Monday, Feb. 15, 1932
Engaged. Eleanor Gould, Manhattan socialite, granddaughter of George Jay Gould; and William Nafew Haskell 3rd, whose father. Major General Haskell. headed the American Relief Mission to Russia in 1921.
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck.
To Be Remarried. Erich Maria Remarque, 34. author (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back); and Else Jeanne Zamboni Remarque, 39.
Seeking Divorce. Wilford H. ("Cap-tain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Whiz Bang, Hooey, True Confessions, and the better mannered Amateur Golfer and Sportsmen's Magazine; from Annette Fawcett. Charge: infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite."
Died, Hyrum Gibbs Smith, 52, fourth Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, great-great-grandson of Hyrum Smith (brother of Founder Joseph Smith); of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City.
Died. Barney Dreyfuss, 66, vice president of the National Baseball League and owner of the Pittsburgh "Pirates"; of pneumonia following two operations for prostatitis; in Manhattan.
Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail.
Died. Blanche Marie Amelie Caroline Louise Victoire, Princess of Orleans, 74. last surviving granddaughter of Louis Phillipe, "King of the French'' (1830-48); after a short illness; in Paris. Her father, Louis, Due de Nemours, was elected King of the Belgians in 1831 but the honor was declined for him by his father.
Died. Julia Wayne Guest. 84. mother of Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest; of pneumonia; in Detroit.
Died. John Richard Voorhis, 102, Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society; of old age; in Manhattan. For 58 years he held public office in New York City, beginning as Excise Commissioner. At various times he had been Commissioner of Docks, of Elections, of Public Works, a police justice, State Superintendent of Elections and from 1918 until his retirement last year president of the Board of Elections. He was posthumously made Great Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, first so honored since George Washington.
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