’s band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow’s Minnehaha.