Monday, Dec. 03, 1923
Reported Engaged. Gene Sarazen, former National Open Golf Champion, to Miss Pauline Garon, cinema actress.
Married. Rolla Wells, 67, Mayor of St. Louis (1901-9), Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (1912-16), to Mrs. Carlotta Clark Church, in St. Louis.
Divorced. Francis H. McAdoo, eldest son (by his first marriage) of ex-Secretary of the Treasury, William G. McAdoo, by Mrs. Ethel McCormick McAdoo, in Paris. The charge was not reported. In 1913 President and Mrs. Wilson were guests at their wedding.
Divorced. William Ellis Corey, 57, steel man (Director of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation), by Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, 41, former musical comedy actress, in Paris. She charged desertion. He succeeded Charles M. Schwab in 1903 as President of the U. S. Steel Corporation at $100,000 a year, then a record salary for a corporation executive in the U. S. After seeing the then Miss Gilman act in The Mocking Bird, he settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, " consented" to her divorcing him and married Miss Gilman in 1907. He resigned from the Presidency of the U. S. Steel Corporation shortly afterwards, allegedly at the request of the Directors.
Died. George Juison, 47, Negro caretaker of the racing stable of Carl Wiedemann of Newport, Ky., constant companion of the race horse In Memoriam. He was found dead on a cot in the stable. Physicians said: "Heart disease." Juison's friends declare he died of grief over the recent defeat of In Memoriam by Zev (TIME, Nov. 26.)
Died. Frederick Dixon, 55, editor of The International Interpreter and former editor of The Christian Science Monitor, in Manhattan, of heart complications following an attack of bronchitis.
Died. R. H. McCrary, of Minneapolis, " the first man to employ TV Cobb to play baseball," following an automobile accident, at New Orleans.
Died. Rear Admiral William Clinton Wise, U. S. N., retired, 81, at Honolulu, Hawaii, from a cause not reported. During the Civil War he commanded the flagship Malvern, which, with President Lincoln aboard, was the first Federal warship to reach Richmond after Lee's surrender.
Died. Rudolf E. A. Havenstein, 66, President since 1907 of the German Reichsbank, in Berlin, of heart failure. Director of the German War loans, he was popularly credited with a major share of responsibility for their success--as well as for the later decline of the mark.