Milestones: Sep. 17, 1923

  • Born. To King Alexander, 32, and Queen Marie, 23, of Yugoslavia (she is a daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania), at Belgrade, a son and heir.

    Engaged. Miss Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of James W. Wadsworth, Jr., U. S. Senator from New York; niece of Mrs. Payne Whitney, granddaughter of the late John Hay, Secretary of State under William McKinley, to W. Stuart Symington, Jr., of Baltimore.

    Married. Worth. Bagley Daniels, son of Josephus Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy, to Miss Josephine Poe January of St. Louis, at Baltimore.

    Married. Jonathan Worth Daniels, son of Josephus Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy, to Miss Elizabeth Bridgers, at Raleigh, N. C.

    Died. Edward P. Dutton, 92, President and founder of E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers, at Ridgefield, Conn.

    Died. William Roscoe Thayer, 64, biographer of Camillo Cavour, John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, in Cambridge, Mass., after a long illness.

    Died. Langdon Gibson, naturalist, scientist, explorer, brother of Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, suddenly, at Crieshaven, near Rockland, Me.

    Died. Thomas Biddle, "Biddle, the Bandit," 65, near Cecilton, Md., of paralysis. He was leader of a hold-up gang which at one time terrorized Delaware.

    Died. Howard ("Howdy") Wilcox, 35, veteran automobile racer. His car skidded and rolled over, fatally injuring him, in the inaugural 200-mile race on the new Altoona (Pa.) Speedway.

    Died. Joseph Clarence Ward, 79, telegrapher at General Grant's headquarters during the Civil War, at Visalia, Calif. He is said to have taught the Morse code to Thomas Alva Edison, the then newsboy.

    Died. Mr. Hawkes, father of John B. Hawkes (Australian Davis Cup tennis player), in the Japanese earthquake. (The despatches gave no information about Mr. Hawkes other than his relationship to John B. Hawkes.)

    Died. Mrs. Nancy Green, 89. " Aunt Jemima," whose name decorates boxes of the pancake flour put up by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., in Chicago, in an automobile accident. She first publicly demonstrated her skill with a pancake turner at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

    Died. Sir William Purdie Treloar, Bart., 80, Lord Mayor of London, 1906-1907, at London. He founded the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital and College in Hampshire, initiated a Christmas Guild Hall dinner for poor children in London and was known as "the Cripples' Friend" and "the Children's Lord Mayor."

    Died. John B. ("Dots") Miller, 37, until recently manager of the San Francisco Club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., of tuberculosis. He played second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates (National League) in 1909, when they won the pennant and defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World's Series. He contracted tuberculosis after being gassed in the War.

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