Milestones: Nov. 4, 1929

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Born. To a Dr. & Mrs. M. D. Evans; a girl child; in a Fokker monoplane some 1,200 ft. above Miami. In the plane, beside the parents and the first aerial-born baby, were two pilots, two nurses, two attendants, the grandmother.

Engaged. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, 25, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy; and Princess

Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle, 23, of Belgium; at Brussels (see p. 27).

Engaged. Hunt Wentworth, assistant to the president of Curtiss Flying Service, grandson of Chicago's twotime (1857-1860) Mayor John ("Long John") Wentworth ; and Miss Eileen Smith; at Chicago.

Engaged. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); and Edgar William Garbisch, onetime (1922-24), U. S. Military Academy footballer (all-American) ; at Great Neck, L. I.*

Married. Edith Mason, Chicago Civic Opera soprano, divorced wife of Giorgio Polacco (the opera's conductor), and Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein (orthopedic) of Chicago; at Antioch, Ill.

Convicted. Alexander Pantages, vaudeville circuit owner; of criminal assault upon one Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer; in Los Angeles. Sentence: one to 50 years' imprisonment in San Quentin Prison, with clemency recommended. Mrs. Pantages was convicted last month on a manslaughter charge.

Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time."

Died. Dr. Edward Seitz Shumaker, 62, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League; at Indianapolis; of a malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis—covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore.

Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrère & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis (see p. 34).

Died. Vasil Radoslavoff, 75, War Prime Minister of Bulgaria; at Berlin. For nearly a year he kept Bulgaria neatly juxtaposed between alliance with the Central Powers and the Allies. In 1915 when his country declared war on Serbia, he was elated that "Bulgaria was coming in on the winning side." For his part in involving Bulgaria in the War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court at Sofia. He escaped to Germany and last July, never having returned to serve the sentence, was granted amnesty (TIME, July 15).

Died. Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, U. S.