Monday, Oct. 31, 1927
Born. To Richard F. Cleveland, son of the late U. S. President Grover Cleveland; a son; in Baltimore. He is the first presidential grandson, there being five granddaughters.
Born. To Stanley M. ("Bucky") Harris, 28, manager and second baseman of the Washington American League Baseball Club, and Elizabeth Sutherland Harris; daughter of Alien Property Custodian Howard Sutherland; a son; in Washington.
Engaged. Emile Vandervelde, 61, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgian representative to the League of Nations; to a Mme. Dr. Beckman. At the Locarno Conference (1925) he became the subject of world-wide comment because he would not shake the hand of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925).
Engaged. Frank Gilman Allen, 53, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts since 1925, president since 1911 of Winslow Brothers & Smith (sheep-skins), to a Miss Eleanor H. Wallace, 27, of Pittsburgh, classmate of his daughter.
Married. Roswell C. Colt, brother of the onetime (1909-23) husband (Russell Griswold Colt) of famed Ethel Barrymore, to Miss Melva Peschmalyan, 19, daughter of Zaruye Peschmalyan art collector; in Manhattan. His first wife was the late (1916) Dorothy B. Chapman of Winnipeg.
Divorced. By William Jennings Bryan Jr., 38, Mrs. Helen Virginia Bryan; in Los Angeles. He charged desertion and stated that her musical career interfered with his domestic happiness.
Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, 37, I famed cinemactor, by Mrs. Katheryn Menjou; in Los Angeles. Desertion.
Elected. C. W. Toms, to be president of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., succeeding C. C. Dula, resigned, to be board chairman.
Elected. Thomas Ignatius Parkinson, 46, to the president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, succeeding William Alonzo Day, 77, resigned to become board chairman.
Died. Ross Young (real name Ross Youngs), 30, famed baseball outfielder (1917-26) with the New York Giants; in San Antonio, of nephritis, after a year's illness. As a golfer among professional baseball players, he possibly ranked second only to Arnold ("Jigger") Statz of the Brooklyn nine. He could play around in the late 70's.
Died. Alice Weed, penniless widow of Beverly Weed, inventor of nonskid tire chains, who at death (in 1912) willed the bulk of his potent estate to a stenographer; in Jackson, Mich. She was buried in Odd Fellows home cemetery.
Died. Joseph Theodore Dickman, 70, retired Major General in the National Army, organizer and commander of the Third American Army which he led into Germany (1918); in Washington; of heart disease.
Died. Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell, Archbishop of Armagh, primate of Ireland, 71; of double pneumonia and pleurisy; at Carlingford, Ireland.
Died. Charles Herbert Levermore, Ph. D. 71 of Brooklyn, N. Y., in San Francisco, following a heart attack suffered while lecturing on the plan for international peace with which he won Edward W. Bok's $50,000 prize in 1924. Dr. Levermore, Yale '79, was a post-graduate mate of Woodrow Wilson's at Johns Hopkins University. They sang together on the glee club. Dr. Levermore's peace plan, for which he was to have received $50,000 more if ever the plan were approved by the Senate or a great body of public opinion, called for:
a) U. S. membership in the World Court.
b) U. S. use of League of Nations machinery
c) Development of International Law.
Died. Harry J. Park, 79, Civil War veteran; in San Diego, Calif. Aged 16, at the Battle of Winchester (Oct. 19, 1864), he broke the Confederate supply line, donned rebel colors, captured four rebels. For this President Abraham Lincoln pinned upon his coat a medal, said: "I congratulate you, my hero of the Shenandoah!"