Born. To Princess Yolanda, Countess di Bergolo, eldest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy; and Count Calvi di Bergolo; a third daughter; at Turin.

Engagement Broken. Princess Ileana of Rumania to Count Alexander von Hochberg of Pless; by the Rumanian Government. Official reason: none given (see p. 26).

Birthday. Oliver Wendell Holmes, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S.; at Washington. Age: 89. Date: March 8.

Birthday. Benjamin Altheimer, charitarian, German-born originator of Flag Day (June 14); at Manhattan. Age: 80. Date: March 6. Of a St. Louis Christian preacher who was annoyed that a foreign-born Jew had first thought of so honoring the U. S. flag, he said: "I told that preacher that it wasn't the first time a Jew had given a Christian an idea or something to think about."

Died. Bartley Madden, 40, New York heavyweight boxer; after falling off the steps of the Treasury Building at Washington during a sight-seeing tour. Onetime champion of his native Ireland, he was famed in the U. S. as a tough, courageous "trial horse" for title-seekers. In 22 years he fought 94 bouts: won 52 (29 knockouts), lost 14 (one knockout--by Gene

Tunney), drew four; no decisions: 24. Said Champion Tunney, ". . . one of the

two gamest."*

Died. James P. Glynn, 63, of Winsted, Conn., member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of heart disease, aboard a train, returning to Washington from the funeral of late Representative James Anthony Hughes of West Virginia.

Died. Edward Terry Sanford, 64, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S.; at Washington; of uremic poisoning (see p. 17).

Died. Adele Strauss, 70, relict of famed Viennese composer Johann Strauss ("Blue Danube" waltz, Die Fledermaus operetta); at Vienna; of pneumonia.

Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer to prove it. Protested Judge Erlanger: "There is no Mrs. Erlanger. There is no widow."

Died. Stephen Phelps, D. D., LL. D,,

91, onetime (1881-87) President of Coe College; at Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Died. William Howard Taft, 72, 27th President of the U.S., loth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.; at Washington; of arteriosclerosis, myocarditis, cystitis (see p. 13).

Died. Arthur Twining Hadley, 73, President Emeritus of Yale University; at Kobe, Japan; of pneumonia (see p. 28).

Died. Herbert John, first Viscount Gladstone, 75, youngest son of the late, great William Ewart Gladstone; at his home in Hertfordshire; of bronchitis. In Parliament 30 years, he was the first Governor-General and High Commissioner of South Africa (1910-14). He won fame | abroad in 1926 when he called a writer, who had spoken lightly of his famed father, "a liar, a coward, a fool and a foul fellow." He successfully defended himself in the resulting libel suit.

Died. Alfred von Tirpitz, 80, onetime Lord High Admiral of the German Imperial Fleet; at Munich; of bronchitis (see p. 24).

Died. Christine Ladd-Franklin, 82. famed educator, scientist, feminist; at Manhattan; after a brief illness.

* The other, Harry Grcb, "The Pittsburgh Windmill."

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