Monday, Aug. 30, 1937

Married. Cinemactress Anne Shirley; to Cinemactor John Howard Payne, grandnephew of the composer of Home, Sweet Home; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Engaged. Farouk I. King of Egypt, 18; and his childhood friend, Sasi Naz Zulficar, 16-year-old daughter of a judge in the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals, granddaughter of onetime Premier Mohamed Said Pasha; in Cairo. The wedding date, Miss Zulfkar's 17th birthday, is almost a year away.

Sued. By Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck: her onetime husband, Funnyman Frank Fay; for a division of joint property held at the time of their divorce in December 1935; in Los Angeles.

Left. By Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice, donor to Harvard of its famed Widener Memorial Library: life interest in an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000; to her husband, Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice. On the event of Dr. Rice's death, Mrs. Rice's estate is to be divided between her surviving son and daughter.

Died. Mrs. Florence Pitman Temple, 40, wife of Radio Engineer John Temple, wife from 1916 to 1929 and mother of the two sons of President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; by falling or jumping from an 11th story hotel window; in Manhattan.

Died. Paul B. Hoeber, 53. longtime medical book publisher, founder of the unique Annals of Medical History; of perforated stomach ulcer, after nine weeks' hospitalization; in Manhattan.

Died. Rodolfo Chiari, 67, onetime (1924-28) President of the Republic of Panama, leader of the powerful Liberal Party in Panama; in Los Angeles.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gomez, 67, mother of ace New York Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez; in Rodeo, Calif, (see p. 47).

Died. Baron Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, 82, most typical pre-War member of Germany's land-owning Junkers, author of the famed phrase: "A lieutenant and ten men would be enough to lay the ghost of parliamentary government in Germany"; in Marienwerder, East Prussia.

Died. George Wright, 90, shortstop on the Cincinnati Red Stockings (first all-professional baseball team), founder of the sporting goods firm of Wright & Ditson, establisher of the first golf course in Boston at Franklin Park; in Dorchester, Mass.

Died. John Sanderson Dalziel, 98, wood engraver, friend of Charles Dickens, son of one of Dickens' publishers, illustrator for Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen; in Denver, Colo.

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