Monday, Mar. 27, 1933
Married. Maud, daughter of Louis Warren Hill, granddaughter of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Jim") Hill; and Laurence Holmes Dorcy, literary grandson of Jim Hill's good friend, Pony Express Boss Ben Holladay; in Del Monte, Calif.
Married. Baldwin M. Baldwin, grandson of the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin (famed San Francisco mining, racing & theatre character); and Margaret Wilson of Indianapolis; in Reno, Nev.
Married. George Terry Dunlap Jr., U. S. Walker Cup golfer, 1931 Princeton golf captain; and Kay Vogel, Hempstead, L. I. socialite; in Elkton, Md.
Sued for Separation. Ralph Heyward Isham. 42, bibliophile, Boswell authority, New Jersey realty heir; by Margaret Dorothy Hurt Isham, 30; in Manhattan. Charges: cruelty and abandonment. After his 1915 separation from his first wife Marion, daughter of Manhattan's late Mayor William Jay Gaynor, he enlisted as a British Army private, rose to lieutenant colonel, won a Commandership of the Order of the British Empire. Last week his lawyer said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement to avoid a scandalous "confession."
Separated. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., 24, film actor; and Joan Crawford Fairbanks, 25 this week, film actress; the day after one Jorgen Dietz, Danish chemical engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours' false imprisonment last December when Fairbanks charged extortion. Said Mrs. Fairbanks: "The Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. We've really been separated a whole year. This is the only brave thing for us to do." Mrs. Dietz in Copenhagen said Fairbanks would get a Paris divorce and marry her. Douglas Jr. said, "Joan is the only woman for me," announced he would rewoo her.
Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through him.
Died. E. Temple Thurston, 53, British novel-a-year man (The City of Beautiful Nonsense, The Greatest Wish in the World), playwright (The Wandering Jew); of pneumonia; in London.
Died. Abram Edward Fitkin, 54, Manhattan public utilities operator who sold out before the Crash, bought back afterwards; of chronic myocarditis and interstitial neuritis: in Manhattan. Son of an English-born harness-maker, he gave up trying to be a Pentecostal minister, built up a huge chain of utilities. He sold his National Public Service Corp. to Day & Zimmerman, Inc. in 1926 for reputedly $250,000,000 and Inland Power & Light
Co. for $30,000,000 to Samuel Insull in 1927, turned to security investments and hospital philanthropy. Last year he took over and became board chairman of American Gas & Power Co. (then in receivership).
Died. John Leslie Urquhart, 58, British mining engineer and promoter, chairman of the Association of British Creditors of Russia ($900,000,000), bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics.
Died. Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco. Duke of the Abruzzi, Prince of Savoy, 60, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne.
Died. Sir Henry Worth ("Hank") Thornton, 61, Indiana-born railroad renovator (England's Great Eastern, Canada's Canadian National); of pneumonia and uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Giant (6-ft.-4-in.), ruddy Thornton played football for University of Pennsylvania (1891-94); was called from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick and no soul to own." He turned a deficit into a surplus, resigned last year to give Depression politicians "a free hand."
Died. Warren Sherman Hayden, 62, Cleveland investment banker & charitarian, president of Cleveland Union Terminals Co.; after an appendectomy; in Cleveland.
Died. Harry Hays Morgan, 72. longtime (1882-1925) U. S. Consul, father of the "beautiful Morgan twins" (now Lady Furness and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt); after a short illness; at the London home of Lady Furness.
Died. Lux, 8, police dog guide of Minnesota's blind U. S. Senator Thomas David Schall; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zooelogical Gardens.
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