Monday, Jul. 29, 1929

Born. To Major & Mrs. Frederick (Irene Castle) McLaughlin of Chicago, a son (incubator baby). The McLaughlins' Barbara is 3.

Born. To Stanley Hoflund High, editor of the Christian Herald, and Mrs. High, a daughter, 6 1/2 lb. Name: Patricia.

Married. Miss Edwina Haskell Morrow, daughter of onetime (1919-23) Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; to Dr. Charles Joseph Horgan of Washington, D. C.; in Washington.

Married. Mrs. Carolyn Greenwald Rothstein, widow of Manhattan's late, ill-famed Arnold Rothstein; to Robert Behar, London rug dealer; in London.

Married. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oilman lately divorced (TIME, July 22); to Mrs. Basil Miles, Budapest-born widow of the late U. S. Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce and onetime wife of Peabody Savell, U. S. engineer; in Paris.

Married. George Munro Schurman, 37, son of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman; to Miss Kerstin H. Taube, 36, of Manhattan, interior decorator, daughter of late Count Henning Gustav Taube; in Chappaqua, N. Y.

Married. James Oliver Curwood Jr., 18, son of the late novelist (The Valley of Silent Men, Nomads of the North, The Country Beyond); to a Miss Helen Ford whom he met last year on The Floating University; in Livingston, Mont.

Divorced. Edith Mason, 36, Chicago Civic Opera soprano; from Giorgio Polacco, 54, conductor of the company; in Chicago. Singer Mason charged cruelty, declared Director Polacco had often said, "Wives and cattle should be of one's own country."

Elected. Linwood A. Miller, 44, first vice president of Willys-Overland Co., to be president, succeeding John North Willys, retired (TIME, July 22), who becomes board chairman.

Decorated. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, National Commissioner of Baseball; with the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; in Chicago. General John Joseph Pershing and Admiral Robert Edward Coontz are the only other U. S. personages who have received the award.

Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April 29).

Died. Edmund Reinhardt, 53, of Vienna, brother and business manager of Theatreman Max Reinhardt; in a sani-torium near Vienna; of heart disease.

Died. Leroy Scott, 54, author (No. 13 Washington Square, Partners of the Night); near Plattsburg, N. Y.; drowned swimming across Chateaugay Lake.

Died. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, of Vienna, poet-dramatist, author of Richard Strauss operas (Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos); in Rodaun, Austria ; of heart attack while dressing for the funeral of his son, Franz, 28, suicide.

Died. William Treyanne Francis, 59, of St. Paul, Minn., U. S. Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, only Negro Minister in the U. S. foreign service; in Monrovia; of yellow fever.

Died. Nicholas John Sinnott, 59, of The Dalles, Ore., member of the U. S. Court of Claims; in Washington, D. C.; of heart failure.

Died. Frank T. Gilmore, 65, of Hartford, Conn.; oldtime baseballer; in Hartford. When, in the '80s, Hartford was in the National League, he pitched. His catcher was Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy), longtime Philadelphia manager (see p. 41).

Died. Dr. Lafayette Page, 66, of Indianapolis, Ind., famed ear, nose & throat specialist, Wartime major; in Indianapolis.

Died. Mrs. Howard Kinsey, 68, of San Francisco, mother of Tennis-Players How ard and Robert Kinsey (U. S. national clay court doubles champions, 1924); in San Francisco.

Died. Thomas E. Murray, 69, of Brooklyn, inventor (1,100 U. S. patents, second only to Thomas Alva Edison) and electrical utility expert (for many years in charge of all Edison companies in New York City); in Southampton, N. Y.

Died. William H. Pigott, Sr., 69, of Seattle, Chairman of Pacific Coast Steel Co.; in Vancouver, B. C.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert Ellis Jones, 71, of Manhattan, Canon Bursar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, onetime (1897-1902) president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; in Greenfield, Mass.

Died. John Cotton Dana, 72, of Newark, N. J., Librarian of the Newark Public Library, Director of the Newark Museum Association; in Manhattan (see p. 30).

Died. Don Miguel S. Macedo, 73, of Mexico City, president of the Mexican Bar Association, vice president of National Bank of Mexico, president of Mexico's National Banking Commission; in Mexico City.

Died. Charles Forepaugh, 91, of West Berlin, N. J., oldtime circus man (Fore-paugh's Aggregation, Forepaugh & Sells Bros.), "first trainer to place his head in a lion's mouth" (1874); in West Berlin.