Milestones, Jul. 17, 1950

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Married. Victoria Quirino, 19, only surviving daughter of Philippines President Elpidio Quirino (two daughters, his wife and one of his two sons were murdered by the Japanese in 1945); and Luis Gonzalez; 26, gentleman-rancher; in Manila.

Divorced. By Cinemactress Bette (Of Human Bondage) Davis, 42: William Grant Sherry, 35, boxer turned painter; after 4½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (see PEOPLE).

Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. John Guy Gilpatric, 54, author (Action in the North Atlantic, eight collections of Glencannon stories), and Maude Louise Gilpatric, 52, his wife since 1920; by his own hand; a few hours after they learned that she had cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif, (see MEDICINE).

Died. Ismail Sidky Pasha, 75, twice Premier of Egypt; in Paris. Though he lacked the popular touch, rich, hardboiled Sidky Pasha, an able administrator, was in the thick of Egyptian politics for half a century.

Died. Henry Ingraham Harriman,* 77, Brooklyn-born Boston utility magnate (New England Power), onetime (1932-35) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; in Needham, Mass.

Died. Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 80, bemedaled cavalryman who joined the British army in 1889, served with distinction in the Boer War and World War I, became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1920-22) and Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1930-35); in London.

Died. Bessie Smith White, 88, widow of turn-of-the-century Architect-Decorator Stanford White,† most admired U.S. architect of his day; in St. James, N.Y.

Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered.

* Distantly related to railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman.

† Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation.