Monday, Oct. 15, 1945

Born. To Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 43; and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 38: their sixth child, second daughter; in Manhattan (according to the New York Daily News, unconfirmed by family sources).

Married. Lieut. Hal Surface Jr., 31, prewar tennist of first-ten rank, lately back from three years' army duty in India; and Rita Virginia Foley, 27; both for the first time; in Brookline, Mass.

Married. Judge Bennett Champ Clark, 55; and Actress Violet Heming, 50, both for the second time; in Berryville, Va.

(see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Death Revealed. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, famed Army chaplain ("there are no atheists in foxholes") whose calming voice was heard above the bomb bursts in a Bataan hospital, and later by starving men on a Jap prison ship; of starvation and exposure; on shipboard, early this year. One G.I. said: "I remember wondering how a dying man could have such a strong, clear voice."

Died. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman, 50, fine-feathered (the late Ring Lardner said that she was never seen in the same costume twice, and generally not even once) wife of Playwright George S. Kaufman, free-lance writer, co-author (but not with George) of two plays (The White-Haired Boy, Divided by Three), both flops; after a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Harold Evans Hartney, 57, combat commander (shot down four times ) of World War I's famed First Pursuit Group (Eddie Rickenbacker was a member), later a racing pilot, pioneer in freight-and-passenger flying, adviser to the CAA; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Truman Handy Newberry, 80, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 Senatorial victor over fellow-industrialist Henry Ford; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Following his photo-finish victory over Democratic Candidate Henry Ford, he was convicted of too-lavish electioneering, then exonerated, by Supreme Court reversal of a lower court decision; ten months after he was finally granted the Senate seat, he resigned it, promptly vanished from public life.

Died. Dr. George Coles Stebbins, 99, author of some 1,500 hymns (most famed: There Is a Green Hill Far Away}, choir director who supplied the music for Evangelist Dwight L. Moody's Anglo-American campaigns (in the 187Os) to "Reduce the Population of Hell by a Million Souls"; in Catskill, N.Y.

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