Monday, Apr. 14, 1930
Born. To Horace E. Dodge, Detroit motormaker, and Mrs. Muriel Gisman Dodge; a son; in Lady Carnarvon's London nursing home. Name: David Elgin.
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 32, author (All Quiet on the Western Front); by Else Jeanne Zamboni Remarque, 37; in Berlin. The decree was granted in January but kept secret by her continuing a member of his household.
Elected. George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) Senator from Pennsylvania; to head a committee of Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc. in its campaign for $5,000,000 to erect a memorial and science museum on the Parkway, Philadelphia.
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit.
Died. James Crosby Brown, 58, senior member of Brown Brothers & Co., international bankers; of a heart attack suffered while walking to a business conference in Philadelphia.
Died. Bishop Kogoro Uzaki, 60, scholar, editor, Bishop of Japan Methodist Church (founded 1907; 25,000 members), graduate of Vanderbilt University, D. D. Emory University; of apoplexy; in Tokyo.
Died. Albert Henry Washburn, 64, retiring U. S. Minister to Austria; of septic poisoning from a scratched leg; in Rudolfina Sanitarium, Vienna, Austria (see p. 22).
Died. Fritz Williams, 64, oldtime actor (Berkeley Square, Rain, The Makropoulos Secret); in Manhattan; of heart disease brought on by indigestion; while talking to friends at the Lambs' Club, of which he was Shepherd (president).
Died. William P. Gould Harding, 65, onetime (1916) Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of heart disease; in Boston.
Died. H.M. Queen Victoria of Sweden, first cousin of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; in Rome; of a pulmonary-bronchial ailment.
Died. John A. Browning, 75, retired founder of Browning School, exclusive Manhattan boys' day school; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Goetterdaemmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals.
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