Monday, Feb. 04, 1935
Born, To the 13-year-old Denver girl to whom an abortion was denied last summer (TIME, Oct. 22); and to John W. Brewer, 38, who is now serving a 20 to 30 year sentence for raping the girl: a 7-lb. son; in Denver. Mother and babe were reported doing well.
Married, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, 45, lecturer, historian, Scripps-Howard columnist; and Mrs. Jean Hutchinson Newman; in Reno, shortly after each had been divorced. In establishing residence, Mrs. Newman took an apartment with Mrs. Barnes who, suing for divorce on grounds of cruelty, testified that her husband was in love with another woman.
Married, Ernest Thompson Seton, 74, author, naturalist; and Mrs. Julia M. Buttree, 45, dean of the College of Indian Wisdom (Santa Fe) of which Mr. Seton is president; in El Paso, Tex. Last fortnight Mr. Seton was divorced by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, whom he married in 1896.
Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat,
Died, Jay Gould, 45, grandson of Railman Jay Gould, winner of U. S. court tennis championships from 1906 to 1926, 19 times doubles champion (with W. C. Wright, W. H. Tevis Huhn, Joseph Walker Wear); of a throat ailment; in Margaretville, N. Y.
Died, Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev, 47, vice Premier of the U. S.S.R., vice President of the All-Union Council of People's Commissars, member of the Communist Party Politburo; of arteriosclerosis; in Moscow. A pioneer young Bolshevik, he chairmanned the Gosplan (State Planning .Commission), launched two Five-Year Plans.
Died, Admiral Robert Edward Coontz, 70, onetime (1923-25) Commander-in- Chief of the U. S. Fleet; of heart disease; in Bremerton, Wash.
Died, John Barton Payne, 79, chair man of the American Red Cross, Secretary of the Interior under-President Wilson; of pneumonia; in Washington.
Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly.
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds.
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