Monday, Mar. 05, 1928

Married. Britton Ihrie Budd, 56, president of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co. ("L") lines; to Miss Marie Sheehan, 31, his onetime private secretary; in Chicago.

Married. Cinemactress Mary Astor, 21; to Kenneth Hawkes, cinemadirector; in Hollywood, Calif.

Married. Miss Rosemary Ames, daughter of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (Booth Fisheries, American Steel Foundries, Chicago Journal of Commerce, etc., etc.), of Chicago; to Ogden Ketting, subaltern of Public Utility Magnate Samuel Insull, in Chicago. Samuel Insull Jr. functioned as best man.

Died. Mabel Cratty, 60, secretary of the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association since its formation in 1906; in Manhattan; of pneumonia.

Died. Prince Karl Max von Lichnowsky, 68, indiscreetly honest German ambassador at the Court of St. James's just before the War; at his Silesian estate near Breslau, Germany; of apoplexy.

Died. C. E. E. Ussher, 71, general passenger traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway; in Westmount, Quebec.

Died. Miss Annie H. Martin, 71, onetime editor of the Carson City News, superintendent of the U. S. mint of Carson City, Nev.; in Carson City.

Died. James Lauren Ford, 73, famed onetime literary critic of the old New York Herald, humorist, author; in Bayshore, L. I.

Died. Edward Burgess Butler, 74, retired millionaire owner and founder of Butler Brothers (wholesale drygoods with warehouses in Chicago, New York, St. Louis), amateur painter; in Pasadena, Calif.; of pneumonia.

Died. Max Hart, 75, vice president and one of the founders of Hart, Schaffner & Marx ("correct styles"); of pneumonia; in Chicago.

Died. Ethelbert Talbot, 79, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., and onetime presiding bishop of his church; in his daughter's home at Tuckahoe, N. Y.; after 36 hours' unconsciousness. His street dress was that of the Church of England Bishop--knee breeches, gaiters and a black silk apron.

Died. Mrs. Lily Eberhard Anheuser Busch, 83, widow of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker whose factories covered 70 city blocks; onetime mistress of a kolossal castle at Langenschwalbach, Prussia; owner of the magnificent Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., where the admission fees flow into the treasury of the American Legion; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif. Kolossal were the parties at Langenschwalbach, where servants served barbecues with spades and pitchforks, where the Kaiser feasted, where entire hotels were hired to accommodate guests.

Died. Yves Guyot, 84, leading "elder economist" of France, onetime Minister of Public Works, and editor since 1909 of the authoritative Journal des Economistes; at Paris.

Died. Theodore-Ernest Cognacq* 53, founder in 1870 of the Parisian department store Samaritaine, which he bestowed some years ago upon his employes; at Paris.

*Not to be linked with M. Cognacq's name is the differently spelled Cognac, the name ol a town in southwestern France where potable, exhilarating cognac is made.