Milestones, May 3, 1937

Birthday. Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 8; in Hollywood. Celebration: a party for child patients in a Los Angeles hospital. Gifts: from her parents, a toy cooking outfit; from the public, thousands of dolls.

Birthday. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England, heir presumptive to the throne, 11; at Windsor Castle. Celebration : a Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck film show in the throne room. Gifts: from “Uncle David,” the Duke of Windsor, a wrist watch and tennis racquet; from King George VI, a white pony named Snowball; from Queen Elizabeth, a saddle, harness and crop; from younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, a handbag with silver fittings; from Grandmother Queen Mary, doll furniture. Royal family rules forbid accepting personal presents from the public.

Married. Count Kocho Otani, 27, spiritual leader of Japan’s 13,000,000 NishiHongwanji Buddhists; and Princess Yoshiko Tokudaiji, 19; by himself (no lesser churchman being deemed eligible); in Kyoto, Japan. Best man: Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako.

Married. David Field Beatty. Earl Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby, 32, son & heir of the Wartime British Admiral of the Fleet, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Marshall Field; and Mrs. Dorothy Power Sands. 34, once-widowed, once-divorced Virginian ; in London’s Guildhall. His mother, the late Ethel Field Beatty, left him $1,000,000.

Sued. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 45, Republican National Chairman: by Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton; for separate maintenance for herself, Son Daniel, 20 (a University of Kansas freshman) and Daughter Laura, 12; in Topeka. Kans. Grounds: “gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty.”

Died. William Forbes Morgan. 57, president of Distilled Spirits Institute (TIME. March 1 ): of heart disease; in the Ohio State Capitol at Columbus, after speaking at a liquor hearing. His first wife was an aunt of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his second the 26-year-old daughter of Washington Lawyer Robert Jackson, whom he followed as Democratic National Secretary (1935-36).

Died. Arminia Rosengarten MacLeod Atterbury, 58, widow of Pennsylvania Railroad’s President General William Wallace Atterbury; after long illness; at Radnor, Pa.

Died. Nathan Lynn Bachman, 58, Tennessee’s junior Democratic Senator, appointed in 1933 when Cordell Hull was drafted for the Cabinet and twice reelected, onetime (1918-24) Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; of heart disease; in Washington. He played football nine seasons at Southwestern (Presbyterian), Washington & Lee and Central universities, joked that he had been expelled from all three.

Died. George Muirson Woolsey, 65, Manhattan stockbroker, since 1932 president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; after three weeks’ illness; in Manhattan.

Died. George Henry Wightman, 81, onetime associate of the late Steelman Andrew Carnegie, pioneer U. S. tennist, father-in-law of famed Tennist Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman; after brief illness; in Brookline, Mass.