Milestones
Born. To Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr.. interne at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman and his divorced wife, Mrs. Fowler McCormick; and Lena Wilson Stillman, Quebec farmer's daughter: a son, their second child.
Engaged. Holland Jerome Hamilton, 55, president of American Radiator Co.; and Helen Hutchison, thirtyish, resigned editorial worker for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan.
Married. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 59, author of Tarzan books; and Mrs. Florence Gilbert Dearholt, divorced wife of a cinema associate of Author Burroughs; in Las Vegas, Nev. Last December Mr. Burroughs divorced his wife of 34 years, Mrs. Emma Centennia Hulburt Burroughs.
Married. Sir Charles Marston. 68. retired British bicycle manufacturer, archeologist and Bible scholar, backer of the Wellcome expedition which last month turned up twelve potsherds at Tel ad Duweir (TIME, March 25); and Mrs. Mary Battey Bonney, director of the American Women's Association; in Manhattan (see p. 60).
Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada in 1933.
Died. Woodford Fitch ("Wood") Axton, 63, president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., largest independent tobacco company in the world, maker of Spuds, 10¢ cigarets (Twenty Grand) & smoking tobacco (White Mule, Old Loyalty); of heart disease; at Wildwood, near Skylight, Ky. A thoroughly enlightened capitalist, he limited his salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank MacTavish, a gelding he nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby.
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds.