Monday, Aug. 01, 1932

Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight.

Married. Lele von Harrenreich Young Daly, 33, widow of Marcus Daly II, son of the founder of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; and George John Djamgaroff, onetime press-agent for Ganna Walska, head of A. B. C. News Service (antiCommunist) ; in London.

Seeking Divorce. Maurice Chevalier, actor; from Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; in Paris. Grounds: incompatibility. Before their marriage Yvonne Vallee was Chevalier's music hall dancing partner.

Deported. Henry ("Red") Johnson, implicated by Nurse Betty Gow in the Lindbergh kidnapping case; to Norway. After he had gone, immigration men revealed the deportation warrant was rescinded, giving him an opportunity to re-enter the country legally. This was apparently done because of the belief that Johnson was innocently implicated in the case.

Left. By James Norris Gamble, vice president of Procter & Gamble Co. ("Ivory Soap"); an estate of $6,341,553, mostly in stocks & bonds.

Birthday. Frank Julian Sprague, 75, "father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities had trolley lines, 110 of them Sprague-built. He perfected fast electric elevators and the multiple-unit control system for subway and elevated trains which enables each car to operate under its own power.

Died. Facundo Bacardi, 40, vice president of famed Bacardi & Co.; of an accidentally inflicted bullet wound with pneumonia and septic complications; in Santiago, Cuba. The Bacardi distillery, founded by his grandfather, produces 25,000 gal. daily, has built a $50,000,000 fortune shared by three other grandsons.

Died. George Morrison Rolph, 59, one-time president of California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation, Ltd., brother of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; of apoplexy; in San Francisco. During the War Herbert Hoover appointed him head of the Sugar Equalization Board, which he made selfsupporting, returning a $30,000,000 surplus to the Government.

Died. Alberto Santos-Dumont, 59, one of the "fathers of aviation," Brazilian-born, credited as one of the inventors of powered lighter-than-air craft; of arteriosclerosis; in Bello Horizonte, Minas Geraes, Brazil. In 1901 he piloted one of his airships around the Eiffel Tower. He was not successful with airplanes until more than three years after the first successful flights of the Wright Brothers (1903).

Died. Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, Manhattan showman, "glorifier of the American girl"; of heart failure following pneumonia; in Los Angeles.

Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices.

Died. Thomas Arkle ("Tommy Arkle") Clark, 70, longtime (1901-31) dean of the University of Illinois, first dean of undergraduates in a U. S. university; of an intestinal disease; in Urbana, Ill.

Died. Frederick Brooks, 74, board chairman of Brooks Bros., famed Manhattan clothiers: in Southampton. L. I. He was the third generation of his family in the store. In the fourth generation his son Winthrop is the company's secretary and director. Eight years ago a suit and overcoat made by Brooks Bros, sold for $6,500; they had been worn by President Lincoln at the time of his assassination.

Died. Joseph Hepenstall Hoover, 75, concocter of patent medicines, President Hoover's uncle; in Pueblo, Colo.

Died. Henry St. George Tucker, 79, U. S. Representative from Virginia's loth District, onetime president of the American Bar Association, onetime dean of Washington & Lee's law school; in Lexington, Va.

Died. Enrico Malatesta, 82, "world's most consistently prosecuted anarchist"; of double pneumonia; in Rome. Born to the title of Count, which he renounced, he began his career of incitation at 19, was at various times barred from the U. S. and South America, spent 12 years in prisons, was sentenced to death in Italy, Spain, Argentina. For the past ten years he had lived quietly in Rome; according to his friends, a virtual prisoner of Premier Mussolini.

Died. Bahiyyih Khanum, 85, daughter of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, in Haifa, Palestine. She was regarded by her sect as the world's holiest woman of all time. Baha'is believe in the oneness of mankind, internationalism, universal peace and love, equal opportunities and rights for both sexes. There are some 8,000 believers in the U. S. (TIME, March 10, 1930; July 20, 1931).

Died. Louis Maurer, 100, oldtime artist, last surviving member of the famed print firm, Currier & Ives; of old age; in Manhattan.

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