Monday, Jun. 24, 1929
Married. Jean Assolant, 24, pilot of the Yellow Bird on its non-stop flight from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain (see p. 47); to Pauline Parker, U. S. chorus girl; at Old Orchard, Me., three days before the hop-off.
Married. Charles Tiffany Bingham, of New Haven, Conn., fourth son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, to Miss Kathleen Wattson Howell, socially registered Manhattanite; in Manhattan.
Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth."
Married. Charlton MacVeagh, of Manhattan, youngest son of Ambassador to Japan Charles MacVeagh; and Adele Katte Merrill, Bedford, N. Y., Junior Leaguer; at Bedford.
Married. Charles Jacob Young, son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the late successful Reparations Conference in Paris (see p. 14); and Esther Marie Christensen, Cleveland Junior Leaguer, daughter of Niels Anthon Christensen, Danish vice-consul and airbrake inventor; in Cleveland.
Married. Hiram Edward Manville Jr. of Manhattan and Pleasantville, N. Y., son of the asbestos tycoon; and Ethel Bredt Schniewind. Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Married. Laird Shields Goldsborough. Associate Editor (Foreign News) of TIME, to Miss Florence McConaughy of York, England; in Goldsborough Church, Goldsborough, Yorkshire.
Sued for Divorce. D'Orsay Palmer, 24, grandson of the late Potter Palmer, Chicago hotelman (Palmer House); by Eleanor Goldsmith Palmer, daughter of a Sarasota, Fla.. truck driver, whom he married in Florida last year; in Paris. At the time of the wedding, 67 telegrams to county judges failed to halt the ceremony.
Annulled. The marriage of General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, famed Italian soldier-of-fortune, and Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, Manhattan socialite; in Nyack, N. Y. Reason: argument over the legality of Mrs. Garibaldi's divorce (Mexican) from her first husband, Stevenson Pierce Taylor.
Elected. Artemus L. Gates, 33, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to be president of New York Trust Co. Harvey Dow Gibson, retiring president, was elected executive committee chairman.
Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed of 119 m. p. h.
Died. Clarence F. Underwood, 58, of Manhattan, famed commercial artist (Palmolive girl, Camel girl); in Manhattan.
Died. Count Julius Andrassy, 68, of Budapest, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, leader of the Hungarian Legitimist party; in Budapest.
Died. General W. Bramwell Booth, 73, at his home at Hadley Wood, England, where he had lain ill since his ousting from Salvation Army leadership by Sister Evangeline Booth and others (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.).
Died. Father Germain Foch, 75, of Paris, Jesuit Priest, brother of the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch; in Paris.
Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland.
Died. Minor Cooper Keith, 81, of Babylon, L. I., founder of United Fruit Co., president_ of International Railways of Central America; at Babylon.
Died. Lydia N. Willys, 83, of Canandaigua, N. Y., mother of Motormaker John North Willys; at Canandaigua.