Monday, Jun. 30, 1930

Born. To Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, at about 3 p. m. on Mrs. Lindbergh's 24th birthday (June 22); at the home of the mother's parents in Englewood, N. J.; a son. Weight: 7 lb., 10 oz. First name: Charles. Middle name undecided, but wagered to be 1) Augustus, 2) Morrow, or 3) Dwight. Residents of Englewood flocked to the thickly-wooded Morrow estate, peered through the gates; a paid program from National Broadcasting Co.'s Manhattan studio was dropped abruptly, the birth announced.

Married. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and Mary Todhunter Clark, Philadelphia socialite: at Bala, Pa.

Married. Senator David Baird Jr. of New Jersey and Mrs. Frances H. Smith, widow of a former business partner of Senator Baird; at the Toledo, Ohio home of Linwood A. Miller, president of Willys-Overland Co. Mrs. Baird is an aunt of Mrs. Miller. Senator Baird a boyhood friend of Mr. Miller.

Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan premiere danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director.

Sued for Divorce. Witherbee Black, president of Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham Inc. (Manhattan jewelers); by Mrs. Black. Grounds: desertion.

Resigned. Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin. since 1919 National Director of the Girl Scouts Inc.; to devote her time to "writing her observations and reflections on girls and women." Said she: "I shall always be a Girl Scout."

Birthday. Mayor James John Walker, of New York. Age: 49. Date: June 19. Birthdate speech: "It's a good thing that Dick Byrd is coming to take the center of the stage" (Manhattan's Byrd welcome fell on the same day -- see p. 18).

Birthday. Edward Prince of Wales. Age: 36. Date: June 23. Celebration: family assembly at Buckingham Palace.

Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians.

Killed. Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., 54, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J., recently acquitted on four of 14 indictments that charged him with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts.

Died. Robert C. Montgomery, 43, president of Long's Hat Store Corp., vice president of Knox Hat Co. ; of pneumonia ; at Stamford, Conn.

Died. Kirk Munroe, 79, boys' author (The Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates -- 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando, Fla.

Died. Mrs. Martha Lucretia Gulager, 83, Cherokee Indian, aunt of Funnyman Will Rogers; famed with her late husband, F. W. Gulager for educational and religious work among her tribesmen; of old age; at Tahlequah, Okla.

* Scout Seton will be 70 on Aug. 14: Scout Baden-Powell was 73 on Feb. 22.

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