Monday, Aug. 05, 1935
Born. To Columnist Walter Winchell and Mrs. (June Magee) Winchell; a son; in Manhattan. Name: Walter Jr. Weight: 7 Ib. 6 oz. The Winchells have a daughter, Walda, 8.
Engaged. Lenore Kight, 22, No. 1 U. S. free-style woman swimmer; and Cleon Wingard, 24, Johnstown, Pa. athletic instructor; in Homestead, Pa.
Married. Ernst Lubitsch, 43, Paramount's Production Chief; and Vivian Gave (Sanya Bezencenet), 28, literary agent, onetime pressagent for Cinemactress Sari Maritza; in Phoenix, Ariz.
Left. To the waitresses of Philadelphia's Y. W. C. A. cafeteria: the bulk of the $10,000 estate of Cyrus J. Hull, 83-year-old Philadelphia eccentric who died month ago; as a reward for "cheerful service and kind attention."
Convicted. Noel Charles Scaffa, 46, best-known U. S. private detective (specialty : jewel retrieving); of perjury in testifying before a Federal Grand Jury concerning his part in returning $185,000 worth of jewels stolen in Miami Beach from Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell (TIME, June 10); in Manhattan. Maximum possible sentence: 15 years in prison, $6,000 fine.
Died. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 55, heir to Standard Oil millions, owner of the "world's largest private swimming pool," thrice-married socialite; after long illness; in Southampton, L. I.
Died. Gray Silver, 64, farmer, banker, lobbyist, onetime (1907-15) West Virginia State Senator, onetime head of U. S. Grain Marketing Corp. of Chicago; of a heart attack; in Martinsburg, W. Va. As Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 1920, Lobbyist Silver became known as "the man who runs the farm bloc."
Died. Walter Williams, 71, onetime (1931-34) president of University of Missouri, founder & longtime dean of its pioneer School of Journalism; in Columbia, Mo.
Died. William Mulholland, 79, builder of the 250-mi. $25,000,000 Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand was responsible for this tragedy, that hand was mine. . . . I must have omitted something."
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