Milestones, Oct. 5, 1936

Born. To Astronomer Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Mysterious Universe), 59; and Mrs. Susi Hock Jeans, 25; a son; in London.

Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England.

Elected. Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, 52, Columbia University Professor of Surgery; to be president of the American Medical Association; in Chicago.

Sentenced. Thomas Alton Tully, 25, son of hard-boiled Hobo Novelist Jim Tully; to a 25-year prison term; for rape; in Los Angeles.

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