Married. Thomas Joseph Qualters, 33, onetime Notre Dame football player, onetime Massachusetts State policeman, successor since last December to the late Gus Gennerich as bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn. Two days after the ceremony, they were separated, Mrs. Qualters settling down to furnish an apartment in Washington while Bodyguard Qualters went west with the President (see p. 11).
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 29, formerly Divorcée Mayme Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions."
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, onetime ballroom dancer and fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced.
Retired. Charles D. Hilles, 70, who as Chairman of the Republican National Committee ran the unsuccessful Presidential campaigns of William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes, and for 20 years remained the dominant figure of Republican politics in New York, as Republican National Committeeman from New York.
Died. Grenville Temple Emmet, 60, U. S. Minister to Austria; of double pneumonia after a two-day illness; in Vienna. Minister Emmet, a great-grand-nephew of famed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, was a onetime law partner of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, onetime (1934-37) U. S. Minister to The Netherlands. He assumed the Austrian Ministry just ten days before his death.
Died. William Henry Crocker, 76, San Francisco banker, onetime president of the Crocker First National Bank; in Hillsborough, Calif. Banker Crocker, a conservative Republican, was once a political arch-enemy of Hiram Johnson. When Charles Evans Hughes made his ill-fated 1916 Presidential campaign visit to California, Banker Crocker was credited with being largely responsible for his failure to meet Hiram Johnson, an omission which according to political legend kept Candidate Hughes from being elected President.