Monday, Jan. 08, 1940

Married. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, dark, buxom daughter of G. O. P. Senator Arthur Vandenberg and his first (late) wife; and John W. Bailey Jr., son of the late mayor of Battle Creek, Mich., whom Arthur Vanctenberg whopped almost three to one in the 1928 Michigan Senatorial election; in Washington, D. C. Married in 1931, Barbara divorced Husband John Knight in 1935, and again, after remarriage, in 1937.

Divorced. Ethel Hilder (Ruby) Keeler, 30, ex-dancer, cinemactress, from Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), 51, mammy singer, cinemactor; in Los Angeles.

Died. Clement Cresson Kite, 21, Yale senior, Philadelphia socialite, star for three seasons of Yale's hockey team; by his own hand (pistol); in Radnor, Pa.

Died. Chiang Mao, first of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's two wives, shelved and pensioned by him at $3,000 Mex per month for life; when her house collapsed during a Japanese aerial bombardment; in Chikow, China.

Died. Jack Buchalter, 53, ill, impoverished, honest half brother of Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter; and his wife, Zilpah, 48, by their own hands (gas); in The Bronx. Often a spectator at Lepke's trial. Brother Jack had no connection with his narcotic or other rackets, made his living as a hardware salesman.

Died. Clyde Engle, 56, for the past 15 years coach of freshman baseball at Yale; of a heart attack; in Boston, Mass. As a Boston Red Sox pinch-hitter he hit the decisive "$50,000 fly ball" that Fred Snodgrass of the New York Giants dropped in the tenth inning of the eighth and final game of the 1912 World Series.

Died. Robert Fechner, 63, shy, self-taught, Trojan-working authority on labor and industrial management, able director of the Civilian Conservation Corps since its founding in 1933; of a complication of cardiac and pulmonary ailments; in Washington, D. C. His pallbearers: six CCC campers.

Died. Arsene Paulin Pujo, 78, tall, stately, renowned chairman of the trust-busting Pujo Congressional committee of 1911-13; of pneumonia, in Lake Charles, La. The Pujo committee was the first to third-degree J. P. Morgan Sr. and his "inner circle" of finance control; it was basic for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Died. Elizabeth Marion, Lady Bryce, 86, relict of Britain's Ambassador to the U. S. (1907-13) James Bryce (The American Commonwealth); in London.

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