Monday, Jul. 23, 1928
Engaged. Anne Taft Ingalls of Cleveland, daughter of Assistant Vice President Albert Stimson Ingalls of the New York Central Railroad, granddaughter of Cincinnati's Charles Phelps Taft; to Reupert E. L. Warburton, London banker.
Married. Oilman Ernst W. Marland, 53, of Ponca City, Okla.; to his niece by a former marriage, and onetime ward, Lydie Miller Roberts; in Flourtown, Pa.
Married. Claire Luce, dancer (Follies, No Foolin'), aviatrix; and Clifford Warren Smith, stepson of President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan.
Married. Sonia Alexandra Frey, daughter of John Alexander Frey, Director of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Riga, Latvia, to Niven Busch, Jr., onetime associate editor of TIME, in Manhattan.
Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island.
Married. Ilse Schumann-Heink, eldest granddaughter of Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink; to Captain Ferdinand A. Hirgy, state vice-commander of the American Legion in Wisconsin; at Elcho, Wis.
Married. Draper M. Daugherty, 41, son of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty ("Ohio Gang"); to Estelle Sturges, secretly, at Tucson, Ariz., after both had obtained Mexican divorces. Questioned by the police in 1923 concerning the mysterious murder of his friend Dorothy Keenan, Mr. Daugherty was shortly thereafter committed as an inebriate to Stamford Hall Sanitarium, on the petition of his wife, and in 1925 was sent to the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. In 1926, he was released.
Divorced. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American-footballer (Yale captain, 1909); by Jeanne Eagles, independent actress (Rain, Her Cardboard Lover) recently suspended by Equity (TIME, April 16); in Chicago.
Elected. Murray Hulbert, Manhattan politician, onetime (1915-19) U. S. Representative, to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, Va., to be president of Lions International.
Died. Harold Leslie Hamm, 21, footballer (fullback) and sophomore last year at Dartmouth; struck by lightning while on Lake Winnepesaukee. Died. Capt. Emilio Carranza, 22, Mexican aviator; near Chatsworth, N. J. (see p. 16).
Died. Morris M. Titterington, 35, and lady friend, in a plane smash; at Pottsville, Pa. He founded the Pioneer Instrument Co., invented the earth inductor compass, said to have made long airplane flights possible.
Died. Herbert Kenaston Twitchell, 62, president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings (Manhattan), descendant of a Twitchell who arrived in Massachusetts in 1633; of intestinal infection; in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died. Capt. Sir James T. W. Charles, 62, famed commodore of the Cunard fleet; in Southampton, England, just after he had taken the Aquitania across the Atlantic; of an internal hemorrhage. He had intended to retire after this voyage of the Aquitania and 48 years on the sea.
Died. Rufus Coif ax Phillips, 63, secretary of the American Rolling Mills Co., brother-in-law of famed President George M. Verity of the Mills; in Middletown, Ohio.
Died. Alexander Rolland Peacock, 66, partner of Andrew Carnegie, born in Dunfermline, Scotland, the Carnegie birthplace; of pneumonia; in a Manhattan hospital. Once served a cold storage egg, his disgust was so profound that he immediately constructed a chicken farm on his estate at a cost of $70,000.
Died. Sir George Alfred Wills, 74, president of Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain and Ireland, second "richest Briton" (TIME, July 16) to die in a week; in London.
Died. Giovanni Giolitti, one-time premier of Italy; at Cavour, Italy; after a long illness.