Monday, Dec. 28, 1931
Married. Jonathan McMillan Davis, 60, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Kansas; and Mrs. Mary Ellen Raymond, 60, rich Girard (Kans.) clubwoman; in Pittsburg, Kans.
Divorced. Philip Green Gossler. president & chairman of the board of Columbia Gas & Electric Co.; by Mrs. Alice Muller Gossler, divorced wife of the late Joseph Kittredge Choate, nephew of the onetime Ambassador to England; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.
Died. Arnaldo Mussolini, 46, director of Popolo D'Italia (Milanese daily), brother of Benito Mussolini; of arteriosclerosis; in Milan.
Died. Lewis Randolph Hardenbergh, 53. president of Nestle's Milk Products, co-founder of Carnation Milk Products Co. of which he was senior vice president until 1925; in Manhattan.
Died, Benjamin Carleton Hawkes, 56, president of U. S. Playing Card Co.;* after an operation; in Chicago.
Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip lingerie shoulder straps, a hospital sterilizer, improvements for shoemaking machines.
Died. Mrs. Mary Willie Houston Morrow, 81, daughter of Texas late great General Sam Houston; of heart disease; in Stamford, Tex./-
Died. Rev. Ludovic Billot, S. J., 85; in Ariccia, Italy. He became a Cardinal in 1911. crowned Pope Pius XI in 1922, resigned as Cardinal in 1927.
* World's largest maker of playing cards. Last year its profit was $1,209,908.
/- Of the eight original Houston children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Nettie Houston Bush, San Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Robert A. John, Mrs. Jennie M. Decker, Mrs. Madge Hearne. Franklin Williams, Royston Williams, and Marion Williams, all of Houston, Tex.
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