Monday, Dec. 28, 1925
Born. To Mae W. Marsh, famed cinema actress, wife of one Louis Lee Arms, Pasadena newspaper man, a son (7 lb.), at Pasadena.
Married. Pauline Heifetz, sister of famed violinist Jascha Heifetz; to Samuel Chotzinoff, music critic of the New York World, former accompanist for Efram Zimbalist and Jascha Heifetz; at Port Chester, N. Y., secretly, a fortnight ago.
Divorced. Monroe Douglas Robinson, nephew of the late President Roosevelt, son of Corinne Robinson Roosevelt; at Paris, by the onetime Miss Dorothy Jordan.
Died. Prince Lowenstein, 8, nephew of Count von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S.; at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, when run into by an automobile while bob-sleighing.
Died. Louis Phal ("Battling Siki"), famed Senegalese pugilist; murdered in Manhattan (see p. 24).
Died. Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, one-time Nicaraguan Minister to the U. S.; at Washington, D. C., of uremic poisoning. His son, Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, sped toward Washington from Nicaragua for nine days by horse, motorboat, steamboat, railway and automobile, but arrived one hour too late.
Died. Mrs. Simeon D. Pess, wife of the junior U. S. Senator from Ohio; at Washington, D. C., of pneumonia.
Died. Major General Harry Lovejoy Rogers, retired, Quartermaster General of the American
Expeditionary Force during the War, noted intimate of General Pershing; at Philadelphia, of a lingering heart disease.
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre.
Died. Mrs. Anna Abhau Mencken, 67, mother of famed Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury; at Baltimore, where she had passed her entire life. Friends recalled that she had lived at No. 1524 Hollins Street for 42 years.
Died. Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 83, in London. He was successively Physician in Ordinary to Their Majesties Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, first Baron Powell, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, perhaps the greatest English specialist in diseases of the heart and lungs, famed champion of the dietetic properties of suet pudding.
Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night."
Died. Dr. James W. Taylor, 91, "oldest U. S. Mason"; at Luthers-viile, Ga.