Monday, Jun. 08, 1936
Born. To Bao Dai, 23, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; and his Roman Catholic Empress Marie N'Guyen Houhao, 20; a son, their first; in Hue, Annam.
Birthdays. Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne, 2. Already worth $250,000, they received, for three prospective cinemas, $250.000 from Twentieth-Century Fox Films, a lien of 10% on their box-office receipts. They are expected to be worth $900,000 at 4.
His Holiness Pius XI (Achille Ratti), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, 79.
Eloped. Princess Azzah, 30, sister of Iraq's King Ghazi I; and Anastasios Charalambos, a Greek bellhop whom she met in a hotel on the Island of Rhodes; to Athens.
Married. Barbara Phipps, 24, eldest daughter of Manhattan Socialite Henry Carnegie Phipps, granddaughter of late, great Steelman Henry Phipps; and Stuart Symington Janney Jr.; in Roslyn, L. I.
Married. Helen Beall Houston, daughter of President David Franklin Houston of Mutual Life Insurance Co.; and Robert Caldwell Fatten; in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.
Sued for Divorce. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard. 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty. Celebrated for his distance-phobia, he would not travel more than five blocks from his house.
Awarded. To Harold Fowler McCormick, Muriel McCormick Hubbard, Mathilde McCormick Oser, children of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick (International Harvester Co.) and the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick: thirds of the $12.000,000 trust fund set up for their mother by their grandfather John Davison Rockefeller Sr., claimed by Mrs. McCormick's friend Architect Edwin Krenn, to whom she bequeathed five-twelfths of her estate; by the District Court of Appeals; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Retired. Arthur W. Cutten, 65, famed Chicago grain speculator, cleared last month by the U. S. Supreme Court of charges brought against him by the Grain Futures Administration. Cause: heart.
Died. William Waller Brookhart, 3, grandson of Iowa's onetime Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart; struck by an automobile ; in Washington.
Died. Robert B. Delano, 22, son of Manhattan Capitalist Lyman Delano, cousin and onetime Harvard roommate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; by his own hand (shooting); on a plantation near Barranqueras, Argentine Chaco.
Died. Frank Elliott Ball, 33, son of Muncie, Ind.'s Glass-Jar Tycoon Frank Clayton Ball; in an airplane crash; at Findlay, Ohio.
Died. Senator Roberto Forges-Davanzati, 56, editor of Rome's potent La Tribuna, onetime (1924) Secretary General of the Fascist Party; of pneumonia; in Rome.
Died. Ferdinand William Roebling Jr., 57, bridge engineer, president of John A. Roebling Sons, grandson of John Augustus Roebling, who designed and began the Brooklyn Bridge; in Manhattan.
Died. John C. Williams, 60, co-founder and president of West Virginia's Weirton Steel Co., which in 1933 obtained the first court decision outlawing Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act; of a heart attack; in Weirton, W. Va.
Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 67, retired Manhattan banker, landscape artist, son of Painter John La Farge, brother of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, Artist Bancel La Farge, Co-Editor John La Farge, S. J. of Jesuit America; in Manhattan.
Died. William Butterworth, 71, president of Deere & Co. (farm machinery), thrice (1928-31) president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; of acute coronary occlusion; in Absecon, N. J.
Died. Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils ("Annie Laurie," "Winifred Black"), 73-longtime Hearstling, first and most-famed U. S. newspaper sob sister; of apoplexy following diabetes and shingles; in San Francisco.
Died. Cyrus Hall McCormick, 77, Chicago philanthropist, successor of his father as head of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in 1884, successively president and board chairman of International Harvester Co. from 1902 until his retirement in 1935; of heart disease; in Lake Forest, Ill.
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then 75.
Died. Charles John Baron Darling of Langham, 86, witty dean of His Majesty's High Court of Justice; in Lymington, Hampshire. Upped to bench and knighthood in 1897 when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game.
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