Monday, Sep. 01, 1930
Married. Elinor Latane, daughter of Sociologist John Holladay Latane who is Professor of History and onetime faculty dean at Johns Hopkins University; and William Truesdale Bissell, son of Richard Mervin Bissell who is president of Hartford Insurance Co.; in Paris.
Divorced. Marion Campbell Winton, 30, benefactor to Indians, composer of two operas (Love's Wishing Well, The Seminolc); and Alexander Winton, old-time automobile man, inventor and builder of the Winton car; in Cleveland. Charge: his profanity estranged her relatives, friends.
Sued. Tom Mix, onetime film actor, now a Sells Floto circusman: for $13,000 (about one week's salary), by one John Berress, Minneapolis auto dealer. Charge: Mix, drunk, pounced upon Berress, shook his fist, threatened injuries.
Awarded. To Elihu Root, 85: the distinguished service medal of the American Bar Association, prime honor of the U. S. bar; in Chicago (see p. 20).
Born. To Princess Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, and Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George. Baron Killarney, Count of Inverness. Duke of York: a daughter (their second). Weight: 7 Ib. Probable names: Cecelia Victoria Margaret (see p. 21).
Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight: 8 Ib., 5 1/2 oz.
Died. Lon Chancy, 47, cinemactor, (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three) famed portrayer of the grotesque; after a series of illnesses which included an attack of pneumonia, a throat-operation; of anemia, following three transfusions, at Hollywood.
Died. Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, 50, grandson of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a diehard Conservative in the House of Lords, part owner of the London Morning Post, after long illness; in London.
Died. Martin Wright Sampson, 63, longtime professor and head of the English department at Cornell University; as the result of injuries received in an auto accident, at Pittsburgh.
Died. Mrs. Helen Howell Garfield, 64, wife of James Rudolph Garfield of Cleveland who was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, daughter-in-law of the late President James Abram Garfield; as the result of injuries received when, motoring through Portsmouth, N. H., a tire of Mr. Garfield's car blew out and they hit a telegraph pole.
Died. William Anderson ("Cap") Hatfield, 67, last surviving participant in the Hatfield-McCoy feuds of the Pine Mountains of Kentucky 50 years ago, son of famed Anderson (''Devil Anse") Hatfield (died 1921, past 80), cousin of West Virginia's Senator Henry Drury Hatfield; of a brain ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was said to have been fired at 300 times, hit once.
Died. General William Verbeck, 69, head of Manlius Military School in Manlius, N. Y., onetime (1910-11) national commander of the Boy Scouts of America, onetime Adjutant-General of New York, son of the late Dr. Guido Fridolin Verbeck who founded the Kyushu Imperial University at Fukuoka, Japan; suddenly, at his home in Manlius.
Died. Marion Terry, 73, famed old- time British actress, player of chief roles in more than 125 great plays, heroine for Henry Irving. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Edward A. Sothern, sister of the even more illustrious Dame Ellen Terry and of Kate, Florence and Fred Terry, all of the British stage; after an illness of several months, in London.
Died. Anna Botsford Comstock, 75, professor-emeritus of nature study at Cornell University, in 1923 voted by the National League of Women Voters as one of twelve greatest women in the U. S., wife of Cornell's famed Entomologist John Henry Comstock; at her home in Ithaca.
Died. Rev. Frank Montrose Clendenin, 76, onetime (1887-1917) rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, The Bronx, New York, son-in-law of the late great Horace Greeley; suddenly, at his home in Chappaqua, Westchester Co., N. Y.
Died. Sir Aston Webb*, 81, one of the only two architects ever elected president of the British Royal Academy; after long illness, in London. He designed many of London's greatest public buildings: the Admiralty Arch at the east end of the Mall, the Royal College of Science, the new front of Buckingham Palace.
Died. Charles F. Ruggles, 84, oldtime Michigan lumber tycoon, financial abettor of the American Judiciary Society for the Prevention of Delays in the Law, an endower of Michigan charities by his will to the extent of more than $40,000,000; at his home in Manistee, Mich., where he had long lived the solitary life and worn the decrepit clothes of the pioneer lumberjack.
Died. Thomas Gray Bennett. 85, old-time munition maker, Civil Wartime captain of the 2gth Connecticut Volunteers, longtime (1890-1911) president of Winchester Repeating Arms Co., member of the Corporation of Yale University; after long illness, at his home in New Haven, Conn.
* Not to be confused with the Rt. Hon. Sidney James Webb, recently raised to the peerage as Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner.
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