Monday, Oct. 14, 1940
Born. To Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh: their first daughter (name: undecided); in Manhattan (see p. 31).
Birthday. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, his 69th; which he spent at his desk over the world's woes.
Married. Princess Henriette Schoenaich-Carolath, 22, daughter of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern's second wife Princess Hermine; and Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia, 23, son of the ex-Kaiser's sixth son, Prince Joachim Franz Humbert; at Doorn.
Married. Sarah Palfrey, 27, 3rd ranking U. S. woman tennist; and Elwood Cooke, 26, 6th ranking U. S. tennist, of Portland, Ore.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Angel Elizalde, millionaire Manila polo player and sugar magnate, by Marie Spreckels Elizalde, California sugar heiress; in Reno, after she testified her husband of 16 years was "morose."
Died. Walter H. Pollak, 53, lawyer who twice obtained review of the Scottsboro trials by the U. S. Supreme Court; of pneumonia; in Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan.
Died. Henry Horner, 61, Governor of Illinois; of nephritis, after long sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln.
Died. General Ballington Booth, 83, founder of Volunteers of America, brother of Salvation Army's famed General Evangeline Booth; after long illness; in Blue Point, L. I.
Died. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, 83, 1927 Nobel Prizewinner who in 1917 inoculated a paretic with the blood of a malaria-poisoned soldier, risking medical censure to establish the fever cure for syphilitic paralysis; after a long illness; in Vienna.
Died. Mrs. William B. Weeden, 88, first deaf child in the U. S. to be taught to speak and read lips; in Providence, R. I. Daughter of Governor Henry Lippitt, she was stricken at four after an attack of scarlet fever, had Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Educator Horace Mann to teach her.
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