Milestones, May 1, 1933

Engaged. Prince Wilhelm, 26, eldest son of Germany’s onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, commoner. Many a monarchist has considered young Wilhelm the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration. Under old Prussian law his marriage would not bar him from the throne, but his children could not succeed him. And the marriage must be sanctioned by the head of the family, who last week in Doorn kept silent, was reported grieved.

Married. Everett Shinn, 59, painter & illustrator, for the fourth time; and one Paula Downing, 21; in Doylestown, Pa.

Appointed. Percy Leo Crosby, 41, cartoonist (Skippy, Always Belittlin). Wartime infantry lieutenant: to be a Major in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserves.

Died. Regino Truffin, 29, elder son of Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin Walsh; of a liver ailment; in Marianao, Cuba. His long illness delayed for more than a year the marriage of his mother to Montana’s late Senator Thomas James Walsh (TIME, March 6, et seq.).

Died. Florence Hinkle, 48, onetime concert & oratorio soprano, wife of old-time Basso Herbert Witherspoon, director of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music; of a heart ailment; in Cincinnati.

Died. Martha Hichborn Pearsall, 57, Washington socialite beauty during Theodore Roosevelt’s Administration, daughter of the late Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn, divorced wife of James Gillespie Elaine Jr.; in Washington. Survived only by a nephew, who she said was well provided for, she left her entire estate to her chauffeur, one Winter B. Simpson.

Died. William Courtenay, 57, oldtime stage actor (The Wolf, Arsene Lupin, Romance, Under Fire, The Inside Story}; of a heart ailment incurred more than two years ago during the filming of Three Faces East; in Rye, N. Y.

Died. Commandant Georges Ledoux, 58, Wartime head of France’s Counter-Espionage Service, captor of famed Spy Margaret Zelle MacLeod (Mata Hari) ; in Cannes, France.

Died. Mat Lauder, 61, Pasadena hotel gardener, brother of Sir Harry Lauder; after an operation for intestinal adhesions; in Los Angeles. He spent most of his life mining in Africa, New Zealand, Australia.

Died. Prince Zakhari Mdivani of Georgia (South Russia), 65, onetime aide-de-camp of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, father of the much-married Mdivani princes (Serge, David, Alexis); of uremia and heart disease; in Paris.

Died. Louis H. Willard, Bronx real estate dealer impoverished by overbearing competition with local politicians, effective witness in the Seabury investigations of New York City governmental corruption; by his own hand (poison); in a Manhattan hotel; while reading old newspaper clippings which recounted the poison-suicides of his wife and sister-in-law, whom politico-business persecutions likewise demoralized.

Died. John Hazelton Cotteral, 68, judge of the 10th District U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of pneumonia and uremic poisoning ; in Wichita, Kan.

Died. Fred Terry, 69, oldtime actor-manager, brother of the late great Actress Ellen Terry; in London.

Died. Henry ter Linden, 70, president of Imitation Food Products Co.; by his own hand (revolver) ; in Brooklyn. For restaurants, stores, photographers, practical jokers he made painted wax onions, cuts of beef, doughnuts, ice cream, banana splits, etc., etc.

Died. Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 70, cofounder, director and chief engineer of Rolls-Royce, Ltd. (automobiles, airplane engines) ; after a seven-month illness kept secret because of his publicity-shyness; in West Wittering, Sussex, England. Son of a miller, he began building automobiles in 1903. In 1906 he joined the late Charles Stewart Rolls in founding Rolls-Royce. Engines designed by him powered the first transatlantic non-stop flight (Alcock & Brown, 1919), in one year (1931) broke world’s speed records for air (Stainforth), land (Campbell) and sea (Don).

Died. Ormond Gerald Smith, 72, president of Street & Smith Corp., publisher of the “Nick Carter” stories and some 3,500 other paperbound thrillers, many a pulp magazine; of a stroke; in Manhattan. He founded Ainslee’s, People’s, Smith’s, Top-Notch and Picture Play magazines. His most famed discovery: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry).

Died. Webster Thayer, 75, Massachusetts Superior Court judge; of a cerebral embolism; in Boston. As he lay dying in Boston’s University Club a policeman and his personal bodyguard, who had attended him since the bombing of his Worcester, Mass. home last autumn (TIME, Oct. 3). stood guard outside to forestall any last outburst of the violence which had threatened him since April 9, 1927, when he sentenced Shoemaker Nicola Sacco & Fish Peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti to death.

Died. Anton Gysberti Hodenpyl, 80, pioneer Midwestern power & light man, retired Manhattan investment banker; of heart disease, while motoring from Florida to his Locust Valley, L. I. home; in Richmond, Va.

Died. William Henry Holmes, 86, anthropologist, archeologist, geologist, painter, onetime (1920-32) director of Washington’s National Gallery of Art; in Royal Oak, Mich.