Monday, Oct. 05, 1936
Born. To Astronomer Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Mysterious Universe), 59; and Mrs. Susi Hock Jeans, 25; a son; in London.
Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England.
Elected. Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, 52, Columbia University Professor of Surgery; to be president of the American Medical Association; in Chicago.
Sentenced. Thomas Alton Tully, 25, son of hard-boiled Hobo Novelist Jim Tully; to a 25-year prison term; for rape; in Los Angeles.
Left. By the late Senator Huey Pierce Long: an estate of $153,588; in New Orleans, La.
Died, Patrick ("Packey") McFarland, 47, famed oldtime lightweight, welterweight boxer; of a streptococcus infection; in Joliet, Ill. In eleven years (1904-15) he fought 108 fights, scored 48 knockouts, lost the decision only once.
Died, Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president since 1917 of Mack Trucks, Inc.; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank C. Munson, 60, president since 1926 of Munson Steamship Line; of injuries received when his automobile crashed; in Port Chester, N. Y.
Died. Harriet Monroe, 75, Chicago poet, founder & editor of the magazine Poetry, which first published the poems of Hilda Doolittle ("H. D."), Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; of cerebral hemorrhage; at Arequipa, Peru.
Died, Mrs. Sophia Strong Taylor, 75, who for 44 years headed Cleveland's William Taylor Son & Co. department store; after long illness; in Cleveland.
Died, Admiral William Sowden Sims, 77, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going to sea."
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