Monday, Oct. 05, 1925
Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 48, and Burton S. Tucker, 19, a son, who already has a sister, aged one. the first issue of a marriage which occasioned nation-wide comment two years ago, at Baltimore.
Married. Miss Margaret Carr, one of the White House cooks, to Jerry Shea, chauffeur to Frank W. Stearns, famed intimate of President Coolidge, at Swampscott, Mass.
Married. Miss Isabel Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison
Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller, to one Frederick W. Lincoln Jr., of Manhattan; at Greenwich, Conn.
Married. Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, to Philip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Racconigi, famed summer palace of the House of Savoy, before 40 kings, queens, princes and princesses, representing nine royal houses. The occasion was raised to historic significance because, for the rst time since the World War, a marriage was celebrated between royal families who were enemies during that conflict.
Died. Ruth Echo Silver Dollar Tabor, 30, youngest daughter of the late millionaire U. S. Senator from Colorado, H. W. A. Tabor; in Chicago, in a room which she and an unknown man had taken as "Mr. and Mrs. Norman," of burns sustained when a kettle of boiling water overturned. "Silver Dollar" was added to her name by W. J. Bryan, of whom Senator Tabor was a staunch supporter. Said her sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason now why she should be more to me than just a dead woman in Chicago Why should I, who have pride and quiet, claim her in this kind of death?"
Died. Ada Lewis, 52, famed comedienne, creator of "tough girl" roles, actress in 40 production* during a career of 38 years in which she appeared with numberless celebrities, including Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, Lew Fields, George Arliss, etc., etc., etc., etc.; at her home in Hollis, L. I., of complications following a nervous breakdown seven months ago, while under contract to appear in Sunny, which opened (see Page 00) in Manhattan last week.
Died. Ellis L. Dresel, 54, lawyer, diplomatist, signer of the Peace Treaty with Germany, as plenipotentiary and U. S. Charge d'Affaires in Berlin after the War, at his home in Pride's Crossing, Mass. A lawyer for 25 years, he suddenly became a diplomat through accidentally being in Berlin when the War broke out and there offering to Ambassador Gerard his services in looking after stranded Americans. Later he was an Attache of the U. S. Embassy at Berlin; aided the Red Cross in caring for prisoners of war hi Germany; headed the political information section at the Paris Peace Conference.
Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra.
*She leaped to stellar fame about the time that Richard Harding Davis, then a reporter on the Evening Sun, wrote an interview with her concerning her vocal declaration that "Brooklyn Bridge at Midnight is known as Lovers' Lane."