Milestones, Feb. 23, 1931

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Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte.

Engaged. Alice Szechenyi, 19, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Gladys Szechenyi who was the late Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter; and Count Bela Hadik, 26, son of an oldtime Hungarian Prime Minister.

Married, Katherine Silva Cornell, 17. heiress to the late Oilman Robert Oglesby; and Count Jan Drohojowski, Berlin correspondent for the Kurjer Poznanski of Poznan (Posen), Poland; in Tulsa, Okla. Headlined the New York Telegram: COUNT WEDS $3,000,000.

Married. Edward Pearson Warner, onetime (1926-29; Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation; and Mary Jean Potter, Boston Junior Leaguer; in Brookline, Mass.

Married. Delia Mackin, Baltimore graduate nurse, niece of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; and Michael J. Robinson, of Manhattan, onetime officer in the Irish Free State army; in Baltimore. The Archbishop, who, like the bride, was born in extreme poverty on Golden Island, Athlone. Ireland, officiated at the high nuptial mass in Baltimore Cathedral.

Confirmed. Ralph ("Sonny") Capone, 10, son of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; in the Holy Name of Jesus Church; in Miami, Fla.

Sentenced. Daisy de Boe, pilfering secretary to Cinemactress Clara Bow (TIME, Jan. 26. Feb. 2); to five years probation, of which 18 months are to be spent in

Los Angeles County Jail. Said the judge: "The jury . . . was . . . generous and sympathetic. There was abundant evidence to prove you guilty of theft in 35 instances."

Coincidentally it became known that her father, Thomas W. de Boe, was beginning the second year of a one-to-five-year sentence in San Quentin penitentiary for distilling. Three times before had he been arrested for legging.

Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe.

Died. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 62, holder of several British Cabinet posts including Secretary of State for War (1924-29) under Stanley Baldwin; in his sleep, after an attack of bronchitis; in London.