Monday, Aug. 12, 1935
Married. Cassius M. Clay, counsel for RFC's rail division; and Miriam Blossom Berle, 37, teacher, sister of New York City Chamberlain and onetime Brain Truster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (TIME, March 12, 1934); in Boscawen, N. H.
Married. Francis Bolton Mallory, 37, onetime editor of Life, onetime husband of Cinemactress Nancy Carroll; and Carlota Lobato, 14, his fourth wife, daughter of a Mexican realtor, whom he met fortnight ago; in Acapulco, Mexico.
Died. Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, youngest of the three "marrying Mdivanis," onetime husband of Heiresses Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter Jose Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised. I always felt something like this would happen. He drove like mad."
Died. Dr. James Henry Oughton, 53, president of Keeley Institute for alcoholics; of bullet wounds inflicted by robbers who entered the Institute; in Dwight, Ill.
Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail.
Died. Frederick Huntington Gillett, 83, onetime (1925-31) U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, onetime (1915-25) Speaker of the House, longtime (32 years) Representative; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass.
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels.
Died. Mrs. Olivia Phelps James Hoe, 98, charitarian widow of Robert Hoe III, maker of Hoe newspaper presses; after brief illness; in Lake Placid, N. Y.
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