Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928

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Born. To Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic, a grandson, the first to bear the venerable name of Hindenburg.

Married. Janet De Pinna, daughter of Leo S. De Pinna (clothing) of Manhattan; to one Frank Armer; in Mamaroneck, N. Y., by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.

Married. Woodbridge Bingham, son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, descendent of three colonial Governors; and Ursula Wolcott Griswold, of Manhattan; in Old Lyme, Conn.

Married. Wladek Zbyszko, famed wrestler; to Anna Stark, 18, actress; in Union City, N. J.

Married. Lydig Hoyt, Manhattan scion, onetime (1914-24) husband of Actress Julia Hoyt; to Helen Hoadley Willis of Manhattan; in Paris.

Married. Countess Henri de Sincay, onetime Marie Louise Logan of New York, granddaughter of Civil War hero Major General John A. Logan; to Major General Walter Joseph Maxwell Scott, D. S. 0., great grandson of Sir Walter Scott; in Paris.

Married. Evalyn Dun Douglass, granddaughter of Robert Dun Douglass, chairman of the board of trustees of R. G. Dun & Co., Manhattan credit raters and statisticians; to Edward Gardner Prime of Yonkers, N. Y., in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American footballer (Yale 1909 captain); by Jeanne Eagels, famed actress (Rain); in Chicago. She charged cruelty, football tactics.

Elected. Russell Cornell Leffingwell, Morgan partner; to be a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., succeeding the late Lewis Iselin.

Retired. Sergeant Bertram Follinsby, 67, regimental quartermaster sergeant of the 2nd Corps Area at Governors Island, N. Y.; after 46 years' service in the U. S. Army. His first decoration was pinned upon him after the Indian campaign of 1882-83; his last, the Victory Medal, after the World War.

Retired. Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, Buckingham professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School since 1897.

Retired. Andrew Fleming West, 75, dean of the Graduate School since 1901 and founder (1913) of the Graduate College of Princeton University. He is succeeded by Col. Augustus Trowbridge, physicist, onetime member of staff of General John Joseph Pershing.

Died. Alfred Fronvall, French aviator, who last February set a world record by looping his plane 1,100 times in 4 hrs. 56 min.; in a collision; at the Villa Coublay airdrome, Paris.

Died. Assan Dina, Hindu owner of Mont Blanc Observatory; suddenly at Cruseilles, Switzerland. He had begun the construction of a larger observatory on Mont Saleve, France, to cost $6,250,000, to be equipped with the world's largest telescope (diameter 105 inches).

Died. Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy, Chicago gangster; in Chicago

Died. Frank Uale, gangster; in Brooklyn

Died. Mrs. May Skinner McAlexander, wife of Major Gen. Ulysses Grant ("Rock of the Marne") McAlexander, distinguished campaigner against the Spanish (1898) and the Germans (1918); in Newport, Ore., following eight months' illness.

Died. Paul T. Bloodsworth,. 28, of Hornell, N. Y.; of excitement; on the Edgemont, N. J., golf course. He had just made a hole in one.

Died. H. Gordon Duval, 35, publisher of The Club-Fellow (social chit-chat weekly); in Manhattan

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