Milestones, Jul. 20, 1931

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Married. Max Baer, 22, heavyweight boxer, loser of a 20-rouncl decision to Paulino Uzcudun last fortnight; and Mrs. Dorothy Dunbar Wells, 38, divorced cinemactress; in Reno. Said she: 'If he insists on following the light game, I'm going to see that he gets the proper in struction." Said Mother (Dora) Baer: "Why she's old enough to be Maxie's mother!''

Married. Rudy Vallée, 29, redheaded, crooning orchestra leader; and Fay Webb, 23, slender, beauteous, brunette daughter of Chief of Police Clarence Webb of Santa Monica, Calif.; secretly; in West Orange, N. J. In 1928 Crooner Vallée was married for three weeks to a Mrs. Leonie Cauchois McCoy. He took Mrs. Vallee No. 2 to live in a six-room apartment at No. 55 Central Park West, Manhattan. Two days after the wedding they gave a press reception. Excerpts:

"Those who will not be interested in me after my marriage will be insignificant in number. ... It wasn't sex appeal over the radio, it was just musical ability. . . . I've just signed a $150,000 contract for the coming year. Does that look like lessened popularity?''

"He is just an ordinary man to me." Acquitted. George Noel Keyston. 40, onetime president of San Francisco Stock Exchange, senior partner of Leib. Keyston & Co.: of charges of conspiracy to violate the National Banking Act.

Birthdays. John Davison Rockefeller (92 ), George Eastman (77), Nikola Tesla (75—sec p. 27).

Died. Samuel J. Tilden Straus Jr., 19, Harvard junior, son of Board Chairman Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. and S. W. Straus Investing Corp., Chicago; of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; near Dodge City, Kan. Accompanied by two other Harvardmen, he was on his way to Arizona for summer vacation when three tires blew out simultaneously.

Died. Dr. Rene Jacquemaire Clemenceau,35,grandson of the late great Georges, Wartime premier of France; from an infection incurred while attending a patient; in Paris. For being "a victim of science" he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor on his deathbed.

Died. Dr. Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom. 65. Archbishop of Upsala. Primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, winner of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize; of heart disease; in Upsala. Long a crusader for world peace, he believed it could be secured by unifying Christian denominations. In 1925 he summoned the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work at Stockholm (leader of U. S. delegation was Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman), expounded his plan of "Evangelical Catholicity."

Died. Richard Rowland Hunt, 69, Manhattan architect, son of the late famed

Architect Richard Morris Hunt; in Manhattan. From a small sketch left by his father he completed the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of his work: Quintard and Hoffman Halls at the University of the South; "Idle Hour," country home of the late William Kissam Vanderbilt; "Castle Gould" on the estate of Howard Gould.