Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939

Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 46, serving an eight-year sentence for draft evasion and wartime desertion in an Army prison (Governor's Island in New York Bay); and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 32; their sixth child, a daughter; in Philadelphia, Pa. weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz. Name: Berta.

Adopted. By William Gibbs McAdoo,* 77, and his third wife, Doris Cross McAdoo, 30, his grandson, Richard de Onate, 4, son of a divorced & remarried daughter, Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw.

Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her...

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