Milestones, Aug. 15, 1932

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Married, Washington Dodge II, 24, business editor of TIME; and Helen Kent Hubbard, 22, of Middletown, Conn.; in Camden, Maine.

Married. Charlotte White, 24, younger daughter of Ohio's Governor George White; and Dr. Frank Errett Hamilton, 27, of Columbus, Ohio; in Columbus.

Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Channon Bendix, 33, recently divorced wife of Vincent Bendix (motor accessories); and Lieut. William Adna Blake, 35, U. S. N.; in Manhattan.

Married. Susan Ertz, novelist (The Galaxy, The Story of Julian, Madame Claire); and Major John Ronald McCrindle, British barrister; in London.

Married. Marjorie Montgomery Ward, daughter and heiress of the late founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Robert R. Baker, onetime Chicago coal merchant; in Philadelphia.

Marriage Revealed. Albert James ("Albie") Booth, 24, Yale athlete; and Marion Noble, 23, New Haven secretary, his sweetheart since childhood; in Branford, Conn.; July 4.

Divorced. Brigadier-General Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of Washington, D. C. police; by Cora C. Glassford; in San Antonio, Tex. Grounds: desertion.

Left. By Alexander Smith Cochran, sportsman, philanthropist, late president of Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.; a net estate of $38,977,237. To Thomas Ewing Jr., a nephew, went approximately $20,000,000. Excluded from the will was Ganna Walska McCormick from whom he was divorced in 1922 (she received a $300,000 settlement).

Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York (32).

Died. Ralph Leo Richards, 37, half-brother of Vincent Richards, professional tennis player; of a bullet fired by a policeman when Richards resisted arrest after a holdup; in Manhattan. Month ago Richards escaped from Eastview Penitentiary (TIME, July 25).

Died. James Francis Burke, 64, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, onetime (1905-15) U. S. Representative from the 31st Pennsylvania District (Pittsburgh), close friend and adviser of President Hoover; of coronary thrombosis following dilation of the heart; in Garfield Hospital, Washington, whither he was sent by Dr. Joel Thompson Boone after his illness during a White House conference had become apparent to President Hoover. Counsel Burke was elected secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892 at 25, youngest man ever to hold the post.

Died. Alfred Henry Maurer, 64, able artist, son of the late Louis Maurer (Currier & Ives prints) who died last month at 100; by his own hand (hanging) ; in Manhattan.

Died. Sir Alan Vandenbempde Johnstone, 73, British diplomat, husband of Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot's sister Antoinette; after an operation; in London. Among his diplomatic posts: the British Embassy at Washington in 1892, British Minister at The Hague (1910-17).