Milestones

Reported Engaged. Jascha Heifetz, 25, to Juca Labass, Budapest musical comedy actress.

Reported Engaged. Bess London, daughter of the late novelist Jack London; to one Percy Fleming, of San Francisco.

Engaged. Adele Sloane Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond,* lawyer, member, Brown Bros. & Co., bankers; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; descendant of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; to John Kensett Olyphant, grandson of Robert Olyphant, one-time President, Delaware & Hudson R. R. Simultaneous announcement was made of the engagement of her sister, Alice Frances, to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell, (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England.

Engaged. Elizabeth Baker, daughter of onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker; to one John Philip McGean, Los Angeles insurance broker.

Married. William T. Graham, 76, onetime President American Can Co.; onetime partner of Daniel G. Reid (tinplate); to Mrs. Mary A. Staats, 57, in Manhattan. Said he: "Perhaps you think I'm an old fool. I'd like to have my own home."

Denied Divorce. Marcus Garvey, "President General of the Ethiopian Empire," now in Atlanta Penitentiary (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925); from Mrs. Garvey. He had filed a countersuit to a suit brought by his wife; the jury denied both suits, finding both petitioners guilty of misconduct.

Died. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt, 25, wife of Abram S. ("Chappie") Hewitt, greatgrand-daughter (maternal) of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; great-great-granddaughter (paternal) of John Jay; in Manhattan, by a fall or leap from her apartment window, following nervous breakdown.

Died. Joseph S. Donovan, 46, Studebaker dealer; in Boston, of kidney trouble. Starting work at eleven in a carpet factory, he vowed to make a million and retire by 45; did so.

Died. Jules E. Mastbaum, 54, cinema theatre magnate, philanthropist, art collector; in Philadelphia, in the arms of his mother; of pneumonia and uremia, following operation. He was brother of Mrs. Ellis A. Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925).

Died. Joseph H. Steinhardt, 62, "Apple King of America"; in Manhattan, of heart disease. As German immigrant boy, he early encountered one Thomas Kelly as his chief pushcart rival; the two exchanged daily abuse until suddenly Steinhardt said: "Let's cut this out and be partners." A handshake over the pushcart was the only contract, and when Kelly recently died they were still devoted friends.

Died. William Brown McKinley, 70, Senator from Illinois; at the Homelawn Sanitarium, Martinsville, Ind., of prostatic cancer. Millionaire businessman of Illinois; 14 years Congressman; Manager of President Taft's unsuccessful 1912 campaign; elected Senator in 1921; he was defeated last spring by Senator-elect Smith. Few knew that for 30 years he was loyal to a wife whom he rarely saw.

Died. Nikola Pashitch, 80, in Belgrade; of apoplexy (see p. 16).

Died. Captain J. T. Taylor, 85, grandson of President William Henry ("Tippecanoe") Harrison, and last surviving officer of General William Tecumseh Sherman's staff; at Leavenworth, Kan.

Died. "Fuzzy Wuzzy" (Osman Digna), 90, in Wadi Haifa, Egypt (see p. 15).

*Not to be confused with John Hays Hammond, engineer of romantic history.