Milestones, May 21, 1934

Born. To Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt’s son Elliott; a daughter; in Fort Worth, Tex.

Married, Basil Dean, English producer; and Victoria Hopper, small, blonde cinemactress whom he directed in The Constant Nymph; in Dunmow, Essex.

Married. Rion Fortescue, sister of Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, April 16, et ante) and Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki, son of Col. Guy T. Viskniskki, onetime business manager of the Chicago Daily News; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Virginia Langdon Loomis, daughter of Edward Eugene Loomis, president of Lehigh Valley Railroad; and Bayard Schieffelin, Manhattan socialite; in Summit, N. J.

Suing for Divorce. Robert Emmet Sherwood, playwright; from Mary Brandon Sherwood; in Reno. Grounds: “the usual thing.”

Divorced. Joseph Deems Taylor, composer (The King’s Henchman, Peter Ibbetson); by Actress Mary Kennedy Taylor; in Reno.

Divorced. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., real estate man, her second husband; in Hot Springs, Ark. Charges: general indignities. Mrs. Smith’s first husband was the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, whose second wife was Singer Elsbeth (“Libby”) Holman.

Awarded. To President James Bryant Conant of Harvard: the American Institute of Chemists Medal. To Samuel Seabury, Mrs. August Belmont. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard Medical School): gold medals of the National Institute of Social Sciences. To Alden Hopkins of Rhode Island State College and Harvard School of Landscape Architecture : the Prix de Rome in landscape architecture.

Left. By Writer Ringgold Wilmer (“Ring”) Lardner: a net estate valued at $192,927.63; to his widow, Mrs. Ellis Abbott Lardner.

Died. Cayetana Ordonez, Nino de la Palma, 28, matador famed for his pure rodeno (classical) style; in an automobile accident; near Seville, Spain.

Died. Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky, 60, head of OGPU, Russia’s Secret Service; after long illness, in Moscow. Died, Blaise Diagne, 61, Senegalese Negro member of the French Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Paris. Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab. In 1897 he succeeded Mr. Schwab as superintendent of Homestead Steel Works. In 1901 when Mr. Schwab left the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. to become U. S. Steel’s first president, Mr. Corey followed him as head of Carnegie. Two years later he again succeeded Mr. Schwab—this time as Steel’s president, a position he held until 1911. In 1915 he formed and headed Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co. as a rival to Mr. Schwab’s Bethlehem Steel Corp. He retired in 1923 when Bethlehem bought Midvale. Same year he was divorced from his second wife, Mabelle Oilman Corey, onetime actress, whom he married amid much publicity in 1907. Died. Albert E. Sleeper, 71, banker, onetime (1917-20) Governor of Michigan; after long illness; in Bad Axe, Mich.

Died, Joy Morton, 78, son of the late Julius Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day and Secretary of Agriculture under President Cleveland, board chairman of Morton Salt Co. (“It Pours”); of a heart attack; in Lisle, Ill. Onetime banker and railroadman, Joy Morton entered the salt business in 1879, made his company largest in sales in the salt world.** Thousands yearly visit his 400-acre arboretum near Chicago.

Died. Betty, aged 10 days, fourth orangutan born in the U. S. (TIME, May 14); of starvation when maternal nervousness stopped her mother Nancy’s flow of milk; in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. Fiercely protective like all orangutan mothers, Nancy would not let zoomen touch the baby, tried to keep it alive with mouthfuls of milk from a pan.

Died, Winnie the Pooh, 20, friendly Canadian brown bear, model for Alan Alexander Milne’s famed book; after a two-year paralysis; in the London Zoo.

*First Negro French Cabinet member was one de Heredia (no kin to Poet Jose-Maria de Heredia) who was appointed Minister of Public Works in 1887.

**International Salt is world’s largest producer.