Married. Thomas Joseph Qualters, 33, onetime Notre Dame football player, onetime Massachusetts State policeman, successor since last December to the late Gus Gennerich as bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn. Two days after the ceremony, they were separated, Mrs. Qualters settling down to furnish an apartment in Washington while Bodyguard Qualters went west with the President (see p. 11).

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 29, formerly Divorcee Mayme Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions."

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, onetime ballroom dancer and fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced.

Retired. Charles D. Hilles, 70, who as Chairman of the Republican National Committee ran the unsuccessful Presidential campaigns of William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes, and for 20 years remained the dominant figure of Republican politics in New York, as Republican National Committeeman from New York.

Died. Grenville Temple Emmet, 60, U. S. Minister to Austria; of double pneumonia after a two-day illness; in Vienna. Minister Emmet, a great-grand-nephew of famed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, was a onetime law partner of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, onetime (1934-37) U. S. Minister to The Netherlands. He assumed the Austrian Ministry just ten days before his death.

Died. William Henry Crocker, 76, San Francisco banker, onetime president of the Crocker First National Bank; in Hillsborough, Calif. Banker Crocker, a conservative Republican, was once a political arch-enemy of Hiram Johnson. When Charles Evans Hughes made his ill-fated 1916 Presidential campaign visit to California, Banker Crocker was credited with being largely responsible for his failure to meet Hiram Johnson, an omission which according to political legend kept Candidate Hughes from being elected President.

Died. Edward Albert Filene, 77, millionaire Boston merchant and amateur economist; of lobar pneumonia; in Paris, France. From a small beginning, Merchant Filene built his ready-to-wear specialty shop, William Filene's Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (from which he completely withdrew in 1936 when he thought the Chamber had become a reactionary businessmen's club); the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt; co-operative credit associations. In 1936 his remarks at the biennial congress of the Cooperative League of the U. S., were interpreted by some listeners as a final severance with the existing profit system. Later he denied this, said he believed private business would be helped, not hurt by consumer cooperation.

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