Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928

Born. To Mae Murray, cinemactress, and David M’Divani, Prince of Georgia, a son; 16 months ago, in Los Angeles. Said Prince M’Divani: “We had thought to keep the fact a secret … because of the effect it might have on my wife’s career.”

Engagement Broken. Mariquita Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), great granddaughter of famed Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; and Louis Warren Hill Jr., son of Chairman Louis Warren Hill of the Great Northern R. R. directorate; by mutual consent.

Married. Elizabeth B. Smith, 15, of Stewartsville, N. J.; to her great granduncle, one Samuel M. Senguine, 65; at the Smith farm, in Parker’s Grove, in the presence of Greatgrandparent Smith.

Married. William Faversham Jr., 22, actor (The Ivory Door) and actor’s son; to Sarah Q. Shaw, of Concord, Mass.; in Concord.

Married. Aaron Steuer, lawyer son of Max D. Steuer, famed criminal lawyer; to Virginia Clark, dancer (Sidewalks of New York); at Jackson Heights, L. I.

Married. Margaret Carnegie Perkins, grandniece of Andrew Carnegie; to John Speer Laughlin, son of Steelman George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin); at Southampton, L. I.

Married. Lucy Leffingwell, daughter of Russell Cornell Leffingwell, Morgan partner; to Thomas John Edward Pulling of Santa Barbara. Calif.; at Cold Spring Harbor, L. L, Rector Peabody of Groton School officiating.

Married. Susan Lord Buckland, daughter of Vice President Edward Grant Buckland of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.; to Arthur Milliken, senior master at the Brooks School, North Andover, Mass.; in New Haven.

Divorced. Carol Caraiman, abdicated Crown Prince of Rumania; by Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of King Mihai of Rumania (see page 16).

Divorced. Rodney (“Gypsy”) Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged “intolerable” cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world.

Elected. Merlin A. Cudlip, 31, for five years secretary of the Packard Motor Car Co.; to be also vice president. In November 1918, soon after his graduation from the University of Michigan, he entered the Packard company as a clerk.

Elected. Andre Homberg, vice chairman of La Compagnie Generate Transat-lantique (French Line); to be chairman; succeeding John Enri dal Piaz, who died last fortnight (TIME, June 25).

Elected. Richard Frank Grant, president of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, onetime (1924-25) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; to be head of the new Lehigh Valley Coal Co. sales corporation.

Elected. Arthur Merriman Harris, vice president of the World Sunday School Association; to be president of the Northern Baptist convention.

Died. Paul Raditch, deputy in the Jugoslav Parliament; by assassination; at Belgrade (see page 16).

Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman’s House, etc.), self-styled “last of the traditional Irish story tellers”; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork.

Died. Claude George Burnham, 49, executive vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; at Kenilworth, Ill.; after six months’ illness.

Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play’s The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against “sweatshops,” organizer of the potent Cloak Makers’ Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan.

Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late “Big Bill” Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor’s life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho.

Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass.

Died. Col. Charles Clifton, 74, automobile pioneer, board chairman of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. for 14 years (1912-26) president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; in Buffalo.

Died. Joseph Kittridge Choate, 74, consulting engineer, president of the Morris County Traction Co., for 15 years vice president of the J. G. White Management Corp., nephew of the late famed Joseph H. Choate; of bronchial pneumonia; in San Francisco.

Died. William Rutherford Mead, 81, famed classicist architect (Boston Public Library), partner of McKim, Mead & White; in Paris; of heart disease.