Monday, Nov. 26, 1934
Eloped. Bertha Cantacuzene Smith, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, divorced wife of Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.; and William Durrell Siebern of Cincinnati; to Jefiersonville, Ind., shortly after her engagement was announced to Donald Mackintosh, Sarasota, Fla. bank clerk. Said her mother, divorced last month from Prince Michael, of the bridegroom: "A very nice man."
Divorced. Marshall Field III, Chicago department store scion; by Audrey James Coats Field, goddaughter of King Edward VII; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty.
Died. Edwin Sidney Broussard, 59, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from Louisiana; of a heart attack; in New Iberia, La. Onetime friend and patron of Huey P. Long, Broussard found himself beaten for re-election by the Long machine in 1932, protested loudly and futilely to the Senate.
Died. Whitefoord Russell Cole, 60. president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; of acute indigestion; near Cave City, Ky., in his private car in which he was returning on one of his road's crack trains to his home in Louisville.
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport, Ind.
Died. Baroness Louise Poglodowska, once famed beauty of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schoenau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging in the streets.
Died. Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, 82, original of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; in Westerham, Kent, England.
Died. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 82. longtime (1914-29) Papal Secretary of State, first Cardinal since the 11th Century to hold that office under two Popes; of pneumonia following influenza; in Rome. In 1929 anti-Fascist Cardinal Gasparri and No. 1 Fascist Benito Mussolini signed with gold pens the famed Lateran treaties restoring the diplomatic and temporal status of the Papacy after a 59-year break.
Died. "Polly," 76, last surviving pet of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; at the home of a neighbor in Indianapolis.
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