Milestones, Sep. 17, 1934

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Engaged. Archduke Otto, 21, Habsburg pretender to the Austrian throne; and Princess Maria, 19, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy (see page 24).

Married Hiram Bingham, Jr., 30, second of the seven sons of onetime Connecticut Senator Bingham; and Rose Law- ton Morrison, 24, niece of Illinois Senator James Hamilton Lewis; in Waycross, Ga.

Married. Mrs. Livingston French, mother-in-law of John Jacob Astor III; and James Lenox Banks Jr., Manhattan attorney; in Manhattan.

Married. Brigadier Gen. Pelham Davis Glassford, 51, who resigned as superintendent of the District of Columbia police six months after the Bonus Expeditionary Force marched to Washington (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932); and Lucille K. Painter, 33, his secretary; in Holbrook, Ariz.

Elected. Dr. Will H. Houghton, pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church: to be president of Chicago's Moody Bible Institute. During his Manhattan pastorate Dr. Houghton completed the $2,000,000 Salisbury Hotel which houses Calvary Church, managed to keep it 97% occupied since last autumn.

Died. Count Josef Karolyi, 50, leader of Hungary's Legitimists who want Otto of Habsburg for King (see p. 24), brother of radical Count Michael: after long illness; in Budapest.

Died. William Campbell Posey, 68, ophthalmologist, president of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Naples, Italy.

Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland.

Died. William Edward Hutton, 89, founder of W. E. Hutton & Co., dean of Cincinnati's Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Cincinnati. Known in Cincinnati as "Pa" Hutton, he retired from business nine years ago, maintained a downtown office where he gave advice to younger investment men, kept track of the scores of his favorite game, baseball.

Died. Jo Mendi, II, most popular chimpanzee in the U. S.; of trench mouth; in Detroit. He was the main attraction in Jo Mendi's Little Chimpanzee Theatre in which, a dozen times a day, he and six younger chimps imitated human beings by riding bicycles, drinking tea, roller skating. NRA cut the number of Jo Mendi's daily performances to two. Last year he earned $18,000.