Monday, Nov. 22, 1937
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter; in Bel Air, Md.
Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage.
Indicted. Walter Edmund O'Hara, slick little boss of the Narragansett Racing Association whose track was recently closed after a political squabble (TIME, Nov. 1), and four cronies including Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman: by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of having violated the Corrupt Practice Act. contributing almost $100,000 in twelve months "to committees and persons closely identified with political activities"; in Providence.
Died. Atlee Pomerene, 73, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Democratic Senator from Ohio, prosecutor, with Owen Josephus Roberts, of Teapot Dome oil lease cases under Calvin Coolidge, board chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Herbert Hoover; of pneumonia; in Cleveland.
Died. Mrs. Leslie Carter, 75, for 16 years (1890-1906) David Belasco's leading lady in such turn-of-the-Century dramas as Zaza, Madame du Barry, Andrea; of heart trouble and pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. Redhaired, green-eyed, emotional, Caroline Louise Dudley Carter, already 28 and divorced when Belasco gave her her first part in 1890, attained first & overnight fame five years later in The Heart of Maryland, in whose most spectacular scene she gripped the clapper of a huge bell 30 ft. above the stage, swung her body back & forth to mute its tones, saved her doomed lover's life.
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers.
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington Howard, 81, great-great-grandniece of George Washington, last of the Washington clan to be born in Mount Vernon; of pneumonia; in Alexandria, Va.
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