Seeking Divorce. Clarence Cleveland Dill, 51, onetime (1923-35) U. S. Senator from Washington; from “General” Rosalie Gardner Jones Dill, onetime militant New York feminist; in Spokane, Wash. Clarence Dill charged that his wife buried dogs and garbage in the backyard, refused to serve enough food to his political guests, told his friends that he was “a political coward” for declining to run for re-election in 1934.
Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her “health wedding” to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a “publicity stunt,” that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico in 1927.
Died. Marilyn Miller, 37, musicomedienne (Sally, Sunny, Smiles); of hyperpyrexia (high fever) following sinus infection and osteomyelitis of the jaw; in Manhattan.
Died. David Huyler, 53, eldest of famed Candyman John S. Huyler’s three sons who, after long intramural litigation, sold their candy business to the Schulte Retail Stores in 1925; in Miami Beach, Fla.
Died. Harry E. Wilken Sr., 63, long-time whiskey distiller, concocter of Wilken Family Blended Whiskey (TIME, Aug. 25), which Schenley Distillers Corp. promoted by homey advertisements showing Wilken’s kin (Sons Harry Jr. & William. Son-in-law Tom) draped around a whiskey keg, smacking their lips, proclaiming to each other: “It’s our family whiskey. Neighbor and neighbor—it’s your price”; of a heart ailment; in Tarentum, Pa.
Died. Nicholas de Paulis, 67. Lausanne delicatessen proprietor who in 1905 hired exiled, half-starved Benito Mussolini as delivery boy for $9.80 & board per month; in Lausanne.
Died. General Jean Baptiste Eugene Estienne, 75. father of the French war tank; in Paris. Watching British tractors haul’up guns behind the lines in 1915. he interviewed Marshal Joffre. got permission to experiment with military tractors. In the second Battle of the Marne in 1918, 700 tiny Estienne chars d’assaut made their first big showing, brushed aside German barbwire and fortifications, were instrumental in the Allied victory.
Died. Right Rev. Dr. John McKim, 83, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years; in Honolulu. When the disastrous Tokyo earthquake of 1923 destroyed most of his church buildings and equipment, he cabled to Manhattan headquarters the phrase now hallowed in mission circles: “All gone but faith in God.”
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