Milestones, Oct. 29, 1934

Engaged. Bertha Cantacuzene Smith, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, divorced wife of Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.; and Donald Mackintosh, Sarasota, Fla. banker.

Married. Charlotte Kelsey Dorrance, daughter of Campbell Soup Co.’s late, learned Founder-President Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who left some $115,000,000 in trust to his widow and five children; and William Coxe Wright, tennist; in Radnor, Pa.

Married. Helen Cermak Kenlay, youngest daughter of the late Anton J. Cermak, martyred Mayor of Chicago; and Otto Kerner Jr., lawyer, son of Illinois’ Attorney General; in Chicago.

Died. Charles (“Pretty Boy”) Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsiblefor the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death.

Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Arthur (“Battling Charlie”) Nelson, 44, bishop of Long Island in the United Christian Church of America (577 members); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Long Island City. Son of a Long Island City saloon keeper, he entered the prize ring, quit it when an opponent frightened him by remaining long unconscious after being felled.

Died. Asa Keyes, 57, besmirched one-time District Attorney of Los Angeles County; of a paralytic stroke; in Beverly Hills. Slashing and ruthless in court, he sent some 5,000 bombers, Bluebeards, hammer murderesses and other felons to prison before he himself was convicted for bribery in connection with the bankruptcy of Julian Petroleum Co.

Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow’s army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired.

Died. James Ross Mellon, 88, retired Pittsburgh financier and charitarian, elder brother of Andrew William Mellon, father of Board Chairman William Larimer Mellonof Gulf Oil Corp.; of old age; in Pittsburgh.