Monday, May. 23, 1927

Born. To President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University; a granddaughter; in Manhattan. The parents are Morris Hadley and Katherine Blodgett Hadley.

Born. To Doris Kenyon Sills and Milton Sills, cinema players; a son; in Manhattan.

Engaged. John Cyril Maude, only son of British Actor Cyril Maude; to Rosamond Murray of Boston.

Engaged. Louise J. Mitchell, daughter of John J. Mitchell, famed Chicago banker; to John P. Kellogg, assistant to Professor James H. Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago.

Married. Pola Negri, cinemactress; to Prince Serge Mdivani of Georgia (now a state in the Russian Union); at Seraincourt, France.

Married. Mary Ashley, daughter of Minister of Transport Col. Wilfred Ashley; coheiress with her sister, Lady Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, to -L-6,000,000 from her late grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel; to Captain Alec Cunningham Reid, M. P., once flying instructor to Edward of Wales; in London. The Cincinnati Enquirer flamboyantly spoke of: "England's wealthiest girl and handsomest man. . . ."

Married. Hamilton Fish Potter, great-grandson and namesake of President Grant's Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, and descendant of wooden-legged Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch colonial governor of New Netherland* to Alma Virginia Murray; in Manhattan. Headmaster the Rev. Endicott Peabody of Groton School officiated. Sued For Divorce. By Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under President Wilson (1920-21); Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, author of The Green Forest (TIME, Jan. 31); in Paris.

Sued for Divorce. Joie W. Ray, famed Chicago foot-racer, onetime World's Champion at distances from a half-mile to 5,000 metres; by Mrs. Myrtle Ray. Charge: nonsupport.

Died. Mrs. Margaret Porter Satin, 31, daughter of the late Author William Sidney Porter (pen name: O. Henry); at Banning, Calif.; of tuberculosis. She had been married four days to one A. J. Satin, having been divorced several years ago from Artist Oscar Cesare.

Died. Mrs. Katherine Jerome Purdy Mott, wife of Jordan Lawrence Mott, President of the J. L. Mott Iron Works; at Cannes, France.

Died. Haakon Jorgensen, 48, able Danish police commissioner, inventor of the numerical system for the telegraphic identification of criminals,* adopted in 1923 by the International Police Conference; author of a Register of International Criminals; in Copenhagen, Denmark; from paralysis of the brain. Died. George Godolphin Osborne, 64, tenth Duke of Leeds, reputed "largest owner of gin distilleries in the United Kingdom"; in London. As principal partner of Holland & Co., makers of Gordon gin, he turned the abundant juniper bushes on his estate to good use in flavoring gin.

Died. Privy Councillor Maximilian Kempner, 72, Chairman of the German Potash Syndicate; from heart disease; at Amsterdam, Holland, returning from the U. S. where he had defended the syndicate against U. S. charges of monopoly.

Died. Dr. Joseph Shield Nicholson, 76, famed professor of Political Economy at Edinburgh University; in Edinburgh.

Died. Sir Sidney Golvin, 81, author-critic, once Slade professor of Arts at Cambridge; once Keeper of the Prints and Drawings of the British Museum; whose friends included many literati ;/- in London.

* Now New York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. /-Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James.