Monday, Feb. 20, 1939

Born. To David Jerome Hopkins, 23, son of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins; and Cleome Cerentha ("Cherry Blossom") Preisser Hopkins, 20, onetime Follies dancer; a daughter, their first child, the Secretary's first grandchild; in Manhattan.

Born. To Margaret Brooke ("Maggie") Sullavan, 27, stage & screen star (Stage Door, Three Comrades) ; and Screen Agent Leland Hayward; a daughter, their second child; in Hollywood. Name: Bridget.

Born. To Princess Kyra, 29, sister of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrilovitch, pre tender to the non-existent Russian throne; and Prince Louis Ferdinand, 31, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; a son, their first child; in Berlin.

Divorced. Edward ("Mickey") Walker, 37, onetime world's middleweight and welterweight boxing champion; by Clara Frances Walker, 27; in Newark, N. J.

Grounds: misconduct.

Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME, Jan. 30).

Died. Peter Verigin ("Peter the Sec ond"), 53, leader of Western Canada's 15,000 Doukhobors; in Saskatoon, Sask.

Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government.

Died. Jesse Root Grant, 80, nephew of President Ulysses S. Grant; of exposure and starvation; in Chicago.

Died. Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, 81, 261st Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Pri mate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, absolute sovereign of Vatican City, spiritual sovereign of 331,500,000 Roman Catholics; of cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances; in Vatican City (see p. 42),

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