Monday, Aug. 01, 1949

Remarried. Barney Ross, 40, onetime world's lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif.

Died. Colonel Francisco Javier Arana (37), chief of Guatemala's armed forces and heavily backed candidate for the presidency; by assassination; in Guatemala City's 20th conspiracy since March 1945 (see HEMISPHERE).

Died. Frank Murphy, 59, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (since 1940), onetime governor of Michigan (1937-39)l of coronary thrombosis; in Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Van Amberg Bittner, 64, vice president of C.I.O and the United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O.

Died. Mrs. Alice Corbin Henderson, 58, poet and first associate editor (under Founder Harriet Monroe) of Poetry Magazine, which first offered Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot and Vachel Lindsay to a high-3row audience; of a heart ailment; at her ranch near Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Died. Rear Admiral Frederic Robert Harris, U.S. Navy (ret.), 74, onetime Navy dock chief, World War II designer of the world's largest floating drydocks, which followed the Pacific fleet and made repairs possible in combat areas; in Man-lattan.

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