Monday, Jan. 18, 1932

Born. To Donald Ogden Stewart, 37, author, actor, and Mrs. Beatrice Ames Stewart; a second son; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 10 oz. Name: Donald Ogden Jr.

Married. Reinhold Niebuhr, 39, leader of U. S. religious youth, editor of World Tomorrow, professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton; in Winchester, England.

Married. Paul L. Townsend, son of John G. Townsend Jr., U. S. Senator from Delaware; and one Theodora O. Thomson, of Philadelphia; in Manhattan.

Marriage Revealed. Mrs. Rose M. Sacco, relict of Nicola Sacco ("Sacco-Vanzetti case") ; and one Ermano Bianchini; 18 months after her husband was electrocuted (1927). Last week her son, Dante, departed for Europe under the charge of Edward Holton James, retired lawyer, international radical, (reputed) nephew of the late great Brothers James, Novelist Henry, Philosopher William.

Seeking Divorce. Nancy Hoyt, 29. author (Unkind Star, Bright Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante).

Sued. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; by Charlotte Poillon; for $5,000. Charge: failure to reward her for disclosing an extortion plot. Charlotte Poillon and her sister, Katherine, have graced many a courtroom since 1900, when they thrashed a masher in Central Park.

Appointed. Major General William Durward Connor, 57; to be superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy; succeeding Major General William Ruthven Smith, who will retire. General Connor sold 1,400 million dollars worth of war supplies to the French Government for 400 millions after the Armistice.

Elected. Lessing J. Rosenwald : chair man of the board of directors of Sears. Roebuck & Co. ; to succeed his father, the late Julius Rosenwald (see p. 45).

Honored. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate (see p. 34).

Died. Seymour Wemyss Smith, 35, editor of The Financial Digest; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was famed for his contention that John Hanson, not George Washington, was the first Presi dent of the U. S., that the U. S. was created in 1781, not 1789.

Died. Rt. Hon. William Graham, 44, British statesman famed for his knowledge of finance, president of the Board of Trade in the late Labor government; of pneumonia ; in London.

Died. Charles W. Curtiss, 50, presi dent and general manager of the Waterbury Clock Co--; of heart disease; in Waterbury, Conn.

Died. Andre Maginot, 54, French Minister of War; of typhoid fever; in Paris. His most famed phrase: "The strength of the French army is the best guarantee of the people of Europe" (see p. 14).

Died. Frederick O'Brien, 62, author (White Shadows in the South Seas) ; of heart disease ; in Sausalito, Calif. He once reported for Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion Daily Star at $9 per week.

Died. Louis Eugene Jeffries, 63, long time (since 1918) vice president & general counsel of Southern Ry. ; at a hearing be fore the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Washington; of a heart attack. Mr. Jeffries was also vice president & gen eral counsel of several other railroads, including Alabama Great Southern and Georgia, Southern & Florida. In Washington's Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (1922) he lost two of his six children.

Died. Julius Rosenwald, 69, philanthropist, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; of arteriosclerosis complicated by heart and kidney disease; in Ravinia, Ill. (see p. 45).

Died. Leander Colbert Gentle, 70, once congratulated by President Coolidge at the White House for being Champion Father of the South (29 children) ; killed by a train; in Atlanta, Ga.

Died. Jordan Lawrence Mott, 74, of Manhattan, onetime president of J. L. Mott Iron Works (now in receivership) ; of heart disease; in Nelson Harbor, Bahama Islands, B. W. L, on board the yacht of his friend Allison Armour.

Died. Sir William Mills, 75, inventor of the hand grenade, 75 millions of which were supplied to the Allied armies during the War; of heart disease; in Weston-super-Mare, England.

Died. Joseph Warren Fordney, 78, longtime member of Congress (1899-1923) from the 8th Michigan District, co author of famed Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (1922); of erysipelas; in Saginaw, Mich.

Died. Mrs. Gracia Wilder, 88, maternal aunt of Calvin Coolidge; of heart disease; in Plymouth, Vt.

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