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Died. Edgar Byram Davis, 78, eccentric Texas oil millionaire, best known for his support of a famous Broadway flop, The Ladder, which he kept going for two years because he wanted to help its author and spread its message of reincarnation; of a heart ailment; in Galveston, Texas. Davis made a rubber fortune in Sumatra and got $12 million for the sale of his oil wells in Texas, spent his money lavishly on such items as $1,000,000 in bonuses for drillers and a golf course for his Negro servants. The Ladder became a favorite target for reviewers...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
...Myrtle Byram McGraw, 40, is a pretty, jolly woman upon whose slim shoulders rests the imposing title of Director of the Normal Child Development Study of the Department of Pediatrics of Columbia University. Four years ago she stopped teaching toddling moppets long enough to wed, contractually* for speed (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), Research Engineer Rudolph Frederick Mallina. She now has an energetic 3½-year-old daughter of her own, but still spends most of her time trying to find out what makes other people's infants tick...
...Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...
...Norwalk, Conn., hospital lay 71-year-old Chairman Harry E. Byram of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, whose fourth marriage to a 40-year-old divorcee had been hastily postponed. Mumbled he through heavy bandages: "I was sitting in my bedroom when my son-in-law walked in and said: 'I have a wedding present for you.' . . . I closed my eyes . . . felt something cold being pressed against my left temple. . . . Opening my eyes I saw that it was actually a revolver. . . . I felt the bullet plow into my head." In another bed in the same hospital...