MILESTONES

Born. To Mrs. Ruth von Phul, so-called "crossword puzzle champion," a daughter, in Manhattan.

Engaged. Georgette Cohan, 25, actress, daughter of famed comedian George M. Cohan, nine-months-widow of J. W. Souther, to one H. Rowse, "rich perfumer." Her father is alleged to have remarked: "Georgette's fiance is a great guy. They don't come better. It's a matter for enthusiastic approval."

Married. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, daughter of Prince and Princess Michael Cantacuzene, and great-granddaughter of General U. S. Grant, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville, at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, in Washington, D. C.

Died. Dr. Hugo Preuss, 65, chief author of the German Republican Constitution,* noted post-War German statesman, scholar, professor, jurist, sometime member of both the Prussian Diet and the Imperial Parliament, German Secretary of the Interior in 1918, and noted Jewish intellectual; at Berlin, mourned by almost the entire German press, with the exception of the extreme Monarchist sheetlets.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning.

Died. John L. Perry, 82, grandfather of Walter Perry Johnson, famed Washington baseball pitcher, at Santa Monica, Calif., the day prior to Mr. Johnson's great 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh nine (see Page 26, SPORT).

Died. James Buchanan Duke, 68, probably the most notable figure in the American tobacco industry, sometime President (1889-1912) of the famed American Tobacco Co. (commonly known as the "Tobacco Trust"); at his New York home, of bronchial pneumonia.

*Dr. Preuss declared that in drawing up the German Republican Constitution he used the Constitution of U. S. as a model, to some extent, but believed that he greatly improved upon it.