Monday, Jun. 01, 1936
Married-- William Bateman Leeds, 34, son & namesake of the late tin-plate tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vallee, 34; by Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee, 29, daughter of the chief of police of Santa Monica, Calif.; after three years of litigation; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty. Divorced. Alistair MacDonald. 37, architect son of Britain's Lord President of the Council Ramsay MacDonald; by Mrs. Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which in 1919 made the first transatlantic flight; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif.
Died. Most Rev. Pascual Diaz y Barreto, 59, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico since 1929, twice exiled, often arrested during the State's 20-year wrangle with the Church; of colitis; in Mexico City.
Died, Randolph Perkins, 64. Jersey City, N. J. attorney, since 1920 a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a kidney infection; in Georgetown. D. C.
Died. Samuel James Guernsey, 66, longtime curator of Harvard's Peabody Museum, pioneering archeologist whose researches established the existence of a North American race antedating the Pueblo-dwellers; of a pulmonary disease; in Arlington, Mass.
Died. Walter Laidlaw, 75, census authority and Presbyterian founder of potent Federation of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
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