Monday, Jul. 15, 1929

Engaged. Lucio and Simplicio Godino, 21 each, of Manila, Filipino "Siamese" twins (joined at the base of their spines); to two sisters, Natividad and Victorino Malos. Marriage licenses were issued to them by the Philippine Department of Justice, which overruled a license bureau clerk who felt that the twins, whom he regarded as one individual with a dual personality, would commit bigamy by marrying two women.

Engaged (for a companionate marriage). John K. Winkler, biographer (John D.--A Portrait in Oils [TIME, July 8]); and Edith A. Whitney, showgirl.

Married. Michael J. P. Cudahy, grandson of Meatpacker Michael Cudahy; to Cinemactress Muriel Evans (real name: Muriel Evansen); at Riverside, Calif. In 1927, Heir Cudahy attempted elopement with Cinemactress Marie Astaire, was intercepted by his mother at Santa Barbara, jailed, sent home, "put to bed for safe keeping."

Married. John Davis Lodge, grandson of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; to Miss Francesca Braggiotti, Brookline, Mass., socialite; in Boston.

Married. William Ince, 20, son of late Producer Thomas Harper Ince; to Actress Ada Williams, 18, onetime (1927) Miss Florida; in Beverly Hills in Cal.

Married. Mrs. Margaret Rutherford, onetime wife of Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and of Sir Paul Dukes; to Prince Charles Murat; in Paris.

Married. James Cox Brady, son and namesake of the banking tycoon; to Miss Eliot Chace, socialite of Manhattan; at Hyannis, Mass.

Divorced. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, playwright; by Agnes Boulton O'Neill; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion.

Sued. Ben Hecht, novelist (Erik Dorn, Gargoyles, Count Bruga) and playwright (coauthor The Front Page); by Chicago Daily News Co. Charge: breach of contract.

Appointed. Harry A. Bigelow, professor of law; to be Dean of the Law School of the University of Chicago.

Elected. Eddie Cantor, singing funnyman; to be President of the National Vaudeville Artists Association; succeeding Actor-Producer Fred Stone.

Elected. Herbert Farrington Perkins, first vice president of International Harvester Co.; to be president, succeeding Alexander Legge, new-chosen chairman of the Federal Farm Board (see p. 13).

Birthday. Calvin Coolidge, 57 (on July 4), his first celebration as a private citizen in 22 years; at Northampton, Mass.

Birthday. Harry Ford Sinclair, 53, oil tycoon; in the District jail, Washington, D. C.

Died. Mrs. Adele Wilson Pringle Taggart of French Lick, Ind., daughter-in-law of late Boss Democrat Thomas Taggart; at French Lick.

Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded.*

Died. Nathan W. Hendryx, 49, cage-maker of New Haven, Conn. (Hendryx bird homes) ; near Stony Creek, Conn.; by drowning off his yacht.

Died. Dr. Paul A. Lewis, 50, of Princeton, N. J., bacteriologist with the Rockefeller Institute; in Bahia, Brazil; of yellow fever, while trying to find a more effective preventative for it.

Died. Major General Eli Kelley Cole, 61, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Department of the Pacific; in San Francisco.

Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice (see p. 23).

Died. Edward Walter Eberle, 64, rear admiral, native of Texas, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; in Washington, D. C.; of an old infection in his right ear. Rear Admiral Eberle was a lieutenant on the Oregon on its dash around the Horn (1898), had charge of its forward turret at the battle of Santiago.

Died. Col. Arthur E. Randle, 70, of Washington, D. C., business and civic leader; on a ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.; by suicide.

Died. William Thompson Galliher, 73, of Washington, D. C., banker, trustee of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, treasurer of the Hoover-Curtis inaugural committee; in Washington; of heart disease.

Died. Dr. Edward Hamilton Squibb, 76, of Brooklyn, longtime President of E. R. Squibb & Sons (drugs); in South Harwich, Cape Cod; of heart attack.

Died. Dr. Jodok Fink, 76, of Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, former vice-Chancellor of Austria (1920-22), potent member of the Christian Socialist Party; in Andelsbuch.

Died. William Symes Andrews, SI, of Schenectady, N. Y.; electrical engineer, longtime chief assistant of Thomas Alva Edison, oldest employe of General Electric Co.; in Schenectady.

Died. Mrs. William Frederick Nast, 85, mother of Publisher Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); at her son's home in Port Washington, L. I.

*Not to be confused with the National Editorial Association whose members, meeting in Cheyenne next week, will name, by vote, Yellowstone Park's newest geyser.