Monday, Nov. 25, 1935

Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge, Oct. 27.

Separation Announced. Cinemactor Clark Gable, 34, from Mrs. Rhea Langham Gable, 45, his second wife, whom he married in 1931.

Acquitted. Robert M. ("Bob") Sweitzer, 67, potent Chicago Democrat, longtime (1910-34) Cook County Clerk; of criminal responsibility for a $414,129 shortage in his official accounts discovered by his successor as County Clerk (TIME, June 17); by a Criminal Court jury; in Chicago. Still promising to make good his shortage as soon as his own auditors could check his accounts, Democrat Sweitzer moved to regain the County Treasurership from which he was ousted last summer when, after promising immediate restoration of most of his shortage, he failed to produce a cent.

Died. Kurt Schindler, 53, composer and conductor, founder and for 17 years leader of Manhattan's famed Schola Cantorum; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank J. Navin, 64, since 1903 president and chief stockholder of the Detroit Tigers; of a heart attack at the Detroit Riding & Hunt Club. For $700 he bought the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb in 1905; last year he paid $100,000 for Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, manager of the team which won its first World Series last month (TIME, Oct. 14).

Died. Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, 67, widow of Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War; at her villa in the French Maritime Alps. A daughter of the first and last King of Montenegro, she was a sister of Queen Elena of Italy and an aunt of the assassinated Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated Dec. 3.

Died. Emile Francqui, 72, Belgium's richest man and No. 1 hard money expert; in Brussels. A burly, morose and solitary man. Francqui put aside his gifted money-making (banks, copper) whenever Belgium reached a financial crisis, twice devalued the Belgian franc, invented the foreign exchange medium of the belga (five Belgian francs). Europe called him "The Mystery Man," and "The Copper King of the Congo," where as a young captain he saved for Belgium from the British the territory in which one of the world's richest copper mines, Katanga, was later discovered.

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