Monday, Jul. 07, 1924
Engaged. Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, nee Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, who divorced her husband, publisher of The New York World, in Paris last April for "constructive desertion," to Cyril Jones, 34, onetime tutor to her sons and Secretary to Col. Edward M. House during the Versailles Peace Conference.
Married. Miss Catherine Bernadette Farrell, daughter of James A. Farrell, President of the U, S. Steel Corporation, to Luke D. Stapleton, Jr.; in Norwalk, Conn.
Married Miss Barbara Whitney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, to Barklie McKee Henry, of Philadelphia, Captain of the 1924 Harvard University Crew; at Roslyn, L. I.
Married. Leopold ("Witching") Auer, 79, famed violinist, to Mme. Wanda Stein, 49, "a friend of long standing"; in Manhattan.
Sued for divorce. Lydig Hoyt, of Manhattan, by Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt; in Paris. She appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man, has played with the Stuart Walker Stock Company and with Billie Burke, was named by Neysa McMein, famed illustrator, as one of the twelve most beautiful women in the United States. Earlier reports had stated that Mr. Hoyt too would sue.
Died. Louis Heilbroner, 47, President of Weber & Heilbroner Co., famed clothing stores; at Deal, N. J.
Died. Edward C. Little, 65, U. S. Representative from Kansas and onetime Consul General to Egypt; in Washington, of paralysis.
Died. Mrs. Waldo Percy Goff, sister-in-law of John W. Davis, onetime U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; in Manhattan, of paralysis, after a year's illness.
Died. Adolph Bernard Spreckels, 67, son of Claus Speckels who founded the big sugar industries of California and the Hawaiian Islands; at San Francisco, after a short illness. He was Vice President of the J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., and was connected with the Spreckels Sugar Co. of California and Hawaii. Famed as a sportsman, he owned fine yachts, important racehorses.
Died. Mrs. Ellen Channing Bonaparte, 72, "last of the Bonapartes in Baltimore;" at Washington, after a three-days' illness. Her husband, Charles J. Bonaparte, who died in 1921, was a son of Jerome Bonaparte (founder of the Bonaparte line in the U. S.) and a grandnephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France. He was Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt and Attorney General of the U. S. from 1906 to 1909.
Died. Terrence Vincent Powderly, 74, Commissioner General of Immigration under President McKinley, famed Labor Union organizer; in
Washington.
Died, Wilhelm Kopetzky, 75, President of the Berlin Stock Exchange; at Frankfurt-am-Main.