Engaged. Frances Parker, of Rye, N. Y., daughter of Board Chairman Junius Parker of American Tobacco Co.; to Alexander C. Neave, Manhattan lawyer.
Married. Elizabeth Stebbins Walbridge, of Manhattan, daughter of George Hicks Walbridge (Schick razors); and Kennedy Brown Bailey, of Cleveland; in Manhattan.
Married. June (Howard-Tripp), British musical comedienne, lately starred on Broadway in Polly (a failure); and John Alan Burns, fourth Baron Inverdyde, 32, of Wemyss Castle, Renfrewshire; in London.
Married. Clarence G. Marshall, of Washington, managing editor of the United States Daily; and Mrs. Pocahontas Booker, Manhattan widow; in Manhattan.
Elected. Henry Hoyns of Manhattan, vice president of Harper & Bros, (publishers); to be president, succeeding Douglas Parmentier, who resigned to travel.
Died. Alexander Melville, of Glasgow, who wrote many of Scotch Comedian Harry Lauder’s famed songs (“Killie-crankie,” “Tobermory,” “Risin’ Early in the Mornin’ “); in Glasgow. He, liberal, grew poor, lived on the charity of friends.
Died. Lucien Coy Esty, 30, of New Haven, Conn., co-author (with Justin Spafford) of the first Ask Me Another book; Amherst alumnus, graduate student in English at Yale University; of pneumonia ; in New Haven.
Died. Willard L. Velie, 32, of Moline, Ill., acting president of Velie Motor Corp., son of the late president W.L. Velie who died last October; of heart disease; in Moline.
Died. Roscoe Bradbury Jackson, 50, of Detroit, automobile pioneer, organizer and president, since 1923, of Hudson Motor Co.; of influenza; in Mentone, France.
Died. Clarence Mayo Hollingsworth, 56, of Steubenville, Ohio, vice president of Ohio Valley Clay Co.; after drinking disinfectant; in Montreal, Canada.
Died. Jesse Tyler Dingee. 63, Brooklyn, N. Y., cork tycoon; in Brooklyn. Unable to walk for 15 years, Corkman Dingee conducted his extensive business interests from bed.
Died. Lottie Williams, 63, ot Manhattan, relict of the late great negro comedian Bert Williams; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank J. Martin, 64, of Seattle, organizer and president of Northwestern Mutual Fire Insurance Assn., Prominent Baptist; in Seattle.
Died. Alcide Mussolini, 64, of Predappio, Italy, foreman of sulphur mines, uncle of Premier Benito Mussolini; in Bologna. He was buried beside his brother Alessandro, father of the Premier.
Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers.
Died. Otto Sternoff Beyer, 70, of Brooklyn, N. Y., engineer, scion of Esthonian nobility; of hardening of the arteries; in Brooklyn. Engineer Beyer developed a vacuum method of filling milk bottles, automatic cigaret-making machinery, high speed compressors, canning machinery.
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France’s Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of “the Dreyfus case.”
Died. Aad John Vinje, 72, of Madison, Wis., Norway-born Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; after a long illness; in Madison.
Died. Samuel Rea, 73, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., onetime president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (see p. 58).
Died. George A. Huhn, 79, retired Philadelphia banker, stockbroker and traction financier; in Overbrook, Pa.
Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin (‘Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown.
Died. Aurelius B. Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas.
Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo.
Died. Albert, 41, five-ton dean of the Ringling circus pachydermous corps. Eleven years ago Asiatic Albert (Elephas maximus) was smitten by hay fever, with earth-shaking results. Since then, the snuffling bull has been permitted to spend his years beneath the Florida sun; but this spring it was decreed that Albert should journey northward. The unwell ungulate journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus’s splendiferous opening in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden. Thus did Albert serve his owners even in death.
* The Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. The club’s favorite brew is a mixture of beer and gin.
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