Monday, Oct. 11, 1937

Engaged. Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 35, younger brother of King George; to Princess Frederika Luise, 20, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm of Doorn; in Athens. In July, Prince Paul caused a Government crisis by proclaiming his love for the commoner daughter of a wealthy Athens industrialist. His brother and Premier Metaxas put a stop to it.

Sued Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Godde, divorcee Dodge auto heiress; by Cinemactress Judith Allen; for $2,000,000 for alienation of the affections of Irish Pugilist Jack Doyle; in Hollywood.

Died. Genaro Estrada, 50, Mexican statesman and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Onetime head of the Mexican Foreign Office, Mexican Minister to Turkey, Ambassador to Spain, head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations, Senior Estrada in 1931 promulgated the Estrada Doctrine ("Doctrina Mexicana"). In direct opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, which had been incorporated into the League Covenant, the Estrada Doctrine proclaimed every Latin-American nation's exclusive right to be its own big brother.

Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''bobbies"). In the House of Commons Earl Peel was called "Never-merry" Peel because "his disposition ... is not precisely sweet." This year, he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine that sourly recommended partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

Died. The Very Reverend William Foxley Norris, 78, Dean of Westminster since 1925; in London. Dean Norris, whose parish church was Westminster Abbey. was an able amateur painter, won honors exhibiting at the Royal Academy. As Dean of York he raised -L-50,000 for the restoration of the famed York Minster windows; as Dean of Westminster he raised a scandal by criticizing some of its memorials as "atrocities." Last spring as Dean, he organized the ecclesiastical ceremonies at the coronation of George VI.

Died. Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, eternally disgruntled Kansas editor; of old age and paralysis; in Atchison, Kans. Since he started the Atchison Globe in 1877, Editor Howe framed catchy, pungent aphorisms about those world figures and affairs that did not conform to his Middle Western philosophy of industry, honesty, temperance and thrift; became the kindly, grouchy "Sage of Potato Hill." In 1911 he sold the Globe to his staff, continued to champion the cause of the common people through the unique E. W. Howe's Monthly.

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