Monday, Feb. 17, 1930

Engagement Rumored. Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match king; and Madame Ingeborg Wachtmeister of Helsingborg; at Malmo, Sweden.

Engagement Rumored. Infanta Maria Cristina Teresa Alejandra Guadelupe Maria de la Concepcion Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 18, second daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Nicholas of Rumania, 26; at Bucharest.

Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris.

Reported Engaged. Princess Juliana of Holland, 20; and Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred Erbach-Schonberg, 26, of Bavaria; at Berlin.

Married. Gloria Gould Bishop, daughter of the late Capitalist George Jay Gould; and Walter McFarlane Barker of Chicago; in Manhattan. He is her second husband. They were married in the Domestic Relations Court by Judge Bernard J. Douras, father of cinemactress Marion Davies.

Sued for divorce. Hamilton Cottier, Princeton English instructor; by Mrs. Ann Seton Cottier, daughter of Ernest Thompson Seton (woodcrafty author); at Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty.

Awarded. To Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, who, with his brother William James, directs the famed Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn.; the Kudos of Doctor in Medicine; at the National University, Havana.

Resigned. Ralph Pulitzer, 50. who last April resigned the editorship of the New York World; from the presidency of the Press Publishing Co. (New York World, New York Evening World). Reason: ill health. He is succeeded by his brother Herbert Pulitzer, 33. youngest of the three sons of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer (son Joseph Pulitzer, 44, publishes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

Elected. Carl Ewald Grunsky of San Francisco; to be President of the American Engineering Council; in Washington. Birthday. Inventor Thomas Alva Edi son; at Fort Myers, Fla. Date: Feb. 11, Age 83.

Died. Alan E. Lefcourt, 17, son of Abraham E. Lefcourt, Manhattan builder; in Baltimore; of anemia. When he was 12 years old his father gave him property worth $10,000,000.

Died. The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon, 44, brother of the Duchess of York, at Glamis Castle in Scotland.

Died. Michele Bianchi, 46, first of the 1922 Fascist Quadrumvirate to die; at Rome.

Died. Walter H. Alford, 52, Vice President & Controller of Nash Motors Co.; at Kenosha, Wis.; of heart disease.

Died. Jane Gibson ("The Pig Woman"), 56, eccentric prosecution witness of the famed Hall-Mills murder case; in Jersey City, N. J.; of cancer. A report that she had been telegraphed forgiveness for her damaging testimony during the trial by Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered New Brunswick, N. J. pastor, was denied by Mrs. Hall at the Harbor Sanitarium, Manhattan, where she is recuperating from an operation.

Died. Rear Admiral William Lauriston Howard, 70, U. S. N. retired; at Newport, R. I.; of heart disease.

Died. Frank Gardner, 76. onetime Confederate drummer boy, mining promoter, good friend of the late Tsar Nicholas II and the late Edward VII of England; in Paris; of apoplexy. Consulting engineers for his great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mining Co. (Australia) were Bewick, Moreing & Co., of which Herbert Clark Hoover was a member at the time.

Died. Horace Franklin Smith, 81, Vice President & Traffic Manager of N. C. & St. L. R. R., longtime (1904 to date) President of the Southern Golf Association, founder of the Southern amateur championship; in Nashville, Tenn.; of complications following bronchitis.

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