Monday, Jun. 16, 1941

Married. Charles Ray, oldtime corn-fed cinema juvenile; and Yvonne Guerin; he for the second time; in Hollywood.

Married. Greta Nissen, 35, blonde cinemenace; and Stuart D. Eckert, 34; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. By Morton Downey, high tenor: Barbara Bennett, sister of Actresses Constance and Joan Bennett; in Bridgeport, Conn. He got custody of their four boys, one girl.

Died. Louis Chevrolet, 62, the oldtime racing driver the car is named for; in Detroit. Backed by W. C. Durant, he started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h.

Died. Charles R. Apted, 67, mild-mannered, bespectacled head of Harvard "yard cops" for 39 years; in Cambridge, Mass. Protector of boys as well as property, he gently dissolved student "riots," bailed the too-high-spirited out of jail at unearthly hours, restored to Yale the Harvard-snatched bulldog, Handsome Dan, restored to Boston's State House the wooden "sacred cod," covered up for the culprits.

Died. Arthur Curtiss James, 74, towering, bearded builder of one of the world's great railroad empires; in Manhattan. Grandson of one of the five original partners in Phelps, Dodge (copper), he inherited 25 million dollars in 1907, added to it a reputed 50 million by shrewd investments, became the biggest individual owner of railroad stock in the country. With the gradual acquisition of large blocks of stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from Chicago to California. A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days.

Died. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 82, retired emperor; at Doom (see p. 30).

Died. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph Nicholas Grieff, 86, founder of the American Passion Play; in Union City, N.J. Produced annually under his direction, the play ran afoul of the Sunday blue laws in 1923 when a police court recorder fined him a dollar for violating the vice and morality act by giving a theatrical performance on a Sunday. The recorder later reversed himself.

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