Monday, May. 19, 1941
Celebrated. By the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York: his 20th anniversary as a Bishop; his 50th as a minister; his 75th as a person.
Married. Jane Priscilla Sousa, granddaughter of the late great military Bandmaster John Philip Sousa; and James G. Gillon, of Thompson Automatic Arms Corp.; in Manhattan.
Married. Richard D. Chapman (see below), and Eloise Geist Sheaffer, 34, Philadelphia sportswoman; in Montgomery, Ala., second day after Chapman's divorce; his third, her second.
Divorced. Richard D. Chapman, 30, national amateur golf champion, occasional crooner; by Marjorie Logan Chapman, nightclub-singing descendant of Arthur Middleton, Declaration of Independence signer; in Miami; grounds: desertion.
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, horsy, twice-married board chairman of Pan American Airways, son of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; by Gwladys Hopkins Whitney; in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Died. Mary Lawson, 30, British stage and cinemactress, onetime fiancee of Tennis Player Fred Perry; and her producer-husband, F. W. L. C. Beaumont; bombed; in Liverpool.
Died. James F. Waters, 46, supersalesman, who sold $10,000,000 worth of streamlined cabs in New York City, $70,000,000 worth of automobiles from coast to coast; of drowning; in his swimming pool in Woodside, Calif. Onetime Air Corps instructor, he became Plymouth-De Soto's greatest distributor, air-commuted between his East and West Coast businesses.
Died. Oliver Marsh, 49, veteran cameraman, brother of oldtime Cinemactress Mae Marsh; in Hollywood.
Died. Dr. Heinrich Simon, 60, musical ex-publisher of the once great liberal paper Frankfurter Zeitung; after being beaten and robbed; in Washington, D.C. Editor Simon in exile gave up politics, turned to music, supported himself by giving piano recitals in England, went to Palestine to become cofounder with Arturo Toscanini of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, came in 1939 to the U.S. He never, from 1934 to the day of his death, uttered the word "Germany."
Died. John J. McNamara, dynamiter, tried with his brother, James B., for blasting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910; in Butte, Mont. Brother James, who confessed, got life in San Quentin, died there last March. John confessed to bombing Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works, served part of a 15-year sentence.
Died. William Haskell Coffin, 63, artist, whose pretty-girl pastels appeared for years on national magazine covers; a suicide; at a hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Died. Harry E. Thurston, 67, ex-vaude-villian, brother of the late, great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; in Miami, Fla.
Died. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, 68, who as Cuba's Secretary of the Interior under ill-famed President Machado ran the secret police, was blamed for numerous wholesale political assassinations; in bed; in a Havana suburb.
Died. Frank E. Crater, 79, father of famously missing New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater; in Hershey, Pa.
Died. Ex-Queen Natalie of Serbia, 82; in the convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion in Paris. Daughter of a Russian colonel and Rumanian princess, she married Prince Milan of Serbia at 16, bore Prince Alexander at 17, became Queen at 23. The dissipations and amours of her husband drove her to flee the country with Alexander, whom Milan soon kidnapped. Then Milan set Alexander on the throne at 13, retired to Paris, died in 1901. Natalie returned to Belgrade after her son married Draga Mashin, widow of an engineer, whom it was supposed Draga had poisoned. Officers led by Mashin's brother killed the royal couple in their bed June 10, 1903, hurled the bodies out the window. Legend had it Natalie watched from the garden. She fled to France, entered the convent where she died last week, an obese, forgotten woman who had spent her old age knitting for the poor. Of death she had once written: "It will be ... the beginning of my happiness."
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