Monday, Dec. 16, 1935
Engaged. Millard E. Tydings, 45, U. S. Senator from Maryland since 1927. Democrat, firm foe of the New Deal; and Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough, Washington socialite, daughter of Joseph Edward Davies, onetime (1915-16) Federal Trade Commission Chairman.
Married. Mrs. Eppes Bartow Hawes Preston, of Washington and St. Louis, daughter of Harry Bartow Hawes, one-time (1927-33) U. S. Senator from Missouri; and Lloyd Moore, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.
Died, Aleta Freel, 28, actress (Both Your Houses,Double Door), Smith College graduate, wife of Cinemactor Ross Alexander (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by her own hand (rifle) ; in Hollywood.
Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder.
Died. Dr. Francis Le Roy Satterlee, 54, U. S. pioneer in x-ray photography and research, inventor of many a radio reception device; of heart disease and x-ray burns for which he had undergone 44 skin-grafting operations and amputations; in Montauk, L. I.
Died. Arthur Chapman, 62, writer, retired newsman; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Author of many a novel and history on Western subjects, Mr. Chapman achieved fame through his lines: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That's where the West begins.
Died. Dr. Lafayette Benedict Mendel, 63, Sterling professor of physiological chemistry at Yale, top-rank U. S. nutritionist; of heart disease; in New Haven.
Died, Don Carlos Seitz, 73. author and journalist; business manager of the New York World from 1898 to 1923; adviser and biographer of the late great Joseph Pulitzer; of asthma; in Brooklyn.
Died. Charles Richet, 85, French physiologist, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Science (for his work on anaphylaxis) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Paris.
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