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Married. Vivian Duncan, dancer (punched in the eye two weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 4); to Nils Asther, Swedish film star; in Reno, Nev...
Died. Hazel Lee Roberts Johnson, 36, daughter of famed Mayor-Judge Edwin Ewing Roberts of Reno, Nev., wife of Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, famed oldtime baseball pitcher, now manager of the Washington "Senators"; of pleurisy after a short illness; in Washington...
Work on Boulder Dam, world's highest (727 ft.), was ready to start last week. Congress had appropriated $10,660,000 to get the $165,000,000 project under way. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur approved a construction order which was telegraphed to Las Vegas, Nev., where Walker R. Young, resident U. S. engineer, received it. Said Secretary Wilbur: "With dollars, men and engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived...
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia...
Divorced. William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, portraitist; by Frances Starr, famed Belasco-developed actress; in Reno, Nev...