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Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...
Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...
...front of the Union Station in St. Louis, U.S.A., is a large and undistinguished plaza cleared in 1931 and named after the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe. To St. Louis swelterers for seven summers Aloe Plaza has offered no refreshment beyond the discouraged tentage of a few trees...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
...ballots might be disposed of in one day. That Tammany was as overrepresented as it seemed, they also denied, recalling that two years ago the Democrats elected 95% of the aldermen with 66% of the vote, that in 1931 the 35% of non-Democratic voters got only one alderman out of 65. It was also probably true that many Democrats voted for the Fusion mayor. Democratic councilmen...