Born. To Arthur Train, 53, lawyer-author (His Children’s Children, Tutt and Mr. Tutt), a son, John, in Manhattan, the first child of his second wife.
Engaged. Paul Oscanyan, radio purveyor of news from Greenland; to Helen Sunder, only woman wireless operator in Denmark; by radio, sight unseen.
Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter (“Skyscraper Ballet”), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program.
Eloped. Lois Quantain Clarke, 18, daughter of Lewis Latham Clarke, Executive Chairman of the American Exchange Irving Trust Co. of Manhattan; and John L. de Ruyter, 22, beginner in the advertising business; two months ago; to Elkton, Md.
Elected. Norman Dodge, vice president and general manager of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. (machines which make practically all the type used in U. S. papers and magazines), to be president of the company, succeeding Philip T. Dodge, now chairman of the board.
Died. Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch, 50, Welsh financier and mining potentate; at Buckland, near Bwlch, Breconshire, when the horse he was exercising ran into a telegraph pole. England was waiting to hear of the completion of a merger of Lord Buckland’s Welsh industrial and mining interests with those of Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond.
Died. William Henry Nichols Jr., 54, president of the General Chemical Co., and vice president of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. (of which his father, 75, is chairman of the board) ; of pneumonia; at Oyster Bay, L. I.
Died. Moses Taylor, 57, Manhattan capitalist and famed dog-fancier; of apoplexy; in Mount Kisco, N. Y.
Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer’s “devil” on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis.
Died. Alan Dale (born Alfred J. Cohen), 67, for 33 years incisive dramatic critic of the New York American (Hearst), longer employed in that work than any other Manhattan critic; suddenly, of a heart attack, on a train running between Plymouth and Birmingham, England.
Died. Thomas S. Butler, 72, “fighting Quaker” Chairman of the House Naval Committee; of heart disease; in Washington. (See p. 9.)
Died. George A. Newett, 72, publisher of Iron Ore; at Ishpeming, Mich., after a long illness. In 1913 the late President Theodore Roosevelt sued him for libel, for having described the Roosevelt julep bed, and accused him of intemperance. Editor Newett lost the $10,000 suit, was fined 6¢.
Died. John E. Berwind, 73, active philanthropist, inactive vice president, Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.; of laryngitis, in Manhattan. His business address, No. 1 Broadway, is the location of 14 famed coal companies, 35 smaller fry.
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