Milestones: Aug. 1, 1927

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Divorced. Winifred Sackville Stoner de Bruché Hyman, 24, one-time child prodigy; from Louis Hyman; in Manhattan. It was recently reported she was to marry onetime (1920-21) U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, 58, now suing for divorce in Paris (TIME, May 23).

Died. U. S. Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World War.

Died. Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, 59, president of Research Corp. of Carnegie Institute of Technology, onetime (1903-22) president of same institute, intimate friend of the late Andrew Carnegie; from complications following an intestinal operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens.