Monday, Dec. 29, 1930
Married. Elizabeth Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely.
Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America's Cup.
Birthdays. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, first U. S. physicist to win the Nobel Prize, longtime head of University of Chicago's physics department; Henrietta Szold, 70, founder of Hadassah (women's Zionist organization); Princess Hermine, 43, wife of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern; King Alexander I of Jugoslavia, 42.
Died. Clarence Kummer, 31, jockey who won many a great horserace on Man O' War, Exterminator, Audacious. Snob II, Ladkin; of pneumonia after weakening his vitality by dieting; in Jamaica, L. I. Disqualified in 1927 for rough riding, he was reinstated, rode his last race in 1928.
Died. Warren Bradley Bovard, 45, comptroller and vice president of the University of Southern California, son of George Finley Bovard, president emeritus of the University; by his own hand; in Los Angeles. He left a note: "Goodbye. Blanie [his wife], I am going to look for Ned" [his great friend, Edward Laurence Doheny, Jr., shot last year by an insane secretary].
Died. David Nehemiah Mosessohn, 47, editor and co-founder (1902, with his brother Moses Dayyan Mosessohn) of The Jewish Tribune, founder (1919) and executive chairman of Associated Dress Industries of America, appointed last year to the Hoover Business Commission; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank Lester Greene, 60, senior U. S. Senator from Vermont since 1923. U. S. Representative from 1912 to 1923, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1917-23) regent of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; after an operation for hernia; in St. Albans, Vt. He had been partially paralyzed since 1924, when he was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired in a Washington street fight between Prohibition agents and 'leggers.
Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest.
Died. Charles K. Harris, 65, rich music publisher, composer of "After the Ball Was Over," ballad popular since the 1890's; in Manhattan; after a three-week illness.
Died. Gerrit John Diekema, 71, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands (he was born in Holland, Mich.), onetime (1907-11) U. S. Representative from the 5th Michigan District; of pneumonia after an abdominal operation; at The Hague.
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