Milestones

Born. To Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, and Mrs. Martinelli, a daughter, Giovanna (8 1/2 lb.). Her sister Bettina, 10, and brother Antonio, 8, were also born in the U.S. Signor Martinelli, jubilant, banqueted friends.

Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran & Co. last year. He has collaborated with Stephen Vincent Benet upon two plays, both produced in 1924.

Married. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and secretary of the New York World, second son of the late famed publisher, Joseph Pulitzer; to Miss Elizabeth Edgar, at St. Louis.

Married. Josephus Daniels Jr., son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy and present editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer; to Miss Evelina Foster McCauley, at Nashville, Tenn.

Married. Miss Leila Madeline Asser, only daughter of Governor and Lady Asser of Bermuda; to one John Duncan Miller of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. The Lord Bishop of Bermuda performed the service. Among the bride's four infant attendants was Sandy Ramsay, only son of Lady Patricia Ramsay ("Princess Pat").

Married. Edward W. Browning, 51, wealthy Manhattan realtor, famed Cinderella man; to Frances Heenan, schoolgirl.

Died. Dr. Max Kahn, 39, discoverer of "intarvin," a remedy for diabetes; at Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan, where he was Director of Laboratories.

Died. Signor Giovanni Amendola, 43, leader of the Italian constitutional party ["the Aventine Opposition" (TIME, Aug. 3, ITALY)]; at Cannes, France (see p. 14).

Died. The abdicated Emperor Chok of Korea, 52, known since the annexation of Korea to Japan (1910) as Prince Yi, head of a dynasty which reigned in Korea from 1392, detested and unrecognized by Koreans for having signed the annexation treaty and permitted his son, "Prince Yi Jr." to marry the Japanese Princess Nashimoto; at Tokyo. The baby son of the Princess died inexplicably, last year, while she was visiting in Korea. It was suspected that Korean patriots poisoned him.

Died. Washington Ellsworth Lindsey, 63, third Governor of New Mexico (1917-19), able lawyer; at his home in Portales, N.M., after shooting himself. (Ill health.)

Died. Henry Miller, 66, famed U.S. London-born actor, producer, theatre owner, director and occasional playwright; in Manhattan of pneumonia.

His son, Henry J. Miller, now serving a ten months' jail sentence at Santa Ana, Calif., for violating the Narcotic Law, said:

"It is a singular thing that on the same day I entered this jail I received a telegram from my father's agent advising me that he would not be able to open his new play, A Stranger in the House. What a ghastly coincidence it is that the play should have such a name. I am the stranger in my father's house, but he never cast me out, despite long years of my social disgrace. God bless his soul!

"Father had not written me in years. But he never lost interest in me, for his remittances reached me every month. He told me once he felt like turning on the gas for being responsible for my coming into the world. Because of the remorse I had brought him, I decided to kill myself. I tried, but surgeons saved me."

Died. Gustave Geffroy, 71, President of the Goncourt Academy; in Paris. (See FRANCE, "Clemenceau Speaks.")

Died. McEvers Bayard Brown, 76, eccentric U.S. sea-hermit; on board his yacht, Valfreya, off the Essex coast; after a stroke of paralysis (see p. 28).

Died. Luther Burbank, 77, first horticulturalist, at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., after several weeks' illness.

Died. Dr. F. W. Axham, 85, medical "outlaw" and cause of bitter controversy among physicians; in London of bronchitis (see p. 24).