Monday, Dec. 02, 1929
Engaged. Nancy Susan Reynolds, 18, daughter of late Tobaccoman R. J. Reynolds; and Henry Walker Bagley, 24, of Atlanta and Manhattan; at Winston Salem, N. C. Fortnight ago her brother Zachary Smith Reynolds, 17, married Miss Anne L. Cannon, 19, at York, S. C. at 2 a. m.
Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco.
Married. Frank Arthur Daniels, son of Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and a Miss Ruth Aunspaugh; at Raleigh, N. C.
Married. John Whitten Davis Jr.,* of Brooklyn, onetime Princeton football & water polo captain (1927); and a Miss Gladys Snell; in Manhattan.
Appointment Declined. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; to be Protestant Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio. Reason: He was lately elected to the chair of Pastoral Theology at General Theological Seminary. "I feel that I should not resign this post except for overwhelming reasons."
Died. Warwick Greene, 49, president of New England Oil Refining Co. ; at Boston; after an operation. Onetime (1910-1915) Director of Philippine Public Works, he was Director of Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission (1916), served in France and Belgium with the American Red Cross commission
Died. Grant B. Miller, Chief U. S. Postal Inspector, who solved many a mail theft, including the $2,000,000 robbery at Rondout, Ill., in 1924 when Postal In spector William F. Fahy was revealed as the crime's "master-mind"; at Washing ton.
Died. David Van Schaack, 60, Director of Bureau of Inspection & Accident Pre vention of Aetna Life Insurance Co., a founder (1912) and twice president of the National Safety Council, onetime editor of National Safety News; at Hartford, Conn.; after a heart attack.
Died. Raymond Hitchcock, 64, long time musicomedian (Hitchy-Koo), cinem actor (Everybody's Acting) ; at Beverly Hills, Calif. ; of a heart attack.
Died. Col. Agar Adamson, 65, Wartime (1916-18) commander of the famed Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry ("Princess Pats"); in London; after an operation.
Died. Daniel Frederick Appel, 72, old-time insuranceman, president of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., director of Old Colony Trust Co.; in Boston; after an illness of several weeks.
Died. Harry Hart, 79, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House on Chicago's Wrest Side.
Died. Rear Admiral Henry Ware Lyon. 84, U. S. N. retired; at Washington; of heart disease. Commanding the U. S. S. Dolphin, he took part in more engage- ments, captured more prizes than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging.
Died. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming, 85; of bronchial pneumonia; at Washington (see p. 12).
Died. Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, 87, daughter of Transcendentalist Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), mother of onetime (1909-13) Governor-General William Cameron Forbes of the Philippines; at Milton, Mass./-
Died. Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau, 88, Wartime Minister of France; of euremic poisoning; at Paris (see p. 25).
Died. Louisa Caselli, 108, Italian, "nun of Piedmont"; at Rome. She had lived under nine popes, five kings.**
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid.
*Not to be confused with John William Davis, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President.
*The Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize for an undergraduate economic essay, founded in 1903, was won last week by Jean Trepp, Wellesley, 1929. Subject: "Trade Union Interest in Production."
/- Other living Emerson descendants: One son. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., biographer and physician. Two grandsons: Edward Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Museum: Dr. Alexander Forbes, member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
**The popes: Pius VII (1800-23), Leo XII (1823-29), Pius VIII (1829-30), Gregory XVI (1831-46), Pius IX (1846-78), Leo XIII (1878-1903), Pius X (1903-14), Benedict XV (1914-22), Pius XI (1922-).
The kings: Kings of Sardinia Charles Felix (1821-31), Charles Albert (1831-49)-Kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II (1849-78); Humbert I (1878-1900), Vittorio Emanuele HI (1900-).
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