Monday, Dec. 26, 1932
Born. To Charlotte Ariel Gibson, 23, Tappan (N. Y.) socialite; and Sidney Herbert Homewood, 24, riding master, her "seducer under promise of marriage" according to a New City jury & judge who last fortnight convicted and sentenced him to $500 fine and 18 mo. to three years in Sing Sing (TIME, Dec. 19); a girl; in Tappan.
Married. Charles ("Mad Hatter") Butterworth, film & stage comedian (Sweet Adeline, Flying Colors); and Ethel Kenyon Sutherland, actress; in Harrison, N. Y.
Married. Norma, youngest daughter of Texas' Governor Ross Shaw Sterling; and
Cleo G. Miller, Navarro County District Attorney; in the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Tex.
Married. Charlotte Mills, 28, daughter of the late Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills of New Brunswick (N. J.) whose unsolved murder in 1922 under an apple tree in De Russey's Lane, with Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, began the famed Hall-Mills case; and one Harry Joseph O'Neill; in Philadelphia.
Married, Leonora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, British humorist (Leave It to Psmith, Very Good, Jeeves and 37 others); and Peter Cazalet, racehorse breeder; in Shipbourne, Kent, England.
Resigned, John Lord O'Brian, onetime Buffalo law partner of William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan; as Assistant to the Attorney General in charge of anti-trust cases; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Theodore Prentice Noyes, 36, associate editor of the Washington Evening Star, only son of Editor Theodore Williams Noyes, nephew of President Frank Brett Noyes of the Associated Press; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Howard James Cunningham, 41, president of Chicago's Green, Fulton, Cunningham advertising agency; by his own hand (pistol); in Chicago. Accounts: Nash Motor, Kalamazoo Stove.
Died. Alfred Henry, 57, famed Indianapolis doctor; of heart disease; in Indianapolis. Onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association, he was ranked as a crack lung diagnostician.
Died. Clarence Eugene Whitehill, 61, longtime Metropolitan Opera Company baritone; in his Manhattan home; of heart failure during his sleep, four hours after singing at an unemployment relief concert.
Died. Daniel Edward Garrett, 63, eight-time Congressman from Texas (Democrat), member of the potent House Rules Committee; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C. A brother-in-law is Jesse Holman Jones, Reconstruction Finance Corp. director, Houston tycoon.
Died, Nannie French Steele, 66, wife of Morgan Partner Charles Steele, mother of Mrs. Devereux Milburn and Mrs. F. Skiddy von Stade, polo-players' wives; of heart trouble; in Manhattan.
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder."
Died, George E. Careless, 93, Mormon music teacher, Brigham Young's music lieutenant; in Salt Lake City.
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