Monday, Apr. 19, 1943
Married. Swingster Tommy Dorsey, 38; and Patricia Byrnes-Gray (Cinemactress Pat Dane), 22; both for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Divorced. Illinois's Republican Senator Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 46, darling of the Chicago Tribune; by Gertrude Ackerly Brooks, 41; after 22 years; in Reno.
Died. Don Tomas Garrido Canabal, 52, onetime Governor of Mexico's Tabasco State (1920-35); of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Governor, he issued rigid decrees against corsets and alcohol, outlawed tombstones, ordered priests to marry. Minister of Agriculture under Cardenas in 1935, he was shortly implicated in the machine-gunning of Tabascan students, who at tempted to return from Canabalistic deportation, subsequently exiled himself from Mexico.
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve.
Died. Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper, 76, old-line Democrat who became the first New Deal Secretary of Commerce (1933-38); of leukemia; in Washington. Son of a Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served visiting politicos.
Died. (Etienne) Alexandre Millerand, 84, onetime President of France (1920-24) ; in Versailles. Son of a wine merchant active in the Commune of '48, he made a reputation as a defender of labor, became the first Socialist Cabinet member (1899).
As World War I threatened, he drifted out of the fold, smashed a French railway strike by conscripting workers and putting them under army orders, was read out of the party in 1914. Clemenceau's successor as Premier in 1920, he was elected President nine months later.
Died. Federico Cardinal Cattani-Amadori, 86, veteran Vatican jurist; of heart disease; in Rome. Papal auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Signatura ( Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia), he became a Cardinal in 1935. He was the sixth Cardinal to die within the last year.
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