Monday, Oct. 12, 1936
Died. William Candler, 46, vice president of Coca Cola Bottling Co. and proprietor of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, youngest son of Coca Cola's late Founder Asa Candler; of injuries received when his automobile hit a cow; in Valdosta, Ga.
Died. Field Marshal Julius Goemboes. circa 50, bullnecked, swashbuckling Premier of Hungary, longtime admirer and disciple of Benito Mussolini; of complications following a kidney ailment; in a sanitarium at Nymphenburg, Germany. After the War he founded an anti-Semitic society called the "Awakened Magyars," restored punishment by flogging in the Hungarian army, renounced anti-Semitism when he became Premier four years ago. At news of his death his cabinet resigned to await developments.
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen.
Died. Edward Everett Gann, 55, onetime (1914-21) special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, husband of Dolly Curtis Gann; of heart disease; in Washington. Unruffled throughout his wife's squabble over precedence with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he patiently attended every function at which Mrs. Gann Vice President Curtis were official guests.
Died. Harry Hayes Whiting, 59, president since 1932 of Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.; of injuries sustained when his horse threw him and fell upon him; in Minneapolis, Minn.
Died. Louis T. McFadden, 60, longtime (1915-35) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania who twice moved to impeach President Hoover for declaring the 1932 War debt moratorium; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.
Died. Jesse Isidor Straus, 64, U. S. Ambassador to France from 1933 until ill health forced him to resign two months ago (TIME, Sept. 7), longtime (1919-33) head of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., one of the world's largest department stores; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Prince Alfonso Carlos Fernando Jose Juan Pio de Borbon y Austria-Este, 87, since 1931 the eccentric Carlist pretender to the non-existent Spanish throne, who led 14,000 troops in the last Carlist fight (1873-76) against the legitimate Bourbon monarchy; of injuries received when struck by an automobile; in Vienna. To run his shabby Vienna palace he kept a single uniformed doorman, adopted a Negro girl.
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