Born. To a Dr. & Mrs. M. D. Evans; a girl child; in a Fokker monoplane some 1,200 ft. above Miami. In the plane, beside the parents and the first aerial-born baby, were two pilots, two nurses, two attendants, the grandmother.

Engaged. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, 25, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy; and Princess

Marie Jose Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle, 23, of Belgium; at Brussels (see p. 27).

Engaged. Hunt Wentworth, assistant to the president of Curtiss Flying Service, grandson of Chicago's twotime (1857-1860) Mayor John ("Long John") Wentworth ; and Miss Eileen Smith; at Chicago.

Engaged. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); and Edgar William Garbisch, onetime (1922-24), U. S. Military Academy footballer (all-American) ; at Great Neck, L. I.*

Married. Edith Mason, Chicago Civic Opera soprano, divorced wife of Giorgio Polacco (the opera's conductor), and Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein (orthopedic) of Chicago; at Antioch, Ill.

Convicted. Alexander Pantages, vaudeville circuit owner; of criminal assault upon one Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer; in Los Angeles. Sentence: one to 50 years' imprisonment in San Quentin Prison, with clemency recommended. Mrs. Pantages was convicted last month on a manslaughter charge.

Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time."

Died. Dr. Edward Seitz Shumaker, 62, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League; at Indianapolis; of a malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis--covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore.

Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrere & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis (see p. 34).

Died. Vasil Radoslavoff, 75, War Prime Minister of Bulgaria; at Berlin. For nearly a year he kept Bulgaria neatly juxtaposed between alliance with the Central Powers and the Allies. In 1915 when his country declared war on Serbia, he was elated that "Bulgaria was coming in on the winning side." For his part in involving Bulgaria in the War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court at Sofia. He escaped to Germany and last July, never having returned to serve the sentence, was granted amnesty (TIME, July 15).

Died. Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, U. S.

Senator from Ohio; in Washington, D. C.; after weeks of illness following an attack of influenza. Ohio-born, son of a clergyman, tall of frame, grave of mien, deep of laughter, he was a lifelong bachelor whose life was the Law (54 years a member of the bar). He was a member of 14 Congresses (51. 54-60, 67-70). In 1909 Ohio made him its Senator. In 1928 it called him again, to fill a vacancy. The years between were full of honors greater than the Toga: Executive of the Interparliamentary Union; of the Foreign Debt Commission; of the Conference for the Control of Arms (Geneva. 1925); of the American Peace Society (president, 1911-1915, 1925 to date). In 1916 (Hughes' year) he received Ohio's support for the presidential nomination. From 1917 to 1919 he was president of the Merchants' National Bank (Manhattan). He wrote a Life of John Sherman, a book on the Constitution.

Died. Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, 80, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass.; having lain ill there for 22 months including the last 15 months of her son-in-law's Presidency.

Died. Prince Bernard Henry Martin Karl von Buelow, 80, onetime (1900-1909) Chancellor of the German Empire; of a severe cold; at Rome. In 1886 he eloped with the wife of his chief from the Prussian Legation at Dresden. An able diplomat, bitter opponent of pre-War Prussian militarism, he forced Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1908 to retract anti-British utterances. As Ambassador to Italy in 1914, he spent $400,000 in one month trying to keep Italy from joining the Allies.

*This week in Manhattan a flag fluttered from the completed steelwork of the Chrysler building, temporarily the world's highest (809 ft.)