Monday, Apr. 19, 1937

Married. Margaret Arline Judge Ruggles, 24, brunette cinemactress; and Daniel Reid ("Dan") Topping, part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and grandson of the late Tin Plate Truster Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid; in Reno, Nev., immediately after she divorced Film Director Wesley Ruggles.

Married. James Cameron Clark, famed Newark foxhunter, son of the late J. William Clark (O.N.T. thread); and Mrs. Marion Taylor Gibson, divorced daughter-in-law of Artist Charles Dana Gibson; at Goldens Bridge, N. Y., day after he was awarded a divorce in Reno from Lady Irene Helen Cubitt Clark.

Married. Mrs. Clara Louise Saltmarsh Westinghouse, widow of Board Chairman Henry Herman Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. who invented the single-action steam engine and whose Brother George invented the air brake; and John Franklin Miller, 78, Westinghouse vice chairman; at Bradenton, Fla.

Left. By the late Dr. George Walker, longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon, chief urologist of the American Expeditionary Forces, who died of cancer a fortnight ago: $300,000 toward solving what he considered Medicine's most baffling problems --cancer, streptococcic infections, high blood pressure.

Died. George Campbell Smith Jr., 45, president of Street &Smith Publications, Inc. (Love Story, Western Story, et al.), grandson of Street &Smith's Founder Francis S. Smith; after brief illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Ralph W. Ince, 50, oldtime cinemactor &film producer, brother of the late Producer Thomas H. Ince; when his automobile rammed an iron traffic standard; in London.

Died. Gabriel Amand, 62, general secretary of the 1937 Paris International Exposition opening next month; of cerebral congestion, attributed to overwork; in Paris.

Died. Brigadier General Thomas Herbert Jackson, 63, U. S. Army engineer; in China, where he had paused on a world cruise with his wife. He designed and supervised the building of the Sacramento River $50,000,000 flood-control system, as head of the Mississippi River Commission (1928-32) directed the beginning and a major portion of the Federal Government's $1,000,000,000 flood-control construction in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Died. Mrs. Marie Tinette Haughton Spaeth, 67, painter, wife of President John Duncan Ernst Spaeth of the University of Kansas City, Princeton's longtime English professor and crew coach; after long illness; in Sarasota, Fla.

Died. Horace Simpson Wilkinson, 68, board chairman of Crucible Steel Co. of America, president of Great Lakes Steamship Co.; of coronary thrombosis and myocarditis; in Chicago. Died. Larz Anderson, 70, onetime Minister to Belgium (1911-12) and Ambassador to Japan (1912-13); in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family.

Died. Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 77, British pianist & composer, self-styled "champion letter-writer to the British press" (2,000 published since 1900); in London. Other recreations: "Looking at ancient and memorable buildings, ... examining and criticizing modern edifices, . . . listening to the debates in the House of Commons, . . . billiards, draughts, chess and cards" ,

Died. Slipper, 2, vivacious sandy Cairn terrier sent by the Duke of Windsor last month to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson; of a viper bite; in a veterinary hospital in Tours, France. Mrs. Simpson telephoned the Duke the bad news, canceled the day's engagements. Besides Slipper the Duke took with him when he abdicated Cairn terriers Cora (10), John (8), Jaggers (8).

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