Monday, Aug. 14, 1933
Married. Marmaduke Furness, ist Viscount Furness, 49, British shipbuilding tycoon; and Enid Lindeman Cameron Cavendish, 39, modish Australian-born relict of the late Brigadier-General Frederick W. L. S. H. Cavendish; in London, few days after Lord Furness was divorced for misconduct by his second wife. Thelma Morgan Converse Furness, onetime Manhattan socialite beauty, onetime cinemactress.
Divorced. Noble Brandon Judah, 49, onetime (1927-29) U. S. Ambassador to Cuba; by Dorothy Patterson Judah. 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co.; in Carson City, Nev.
Died. Archibald McNeal Johnson, 43, lawyer, sportsman, second son of U. S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California; by his own hand (pistol); in his home outside San Francisco. An artillery major in the World War, wounded at Chateau Thierry, he was said by friends to have suffered from recurrent shell-shock. Divorced in June from Martha Ruddy Leet Johnson, he left a note in verse, ending: "Forgive me, God. for all I've done to please that ever-grasping one who took my very life."
Died. Henry F. Sanborn, 44, general eastern agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., of bullet wounds in the heart inflicted by an unknown murderer; in Queens, N. Y. His body was found buried in a shallow grave 100 yd. off the Long Island Motor Parkway by berry pickers who saw his shoe sticking out of the ground. Police could establish no motive for the crime. They held his fiancee, a young Swedish interpreter, for questioning, and asked European police to question Bancroft Mitchell, son of onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell. Just before sailing for France, Mitchell, an investment broker, is believed to have given Sanborn a receipt, found on his body, for four shares of stock in a Branford, Conn, brewery.
Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife.
Died. Dr. Valdemar H. Mensen, 58, founder-president of the Criminal State Police of Denmark; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan hotel. He kept tabs on every foreigner and known criminal in small Denmark, kept Danish crime statistics down. He was elected vice president of the International World Police created in Chicago last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 7).
Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since 1929.
Died. Elisha Lee, 62, vice president of Pennsylvania R. R.; after collapsing upon alighting from a train; in Manhattan. He was slated to succeed President William Wallace Atterbury who, now 66, awaits retirement age at 70.
Died. Harry Beach Clow, 63, president, and Gustav Hessert, 66, treasurer, of Rand, McNally & Co. (maps); after short illnesses; in Chicago, within 24 hours.
Died. Louis Evan Shipman, 64. playwright, onetime (1922-24) editor of Life; of cancer; in Boury-en-Vexin, France, his home since 1925. His most lucrative play was The Crisis, a dramatization of Winston Churchill's Civil War novel.
Died. Ignaz Strassnoff, 65, "King of Hungarian Adventurers," swindler, counterfeiter, blackmailer, bigamist; in Budapest. Awed in boyhood by a strutting Hussar officer, he saw the "hypnotic power" of uniform & monocle, embarked with that equipment on a prodigious career of crookery. His most publicized coup was to gull 40,000 gold crowns out of the Cardinal Prince Archbishop of Hungary by posing as Prince Eszterhazy, Captain of the Royal Hussars. Dying in poverty, he still had his shabby uniform; the monocle fell from his eye as he drew his last breath.
Died. Arthur Powell Davis, 72, engineer on Boulder Dam and many another; after long illness; in Oakland, Calif. An advocate of Government control of power, Engineer Davis was ousted in 1923 as director of the U. S. Reclamation Service. By way of vindication, Secretary of the Interior Ickes appointed him last month as Boulder Dam consultant. Died. Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, 83, famed longtime (1880-1913) managing editor of Charles A. Dana's New York Sun; of kidney disease; in Garden City. L. I. Under his direction the Sun became the U. S. newspaperman's Bible. He was the antithesis of the frantic, barking type of editor; his coolness under pressure and the churchlike quiet of his editorial rooms became legendary. When Dana tore up his Associated Press franchise. Editor Lord calmly sent out wires, next day had all the news, thus built up his own news service. Under him, at one time or another, worked Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Will Irwin, the late Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Frank Ward O'Malley, Walter Prichard Eaton.
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