Monday, Apr. 17, 1939
Born. To Zog I, 43, Mohammedan King of the Albanians; and his wife, Catholic Queen Geraldine, 23; a son; their first child and Albania's Crown Prince; in Tirana.
Married. Lynn Patrick, 26, professional hockey-player (New York Rangers) and son of the team's manager, Lester Patrick; and Dorothea Davis, 18, beauteous John Powers model; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Sacha Guitry, 54, French actor-author-director; by Jacqueline Delubac (Isabelle-Jacqueline Basset), his third wife and leading lady; in Paris. Grounds: desertion. Sacha Guitry's other two marriages were also to his leading ladies (Charlotte Lyses, Yvonne Printemps); both also ended in divorce.
Died. Douglas D. H. March, 52, Curator of the Old Panama Zoo; from the bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama Zoo.
Died. Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, onetime Tasmanian school teacher, outstanding labor leader, since 1932 Prime Minister of Australia; of a heart attack; in Sydney.
Died. Charles Rupert Stockard, 60, famed biologist, president of the board at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, longtime head of the anatomy department at Cornell University's Medical College; of heart disease; in Manhattan. After a 17-year experiment with guinea pigs, Dr. Stockard asserted that a moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the human race.
Died. James Hamilton Lewis, 72, Democratic whip and longtime Senator from Illinois; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington, D. C. A starveling Seattle lawyer at 22, a courtly Congressman-at-large at 32, long noted in the Senate for his pink whiskers and noble verbosity, Jim Ham Lewis observed shortly before his death that nowadays age 60 was a man's political prime.
Died. Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 73, inventor of many improvements in modern printing presses, and first president of the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers; of a streptococcic infection; in Manhattan.
Died. William Hallock Park, 75, specialist in the public health aspects of diphtheria, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, sometimes called "the American Pasteur"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
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