Monday, Dec. 28, 1936
Married. Mrs. Clara Le Baron Morgan Warren, widow of Wyoming's Senator Francis Emroy Warren, mother-in-law of General John Joseph Pershing; and Albert Wells Russel, retired Cleveland businessman; by Rev. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; in the Washington apartment of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Divorced. J. D. Wooster Lambert, rich St. Louis sportsman & aircraft manufacturer, onetime secretary & treasurer of Lambert Pharmacal Co. (Listerine); by Mrs. Emily Milliken Lambert; in St. Louis. Grounds: mental cruelty. She was awarded $1,600,000 gross alimony, sole custody of Sons J. D. Wooster Jr., 10, and Jarvis Winn, 7.
Divorced. Mrs. Gertrude Reigel Zacchini, 27; by Bruno Zacchini, 35, brother of and trigger man for Human Cannonballs Hugo & Mario Zacchini in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Tampa, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, constant nagging which caused him to lose 20 lb. Said he: "I don't feel like working and my brain does not work. . . . If I do not think clearly, I am apt to kill my brothers."
Died. Flora Warner Lasker, 56, wife of Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker, president of Lord & Thomas and onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. Clarence B. ("Herschie") Herschberger, 60, famed oldtime (1894, 1896-98) University of Chicago fullback; by his own hand (gas); in Chicago. Chicago's only 13-letter man, Fullback Herschberger was the first Midwestern player named to Walter Camp's All-America football team (1898), first footballer to be x-rayed after an injury, reputedly first to spiral a punt, never weighed over 158 Ib.
Died. Mrs. Elsa Einstein, double first cousin and wife of famed Professor Albert Einstein; after being ill a year with tuberculosis; at her home in Princeton, N. J.
Died. Peter Norbeck, 66, South Dakota's onetime (1917-21) Governor, long-time (since 1921) Senator; of heart disease complicated by cancerous tongue and jaw; in Redfield, S. Dak. Insurgent Republican agrarian, he early advocated the equalization fee and debenture plans for U. S. farm relief. He got Republican President Coolidge to spend his 1927 vacation in the Black Hills, in the 1936 campaign switched to Democratic President Roosevelt.
Died. Lady Anne Catherine Sybil Bowes-Lyon, 78, aunt of Queen Elizabeth of England; at Ridley Hall, her Northumberland home, England.
Died. Jane Moran Benchley, 84, mother of Humorist Robert Charles Benchley; after fortnight's illness; in Worcester, Mass.
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