Monday, Oct. 01, 1923
Reported Engaged. Prince Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont and Heir Apparent to the Italian throne, 19, to Princess Marie Jose, only daughter of King Albert of Belgium, 17.
Divorced. Miss Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, by Herbert K. Somborn, the second husband to charge her with desertion.
Died. Paul J. Rainey, 45, big-game hunter, explorer, cinema photographer, on the S. S. Saxon, going from Southampton to Cape Town, of a stroke of paralysis. The first man to hunt lions with dogs, he once killed 27 lions in 35 days.
Died. Major Daniel D. Pullen, U. S. A., 38, All-American football tackle, member of the Class of 1910 at West Point, in Washington, after a long illness.
Died. Jacob L. Loose, 73, a founder (in 1902) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., at Eastern Point, Mass., after a paralytic stroke.
Died. Viscount Morley, British author-statesman. (See page 9.)