Milestones, Jan. 7, 1935

Engaged, Renee Wilcox Baruch, younger daughter of Bernard Mannes Baruch,and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker.

Engaged, Henry Kline Weir, son of Steelman Ernest Tener Weir (TIME, July 16 et ante) ; and one Helen Denney Harmonson, of Smyrna, Del.

Married. Anne Douglass Gould, 21, fashion-modeling great-granddaughter of Jay Gould; and Frank Spencer J. Meador, 24. Texas-born actor; at 3 a. m. in Harrison. N. Y. after a taxi elopement from Manhattan.

Married. Frances Heenan (“Peaches”) Browning, 24, relict of Manhattan Realtor Edward W. Browning; and Bernard J. Hynes, 36, Denver theatre manager; in East Chester, N. Y. Fortnight ago she won dower rights of $5,000 a year from the estate of her late husband, in whose will she was not mentioned.

Married. Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, 65; and Jean Stewart, 28. schoolmistress; in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England (see p. 19).

Seeking Divorce. Grace Thompson Seton: from Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist and author of boys’ books (The Biography of a Grizzly, Woodland Tales, etc.); after 38 years of marriage. Author Seton recently filed divorce proceedings in Mexico.

Divorced. Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of French Automobileman Gabriel Voisin; from Gifford Pinchot 2nd, nephew of Pennsylvania’s longtime Governor Pinchot; in Dade City, Fla. Grounds: infidelity, uncontested.

Died. John Dewey, 13, grandson of Philosopher John Dewey; of a fractured skull received when an automobile knocked him down; in Flushing, L. I.

Died. Edward Hillman, 45, head of Hillman Airways (London-Paris); of high blood pressure; at London. A homeless wanderer from the age of nine, a humble bicycle repairman five years ago, he developed a fleet of 200 motor coaches, an air fleet worth $500,000.

Died, Lowell Sherman, 49, oldtime actor (High Stakes, The Woman Disputed), cinema villain (Way Down East), director (She Done Him Wrong, Morning Glory); of pneumonia; in Hollywood.

Died. Frank H. Hannigan, 57, head of Cunard White Star’s ecclesiastical department; after a brief illness; in Caldwell, N. J. He encouraged transatlantic steamship traffic by promoting yearly pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain of St. Patrick in Ireland.

Died. Elijah K. West, 63, one of the crew of eight who maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago’s Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard.

Died. Francis Cardinal Bourne, 73, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, head of the Catholic Church in England; after a year’s illness; at his residence, Westminster.

Died. Marchioness Tetsuko Togo, 73, relict of Japan’s famed Admiral Heihachiro Togo; of pneumonia; in Tokyo.

Died. George Wylie Paul (“Old Roman”) Hunt, 75. seven times Governor of Arizona, onetime (1920-21) Minister to Siam; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Phoenix, Ariz. A onetime copper mine mucker, he served 14 years in Arizona’s Territorial Legislature before he was chosen president of its constitutional convention, then in 1912, first Governor of the new State. He served more terms as Governor of a state than any other man in U. S. history.

Died. Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, director of Johnson & Johnson’s scientific laboratories (bandages, etc.). father of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer (“Trees”); after a long illness; in New Brunswick, N. J.

Died. Miss Cornelia Gray Lunt. 91, daughter of the late Orrington Lunt and niece of the late Dr. John Evans, co-founders of Evanston. Ill., long famed as Evanston’s “First Lady”; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill.

Died. John Emory Andrus, 93, multi-millionaire capitalist; of pneumonia; in Yonkers. N. Y. (see p. 62).

Died. Walter N. Barnett, 94. retired wallpaper dealer, pilot of the steamboat Natchez in 1870 when she lost her historic race with the Robert E. Lee for the title of the fastest boat on the Mississippi River; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo. Pilot Barnett’s alibi: the captain by mistake ordered him to steer into a bayou.

* All eight survived the explosion.