Milestones

Born. To Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III, 38; and Queen loanna, 25, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele; a first child, daughter, 8 Ib.; in Sofia, Bulgaria. Name: Maria Louise (see p 19).

Engaged. John Alden Carpenter, 56, famed composer, son of a Chicago ship chandler; and Ellen Waller Borden, fortyish, Chicago socialite music-lover, divorced wife of Explorer-Stockbroker John Borden. Since the death of his wife, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter in 1931 and his latest composition Patterns (TIME, Oct. 31), hard times have forced Composer Carpenter to be attentive to his late father's factory (now mill & railway supplies). The marriage date was contingent on Mrs. Borden's raising $100,000 in $1 donations for a music temple at the Chicago Century of Progress fair.

Married. James Abram Garfield, grandson namesake of the 20th President of the U. S.; and Margaret ("Marney") M. Maxwell, Glen Cove (N. Y.) socialite, golfer; in Manhattan.

Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts.

Marriage Revealed. Elizabeth Jane Gerard, Manhattan socialite niece of War-time U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard; and Walter B. Levering, Yale footballer, oil scion; as of last June. Because of Yale's rule against married undergraduates, the couple concealed the marriage even from their parents. Last week, the football season past, the groom resigned from Yale.

Marriage Revealed. Mary Cornelia McGillicuddy, 20, daughter of Baseball's Connie Mack; and one Francis Xavier Reilly, 21, "the boy from down the street"; as of last month in Philadelphia.

Elected. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davidson, president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History to succeed famed Fossil Man Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Indicted. Harry F. ("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson; for illegal U. S. entry (TIME, Jan. 2, 9); in Manhattan.

Sentenced. Film Actor Duncan Renaldo, 28 (Trader Horn, Bridge of San Luis Rey) ; to two years in Federal Penitentiary and $2,000 fine for falsifying his passport, swearing to it; in Los Angeles. Renaldo claimed Camden (N. J.) birth, the U. S. showed "overwhelming" evidence of Rumanian birth, planned deportation proceedings.

Birthdays. Suffraget Carrie Chapman Catt, 74; David Lloyd George, 70; the famed clot of live chicken heart nursed by Dr. Alexis Carrel in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 21; Prohibition, 13.

Died. Clinton Grate, 33, one of four convicts who started the 1930 Ohio State Penitentiary fire (dead: 322); by his own hand (hanging in his cell); in Columbus, Ohio. Of the four, two have died by self-hanging, one gone insane, one remains in the penitentiary.

Died. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, second daughter of U. S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson; after an operation for a gall bladder disorder; in Boston. Her 1913 marriage to Francis Bowes Sayre (now Harvard law professor, Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction) was the 13th White House marriage.

Died. Zinaide Trotsky Volkov, Leon Trotsky's only surviving daughter, by his first (preWar divorced) wife; by her own hand (gas); in a suburban furnished room in Berlin, Germany. On Trotsky's 1929 exile, her husband was sent to Siberia, she went with her father. When Soviet Russia last year denuded Trotsky and his relatives of citizenship, she lost her passport, became a countryless woman.

Died. Kate Gleason, 67, Rochester gear tycoon, first woman 1) national bank president; 2) receiver in bankruptcy in New York State; 3) member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; of pneumonia; in Rochester, N. Y. Successful at everything (gears, machine tools, real estate), she exported U. S. turkeys to raise French turkey strain, imported French turkey-raisers to raise U. S. turkey-raiser strain. Her will memorialized an oldtime high school teacher with $100,000 for a history alcove in the Rochester Public Library, gave two French estates to the Paris post of the American Legion, $100,000 to "Dr. Lorenzo Kelley" (an error for Baltimore Surgeon & Radiologist Howard Atwood Kelly) and the residuary estate (about $1,000,000) in trust for employe welfare at the Gleason Works.

Died. John Frederick Wolle, 69, famed director of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir; after a long illness; in Bethlehem, Pa.

Died. Charles ("Silent Charley") Wyman Morse, 77, famed in-&-out financial wizard (ice, lumber, banks, insurance, steamship lines, telephones, copper, shipbuilding, stocks of all sorts); of pneumonia; in Bath, Me. In 1907 head of a $60,000,000 steamship combine, nine banks, insurance and telephone companies, he plunged in copper, tumbled. Ruined, convicted of misapplication of funds, he appealed, got out on bail and in two years of court-stalling made $7,000,000, paid off his creditors. Examined in jail, he convinced doctors he would die in six months, won a pity pardon from President William Howard Taft. He made two more fortunes, was indicted twice more, reminisced, "Because I was quiet . . . I was regarded as a 'man of mystery.' "

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