Monday, Aug. 04, 1930
Engaged. Miss Emily Tremain Anderson of Manhattan, executive secretary of the Association of Junior Leagues of America: and James McCullough Farr III. Manhattan banker.
Appointed. Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, 30, rector of Grace EpiscopalChurch, Amherst, Mass., son of Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving of Baltimore, nephew of Bishops George Herbert Kinsolving of Texas and Lucien Lee Kinsolving of Brazil; to replace Bishop-elect Henry Knox Sherrill as rector of Trinity Church, Boston. (Trinity Church called Bishop-elect Sherrill when he was 32. Russell Henry Stafford became pastor of Trinity's neighbor. Old South Congregational, when he was 37.)
Appointed. James M. Schoonmaker Jr., onetime chief engineer of Dayton-Wright Co. (aircraft): to be president of General Aviation Corp. and Fokker Aircraft Corp., succeeding Harris M. Hanshue who resigned to devote full time to Western Air Express. Also resigned: General Aviation Corp.'s vice president and general manager William T. Whalen to rejoin General Motors.
Appointed. Edward J. Kenny. Manhattan millionaire broker, papal knight commander of the Order of St. Gregory; to be Brooklyn Deputy Fire Commissioner at $7.000 a year.
Awarded. To Antonia Merce (La Argentina), famed Spanish danseuse; by France: the Cross of the Legion of Honor, for "her superlative and artistic genius and generosity to French charities"; the first Spanish woman to receive this honor.
Left. By Chauncey Mitchell Depew. who died in April. 1928: $15,954.249 net. Bequests: to Yale University, $1,000,000; to Peekskill, X. Y.. $100.000: to widow, son, nieces, most of the residue.
Sued. Harrison H. Boyce, 49, Manhattan inventor (motometer); by John J. Athana, his wife's sister's husband; for $1,000,000. Charge: that Boyce alienated the affections of Mrs. Jacquelin E. Athana. 22. his ward.
Arrested. H. H. Van Loan,* magazine writer, scenarist, fiance of Actress Marjorie Rambeau. Charge: desertion of the present Mrs. (Gertrude Cameron) Van Loan and their daughter Gertrude Van Loan, 13.
Died. Marcia Millikan, I, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Clark Millikan, granddaughter of famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; of strangulation when a screen fell on her throat as she lay in her crib at her grandparents' home in San Marino, Calif.
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan.
Died. Chance Milton Vought, 42, pioneer aircraftsman, designer of the first planes used with catapults, builder of Vought Corsairs in common use by U. S. Navy, president of Chance Vought Corp. and vice president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; of bloodpoisoning after a tooth extraction; at Southampton, L. I.
Died. John Riegel Dewitt, 48, famed Princeton footballer and trackman, hero of the game in 1903 when Princeton beat Yale for the first time in four years; of heart failure, on the way to see a heart specialist, in the club car of his morning train from Fairneld, Conn, to Manhattan.
Died. Glenn Hammond Curtiss, 52, oldtime motorcyclist, builder and designer of motors, aircraft pioneer, president of G. H. Curtiss Manufacturing Co., Curtiss Aeroplane Co., Curtiss Motor Co., Curtiss Engineering Co.; of a pulmonary embolus induced by appendicitis, at Buffalo. As a youth he tinkered with bicycles, built motors for motorcycles, won a speed prize with one. In 1908, he flew 318 ft. in the first Curtiss & (Alexander Graham) Bell heavier-than-air-craft Red Wing, more than a kilometer in the June Bug. During the War, his factory's JNs ("Jennies") and Wasps were the Government's principal combat craft. A Navy-Curtiss was the first (Lieut.-Commander Reed, NC-4, 1919) to fly across the Atlantic.
Died. James Eads How, 56, "millionaire hobo," Christlike champion of the penniless, organizer of International Brotherhood Welfare Association, grandson of the late James Buchanan Eads who built the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; of pneumonia induced by stomach disorders; in Staunton, Va. (see p. 28).
Died. Brig.-Gen. Irving Hale, 68, a hero of the Filipino insurrections, founder of the Veterans for Foreign Wars, highest standing West Point man in the history of the Academy (class of 1884) after a short illness in Denver. His West Point record: 2070.4 points out of a possible 2075.
Died. Dr. Joseph Silverman, 69, long-time (1888-1922) Rabbi Ad Rabbi Emeritus of New York's greatest Jewish temple, Emanu-El, a leading force in the Jewish faith and charities; at his home in Manhattan.
Died. Sylvester Pierce Walmsley. 71. New Orleans banker, father of Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans, captain of the Mystick Krewe of Comus (oldest, wealthiest, most exclusive Mardi Gras secret organization); at Los Angeles, where he had gone for his health.
*Not to be confused with Hendrik Willem Van Loon ("pronounced "Van Loan"), author of Ancient Man, The Story of Mankind, The Story of the Bible
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