Milestones, May 18, 1936

Appealed. By George Washington, inventor of a process for manufacturing prepared coffee: a Circuit Court decision handed down in New Jersey requiring him to pay income tax on the 80% of his royalties from G. Washington Coffee Relining Co. which he assigned to his family in 1918; to the U. S. Supreme Court.

Engaged. Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris.

Married. Dwight Filley Davis, 56, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the famed Davis Cup; and Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin, 49, onetime Republican National Committeewoman, celebrated socialite Wet; in Manhattan. She is his second wife; he is her third husband.

Married. Stanley Odium, 20, elder son of Manhattan Financier Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.); and Dorothea Beverly Klehr; in Harrison, N. Y.

Divorced. William Rosenwald, son of Chicago's late great Merchant Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck & Co.); by Mrs. Renee Scharf Rosenwald, daughter of Viennese Painter Victor Scharf; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty.

Died. Oswald Spengler, 55, famed German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting.

Died. Park Trammell, 60, longtime junior U. S. Senator from Florida; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Onetime (1913-17) Governor of Florida, never defeated for public office in 36 years of active political life, he became Senator a month before the U. S. entered the War.

Died. Albert Dalimier, 61, oldtime French politician, member of twelve French Cabinets; after a long illness; in Paris. In 1932, while Minister of Labor, he dispatched circular letters recommending investment in the unsound Bayonne municipal pawnshop bonds offered by arch-Swindler Alexandre Stavisky. He resigned the day Stavisky's body was found, was ousted from the Radical Socialist Party during the scandal that followed.

Died. A. (for Alexander) Mitchell Palmer, 64, who as President Wilson's Attorney General organized the great 1919 Red Hunt; after an appendectomy; in Washington. D. C. It was he who put into the 1932 Democratic platform planks pledging a 25% reduction in Government expenditures, collection of War Debts.