Monday, Jun. 29, 1931
Married. Mary Delafield. daughter of President Edward Coleman Delafield of Bank of America; and Albert Ludlow Kramer Jr., Manhattan poloist and yachtsman: in Riverdale, N. Y.
Married. William A. Rockefeller, 36, Greenwich (Conn.) banker, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; and a Mrs. Mary Ball Boyer, 36, interior decorator; in Detroit, Mich.
Divorced. Henry Ward Beecher Jr., son of the late great Brooklyn preacher; by Mrs. Mary Frances Beecher; in Reno. Charge : cruelty.
Appointed. Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle of 5.5. Aquitania, onetime com mander of the Mauretania and Berengaria: to be commodore of the Cunard Line fleet; succeeding Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron who retired last month.
Birthdays. Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis (81), Daniel Carter Beard (Si). Ernestine Schumann-Heink (70). James John Walker (50), Edward Prince of Wales (37), Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind bergh (25), Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (1).
Died. Ralph Harman Booth, 57, U. S. Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers.
Died. Frederick Lincoln Siddons, 66, Associate Justice since 1915 and dean of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, presiding justice in the trial of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for conspiracy in the Teapot Dome case (TIME. April 15, 1929); of acute indigestion and dilation of the heart; in Washington. British-born, he was a great-grandson of Actress Sarah Siddons, had been urged in his youth to go on the stage.
Died. Mrs. Natalie Harris Hammond. 70, wife of Mining Engineer John Hays Hammond, mother of Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard and Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic.
Died. Charles Talbot Aldrich, 74. treasurer of Aldrich Bros. Co. (textiles), donor with his brother Henry (see below) of $1,100,000 to Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital; after long illness; in Providence, R. I.
Died. Henry L. Aldrich, 77, president of Aldrich Bros. Co. ; of apoplexy following the death of his brother (they lived their lives together, never married); in Providence.
Died. Clement Armand Fallieres, 89. eighth president of France (1906-13); of a heart attack; at his Mezin home. Defeated candidate in his election was Paul Doumer, present President. In the Fallieres administration occurred the famed vindication of Alfred Dreyfus.
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