Milestones, Sep. 20, 1937

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Married. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont, 20, brother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; to Genevieve Livingston Estes, 21, of Jacksonville, Fla.; in Jacksonville.

Married. Princess Natalie Paley, 31, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia; to John Chapman Wilson, 38, producer for Noel Coward; in Fairfield, Conn.

Married. Charles Correll, "Andy" of the famed radio team of "Amos 'n' Andy" ; to Dancer Alyce Mercedes McLaughlin; in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Hollywood. She is his second wife.

Married. U. S. Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier, 63, of Hoople, N. D.; to his long-time neighbor, Mrs. Catharine Paulson, of Concrete, N. D.; in Mountain, N. D.

Appointed. Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley: to be Honorary Chief of the Worcester, Mass. Fire Department. Fire-chief Charles L. McCarthy made the appointment to fulfill Funnyman Benchley's boyhood ambition to serve his native city a fireman.

Settled. For onetime Badman Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; the U. S. Government's claims for delinquent taxes for 126-29. Badman Capone's barricaded tate at Palm Island, Miami, Florida, was tout to be sold when the Internal Revenue Collector J. Edwin Larsen announced at in Chicago the remaining $17,194 in arrears had been paid, delinquencies which used Badman Capone to be sentenced to eleven years in prison.

Died. Frederick Trubee Davison Jr., 15, son of the president of the American Museum of Natural History; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Kimball Hadley, 66, famed U. S. composer, conductor; in Manhattan. Dr. Hadley was the son of a musician, at the age of 17 had composed an operetta, Happy Jack, which is still performed in U. S. schools arid colleges. During his career as a composer he wrote four operas, four symphonies, innumerable songs, cantatas, tone poems. Able, though rarely inspired, Composer Hadley was a leading spirit in San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club, titled his most popular Overture In Bohemia.

Died. Ellis Parker Butler, 67, famed U. S. humorist; in Housatonic, Mass. Author of 32 books, Mr. Butler was best known for Pigs is Pigs, a slim volume about two guinea pigs whose tribe increases while a rural postmaster argues over their shipping fee. Pigs is Pigs was published in 1906, went into 31 editions.

Died. Dr. Daniel Fiske Jones, 69, one-time (1933-34) president of the American Surgical Association, since 1932 a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers; in Boston.

Died. Thomas M. ("Doc") Sayman, 83, famed Middlewestern manufacturer of Sayman's soaps, salves and patent medicines; in St. Louis. An oldtime medicine showman,-"Doc" Sayman set up his St. Louis soap factory in 1894, erected a glass case near the entrance and installed therein the stuffed skin of Dolly, the horse that had pulled him many a mile in his itinerant days. Fond of flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions to the poor, he always gave $500 to any officer who shot & killed a robber.