Monday, May. 07, 1928
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller, 88, a second-great granddaughter; first grandchild of Rockefeller Jr. The child's mother is Mrs. David M. Milton (Abby Rockefeller) of Manhattan.
Engaged. Horace E. Dodge, Detroit scion, to Miss Muriel Sisman, daughter of Andrew Sisman, Detroit contractor.
Elected. Mrs. Alice Seidler Statler, 35, for eleven years secretary to Ellsworth Milton Statler; for one year his wife; to be chairman of the board of directors of the Hotels Statler Co.; succeeding her husband, who died three weeks ago.
Resigned. John Bassett Moore, 67, as U. S. judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations, at Geneva; to complete 42 years' work on a 75-volume treatise on international law.
Died. Frank Lockhart, 26, U. S. automobile racing champion; in an accident, while trying to establish a new record; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Last August he made a track record of 135.5 m. p. h. and in October set eight broad track noncompetitive speed records.
Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec (see p. 22).
Died. General Baron Peter Nicolaie-vich Wrangel, 49, onetime commander-in-chief of the Russian White Army; of intestinal trouble; at Brussels (see p. 15).
Died. Charles Weston Folds, 57, potent capitalist, chairman of Wartime Liberty Loan drives in which $3,000,000,000 was raised in Chicago; of heart disease; at Chicago.
Died. Dr. John Sedgwick Billings, 58, chief medical officer of the New York Stock Exchange and Curb Market; of Manhattan; of septic arthritis; at Manhattan.
Died. Col. James Howell Cummings, 60, president since 1906 of the John B. Stetson Co. (hats) which he entered in 1882 as office boy; at Stetson Hospital, Philadelphia.
Died. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, head of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, China; from a shot through the heart fired by a Chinese Nationalist soldier; in Tsining (see p. 16).
Died. Martin Barnaby Madden, 73, U. S. Representative from Illinois; suddenly, of heart disease; at Washington, D. C. (see p. 10).
* His first: Anita Oser, daughter of Mrs. Mathilde McCormick Oser & Max Oser, Swiss (TIME, May 19, 1924).