Monday, Sep. 21, 1931

Married. Dorothy Stone, actress daughter of Actor Fred Andrew Stone; and Charles Clyde Collins, who played opposite her in Ripples; in London.

Married, Mrs. Muriel Yanderbilt Church, daughter of William Kissam Yanderbilt and his first wife. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt; divorced wife of Frederic Cameron Church Jr.; and Henry Delafield Phelps of Providence. R. I.; at Mrs. Vanderbilt's Manhasset, L. I., estate; in a civil ceremony (Mrs. Church's first marriage had not been annulled by the Pope). Mrs. Church requested that instead of wedding presents the money be given to help the Unemployed. Just before the ceremony her favorite hunter got excited, bowled over tables, scattered guests every which-way.

Married, George Arthur ("Mike") Thorne Jr., ski and sledge man of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, grandson of the late George R. Thorne. co-founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Mrs. Elinor Gates Toerge, tennis player, trapshooter, golfer; at Brookville. L. I.

Married. Muriel McCormick. 29, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick (harvesters), granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller; and Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 53, wealthy "farmer" of Middletown. Conn.; at Deep Cove. Maine, summer home of Miss McCormick's good friends Mr. & Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who were the only witnesses.

Married. Nina Wilcox Putnam, 42, author (It Pays to Smile, Laughter, Ltd.); and one Arthur James Ogle, 31, real estate operator of Hollywood; at Yuma, Ariz. It was the third marriage for both.

Married, Aimee Semple McPherson, 38, "FourSquare Gospel" evangelist; and her 250-lb. Angelus Temple Voice Instructor David Hutton, 30; at Yuma. Ariz.. after an airplane trip from Los Angeles. Present were her son Rolf and his wife, recently married. Absent was Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, estranged from her "lonely little sparrow." It was the bride's third marriage. Her first two: Robert Semple; Harold McPherson.

Died, Louis K. Clothier. 25, nephew of Department Store Owner Isaac Hallowell Clothier (Strawbridge & Clothier); and Lieut. C. Thoburn ("Toby") Maxwell of the Pennsylvania National Guard, his Swarthmore classmate (1928) and flying instructor; in an airplane accident in which Instructee Clothier failed by two feet to clear the edge of a quarry near Norristown, Pa.

Died. Charles Stewart Wood, 51, vice president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and its campaign manager in 1926; of heart disease; on S. S. Empress of Britain on the way to Europe.

Died, Bud Coy. 54. Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives; of paralysis; in Stockley, Del.

Died. Dr. Harry Phillips Davis. 63. "father of radio telephone broadcasting.'' founder of station KDKA in Pittsburgh which sent out the Harding-Cox election returns in 1920 in the world's first public broadcast: board chairman of National Broadcasting Co. since its founding, vice president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; of the effects of a recent operation; in Wilkinsburg, Pa.

Died. Mrs. Harold Marsh Sewall. 65. mother-in-law of Ambassador Walter Evans Edge; of heart disease; at the U. S. Embassy. Paris. She was the widow of the last U. S. Minister to Hawaii,* whose father, Arthur Sewall, ran for the Vice-Presidency with William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

Died. Dr. Sidney Edward Mezes, 67. president emeritus of the University of Texas, onetime (1914-27) president of the College of the City of New York, head of the American Committee on Territorial Adjustments which advised President Wilson at Versailles; after a lingering illness; in Pasadena, Calif.

Died. Jem Smith. 68, oldtime bare-knuckle prizefighter who was twice heavyweight champion of England; at Acton. London suburb. He once fought Jake Kilrain for 106 rounds, for a $10,000 purse and the heavyweight championship of the world, to a draw.

Died. Mrs. Rachel F r o h m a n ("Mother") Davison, 69, wife of Dr. David H. Davison, sister of Producer Daniel Frohman and the late Charles Frohman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. During the War she organized a troupe of entertainers to amuse the soldiers, since then had devoted three nights a week to similar entertainments at camps, hospitals, prisons.

Died. James Walter Spalding, 75, co-founder in 1876 with his brother, the late Albert G. Spalding, then a famed baseball pitcher, of the sporting goods firm of A. G. Spalding & Bros.; its board chairman and onetime president; father of Violinist Albert Spalding and Vice President H. Boardman Spalding of the Spalding company; of heart disease; at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For 30 years he spent his winters in Florence, Italy, where he guaranteed the symphony orchestra. Last year he was awarded the cross of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus by the Italian Government. In 1905 he lost his left eye in an automobile accident in France.

*In 1898 Minister Sewall received the transfer of the islands' sovereignty to the U. S. from President Sanford Ballard Dole of the Hawaiian Republic.

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