Monday, Jan. 31, 1927

Engaged. Rosa Maye Kendrick, daughter of Senator John B. Kendrick, onetime (1915-19) Governor of Wyoming; to Major Hubert Reilly Harmon, U. S. A.

Engaged. Dr. Charles William Mayo, son of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, famed surgeon; to Alyse Varney Plank of Collingdale, Pa.

Married. Adelaide Brevoort Hutton, daughter of Financier Edward Francis Hutton, Chairman of Postum Cereal Co.; to Thomas Wells Durant of Guilford, Conn., in Manhattan. Orange blossoms brought from California by airplane decorated the altar.

Married. Elizabeth Raoul-Duval, niece of U. S. Minister to The Hague, Richard M. Tobin; to Jean Coutourie, brother of Duchesse Decazes and Comtesse Charles de Lesseps; in Paris.

Married. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of famed Poet-Essayist Matthew Arnold; to Harry Forsyth, grandson of the late William Forsyth, M. P., Q. C., author; in Manhattan.

Married. Robert Stow Bradley, 71, chairman of American Agricultural Chemical Co.; to Mrs. Florence S. Johnson, 58, of Bennington, Vt.; in Manhattan.

Married. Henry ("Spider Boy") Bulson, to Margaret ("Princess Alahula Harvy") Berry; on the stage of the Harlem Museum, New York. An 8-ft. 4 in. best man, a 36-in. flower girl, a 783-lb. bridesmaid attended the couple. Bearded ladies, tattooed men, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters threw good luck coins as the "Spider Boy" proceeded down the aisle on his hands.

Died. John Ederle, 44, butcher uncle of Gertrude Ederle, famed Channel-swimmer; in an automobile accident at Uniondale, L. I. Henry ("Pop") Ederle is also a meatman.

Died. Stanley Clague, Manxman,* 55, managing director of the "A. B. C.,"/- noted advertiser, who started his career as secretary to the late Charles W. Eliot, onetime President of Harvard; following prolonged ill health, in Chicago.

Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate.

Died. Anson Wood Burchard, 62, vice chairman of the General Electric board of directors, at the home of Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan; of acute indigestion. He helped the late Charles Albert Coffin plan G. E.'s policies.

Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some 175,000.*

Died. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted, 73, onetime (1902-03) Lord Mayor of London, seashell/- and oil trader, who inaugurated bulk transportation of petroleum through the Suez Canal; in London. He survived his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin, by a few hours.

Died. Edward Page Mitchell, 74, at New London, Conn., of cerebral hemorrhage. He was for 50 years associated with the New York Sun, on which he won his place at the age of 23 by writing letters to Editor Charles A. Dana from his home, Bath, Me. Editor Dana invited him to work at the then fabulous salary of $50 per week. This rose to $20,000 a year during the many years that Mr. Mitchell penned the Sun's leading editorials, famed for their tart penetration. When the late Publisher Munsey purchased the Sun (1916) he retained Mr. Mitchell as editorial chief. Not until last year did Mr. Mitchell retire.

Died. James Ford Rhodes, 78, noted historian, who was not a college graduate but later received honorary LL.D.'s from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, N. Y. U. and other universities; at Brookline, Mass. His great work was a painstaking history of the U. S. which appeared intermittently between 1893 and 1920, and finally emerged in a revised edition of eight volumes: A History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaigns of 1896. The Berlin Academy of Science awarded him the Loubat prize in 1901, and in 1918 he won the Pulitzer prize for history.

Died. Charlotte, 86, "Empress of Mexico"; at The Chateau Buchont, near Brussels.

Died. George Ehret, 92, brewer; of pneumonia in Manhattan.

*He was born on the Isle of Man.

/-Audit Bureau of Circulation (of newspapers, magazines).

*Not to be confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. /-He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust.