Monday, Aug. 08, 1938
Married. Louise Carnegie Miller, 18, granddaughter of the late Andrew Carnegie; to James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 41, Edinburgh lawyer; at Dornoch, Scotland. Two years ago Miss Miller and Mr. Thomson, who have been close friends since she was 3, tried to elope, were persuaded by Miss Miller's mother to wait until she was of legal age.
Married. Christopher Kilmer, 20, son of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees'); and Alberta Taylor Daniel, 22; in Arlington, Va.
Married. Lois Long ("Lipstick" and "L. L." of The New Yorker), divorced wife of Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); and Donaldson B. Thorburn, Shell Oilman; in Manhasset, L. I.
Died. John May Warren, 8, whose photograph, grotesquely retouched, was released by Acme syndicate in 1933 as a baby picture of Adolf Hitler (TIME, March 5, 1934); when he fell from his bicycle, pierced his heart on a milk bottle; in Lakewood, Ohio.
Died. Sufi Abdul Hamid (Eugene Brown), circa 45, onetime "Black Hitler," who as Bishop of the Universal Order of Tranquility was Harlem's No. 2 Cult Leader (see p. 7); when his nine-year-old monoplane ran out of fuel and crashed; near Wantagh, L. I. The plane's pilot also was killed, Hamid's secretary injured.
Died. Jack Judge, 60, onetime fishmonger and vaudeville trouper, author of It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, best-known marching song of the World War; of meningitis; in Birmingham, England. On New Year's Day 1912, Judge bet a friend he could write a song before nightfall, sing it successfully and publicly that evening. He won with Tipperary.
Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death.
Died, Frances, Countess of Warwick, 76, Socialist, philanthropist. British authoress who prophesied that George V would be England's last king and Edward, now Duke of Windsor, an admirable first president (TIME, March 17, 1930); at Dunmow, Essex.
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