Monday, Feb. 17, 1941
Engaged. Emer De Valera, second daughter of Eire's Premier Eamon De Valera, student at University College, Dublin, and a whiz in languages; and Brian Ocuiv, also a student at University College; in Dublin.
Married. Frances Tracy Pennoyer, 19, granddaughter of Banker J. P. Morgan; and August Hamilton Schilling, 25, Manhattan engineer son of San Francisco Utilityman Rudolph Schilling; at Locust Valley, L. I. Banker Morgan was in his usual front pew.
Divorced. Amon Giles Carter, gusty, high-heeled publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; by his second wife, Nenetta Burton Carter; after 22 years of marriage; in Fort Worth.
Died. Howard Heinz, 63, president and son of the founder of H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 Varieties"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Philadelphia.
Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston, S. C.
Died. Aimee Crocker, 78, multi-spoused heiress to the Crocker gold and railroad fortunes, pre-earthquake belle of San Francisco; in Manhattan. Her first husband reputedly won her in a poker game. Of the next four two were Russian princes. In 1936 she wrote an autobiography (And I'd Do It Again). Concluded she: "Husbands have little to do with people."
Died. Reed Smoot, 79, from 1903 to 1933 Utah's stern, fiscally-minded Senator, co-author of the Smoot-Hawley sky's-the-limit tariff of 1930, longtime Congressional arbiter of Government finance, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Latter-day Saints; at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Died. Robert Walton Moore, 81, shrewd, leathery Virginia politico,' most intimate personal friend of Cordell Hull, Congressman for six terms, Assistant Secretary of State 1933-37, Counselor of the Department since 1937; of pneumonia; at his Fairfax, Va. home.
Died. Willis Van Devanter, 81, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1910 to 1937; of a heart attack; in Washington. One of the four conservative justices whose undeviating hostility to New Deal legislation led to the Administration's bill to enlarge the Court's membership, Van Devanter announced his retirement in the thick of the 1937 fight, thus helped defeat the President's bill.
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