Monday, Nov. 07, 1927
Born. To Princessa Mafalda, 25, consort of Prince Filippo D'Assia and daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; in Rome; a son.
Engaged. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow (1925) of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt; to Prince Hohenlohe Langebourg, nephew of Queen Marie of Rumania.
Engaged. John Hearst, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, to Miss Dorothy Hart of Los Angeles.
Engaged. Miss Madeleine Couzens, 22, daughter of U. S. Senator from Michigan James Couzens; to one William Rumer Yaw, graduate of Ohio State University.
Engagement Broken. Miss Olivia Johnson, daughter of Owen Johnson, 49, novelist; granddaughter of Robert Underwood Johnson, 74, author, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1909-1913) editor of the Century Magazine; from one John Douglas Lowry of Montreal.
Married. Emile Vandervelde, 61, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgian representative to the League of Nations; to Dr. Jeanne Augusta Felicienne Beeckman, 38; in Paris.
Married. Miss Katrina van Dyke, daughter of the Reverend Henry van Dyke, professor emeritus of English literature at Princeton University, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands; to Murray Peabody Brush Jr., direct descendant through his maternal grandmother of Betty Washington, sister of George Washington; by Dr. van Dyke, at Princeton.
Married. Miss Mary MacLennan, daughter of Frank P. MacLennan, editor & publisher of the Topeka State-Journal; to one James A. Farrell* of New York; in Topeka, Kan. In 1897 Editor MacLennan installed a new press on which was inscribed "Mary" in gold letters. On Oct. 29, 1927, the first press was succeeded by "Mary the Third." Said the State-Journal: "So it's good-bye to 'Mary the First,' and 'how do you do' to 'Mary the Third.' "
Died. Patrick Grant 2nd, 39, one-time (1907) centre on the Harvard University football eleven, one-time (1919) Pennsylvania Amateur Golf Champion; suddenly in Philadelphia, after falling five floors from his office window.
Died. Mrs. Carlotta Dolley Saint-Gaudens, miniature painter, wife of Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts at Carnegie Institute; in Pittsburgh.
Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co./- in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family.
Died. Lieut. Colonel Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus Cambridge, Marquis of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, Viscount Northallerton, eldest brother of Queen Mary of the British Commonwealth of Nations, following an operation for duodenal ulcer; near Shrewsbury. Died. Albert Champion, 49, president of the A-C spark plug Company.
Died. Mary Louise Jewett Mitchell, 60, wife of banker John J. Mitchell, near Chicago; in an automobile accident.
Died. Solomon Davies Warfield, 64, President of the Seaboard Air line Railway Co. and the Continental Trust Co. of Baltimore; following an operation for hernia, in Baltimore.
Died. Maximilian Harden, 66, (real name Isador Witkowski) famed German publicist, founder and editor (1892-1923) of Die Zukunft (The Future), outspoken German weekly, onetime confidant of the late Prince Otto Leopold von Bismarck and bitter enemy of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, joint founder with Otto Brahm (1889) of the Berlin Free Theatre; at Montana-Vermala, Switzerland; of bronchitis. He ceased publication of Die Zukunft after an attempt was made on his life in 1923.
Died. Robert L. Hardman, 67, brother of Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman of Georgia; from heart disease; in Atlanta.
Died. Jeremiah J. Harty, 73, Roman Catholic bishop of Omaha since 1916; at Los Angeles, of influenza complicated by pneumonia. Because he had been archbishop of Manila, P. I., he retained that rank in the Roman Catholic heirarchy.
Died. John J. Mitchell, 73, banker, president of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., near Chicago; in an automobile accident.
Died. Edwin Stevens Lines, 82, Protetsant Episcopal bishop of Newark, N.J., since 1903; at Newark, of a paralytic stroke.
*Not to be confused with James Augustine Farrell, President of the U. S. Steel Corporation.
/-Now a part of the American Chain Inc., which has factories in various parts of the U. S. and abroad to make tire chains, "Weed" bumpers, "Weed" levelizers.