Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938

Engaged. William Keighley, 45, cinema director (Green Pastures, The Adventures of Robin Hood); to Cinemactress Genevieve Tobin, 33, never before married; in Hollywood.

Married. Edna June Cantor, 19, third of Comedian Eddie Cantor’s five daughters, second to be married; and James Francis McHugh Jr., 23, son of Songwriter James (I Love to Whistle) McHugh; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte, N. C.

Died. Pauline (“The Girl With the Topaz Eyes”) Frederick, 53, onetime stage & screen star (Joseph and His Brothers, Zaza, Resurrection), of asthma and heart disease, in Hollywood.

Died. Robert Low Bacon, 54, socialite politician, for 16 years Republican Congressman from New York; of coronary thrombosis; after addressing a political meeting in Manhattan.

Died. Willis Ray Gregg, 58, famed meteorologist, since 1934 chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau,* which he entered 34 years ago; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago.

Died. Jean Longuet, 62, grandson of Karl Marx, friend and literary collaborator of Léon Blum, ardent pacifist, founder of the Socialist newspaper Le Populaire; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Paris.

Died. Edward Dickinson Duffield, 67, president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, chairman of the board of trustees of Princeton University, onetime (1932-33) acting president of Princeton University, No. 1 alumnus; of heart disease; in South Orange, N. J.

Died. John Stink (Ho-tah-moie), circa 75, famed Osage Indian recluse; in Pawhuska, Okla. One of the many legends about him: Down with smallpox about 50 years ago, he went into a coma, was thought dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived, his tribesmen treated him as a ghost, ostracized him.

Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera’s 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: “If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body.” Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him “The Corpse.”

* For other weather news, see p. 48.