Monday, Aug. 13, 1934
Born. To Hannah Williams Dempsey, 23, and William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 39, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion: a daughter, Joan; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 1/2 Ib.
Married. Jane Marion Swope, 21, daughter of Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time executive editor of the defunct New York World; and Robert Lee Brandt, 22, cf Manhattan, employe of the NRA admnistrative staff; in Ossining, N. Y.
Married. Glenn Cunningham, 24, holder of the world's record for the mile (4 min. 6.7 sec.): and Margaret Speir, his classmate at University of Kansas; in Marion, Kans.
Married, Pedro E. Lay Bacardi, 29, rum heir; and Loretta Monahan, 29, one-time telephone operator; in Troy, N. Y.
Divorced, Thelma Victoria Maud Colman, English actress; from Ronald Colman, 43, cinemactor (The White Sister, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond), after a ten-year separation; in London.
Birthdays. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th U. S. President, 73; Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy, 68; King Haakon of Norway, 62; General Hugh Samuel Johnson, 52.
Died. Adrian Iselin, 3rd, 20, socialite motorcycle enthusiast; when a motorcycle he was riding at night on a race track struck a parked track scraper; in Freeport, L. I.
Died. Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, 29, stunt flyer, holder with Helen Richey of the women's refueling endurance record; when her airplane crashed rounding a pylon in a 50-mile race at the Dayton National Women's Air Meet; in Vandalia, Ohio.
Died. Major Patrick F. O'Keefe, 61, advertising man credited with inventing the slogan "Say It With Flowers;" after long illness; in Old Orchard Beach, Me.
Died. William Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries.
Died. Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 86, President of Germany; of an atrophied prostate gland; in Neudeck, Germany (see P-15).
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