Monday, Jul. 08, 1935

Milestones

Engaged. Alice F. Du Pont, 22, air-minded daughter of air-minded Alexis Felix Du Pont of Wilmington, Del.; and James Paul Mills, polo-playing son of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills of Glen Head, L. I., great-grandson of the late Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel.

Engaged, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval. 23, attractive only daughter of French Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, 28. descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, son of General Count Aldebert de Chambrun and the onetime Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Married, William Robert ("Bill") Bonthron, 22, Princeton miler; and Marion McLennan Lineaweaver, of Princeton, N. J.; in Montreal.

Married. Max Adelbert Baer, 26, pugilist; and Mary Ellen Sullivan. 32, manager of Washington's New Willard. Hotel Coffee Shop; in Washington. D. C. Fisticuffer Baer had previously been reported engaged to Mary Duke, Mary Kirk Brown, June Knight, Edna Dunham, Sally Rand, Bee Starr, Shirley La Belle, Judith Allen, Olive Beck.

Married. Grace H. Roper, fourth of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper's seven children, 1917 Vassar graduate, British trade expert for the U. S. Tariff Commission; and Frank Bohn. 57, free-lance journalist specializing in international relations; in Washington.

Married. William Ellery Leonard, 59, longtime Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; and Grace Golden, 26, graduate student, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. In his autobiography, The Locomotive God, Professor Leonard described and analyzed the fears which for a quarter of a century have prevented his traveling beyond the phobic barriers of his home and the six blocks surrounding it. He was divorced last year by his second wife who, after 20 years of marriage, charged "cruel and inhuman treatment by means other than physical violence."

Left. By the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico: an estate of nearly $4,000,000. including bequests of $50,000 to U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette, $25,000 to Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin.

Left. By Inventor Thomas Alva Edison: a gross estate of $2,871,758. including worthless stock in 39 companies formed for Inventor Edison's research work.

Died. Mrs. Josephine Edmonds Young, 65, wife of Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co.; of coronary occlusion following four years of heart trouble; in Riverside, Conn.

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