Monday, Aug. 15, 1932
Married, Washington Dodge II, 24, business editor of TIME; and Helen Kent Hubbard, 22, of Middletown, Conn.; in Camden, Maine.
Married. Charlotte White, 24, younger daughter of Ohio's Governor George White; and Dr. Frank Errett Hamilton, 27, of Columbus, Ohio; in Columbus.
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Channon Bendix, 33, recently divorced wife of Vincent Bendix (motor accessories); and Lieut. William Adna Blake, 35, U. S. N.; in Manhattan.
Married. Susan Ertz, novelist (The Galaxy, The Story of Julian, Madame Claire); and Major John Ronald McCrindle, British barrister; in London.
Married. Marjorie Montgomery Ward, daughter and heiress of the late founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Robert R. Baker, onetime Chicago coal merchant; in Philadelphia.
Marriage Revealed. Albert James ("Albie") Booth, 24, Yale athlete; and Marion Noble, 23, New Haven secretary, his sweetheart since childhood; in Branford, Conn.; July 4.
Divorced. Brigadier-General Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of Washington, D. C. police; by Cora C. Glassford; in San Antonio, Tex. Grounds: desertion.
Left. By Alexander Smith Cochran, sportsman, philanthropist, late president of Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.; a net estate of $38,977,237. To Thomas Ewing Jr., a nephew, went approximately $20,000,000. Excluded from the will was Ganna Walska McCormick from whom he was divorced in 1922 (she received a $300,000 settlement).
Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York (32).
Died. Ralph Leo Richards, 37, half-brother of Vincent Richards, professional tennis player; of a bullet fired by a policeman when Richards resisted arrest after a holdup; in Manhattan. Month ago Richards escaped from Eastview Penitentiary (TIME, July 25).
Died. James Francis Burke, 64, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, onetime (1905-15) U. S. Representative from the 31st Pennsylvania District (Pittsburgh), close friend and adviser of President Hoover; of coronary thrombosis following dilation of the heart; in Garfield Hospital, Washington, whither he was sent by Dr. Joel Thompson Boone after his illness during a White House conference had become apparent to President Hoover. Counsel Burke was elected secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892 at 25, youngest man ever to hold the post.
Died. Alfred Henry Maurer, 64, able artist, son of the late Louis Maurer (Currier & Ives prints) who died last month at 100; by his own hand (hanging) ; in Manhattan.
Died. Sir Alan Vandenbempde Johnstone, 73, British diplomat, husband of Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot's sister Antoinette; after an operation; in London. Among his diplomatic posts: the British Embassy at Washington in 1892, British Minister at The Hague (1910-17).
Died. David S. Rose, 76, five times Mayor of Milwaukee; of diabetes; in Milwaukee. Shortly before his death his right leg was amputated because of gangrene following amputation of a toe. A Democrat, known as "the boy Mayor" when he was first elected at 30, "Dave" Rose was for nearly 50 years a stormy figure in Wisconsin politics. His political arch-enemy was the late Robert Marion La Follette who defeated him for Governor in 1903 by a landslide vote. When Prohibition was being agitated in 1910 he toured the U. S. preaching temperance and "good beer." His boast was: "If I found a town Dry, I left it Wet, although I am a temperance man." He was thrice married, the third time to Rosemary Glosz, principal in The Merry Widow, who divorced him in 1926.
Died. Hugo Wichmann, 80, longtime (45 years) editor of Almanack de Gotha, directory of the World's nobility; of old age; in Gotha, Germany.
Died. Ellen Browning Scripps, 95, philanthropist, half-sister of the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, famed newspaper publisher; of lung congestion; in La Jolla, Calif. Born in London, daughter of a bookbinder, she came to the U. S. in 1843. After attending Knox College she taught school for some years before her father died. She then joined her brother James on the Detroit Tribune, where she wrote a "miscellany" column which led to the development of the modern newspaper feature syndicate. Soon allied with her half-brother Edward Wyllis Scripps, she gave him much sound advice, aided him with her small investments. With the success of the Scripps-McRae chain (later Scripps-Howard), she became wealthy, devoted her life to philanthropy: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Scripps College for Women and Pomona College at Claremont, Calif., Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Scripps Metabolic Clinic at La Jolla.
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