Monday, Nov. 09, 1936

Left. By the late Michigan Senator James Couzens (TIME, Nov. 2) who died intestate; an estimated $30,000,000 to be divided under State law: one-third to Widow Margaret Ann Manning Couzens, two-thirds between his three daughters (Mrs. Madeleine Couzens Yaw, Mrs. Margo Couzens Chewning, Edith Valeria Couzens) and his son Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit. Federal estate taxes will take some $18,500,000.

Indicted. Clarence Joseph Morley, 67, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado; for using the mails to defraud investors in his Indianapolis brokerage firm; in Indianapolis, Ind.

Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts.

Died. Mrs. Frances Zioncheck, 57, mother of Washington's late eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck; after long illness; in Seattle. She died ignorant of her son's suicide (TIME, Aug. 17).

Died. Right Rev. Monsignor John Joseph Burke, 61, famed U. S. Roman Catholic churchman, secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference since 1919, onetime (1904-22) editor of the Paulist Catholic World; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting in 1934.

Died. Thomas Cochran, 65, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Bedford, N. Y. On his statement that General Motors stock was selling cheap in 1926, it rocketed from 189 to 214 1/2. To Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he gave $10,000,000, including a bird sanctuary, the Addison Art Gallery.

Died. Henry King Browning, 68, Manhattan clothier, retired vice president (1900-32) of Browning, King & Co., grandson of its founder John H. Browning; of heart disease; in Tarrytown, N. Y.

Died. Lorado Taft, 76, sculptor; of heart disease; in Chicago. He created Washington's Columbus Memorial Fountain, The Fountain of Time on Chicago's Midway for which at his death he was carving a companion Creation. He took up sculpture because he considered it "the one art that cannot be cursed with American 'casualness.'''

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