Monday, Sep. 02, 1929
Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic air passenger, Women's Air Derby contestant (see p. 50) and Walter Camp Jr.. President of Inspiration Pictures, Inc., son of the late great football coach. "Miss Elder's" divorced husband. Lyle Womack, returned last winter from the Byrd Antarctic expedition.
Married. Gladys Walton, show girl (Princess Flavia, Lady in Ermine); and Clifford R. Parliman, flyer; in an airplane 5,000 ft. above Roosevelt Field, L. I.
Married. Diego Rivera, of Mexico City, mural painter, 1929 winner of the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architecture (TIME, May 6); and one Frieda Kohlo; in Coyoacan, Mexico.
Marriage Disclosed. Homer Stille Cummings of Stamford, Conn., onetime (1919-20) Democratic National Committee Chairman, twotime (1920, 1924) candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, twice divorced; to a Miss Cecelia Waterbury of Stamford; five months ago at Stamford.
Sent Home. Grover Cleveland (''Old Pete") Alexander, 42, 18 years a National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants 41.
Died. Serge Diaghilev, onetime ballet master of the Russian Imperial Court, introducer of Russian ballet to the U. S.. developer of famed Dancers Nijinsky. Lydia Lopokova, Anna Pavlova; in Venice.
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane.
Died. Dr. Edward Beech Craft, 47, of Hackensack, N. J., electrical engineer and apparatus inventor, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; at Hackensack.
Died. Dr. Edward Franklin Buchner. 60, of Baltimore, Director of the College for Teachers, Johns Hopkins University; in Munich.
Died. Lawrence Davis Tyson, 68, of Knoxville, Tenn., U. S. Senator from Tennessee; at Strafford. Pa.
Died. Rear-Admiral Albert Parker Niblack, 70, U. S. N. retired, director of the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, Squadron Commander of U. S. battleship forces in European waters during the War; at Monte Carlo.