Monday, Sep. 26, 1932
Married. Dr. Joan Margaret MacDonald, 24, graduate in medicine and surgery from Edinburgh University, second daughter, fourth child of British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald; and Dr. Alastair MacKinnon; at Wendover, England.
Married. Leonard Kimball Firestone. Princeton polo-player, third son of Tire Tycoon Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Polly Curtis, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.
Married. K. Ernest ("Kaye") Don, 40, racing driver; and Eileen Martin, 21, Greenwich, Conn. socialite, daughter of Businessman Leonard J. Martin who bought 40 million yards of surplus airplane linen from the British Government in 1919 for $20,000,000 and made a fortune reselling it; in Greenwich, Conn.
Married. Alfredo Codona, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey aerial trapezist; and his partner Vera Bruce; in San Antonio, Tex.
Divorced. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street speculator; by Dorothea Fox Wendt Livermore, 37, onetime beautician, his second wife; at Reno, Nev. Few minutes later Mrs. Livermore married James Walter Longcope, onetime Prohibition agent, famed for spending $7,000 in Texas Guinan's night club in 1927 to get evidence.
Left. By George Eastman, camera tycoon who shot himself last March; a net estate of $21,375,903.06. State tax: only $14,212.86. Bequests: $19,000,000 to the University of Rochester; $1,000,000 to the Rochester Dental Dispensary; $220,000 to Niece Mrs. Ellen Andrus Dryden; $100.000 to Secretary Mrs. Alice K. Hutchinson.
Birthdays. General John Joseph Pershing, 72; Warden Lewis E. Lawes, 49; Crown Prince Humbert of Italy, 28.
Died. William George Bradley, Fifth Earl of Craven, 35; at Pau, France. At 19. he married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude."
Died. Dr. Wallace Bennett Cannon, 38, son of Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr.; of a gastric ulcer; in Hampton, Va.
Died. Dr. Heinrich Dehmel, 42, founder of the Institute for Advice to Would-Be-Suicides; by his own hand (poison); in Berlin.
Died. William H. Kleppinger, 49, president of Calumet Foundry & Machine Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Chicago. Five directors and his wife were waiting at his home at his summons when he killed himself in an alley next to an undertaker's.
Died. Carl Francis Egge, 60, "founder of the U. S. Air Mail." and secretary of the National Air Pilots' Association; after lingering illness; in Minneapolis.
Died, Sir Henry John Forbes Simson, 60, obstetrician to England's royal family; of heart disease; in London. In the middle of an operation he dropped his knife, staggered, shortly died.
Died. Robert Valentine Massey, 61, vice president (personnel) of Pennsylvania Railroad Co.; in Philadelphia.
Died. George Holmes Maxwell, 68, Boston philanthropist, president of North American Chemical Co.; in Pasadena.
Died. George Hoffman, longtime president of Hoffman Specialty Co. of Hartford (valves, machinery), father of Paul Gray Hoffman, vice president (sales) of Studebaker Corp. (see p. 41); in Pasadena.
Died, Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford, 73; at Swynneron Hall, Staffordshire.
Died. Joseph Benjamin Dabney, 74, California oil man and philanthropist: of heart disease; at Santa Barbara. He pioneered in the Bakersfield oil fields, helped develop the Ventura field after most big companies had despaired of it.
Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten, he had lately become very poor, begun selling his archives.
Died. Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 76, hymn writer & composer; of a decline begun by his wife's death last year; in Hollywood. Associated with E. O. Excell, William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Sam Jones and Professor J. H. Kurzenknabe in hymn-publishing, he composed "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart."
Died. Powel Crosley, 82, Cincinnati lawyer, early radio enthusiast, father of President Powel Crosley Jr. of Crosley Radio Corp.; in Cincinnati.
Died. Psyche, 30, University of California laboratory monkey; at Berkeley. Psyche had passed the Stanford-Binet intelligence test with a human 3-year-old rating, reacted usefully in psychological experiments.
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