Milestones

Married. Miss Elsie de Wolfe, 61, famed interior decorator, member of the onetime "bachelor girls' triumvirate" (the others being Miss Anne Morgan, 53, daughter of the late J. P. Morgan; and famed authors' agent; Miss Elisabeth Marbury, 70), recipient of the Cross of the Legion of Honor and of the French War Cross; to Sir Charles Mendl, 54, Paris Representative of Foreign Office News Department; at Paris, in the British Consulate.

Married. James Graham Phelps Stokes, 53, noted millionaire Socialist publicist, divorced husband of the notorious Communist Rose Pastor Stokes (TIME, Oct. 26, MILESTONES), brother of able Anson Phelps Stokes (Secretary to Yale University 1899-1921); to Miss Lettice Lee Sands of Manhattan, at the Liberal Catholic* Church, Manhattan.

Divorced. Rockwell Kent, 44, famed U. S. painter-author-traveler, by the onetime Miss Kathleen Whiting of Lanesboro, Mass.; at Nice, France.

Died. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, while "covering" the U. S. Aero Expedition; hit by an airplane propeller at Fairbanks, Alaska. (See THE PRESS.)

Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass.

Died. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 72, founder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; aboard his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia; of apoplexy. (See THE PRESS.)

Died. Leopold Schepp, 84, "The Cocoanut King," eccentric millionaire philanthropist; at Manhattan. As a lad, Mr. Schepp borrowed 18, from his mother and purchased twelve palm-leaf fans which he sold for 36, on a Third Ave. streetcar. Soon he had three other boys selling fans and was making $15 a week. At 27 he had amassed $200,000. Before he died, he had given away over $5,000,000.

*A sect numbering (in Manhattan) but 80 baptised or continued followers.