Monday, Feb. 23, 1925

Born. To Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Roosevelt), their first child, a daughter (six and a half pounds); in Chicago, three days before their 18th wedding anniversary. The infant was said to resemble her grandfather.

Engaged. Miss Katherine Langley, daughter of Congressman John W. Langley of Pikeville, Ky., to one James G. Bentley. Readers of the Pike County News gnawed their pencils, solved a crossword puzzle, discovered it to be an announcement of the engagement.

Died. Prince Chao Fa Asdang, 34, heir presumptive to the Siamese throne; in Bangkok.

Died. Mrs. Nannine L. Meiklejohn, wife of Alexander Meiklejohn, onetime President of Amherst College; in Baltimore.

Died. Prof. Nicola Mileff, recently appointed Bulgarian Minister to the U. S. to succeed Stephan Panaretoff, retired last month; in Sofia, victim of an assassin.

Died.--Clio Hinlon Bracken, 55, sculptress; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Pupil of Rodin, MacMonnies, St. Gaudens, she exhibited first in the Paris Salon. At 20, she received $10,000 for her statue of General Fremont, sold to an association of California pioneers. Her first husband was the late James Gibbons Huneker.

Died. Federal District Judge John F McGee, 64; in Minneapolis, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Harassed by Prohibition problems, he said he feared for his mind. Known throughout the Northwest as the "bootleggers' terror," he, upon one occasion, sentenced 112 offenders in three hours, collected $33,700 from them in fines.

Died. Frederic VV. Upham, 64, onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee; at Palm Beach, of a paralytic stroke.

Died. Meichel H. De Young, 75, publisher of The San Francisco Chronicle; in San Francisco, following an operation. He became a publisher at 16 when, with his brother, he founded The Dramatic Chronicle, a small sheet containing news on the city's theatres.

Died. Gabriel Foch, 75, elder brother of Marshal Foch; in Tarbes, France.

Died. Mrs. Frances E. J. Parker, 78, sister of Lord Kitchener; in London.