Milestones, Oct. 19, 1942

Married. Cinemactress Arline Judge, 30; and R.A.F. Captain James Ramage Addams, 38; she for the third time, he for the second; in Montecito, Calif. Her first was Cinedirector Wesley Ruggles, her second Tinplate Heir Dan Topping (now the husband of Skater Sonja Henie). One wedding present: just before the ceremony, a process server handed her a summons in a $2,100 suit for back rent and legal fees.

Killed on Duty. Captain Don E., Brown, 25, son of Cinecomic Joe E. Brown; in the crash of an Army bomber near Palm Springs, Calif.

Died. Max Oser, 65, Swiss riding master whose marriage to Mathilde McCormick hit the nation’s front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland. His bride-to-be, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, daughter of Harold (harvesters) McCormick, was 16 when she announced they would marry; Oser was 44; he was suspected as a fortune hunter, and mother-in-law Edith withheld her blessing for six years after the marriage. The Osers and their two children, new 17 and 15, lived quietly in Switzerland rarely visited the U.S.

Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is “flat as a pancake”—a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion’s real estate and industries. His financial affairs got into a tangled mess in the early ’30s, receivers were appointed, and he lost most of his power.

Died. Robert Hobart (“Bob”) Davis, 73, veteran roving columnist of the New York Sun (Bob Davis Reveals), expert amateur photographer, famed helping-hand-to-struggling-authors, tireless writer of reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for the Sun for more than 15 years, scattering harmless anecdotes he had been accumulating ever since he began making friends as a Munsey magazine editor in the early 1900s.

Died. Cora Hind, 81, oldest newspaperwoman in Canada, famed forecaster of grain crops; in Winnipeg (see p. 94).

Died. Tony, the late Tom Mix’s famed “wonder horse”; of euthanasia; in San Fernando, Calif, (see p. 96).