Milestones, Jan. 26, 1942

Married. T. L. Soong, 48, Chinese financier, brother of Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi, 23-year-old Manhattan art student, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, general manager of the Central Bank of China; in Manhattan.

Died. Truman Hughes Talley, 50, newsreel and documentary film producer; executive vice president of Movietonews, Inc.; in Manhattan. His outstanding documentary was The First World War, inspired by Laurence Stallings’ picture book.

Died. Cinemactress Carole Lombard, 32; in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nev. A high-strung, energetic blonde with a charmer’s face and a talent for comedy, she had been a cinemactress since childhood. Born Jane Peters in Fort Wayne, Ind., she moved to Los Angeles at seven, made her cinedebut at eleven. She went into Mack Sennett comedies after an auto crash scarred her face, a few years later began appearing in romantic roles, emerged in recent years as an outstanding comedienne (My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Married to William Powell in 1931, she divorced him in 1933, married Clark Gable in 1939.

Died. Arthur E. (“Turkey”) Gehrke, 59, famed hibernating tavernkeeper of Waterstown, Wis. “If more folks went to bed all winter,” said Gehrke once, “there wouldn’t be so much trouble and confusion in the world.”

Died. Fred Fisher, 65, music publisher, hit-tune writer; a suicide, by hanging; in Manhattan. He wrote the lyrics for Dardanella, the lyrics and/or music for Chasing Rainbows; Chicago; Ireland Must Be Heaven; Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine.

Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made “not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates.”

Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called “The Soldier Prince,” entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary (1919).