Monday, Oct. 17, 1932

Born. To Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, daughter of Auto Tycoon Walter Percy Chrysler; and Edgar William Garbisch,

onetime (1924) West Point footballer; a first son, second child; in Manhattan.

Name: Edgar William Garbisch Jr.

Married. Jean Lebrun, son of France's President Albert-Frangois Lebrun; and one Bernadette Marin, daughter of a retired army captain: quietly, in the town hall of Rambouillet (the French President's Rapidan). A witness: Premier Edouard Herriot.

Died. Sewell Lee A very Jr., 31, only son of the president of Montgomery Ward & Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. and director of U. S. Steel Corp.; by inhaling gas; in his father's Chicago home.

Died. Frankie McErlane, Chicago gangster, reputed inventor of the "one way ride"; of pneumonia; in Beardstown,

Ill. He was officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast.

Called the second-best pistol shot-- and most vicious killer in Chicago's underworld, he had gone "gun crazy," began returning the fire of imaginary killers on empty streets.

Died-- John Charles Linthicum. 65, U. S. Representative from Maryland, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the unofficial Democratic "beer bloc"; of diabetes; in Baltimore. An infrequent speaker in the House, he was a champion of "The Star-Spangled Banner," officially adopted as the national anthem in March 1931.

Died. Thomas Joseph Shanley, 73, famed oldtime Broadway restaurateur; of pneumonia: at Lawrence, L. I.

Died. Darwin Pearl Kingsley. 75, board chairman of New York Life Insurance Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Vermont-born, it was he who brought Calvin Coolidge into New York Life as a junior director. New York Life's assets have increased from one-half billion to nearly two billion since Kingsley's election to the presidency in 1907.

Died. Baron Rudolf Carl Slatin ("Slatin Pasha''), 75, Austrian hero of the British conquest of the Sudan; after a stomach operation; in Vienna. Protege of heroic General Charles George ("Chi- nese") Gordon, a bey at 24, he surrendered at 27 to the rebel Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed, was held prisoner for eleven years.

At 28 he was shown by the mahdi the head of Gordon, obtained after the fall of Khartum. At the beginning of the World War, still an Austrian citizen, he was British Inspector General of the Sudan, honorary British Major General. Egyptian Lieutenant General. He returned to Austria but refused to fight the English. served instead in the Austrian Red Cross and as a member of the Austrian peace delegation at St. Germain.

Died. Howard C. Miller, vice president of Herkimer County Trust Co., brother of President Charles Addison Miller of Reconstruction Finance Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in Little Falls. N. Y.

Died. Roland F. Knoedler, 76, retired art dealer; of lung congestion; in Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer et al.

Died. Robert J. Kleberg, 79, longtime owner of famed Santa Gertrudis ranch; after a long illness; at Kingsville. Tex. The Kleberg ranch is largest in U. S. (1,250,000 acres), could contain Delaware, District of Columbia, Chicago. The deceased's son Richard was elected to the House of Representatives last year.

Died. Andrew Jay Frame. 88. "America's greatest country banker." in Waukesha, Wis. (see p. 47).

8Reputed best shot: Joe Saltis (beer).

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