Milestones

Engaged. Esta, daughter of President William F. R. Murrie of Hershey Chocolate Co.; and James Logan Clevenger of Perth Amboy, N. J.; at Hershey, Pa.

Married. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed anti-Fundamentalist preacher; at West Orange, N. J.

Divorced. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, member of a family of Manhattan socialites; from Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, octoroon; at Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: she had "by her wiles and artifices taken advantage of his youth and inexperience." Married when he was 22, she 28, in 1925 he tried to divorce her at White Plains, N. Y., complaining that she had deceived him about her parentage.

Awarded. To the League of Nations; the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation Peace Prize of $25,000. The Foundation hoped the money would be used for Wilson memorial doors in the League's $5,000,000 headquarters (TIME, Sept. 16), now abuilding at Geneva, Switzerland.

Birthday. Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), longtime (30 years) manager of the world champion Philadelphia American League ("Athletics") baseball team; at Philadelphia. Age: 67.

Resigned. Allan A. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan from whom he inherited part of a $500,000,000 estate; from a partnership in Noah MacDowell & Co., Manhattan brokers. In 1924, after leaving Yale, he set out to help recoup his father's $5,000,000 losses in Stutz Motors stock manipulations (1920).

Resigned. Myron E. Forbes from the presidency of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co.; at Buffalo, N. Y.

Sued for Libel. Collier's Weekly; by onetime District Prohibition Administrator F. H. McLenahan; at Denver. The charge: that "false and derogatory" statements were made about him in the Dec. 28, 1928, issue of the magazine. His demand: $100,000 damages. The article, "Sugar Moon," said that 2,000 bootleggers thrive in Denver, sell whiskey made from sugar beets.*

Died. Professor Ralph Hamilton Curtiss, 49, director of the University of Michigan's astronomical observatory since 1927, onetime (1900) observer at University of California, member of Lick Observatory Eclipse Expedition to Sumatra (1901); at Ann Arbor, Mich.; of pleurisy.

Died. Tennessee Mitchell Anderson, 52, sculptress, eurythmic dancing teacher, divorced wife of Author Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter, The Triumph of the Egg); at Chicago; of a hemorrhage of the lungs.

Died. Edward Motley Weld, 57, socialite, poloist, onetime (1921) president of the New York Cotton Exchange; in Manhattan; of heart disease. He played on the Dedham (Mass.) polo team, U. S. champions in 1900. With the late Temple Gwathmey, he ran a racing stable under the name of "Mr. Cotton."

Died. LeRoy Percy, 68, cotton planter, onetime (1910-13) Senator from Mississippi by appointment, member of the Federal Reserve Board; at Memphis. Tenn.; after an illness of several weeks.

Died. Giuseppe Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin, 72; longtime friend of Italy's Royal Family; at Turin, Italy (see p. 32).

Died. John Blaisdell Corliss, 78, able lawyer, fourtime (1895-1903) Representative from Michigan; at Detroit; after a month's illness.

Died. Right Rev. Theodore Nevin Morrison, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Iowa, 79; at Davenport, Iowa; after having been run down by an automobile driven by a young woman.

*Another suit pending against Collier's by Rentfro Banton Creager, "redheaded rooster of the Rio Grande," Republican National Committeeman for Texas; $1,000,000 damages for alleged untruths about political dirty work in Hidalgo County, Tex. (TIME, Sept. 16).

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