Monday, Feb. 12, 1934
Married. Mary Gabrielle Campbell, 21, Long Island socialite; and William Stewart Thomas, 21, son of No. 1 U. S. Socialist Norman Thomas; in Huntington, L. I.
Seeking Divorce. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, first wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte (N. C.) hardwareman; in Hot Springs, Ark., whither she was accompanied by vigilant Father Cannon.
Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment.
Sued for Divorce. By Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 33, eldest son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, nephew of the Duke of Westminster; Lady Ashley (Louise Sylvia Hawkes), onetime showgirl, onetime dress model with whom he eloped seven years ago; in London. Charge: misconduct. Named corespondent: travel-loving Douglas Fairbanks Sr. from whom Gladys Mary Smith Pickford is currently seeking divorce in the U. S.
Left. By Frederick Gilmer ("Bon") Bonfils, flamboyant publisher of the Denver Post: a net estate of $11,829,570.12 (almost four million more than was estimated when the will was opened after his death--TIME, Feb. 13, 1933); to his foundation for the "Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind," his wife, daughters, other relatives, employes.
Left. By Alfred Pritchard Sloan Sr. (died Aug. 30, 1932). father of General Motors Corp.'s president: $2,297,220; to his widow, sister, children, charity.
Died. Pat Malloy, 49, Tulsa lawyer & oilman (Malloy & Co.); suddenly, of coronary occlusion; in an Eldorado, Ark. hotel. As county prosecutor 20 years ago he made such a brilliant closing argument in a murder case that the judge declared a mistrial. Appointed Assistant Attorney General by President Roosevelt last year to war on kidnappers and racketeers, he startled lawyers by advocating Federalized police and disregard of Constitutional guarantees, resigned when Attorney General Cummings disavowed his policies (TIME. Oct. 16 et ante).
Died. Montague Marsden Glass, 56, writer, music critic, expert cook; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Westport, Conn. The Jewish cloak & suit men he met in his law practice served as models for his famed characters, Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter.
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland.
Died. Frank Nelson Doubleday, 72, book & magazine publisher, board chairman of Doubleday, Doran & Co.; of an internal hemorrhage, after long ill health; in Miami, Fla. At 15 he joined Charles Scribner's Sons, stayed 18 years, formed a partnership with S. S. McClure. In 1900, with the late Walter Hines Page, he organized Doubleday, Page & Co., started World's Work. In 1930, two years after he merged with George Henry Doran, the latter went to join Hearst, leaving Doubleday lord of the big reading-matter factory at Garden City, L. I.
Died. Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, 74, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, twice (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Nebraska, Wartime chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and Wilson's peace treaty spokesman; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Edmund Orson Wattis, 78. president of Six Companies. Inc. (builders of Boulder Dam), brother of Six Companies' first president, the late William H. Wattis; of heart disease; in Ogden, Utah. Edmund Wattis was the third Six Companies' president to die within three years.
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