Monday, Oct. 31, 1932

Married. Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar Frederick Arthur Edmund, Duke of Vaesterbotten, 26, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden; and Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora, 24, daughter of the onetime Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; in Coburg, Germany (see p. 17).

Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos.

Awarded. To French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel and Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, honorary doctorates of law by the University of the State of New York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg.

Died. Maurice Dornier, 44, co-designer (with his brother Claudius) of "Whale" flying boats; after a stomach operation; in Munich, Germany.

Died. Frank Ward O'Malley, 56, famed oldtime star reporter (New York Sun) author, playwright, expatriate, anti-Prohibitionist; of diabetes; at Tours, France (see p. 20).

Died. George Weston, 56, vice president and treasurer of American Express Co.; of a heart attack while golfing; at Westfield, N. J.

Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach.

Died. George M. Willetts, 62, retired head of the personnel division of Armour & Co.; by jumping from a window of his eleventh-floor apartment; in Chicago./-

Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs.

Died. Lindley Miller Garrison, 67, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1913-16) U. S. Secretary of War; at Sea Bright, N. J. Splitting with President Wilson on the need for a reserve "continental" army trained by the Regular Army, he resigned when Wilson declined to oppose the counterplan of a National Guard. In 1918-23 he served as receiver for Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., put it back on its feet.

Died. William Wright Armstrong, 67, Salt Lake City Banker, board chairman of National Copper Bank; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Ernst Freund, 68, professor in the University of Chicago Law School, famed authority on jurisprudence; of heart trouble; in Chicago.

Died. Charles Jacob ("The Sec") Holman, 70, longtime secretary, later chairman of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No kin to Torch Singer Libby Holman, he was the stepfather of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.

Died. Sam Edwards, 72, Cincinnati hermit, onetime carpenter; in Cincinnati. He was the last surviving member of the 1884 Cincinnati jury which by returning the lenient verdict of manslaughter against Murderer William Berner, roused Cincinnati citizens into storming the jail, plunged Cincinnati into three high days of murder, arson and pillage in which 50 were killed, hundreds injured, millions of dollars worth of property destroyed.

Died. Rosalie de Hez Ziegfeld, 84, mother of the late Producer Florenz Ziegfeld; in Chicago.

Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Conde Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle, N. Y.

*A University without campus, faculty or student body, consisting only of a board of regents who administer New York State's public education system.

/-Last year President Frank Edson White of Armour & Co. was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment. Last May Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co., was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment.

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