Monday, Feb. 12, 1940

Born. To Mrs. Alyce Correll and Charles (Andy) Correll of Amos 'n' Andy: their second child, a daughter; in Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where the radio team established script headquarters for the emergency.

Married. Theodore Roosevelt III, 25, grandson of the late President; and Anne Babcock, 21, Louisville Junior Leaguer; in Louisville, Ky. Plentiful were Republican Roosevelts at the wedding: the bridegroom's father, Colonel Theodore, whose plane was forced down en route; Aunt Alice Roosevelt Longworth; the groom's brothers Cornelius and Quentin; Uncle Archibald. Absent: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, T. R.'s widow, shaken but unhurt in a four-car collision in Queens, N. Y.; Uncle Kermit, a machine gun officer in the British Army.

Divorced. Orson Welles. 24, "boy wonder" of stage and radio whose Martian invasion broadcast in October 1938 stampeded listeners-in; by Actress Virginia Nicolson Welles, 23; in Reno, Nev. She thought her husband had received "almost too much publicity."

Died. Alexander Kelberine, 36, concert pianist; of an overdose of sleeping tablets, while his wife's divorce suit was pending, after a concert characterized by a critic as showing "not lack of musicianship, so much as a psychic turmoil''; in Manhattan.

Died. Philip Francis Nowland, 52, creator of the newspaper cartoon strip "Buck Rogers"; of a stroke; in Philadelphia.

Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa.

Died. Richard Farman, oldest and least-known of the three Farman brothers, pioneer airplane designers and builders; in Paris.

Died. David Haines Ball, 70, president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold cigarets); of a heart attack; in Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, 72, famed, 6' 7" pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's first; congregation: 7,886), known to friends as "Tall Cedar of the Sierras." once famed as Seattle vice-crusader in Klondike days; of pneumonia; in Seattle, Wash.

Died. Samuel Matthews Vauclain, 83, who rose Alger-fashion from a day laborer's rags to riches as board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works; of a heart attack; in Rosemont, Pa.

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