Monday, Dec. 15, 1930

Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy.

Divorced. Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's Weekly, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy; by Mrs. Eva Sanderson Child, his third wife (Wives Elizabeth Scott and Maude Parker both divorced him). Charges: extreme cruelty.

Elected. Dr. Bundy Allen of Tampa, Fla.; to be president of the Radiological Society of North America; succeeding Dr. Robert John May of Cleveland. President-elect (to take office next year): Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan.

Died. Gifford Alexander Cochran, 50, sportsman, onetime president of Alexander Smith & Sons, Yonkers, N. Y. carpet manufacturers; of hardening of the arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with tuberculosis, he was reported cured, was found dead alone in the vestibule of his apartment early one morning last week.

Died. Matthew Quay Glaser, 54, cofounder (1920) with Publisher John S. Lewis, and onetime editor of the Masonic Review, organizer (1928) of the Curtis-for-President Club; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Though he never held public office, many a Washington politician knew well his booming voice, his ten-gallon hat. Major Maurice Campbell, onetime New York Prohibition administrator, stated last fall in the New York World that Curtis-booster Glaser had tried to get him to approve dubious whiskey permits, that the name of Vice President Curtis had been used (TIME, Sept. 22). Last month he was indicted in Chattanooga, Tenn. for importing 95%-alcoholic "sheep-dip."

Died. Agnes Dillon Randolph, 55, great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, sister of Hollins Nicholas Randolph (president of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association), founder of tuberculosis service organizations in Virginia and Texas; in Richmond, Va.

Died. Ralph Starrett, 62, brother of Paul and Col. William Aiken Starrett

(builders of Manhattan's Empire State Building, No. 40 Wall Street), founder with his brothers of Starrett Bros. Inc. of Chicago (subsidiary of Starrett Corp. of New York), builder of Washington's Union R. R. Station, Cincinnati's Carew Tower; of heart disease; in Chicago. Died. Dr. Ernest Ellsworth Smith, 63, consulting physiologist to the New York Health Department, president of the Medical Association of Greater City of New York, onetime (1918-19) president of the New York Academy of Sciences; of heart disease; in Kew--Gardens, L. I. Died. Rev. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, 69, Congregational minister, author, father of Advertising Man Bruce Barton and Publisher Charles William Barton of the Sheridan (Wyo.) Post Enterprise; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Illinois-born, he began his career as a circuit rider, went to Oberlin. Ohio to enter Oberlin Theological Seminary, taking his wife, Infant Bruce, two Negro waifs, a horse, a cow. He held many a pastorate, chiefly (1899-1924) that of First Congregational Church, Oak Park, Ill. He was on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, vice president of the American Peace Society (1898-1915), a director of Chicago Theological Seminary (1900-10), president (since 1916) of the trustees of Union Theological College. Abraham Lincoln was his lifelong study, the subject of 13 of his 65 books. His literary, pedagogical and church activities made his the longest paragraph (108 lines) in this year's Who's Who. Died. Dr. William Benham Snow, 70, pioneer advocate of the use of electricity in treating disease (he lost a finger working with Roentgen Rays), head of a group of physicians who founded the New York School of Physical Therapeutics in 1901; in Manhattan. Died. Edgar Erastus Clark, 74, one-time Grand Chief Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors, member of President Roosevelt's Anthracite Coal Commission to arbitrate the strike of 1902-03, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1906-21, chairman 1920); in Monrovia, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. William Edwards Huntington, 86, second president of Boston University; of pneumonia; in Newton, Mass. From 1882 until his death he was successively dean of the College of Liberal Arts, president, dean of the Graduate Department and president emeritus. Died. James Brown Herreshoff, 96, builder with his brothers John Brown Francis and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff of-- America's Cup yachts (Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance, Resolute), inventor of the first U. S. naphtha-driven motorcycle of internal combustion type; in Riverdale, N. Y.

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