Monday, Apr. 12, 1926

Milestones

Born, To Charles Spencer Chaplin a second son by his second wife, the onetime Lita Grey, at the Chaplin estate, Beverley Hills, Calif. Their first child, Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., is about a year old.

Engaged. Francis Wollsey ("Buss") Bronson, 25, recent author of a first novel, Spring Running, to Miss Helen L. Silkman, 21, Manhattan bookseller.

Died. Gerald Chapman (real name George Chartres), famed bandit-murderer, hung by the neck, in Hartford.

Died. Signorina Anna Sarto, 76, youngest sister of the late Pope Pius X;* at Rome, in a tiny apartment facing St. Peter's Square, where she lived with her only surviving sister, Signorina Maria Sarto.

Died. August Thyssen, 86, patriarch of Ruhr industrial barons, contemporary of the late Hugo Stinnes and the late Alfred Krupp, self-made amasser of $100,000,000; at his castle, Lindsborg, near Muehlheim.

*Pius X was Pope 1903 to 1914. Benedict XV, 1914-1922. Pius XI, 1922 to date.