Monday, Sep. 11, 1944

Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru.

Married. Signal Corps Sergeant Robert Hopkins, 23, thin-faced photographer son of Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins (by his first marriage); and Brenda Stephenson, 18, daughter of a Lancashire engineer; in Perryvale, Middlesex, England.

Married. Freeman Gosden, 45, philosophic, long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy (back on the air this month); and Jane Stoneham, 21 daughter of the New York Giants' late owner, Charles Stoneham; he for the second time; in Scotia, Calif.

Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman--a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back to me."

Killed in Action. Marine Sergeant Lee Powell, 35, circus and cinema portrayer of the masked vigilante "The Lone Ranger" after two years' Pacific service including Tarawa and Saipan.

Died. Bella Chagall, 48, wife and only model of Russian-born, Paris-loving Artist Marc Chagall, now painting his bucolic, sentimental fantasies in U.S. exile; of diabetes; at Tupper Lake, N.Y.

Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor.

Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's oldest, near-human fossil (circa 100,000 B.C.); in Haywards Heath, Sussex.

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