Monday, Apr. 16, 1934
Engaged. Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, famed 8-goal poloist; and Helena Woolworth McCann, socialite granddaughter of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth, 5-c--&-10-c- store tycoon.
Engaged, Louis Franklin Swift Jr., 38, son of retired Packing Director Louis F. Swift; and Elizabeth Chase. Chicago socialite. Mr. Swift was divorced from his first wife, Mary Haymaker Bennett, last September.
Engaged. Romain Rolland, 68, French novelist (Jean Christophe), 1915 Nobel prize winner; and one Mme Koudacheff, his secretary for many years.
Married. Ruth Kemmerer, 24, daughter of Princeton's famed Economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer; and Erling Dorf, 28, Princeton geologist; in Princeton, N. J.
Married. Knowlton Lyman Ames Jr., 40, Illinois State Director of Finance; and Mrs. Frances Dillon Little, 27, of Danville, Ill. and Chicago; in Springfield,
Married. Edith Cummings, onetime national women's golf champion (1923); and Curtis Burton Munson, mining engineer of Manhattan and Alberta; in Chicago.
Married. Walter Elliot Elliot, Great Britain's Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; and Miss Katharine Tennant, half-sister of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; in North Berwick, Scotland.
Married, Faith Hall, daughter of Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall; and Lieut. Peter Stubbs of H. M. S. Sabre; in Lyndhurst, England. Among the guests were 19 British admirals and Captain Franz von Rintelen (his daughter was a bridesmaid), onetime German spy whom Sir Reginald, as Wartime director of naval intelligence, captured in 1915. The two are acting together in a cinema now in production which describes von Rintelen's adventures.
Married, Stan Laurel, cinema comedian (Laurel & Hardy); and a Mrs. Ruth Rogers; in Agua Caliente, Mexico.
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling; in Sarasota, Fla. Charges: vilification, physical violence which caused the pulse of Mr. Ringling, ill with thrombosis, on occasion to rise from 76 to 104.
Divorced. Harold Edward Lobdell, 37, undergraduate dean at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; by his bride of five months, Mrs. Eileen MacLeod Lobdell; in Reno. Charge: cruelty.
Died. Jiro Satoh. 26. captain of Japan's Davis Cup team, onetime ninth ranking player of the world; by leaping into the sea from a liner bound for England and the second Davis Cup round (with Australia); off Singapore. Lately he had been nervous, off his game, had wanted to return to Japan but tennis officials urged him to continue to England. His fiancee. Sanaye Okada, also a tennis player, said his last letters had not been despondent.
Died. Sir Robert Peel, 36. onetime gentleman sheep farmer in Australia, descendant of the founder of London's police force by whose nickname ("Bobby"') its members are known, husband of Actress Beatrice Lillie; following an appendectomy; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. England. Their only child, Robert, 13, inherits the title.
Died. Ira Biffle, 44, oldtime aviator and Wartime instructor, teacher of Col. Charles Lindbergh; of nephritis and heart disease; in Chicago.
Died. Thomas Martin Farley, 45, one-time sheriff of New York County; of coronary embolism following an appendectomy; in Manhattan. In 1932 New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed Sheriff Farley from office after the Hofstadter-Seabury investigation into New York City's municipal affairs revealed he had banked more than $300,000 above his salary. Sheriff Farley claimed he earned the money before taking office, kept it in a "tin box," deposited it now & then.
Died. James Kerney, 60, publisher of Trenton, N. J.'s three newspapers, friend of President Wilson, author of The Political Education of Woodrow Wilson, sometimes used as a university textbook; of pneumonia following a long illness; in Baltimore.
Died. William Wallace McDowell, 67, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, one-time Democratic State Chairman of Montana (TIME. April 9); of a heart attack while attending a dinner given in his honor by President Eamon de Valera; in Dublin.
Died. John E. Dockendorff. 68, president of American Diamond Lines, Inc. and Black Diamond Steamship Corp.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78, founder & director of Munich's Deutsches Museum, world's greatest permanent industrial and scientific exhibit; in Munich, Germany.
Died. General Karl Rothmaler von Einem. St. Germany's onetime Minister of War (1903-09) credited with building up the Prussian war machine, Wartime Commander of Germany's Third Army which fought along the Western Front; in Muehlheim. Germany. Day of his death, April 7, happened to be designated Army Day by the U. S. War Department, to celebrate the 17th anniversary of U. S. entrance into the World War.
Died, Allen B. Cook. 85, gentleman farmer; after long illness: in Massena, N. Y. Mr. Cook's daughter, Nancy, is a close friend of Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and her associate in the Valkill Furniture Shop at Hyde Park, N. Y., the Todhunter School in Manhattan.
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