Monday, May. 31, 1937
Born. To Glenn Cunningham, 27, world's fastest miler, and Mrs. Margaret Speir Cunningham: a daughter; in Newton, Kans.
Born. To Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 35; and Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 29: a son, their third; in London (see p. 45).
Married. Clara Johns, 24, elder sister of Charlie Johns, the Sneedville, Term, hillbilly who four months ago married Third-Grader Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8); and Herbert Winstead, 17, Eunice's elder brother; at New Hope, Tenn.
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier, 56, Democratic National Committeewoman for Texas ("The Woman Who Saved the Alamo"), wealthy rancher; from Henry Hulme ("Hal") Sevier, 59, onetime (1933-35) U. S. Ambassador to Chile, founder of the Austin (Tex.) American; in Corpus Christi, Tex.
Died. Manuel C. Tellez, 52, onetime (1925-31) Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., later (1934) Minister to Italy, one-time newshawk; of heart disease; in Mexico City.
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra.
Died. Count Francis Harrach, 67, aide-de-camp to the late Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand; in Vienna. At Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, Count Harrach stood on the left running-board of the Archduke's automobile, unsuccessfully attempted to shield him from Gavrilo Princip's fatal bullet.
Died. George Isaac Hughes, 97, Confederate veteran who attracted the attention of the American Medical Association by fathering a boy (Franklin Roosevelt Hughes) at 94 and at 96 a girl by his young second wife (TIME, Nov. 11, 1935 & June 15); at New Bern. N. C. By his first wife he had 16 other children.
Died. John Davison Rockefeller, 97; of sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles); at "The Casements," at Ormond Beach. Fla. (see p. 72).
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