Monday, Sep. 29, 1941
Engaged. Cinemactress Ona Munson, 33, the Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind: and ex-FHAdministrator Stewart McDonald, sixtyish, now Deputy Federal Loan Administrator; in Hollywood.
Married. Daisy Hilton, 33, Siamese twin; and Harold Estep, 25, nightclub entertainer; in Buffalo, N.Y. Daisy's sister is Mrs. James Walker Moore.
Divorced. By beauteous Nina Gore Vidal Auchincloss, 38, daughter of ex-Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, ex-wife of Eugene L. Vidal, former Bureau of Air Commerce chief: Hugh D. Auchincloss, 44, Washington and Manhattan broker; in Reno.
Died. Sergeant James Matthew Maxon Jr., 33, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee; in a plane crash during a test flight; "somewhere in England." A bomber and rear-gunner in the R.C.A.F., he had made several flights over Germany.
Died. Anna Lou Boettcher, 37; a suicide by shooting; in the Denver home from which her wealthy husband Charles Boettcher II was kidnapped before her eyes in 1933.
Died. Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, 43, eminent biochemist; a suicide by poison; in Yonkers, N.Y. With the aid of heavy hydrogen and heavy carbon he pioneered in tracing the uses living bodies make of the constituents of food.
Died. Colonel Earl James Atkisson, 55, onetime head of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Department; in Fresno, Calif. During World War I he commanded the only U.S. poison gas regiment.
Died. John Westcott ("Fred Karno"), 75, veteran English music-hall comic and producer; in Parkstone, England. In 1906 he hired an unknown named Charles Chaplin, made him into a music-hall star, took him to the U.S. in 1913, lost him to Mack Sennett.
Died. Thomas Jessup Pancoast, 76, pioneer developer of Miami Beach; in Moorestown, N.J. A leader in the project of transforming the mangrove thickets across Biscayne Bay into fabulously valuable real estate, he grew wealthy as a speculator and property owner, was the first and lifelong president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Died. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, 77, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), Ambassador to Britain (1925-29); in South Darmouth, Mass. Ex-president of the Corning Glass Works, he was known as "the businessman diplomat," was influential in "selling" the Dawes plan to post-World War I Germany.
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