Milestones

Married. Constance Talmadge, famed cinema actress; to Captain Alastair William Macintosh, aristocratic aviator, once gentleman-in-waiting to the Princess Beatrice (daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of the Queen of Spain); at San Mateo, Calif. In 1922 she was divorced from John Pialogiou, Greek.

Divorced. Ben Hecht, 36, famed Manhattan-born Chicago author-journalist (Eric Dorn, Humpty Dumpty), by the former Marie Armstrong, critic, who was granted $3,500 a year alimony and the custody of their nine-year-old daughter; in Chicago.

Died. Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood, 43, daughter of the late William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, and wife of Irwin Kirkwood, editor of the Star; in Baltimore, of apoplexy.

Died. Edward Plank, 51, famed left-handed baseball pitcher, one-time (1901-1914) of the Philadelphia Athletics; at Gettysburg, Pa., of a stroke of paralysis affecting his whole left side.

Died. Lady Maria Zaharoff, 56, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, of pneumonia (see Monaco).

Died. Dr. H. Kamerlingh Onnes, 73, famed as the first scientist to liquefy helium, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1913), Emeritus Professor and Director of the Physical Laboratory at the University of Leyden; at Leyden, Holland.

Died. Herbert Claibourne Pell. 73, distinguished descendant of the Pells of Pelham Manor (N. Y.), retired lawyer, father of Herbert Claibourne Pell Jr. (onetime Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee), and of Clarence C. Pell, famed U. S. racquet champion (see p. 35); at Manhattan, of apoplexy.

Died. Rienzi Melville Johnston, 76, "Colonel," onetime officer in the Confederate Army, U. S. Senator from Texas by appointment for 25 days in Jan. 1913, a member of the Democratic National Committee 1900-12, and for many years editor and President of the Houston Post; at Houston.

Died. Eugene Brooks, 77, aged Negro messenger of the U. S. Supreme Court, which he has served for 40 years; at Washington, where his funeral was attended by Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Messrs. Associate Justice Van Devanter and McReynolds and many others.

Died. Cardinal Sili, 80, cousin of the famed Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri; at Rome. His death leaves five vacancies in the sacred college, which now is composed of 34 Italian and 31 foreign cardinals. It is the custom of the Pope never to reach the college's "plenum" of 70 members.