Monday, May. 29, 1939
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 51, publicity-loving publisher; and Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny James; in Boulder City, Nev. Publisher Putnam's second wife, famed Flier Amelia Earhart, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. His first wife divorced him.
Divorced. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, since 1910 president of the Washington Star; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Lake Worth, Fla..
Died. Philip Kip Rhinelander, 42, once wealthy first son of a famed New York family* of heart disease; in a $1s-a-week rooming house; in Manhattan.
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees.
Died. Harold Irving Pratt, 62, financier whose father organized the original Standard Oil Co. with the original John D. Rockefeller; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove, L. I.
Died. General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, 68, popular onetime Governor of Bermuda (1931-36); in Buckinghamshire, England. Mild Sir Thomas made no protest when the Bermuda Assembly refused to grant him an automobile./-
Died. The Right Reverend Robert Lewis Paddock, 69, retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Eastern Oregon; after long illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Spirited anti-Fascist and American Civil Liberties Union crusader, unorthodox, unconventional Bishop Paddock was continually at odds with the House of Bishops.
Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models.
Died. Mrs. Aroline Pinkham Gove, 81, only daughter of the late Lydia E. ("Vegetable Compound") Pinkham; in Marblehead, Mass.
* In 1924 his brother, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, married, in 1929 divorced Alice Jones, Negress, died in 1936.
/- For the same rebuff his successor, Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard, resigned.
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