Monday, Nov. 16, 1942
Died. General Enrique Estrada, 53, revolutionist; in Mexico City. Minister of Agriculture under President de la Huerta in 1920, he fought the revolutionists, became a revolutionist himself under the Obregon regime, fled to the U.S. in 1924, two years later was convicted of plotting a revolution against President Calles, last year was made national railways chief by President Avila Camacho.
Died. Charactress Edna May Nutter ("Edna May Oliver"), 59, long-faced, purse-mouthed player of acid old maids; of an intestinal ailment; on her birthday; in Hollywood. Born into a well-to-do Boston family that went broke, she was originally a singer but ruined her voice giving outdoor concerts, turned to playing in theatrical stock companies. She made her first hits in Broadway's Icebound and The Cradle Snatchers, attracted greater attention in Show Boat. In Hollywood she was a deft scene-stealer, won a reputation as a character actress. She lived alone, rarely took part in Hollywood's whoop-te-do.
Died. Floyd Leslie Carlisle, 61, U.S. utilitycoon, spokesman for the power industry; of an embolism; in Glen Cove, L.I. A longtime banker and newsprint magnate, he moved on to become head of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, biggest U.S. utility, and board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (which manufactures all the power produced on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls), world's largest private distributor of electric power.
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings.
Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an impressive trophy to bestow (temporarily) every time a ship broke the speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative M.P. he enlivened a House of Commons debate on the herring industry by gesturing with a dead herring as he argued; an autoist since 1897, in his old age he bragged he had never blown his horn, tried to make it illegal for any other Briton to blow one.
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