Monday, Oct. 01, 1934
Born. To Umberto, 30, Crown Prince of Italy, and Marie Jose, 28, Princess of Piedmont, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians: their first child; in Naples. Name: Maria Pia.
Born. To Henri Robert, Count of Paris, and the Countess of Paris: a daughter. Princess Helene (their third child); near Brussels, Belgium. Father of the Count of Paris is Jean, Due de Guise, Orleans pretender to the throne of France.
Married. Joan Blake, 17, half-sister of Mrs. Irving Berlin; and Henry Herman Harjes, son of the late Col. Henry Herman Harjes of Morgan, Harjes & Co. (Paris); in Manhattan.
Eloped. Sylvia Martin, 19, daughter of Leonard J. Martin of Greenwich, Conn. who made $20,000,000 in 1920 by buying the British Government's airplane linen stock and reselling it; and Robert E. Ezequelle, 26, hairdresser; to Port Chester, N. Y. Four months ago Mrs. Ezequelle tried to get her parents' permission to marry, failed. In 1932 Mrs. Ezequelle's sister, Eileen, married Speedster Kaye Don, also without her parents' consent.
Suing for Divorce. Diana Churchill Bailey, daughter of Britain's Rt. Hon Winston Churchill; from John Milner Bailey, son of Sir Abe Bailey, Transvaal gold mine owner; in London.
Divorced. Oliver Hart Palmer Garrett, 37, oldtime New York World reporter, cinema writer and adapter (Moby Dick, City Streets, If I Had a Million, Story of Temple Drake); and Mrs. Louis Mumford Gignoux Garrett; in Los Angeles.
Resigned. New York City's Commissioner of Police, Major General John Francis O'Ryan. Reasons: differences of opinion with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. His successor: onetime Chief Inspector Lewis Joseph Valentine.
Birthdays. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 80 (see p. 9); George Woodward Wickersham, 76; Greta Garbo, 28.
Died. Ruth Hale, 48, writer, onetime wife of Columnist Heywood Broun, president of the Lucy Stone League; of acidosis; in Manhattan. A vigorous feminist, she managed to have her U. S. passport read "Miss Ruth Hale" instead of "Mrs. Heywood Broun," although she was married to the columnist at the time. Friends considered her subsequent amicable divorce from Mr. Broun (TIME, Jan. 29) simply a romantic gesture to establish their individualities.
Died. Percy Avery Rockefeller, 56, son of the late William G. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr.; following a stomach operation; in Manhattan. Little known to the public, he was a shrewd, quiet investor in a score of corporations. Year ago he resigned from the board of National City Bank whose onetime President Charles E. Mitchell he had backed.
Died. Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of Stonehenge, 58; of heart disease; in London. He purchased Stonehenge, England's famed megalithic monument, for $50,000 in 1915, later presented it to his country.
Died. Dever Howard Warner, 65, board chairman of Warner Brothers Co. (corset manufacturers--TIME, Aug. 20); of a heart attack; in Fairfield, Conn.
Died. Anthony Woodward Ivins, 82, ranch owner, second in command of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) to his cousin, President Heber J. Grant; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City.
Died. Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, philanthropist, president of the board of trustees of Manhattan's Cooper Union, president of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co.; of chronic nephritis; in Manhattan. Manhattan's early '90s knew him as the "first citizen of New York." Reticent, he kept his philanthropies out of the newspapers, was a persistent foe of Tammany Hall.
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