Milestones, Nov. 5, 1934

Born. To Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., tennis player, and Mrs. Verle Lowe Vines; a daughter; in Pasadena. Calif. Name: Verle Carol. Weight: 6½ Ib.

Married. The instigator of Mexican President-Elect Alvaro Obregon's assassination, ex-Nun Maria Concepcion Acevedo y de la Lata (TIME, July 30, 1928); to Desperado Carlos Castro Balda, convicted of attempting to blow up the Mexican Chamber of Deputies; at Islas Tres Marias, Mexico's penal colony in the Pacific Ocean. The marriage was authorized ostensibly "because the two prisoners have not been deprived of civil rights." actually for its value as anti-Catholic...

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