Monday, Apr. 27, 1936
Birthday. Famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow; 79. Said he: "At 20 a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's 79, he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. . . . The law is a horrible business. There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court."
Married. Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, 34, nephew of Spain's deposed King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, 18, niece of Austria's deposed Empress Zita; in Vienna.
Married. George White, 63, twice (1931-35) Governor of Ohio; and Agnes Hofman Baldwin, artist, socialite; at the Rocky Fork Hunt & Country Club, Columbus, Ohio.
Divorced, K. M. James (''Jimmy") Lin, 28, nephew and adopted son of China's puppet President Lin Sen; by Viola Brown Lin, 25, onetime 5-c--&-10-c- store clerk; in Columbus, Ohio. Last April Jimmy, a graduate student at Ohio State University, walked into a store to buy a fishing rod, met Miss Brown. His marriage three months later shocked & grieved President Lin, caused a political stir. In September Jimmy deserted his wife, fled home.
Died. Frederick Henry Harvey, 41, vice president of the famed Western Harvey railway restaurant chain and dining car service (for the Santa Fe) founded by his late grandfather; at Johnstown, Pa., when the airplane which he was piloting bashed through electric powder lines, burst into flames, burned him & his wife to death.
Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly, these gentlemen fell like a brick on our heads. How could we act otherwise than we have done?''
Died. Henri ("Pere Gaspard") Cheron. 69, longtime government finance expert member of twelve French Cabinets; childhood playmate of St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"): of peritonitis; in Lisieux, France. In 1934 he was ejected as Minister of Justice for supposedly bungling the Stavisky scandal investigation.
Died. Most Rev. James Anthony Walsh, 69, Titular Bishop of Siene, co-founder and Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America); of pneumonia: at Maryknoll, Ossining. N. Y.
Died, Dr. William Bradley Coley, 74. famed abdominal surgeon, originator of the theory that cancer is an inherent microorganism; of an intestinal infection; in Manhattan.
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