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...converted to Catholicism. ¶Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle...
...Davis Williams Cheever Scholarship is awarded to Robert E. Brownlee of Geneva, New York; while David M. Greeley is the recipient of a Charlotte Greene Scholarship. John Thomson Taylor Scholarships have been presented to George T. Howard, Jr. of Lexington, Kentucky; and Donald DeW. Parker of Pasadena, California. Henry H. Work, Jr. of Buffalo, New York is to receive the C. Eugene Gunther Scholarship...
...students have been granted fellowships for 1934-35. James Jackson Cabot Fellowships have been given to John C. Snyder 3M of Pasadena, California; and Henry S. Bennett 2M of Tottori, Japan. John R. Mote 3M of Tucson, Arizona has been named to receive the George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship; and Dale G. Friend 3M of Missouri Valley, Iowa is the recipient of the Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fellowship. The John Ware Memorial Fellowship has been granted to Philip F. Partington 3M of East Orange, New Jersey...
...Year's Day rain in southern California ruined a great deal more than the Tournament of Roses pageant at Pasadena. For 30 hours it came down in silvery sheets-eight inches of it in Los Angeles, a whole foot in Pasadena. From fire-scarred hillsides the water spilled down in yellow torrents into every gully, inundating roads, washing away bridges, flooding towns. When the storm subsided, at least 31 persons were dead, scores were missing. In La Crascenta, a 25-ft. wall of water struck a building where the Red Cross was giving first aid, milled the building...
...Tournament of Roses Committee of Pasadena, Calif, omitted its usual invitation to lynch-loving Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., sent one to Herbert Hoover instead...