Monday, Jan. 13, 1930

Engaged. John, son of Governor George Henry Dern of Utah; and Jean MacLeish, Chicago socialite, whose father (Bruce MacLeish) is general manager of Carson, Pirie, Scott, department store; at Chicago.

Married. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler, motor maker; and Edgar William Garbisch, Manhattan cotton broker, onetime (1924) West Point & all-American footballer; in Manhattan. After the wedding, the Garbisches sat down to a 30-in. tall cake in smart Sherry's Restaurant with 1,000 guests including Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mr. & Mrs. John J. Raskob, President & Mrs. Alfred Pritchard Sloane of General Motors Corp.

Married. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie Jose Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms to 400,000. All objects deposited with Roman pawn shops between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 last year and unredeemed to date were returned free to their owners as act of grace of Prince Ludovico Boncompagni, Governor of Rome.

Among the wedding presents were:

Gift From Ten glossy-brown Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Alaskan sealskins Hoover, unofficially* 45 pieces of Sevres President Doumergue China of France, officially Diamond necklace with City of Paris sapphire clasp pendant and sapphire clasp Four blooded Lippizifner horses Government of Hungary

Elected. David Sarnoff, 38, vice president, onetime Russian immigrant messenger boy; to be president of Radio Corp. of America, succeeding Maj.-General James Guthrie Harbord, who succeeds Owen D. Young as board chairman, Mr. Young to head a new Executive Committee.

Elected. John Grinnell Wetmore Husted, 34. erstwhile of Peekskill, N. Y.; to be a partner in Brown Shipley & Co. of London (first U. S. partner in that conservative house's history). His brother, James William Husted Jr., 35, was last week made a partner in Secretary of State Stimson's Manhattan law firm (Winthrop, Stimson & Aldrich).

Conferred. Upon General John Joseph Pershing, U. S. A., retired; the 33rd Degree-of Masonry;/- at the house of the Temple (Scottish Rite), in Washington.

Birthday. Alfred Emanuel Smith, one-time (1928) Democratic candidate for President; in Manhattan. Age: 56.

Died. Hans Moldenhauer, Davis Cup tennis player for Germany, national champion in 1926 and 1927; of injuries from a motor crash; in Berlin.

Died. Count Fermo Ratti, brother of Pope Pius XI; at Rome; after an illness of two days.

Died. Baron George Washington, 73, fifth cousin of the first U. S. President; near Graz, Austria. A retired Austrian Hussar officer, he refused to take up arms against the U. S. His last days were spent in his mountain castle, a bachelor, surrounded by six great hounds.

Died. Wilhelm Maybach, 84, oldtime motor maker, inventor of the spray carburetor, honeycomb radiator, change-speed gear, designer of the first Mercedes automobile (1900) ; at Stuttgart, Germany. At his Maybach Motor Works, the motors of the Graf Zeppelin were constructed.

Died. Charles Phelps Taft, 86, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, half-brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at Cincinnati; of pneumonia (see P-52).

*In token of their Belgian friendship with Marie Jose.

/-Conferred only for "distinguished service to one's country." Other 33rd Degree Masons are: Maj.-General Amos Alfred Fries, onetime Chief of U. S. A. Chemical Warfare Service; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas; President Gerardo Machado of Cuba.

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