Milestones, Aug. 16, 1937

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Birthday. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, thrice Premier of Great Britain; 70; in Stourport, England. Crippled by rheumatism, he sighed, "I am not making any more speeches this year."

Married. Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, divorced wife of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, mother of seven sons over 21 years old; to Henry Gregor, 51, pianist and composer; in Manhattan.

Elected. Colonel George Arthur Burrell, 55, discoverer, in 1918, of the supply of helium in Texas; to be vice president of Atlantic States Gas Co. Inc.; in Manhattan.

Sued. Professional Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange, one-time "Galloping Ghost" of the University of Illinois: for $25,000; by one Mrs. May Battaglia, who claimed she was permanently injured when Footballer Grange drove through a red light, struck her car; in Chicago.

Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married Aug. 14, 1936.

Died. Edmund Lester Pearson, 57, literary criminologist (The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Murder at Smutty Nose, Studies in Murder); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, 61, onetime (1915-36) Republican Representative from New Jersey; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Darwin Rush James, 64, president of Manhattan's East River Savings Bank, chairman of the New York State Housing Board; after a heart attack; in Riverhead, L. I.

Died. Dr. Louis Dapples, 69, banker, president of the international Nestle Chocolate interests; of influenza; in Genoa, Italy.

Died. Clinton Lloyd Bardo, 69, onetime (1913-25) general manager of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, onetime (1928-34) president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., onetime (1934-35) President of the National Association of Manufacturers, bombastic critic of the New Deal; after a paralytic stroke; in New York.

Died. Helen Maud Holt, Lady Tree, 72, actress, widow of the late, great actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; after an operation; in London.

Died. Josiah Alexander Van Orsdel, 76, Associate Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; in Great Barrington, Mass.