Born. A son, the firstborn, to Governor and Mrs. Dan Moody of Austin, Texas.
Born. To Mrs. Jacob Bertriscky, 36, of Scranton, Pa., Bridgie & Rosie, sixth set of twins, eighteenth and nineteenth children. Thirteen Bertriscky children live.
Engaged. Christian Keener Cagb. famed West Point and All-American halfback, of Merryville, La.; to Marion Halle of New Roads, La.
Engaged. Clarence R. De Mar, 40, famed marathon runner, of Melrose! Mass.; to Margaret L. Ilsley, religious educator, of Melrose Highlands.
Engaged. Richard Kidston Law. reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, son of the late British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law; to Mary Virginia Nellis of Rochester, N. V.
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of the Republic”), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman.
Married. Diana Gumming, daughter of Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service; and Manville Kendrick, son of Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming; in Washington. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was among the guests. v
Married. Rosabelle Laemmle, daughter of Cinema Tycoon Carl Laemmle (Universal); and one Stanley Bergermann; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Married. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; and the Hon. Michael Scott, heir presumptive to the earldom of Eldon; in Bernardsville, N. J.
Married. Catherina Petronella Smuts, daughter of famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Premier of the Union of South Africa and a founder of the League of Nations; and William Bancroft Clark, great grandson of the late famed orator John Bright, of Street, Somersetshire; in Irene, Transvaal, South Africa.
Re-elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City.
Died. Norman St. Clair Hales, actor of Freeport, L. I.; by falling through a Manhattan firehouse pole-hole on New Year’s Eve. Firemen were in jeopardy; for receiving late visitors, for suspected revels.
Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals.
Died. Frank Henry Teagle, 49, soda fountain manufacturer, brother of President Walter Clark Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; of heart disease; at his home in Cleveland.
Died. Edwin S. Bayer, 59, president of famed Julius Kayser & Co. (hosiery, underwear) son-in-law of Founder Julius Kayser; after an operation; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Joseph Sailer, 61, heart specialist of the University of Pennsylvania, organizer of the National Heart Association; of heart disease; in Philadelphia.
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer—Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim, Mead & White.
Died. J. Horace Harding, 65, famed Manhattan banker, Chairman of American Railway Express Co., many-times director (public utilities, copper, cans, railways); of influenza and blood poisoning; in Manhattan.
Died. Nicholas Nicholaievitch, 72, Grand Duke of Russia; of protracted pneumonia; at Cap d’ Antibes, French Riviera (p. 19).
Died. William Charles Adamson, 74, onetime member of the U. S. Customs Court in Manhattan, onetime U. S. Representative from Georgia, author of the Eight Hour Railroad Bill;— of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. George Lewis (“Tex”) Rickard, potentate of pugilism; in Miami, Fla., where he was arranging a bout between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling. Jack Dempsey was at his deathbed.
Born in Kansas City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation for gangrenous appendicitis.
*Railroadmen prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, except in emergencies; strikes and lockouts illegal, except after 90-day notice; the President empowered to take control of railways in national emergencies.
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