Monday, Oct. 03, 1938
Born. To Peggy Conklin, 29, sometime cinemactress (The President Vanishes), stage star (The Petrified Forest; Yes, My Darling Daughter), and her Manhattan broker husband, James Daniel Thompson: their first child, a daughter; in Greenwich, Conn.
Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring.
Married. Colonel-General Walther von Brauchitsch, 57, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army; and Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a retired Silesian judge; in Salzbrunn, Germany. General von Brau-chitsch's marriage was socially "possible." Last January Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg married ("impossibly") a carpenter's daughter, lost his job as War Minister a month later.
Birthday. Mickey Mouse, world's most celebrated cinemactor, his tenth; in Hollywood.
Died. Rev. Walter Gerard Summers, S. J., 49, head of Fordham University's department of psychology; of coronary thrombosis; in The Bronx. Father Summers invented a lie detector (psychogal-vanometer), which registers the variation in the minute electrical currents coursing through the body, claimed 100% accuracy for it. Last March, in Queens County Court, N. Y., his lie detector was the first to be accepted as a creditable witness in a New York criminal court.
Died. Ervin J. Smith, 50, president of International Secret Service Association Inc., famed private detective who investigated the Black Tom explosion, the Leo Frank case, the death of Starr Faithfull; by his own hand (shooting); in Manhattan. Once a group of skeptical New Yorkers hired him to rig out some of his men in frock coats, send them to the lectures of Explorer Frederick Cook to heckle him with troublesome questions.
Died. Arthur William Savage, 83, inventor of the first repeating sporting rifle adaptable to smokeless powder ammunition (the Savage 303), founder of the Savage Arms Corp. of Utica, N. Y.; by his own hand (with a Smith & Wesson .44); in San Diego, Calif.
Died. Charles Cruft, 86, "greatest of dog showmen," organizer of Great Britain's famed Cruft's Dog Shows; of heart disease; in London. In 1891 Queen Victoria gave Cruft's the cachet which has made it Europe's greatest dog show by entering her collie and three Pomeranians. At its Golden Jubilee Show two years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered.
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