Milestones, May 27, 1940

Expected. By Fred Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, who has lived for four years in an iron lung, and Teresa Larkin Snite, 25: a child; in September. Said Snite: “God continues to shower us with all his choicest blessings.”

Married. Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 22, grandson of the 26th President of the U. S. ; and Socialite Katharine Tweed, 20, daughter of Countess Eleanor Palffy and Harrison Tweed; at the Little Church Around the Corner, in Manhattan.

Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha (“Mickey”) Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore.

Married. Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, 45; and Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky, 28; in Graz, Austria. Because of the war they canceled their wedding trip to Italy.

Divorced. Daisy-eyed Cinemactress Luise Rainer, 30, twice winner of Hollywood’s Academy Award; from Playwright Clifford Odets, 33 (Waiting jor Lefty, Golden Boy)] after three years of marriage, one reconciliation; in Los Angeles.

Died. Anders Undset-Svarstad, 26, son of Norwegian Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Sigrid Undset; defending his country; somewhere in Norway.

Died. Marcus Garvey, 53, Jamaica-born Negro leader (“Emperor Marcus 1”) of the defunct “Back to Africa” movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported.

Died. General Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat, 77, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the East (1917), chief of the post-war army of occupation in the Rhineland, onetime (1926) French Minister of War; of pneumonia; in Nantes.

Died. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, 80, French adventurer-engineer, who engineered (from Room 1162 of the old Waldorf-Astoria) the Panama Revolution of 1903 which paved the way for U. S. acquisition of the Canal Zone; in Paris.

Died. General Sir Bindon Blood, 97, called “The Father of the British Army,” who fought in seven campaigns, was 80 years on the Army list; of old age; in London. Once a famed hunter of tigers (his record: 57), in his latter days he liked to go to the zoo, exchange glares with them.