Milestones, Jun. 29, 1942

Sued for Divorce. By Katherine Anne Porter, prize-winning short-story writer: Albert Russel Erskine Jr.; in Reno.

Killed in Action. Lewis Crommelin Masefield, 32, only son of England's Poet Laureate John Masefield; "far from home in recent fighting." Himself a writer, Son Masefield was a member of a field ambulance unit.

Died. Major Thomas Semmes Walmsley, 53, onetime mayor of New Orleans (1930-36), bitter foe of the late Huey Long, whose State machine impoverished New Orleans and stripped Walmsley of most of his powers; of a heart attack; at Randolph Field, Tex. At one time, during...

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