Milestones: Jun. 14, 1926

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Married. Lincoln Eyre, able Berlin correspondent of the New York Times, to Dinna Gralla, famed Polish cinema actress; at sea, aboard the President Roosevelt.

Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon, onetime barber, to Gertrude Westberg, 38, his foster daughter and onetime chief hair-tonic bottler, at Des Moines.

Died. Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch, 83, scholar, statesman; in Berlin. He was appointed Prussian Minister of Commerce (1890) by Wilhelm II, who thereby ousted Prince Bismarck from that post (which he held in addition to the Chancellory), and gave warning that he would soon "drop the pilot."

Died. Elbridge Gerry Snow 3rd, 26, grandson of President Elbridge Gerry Snow of the Home Insurance Co., War hero, sportsman; at Stamford, Conn., as a result of injuries sustained in a polo accident.

Died. Meyer London, 54, Congressman 1915-19 and 1921-23, sole Socialist then in Congress; when run down by an automobile driven by Louis Greenspan (who likewise rammed the car of Jack Applebaum) at First Ave. and 18th St., Manhattan.

Died. Chester Daniel Massey, 75, industrialist (Canadian farm implements), philanthropist, educator; at Toronto, Canada.

Died. Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Ember, their six-year-old invalid son and Mrs. Ember's maid; at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, when their house burned to the ground. Dr. Ember was Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Two children survive. Life-work manuscripts were lost.

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