Milestones: Sep. 29, 1930

Born. To Governor & Mrs. Frank Gilman Allen of Massachusetts, on the day of Governor Allen's nomination for reelection, in Boston; a daughter. Name: Marjorie. Date: Sept. 17. Their first son, Frank Gilman Jr., 2, was born two days after Governor Allen was elected.

Engaged. John Jacob Raskob Jr., 23, eldest of the eleven children of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and Minerva Elaine Aaronson, 19, lawyer's stenographer, of New Haven, Conn. They met while Raskob Jr. was at Yale (Sheffield Scientific School, class of 1929).

Married. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, youngest member of the famed Long Island polo family; and Miss Mary Atwell, Long Island socialite; at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Manhasset, L. I. Best man: Brother Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., international polo captain.

Married. Robert Marion La Follette, 35, since 1925 Republican Senator from Wisconsin; and Rachel Wilson Young of Washington, since 1925 his secretary; at the Maple Bluff Farm near Madison, Wis., on the same day that his brother Philip received the Republican nomination for Governor of Wisconsin (see p. 20).

Died. Hans Herzl, 40, son of the late political Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into a mad man."*

Died. Milton Sills, 48, famed cinemactor, intelligent player of stupid two-fisted roles (Men of Steel, Hard Boiled Haggerty, The Barker}, onetime Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done than anything else is write."

Died. John Thompson Dorrance, Ph. D., 56, president of Campbell Soup Co., a director of Pennsylvania Railroad, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, four other companies; after a heart attack, at his home in Cinnaminson, N.J. Dr. Dorrance had degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Gottingen, Germany. But such confidence had he in his canned, condensed soup idea that he went to work at $7.50 a week for a canning company, amassed a fortune of $22,000,000. With the exception of the late King Edward VII he was the only foreigner ever elected to membership in the French Mutual Aid Society of Paris Chefs.

Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical