Monday, Apr. 20, 1936
Engaged. Pauline Morton Smith Sabm, 49 famed anti-Prohibitionist, and Dwight Filley Davis, 57, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, donor of the international tennis trophy bearing his name, m Washington. Her second husband died in 1933, his first wife in 1932.
Married. Michael Grace ("Mike") Phipps 27, grandson of the late Steel-master Henry Phipps and the late Shipping Tycoon Michael P. Grace, international polo player (handicap: eight goals); and Muriel Pillans Lane, British socialite; m Palm Beach, Fla.
Died. John Harold Dollar, 48, son of the late great "Captain" Robert Dollar, vice president of the vast Dollar Steamship Lines; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.
Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole.
Died. Rt. Rev. Monsignor Timothy ("Father Tim") Dempsey, 68, organizer & operator of six St. Louis poor asylums, mediator of many a gang and labor dispute, best-loved Catholic priest in a big Catholic town; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo.
Died. Nina Van Zandt Spies 74, "proxy wife" of August Spies, one of the four radicals hanged for agitating Chicago's fatal Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 of a heart attack, in her tumbledown Chicago boardinghouse. A beauteous Vassar graduate and social worker she met Spies in jail, married him in absentia by going through a ceremony with Henry Spies, the prisoner's brother.
Died. James Montgomery Beck, 74, onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General thrice (1927-35) US. Representative from Pennsylvania, constitutional authority rabid anti-New Dealer; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington.
Died. James Lucey, 81, cobbler-philosopher who swung the Irish vote of Northampton, Mass, to Calvin Coohdge in the mayoralty race of 1910, thus helped win Cooliydge his first important political office; in Northampton, Mass. "guide philosopher & friend" to the 30th President, he received the first letter Coolidge wrote from the White House. His classic advice: "Don't say nothin' , Cal.
Died. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 82, famed Indian scout who helped General Nelson Miles rout Sitting Bull Crazy Horse, Lame Deer and others in the Indian campaigns of 1875-77; in Washington. He was the son & namesake of Mis .iss oni's late great statesman who went from the U. S Senate to the Cabinet to the Supreme Court.
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