Monday, Oct. 03, 1932
Honored. Henry Ford, the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy; University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor.
Died. Mrs. Madeline Masters Stone, 55, sculptor, poet; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois D. A. R.
Died. Vice Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle. 59. Commander of Battleships, onetime president of the Naval War College, slated as next Chief of Naval Operations; after being taken suddenly ill during maneuvers off the Washington coast (TIME. Sept. 26); in San Diego, Calif.
Died. Harry C. James. 64. sportsman, naturalist, vice president of Denver National Bank, "Denver's most popular citizen"; near Morrison, Colo.
Died. Claude C. Hopkins; 66, famed advertising man; of heart disease; at Grand Haven. Mich. Starting as a house-to-house canvasser, he became president of Chicago's Lord & Thomas and Logan, Inc. His specialties: use of white-space and slogans.
Died. Dr. George Finley Bovard, 76, president emeritus of the University of Southern California; of kidney trouble; in Los Angeles. A member of the University's first class (1884) under the presidency of his brother. Dr. Marion McKinley Bovard. he spent 20 years in the Methodist Episcopal ministry, was elected president of the University of Southern California in 1903, retired in 1921.
Died. Dr. Frank Billings, 78, famed Chicago physician; of an internal hemorrhage after slipping on a rug in his home; in Chicago.
Died. Sarah Jane Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known her as a boy.
Died. Jules Cheret, 96, famed French illustrator, tapestry designer, lithographer, commander of the Legion of Honor; at Nice, France.
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