Milestones: Oct. 17, 1927

Married. Richard Wells, son of famed Author Herbert George Wells; to Miss Peggy Gibbons; at Dunmow, England, (See below.)

Married. Theodore De Long Buhl, heir to $24,000,000 nephew of Florenz Ziegfeld and son of Mrs. Willis Buhl of Detroit; to Anastasia Reilly, onetime (1926) Ziegfeld Follies girl; in Manhattan. Present were Mr. & Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (Billie Burke) & others.

Married. Martha Pintard Bayard, fourth ranking woman tennis player in the U. S.; to one Henry Rice Guild of Boston: at Short Hills, N. J.

Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10¢ wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke."

Died. Sam L. Warner, 40, son of a Russian immigrant shoemaker, vice president of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (cinema producers), in Los Angeles; of pneumonia, following a sinus infection. At 16, he and brother Albert Warner, displayed "The Great Train Robbery", famed one-reeler, in lofts and stores of Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. Later they rented a store in Newcastle, Pa., installed 99 chairs, from an undertaker's parlor, conducted one of the first cinema theatres. If there was a funeral, the cinema patrons stood. Last May the Vitaphone Corporation became a subsidiary to Warner Brothers and Sam was made vice president.

Died. Amy Catherine Robbins Wells, wife of Herbert George

Wells, famed British novelist; at Dunmow, England; of cancer. Dying a few hours before the marriage of her younger son Richard, she requested that the ceremony be performed and that no one wear mourning at her funeral.

Died. Octavus Cohen, 68, famed editor, lawyer, father of Author Octavus Roy Cohen; in Charleston, S. C.

Died. Francis Lyman Hine, 76, capitalist, banker ($50,000,000), onetime (1909-22) president of the First National Bank of New York, since then chairman of the executive committee; at Glen Cove, L. L; of heart disease and pneumonia.

Died. Edward Cecil Guinness, first Earl of Iveach, 80, owner of the Guiness brewery, "second wealthiest in Great Britain," ($100,000,000); in London.

Died. John Dalzell, 82, for 26 years (1887-1913) Republican member of Congress from Pittsburgh; at Altadena, Calif. Known as "Father of the House", he with Payne, Dingley and Cannon, were the "big four" who shaped legislation.