POLITICAL NOTES: North Shore Scion

Sons of rich Chicago men have little trouble keeping in the local public eye. Less trouble than most had James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s yellow-haired, young-looking board chairman. He married Alicia Patterson, daughter of the publisher of the New York Daily News, at the age of 22. In 1928, a year later, they separated, were divorced last year. He continued steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally by himself & wife, he announced that he was a candidate for Congress in the North Shore district. He has a country place near Milburn, west of Waukegan. Mrs. Simpson said that unless he ran on a Wet platform, he could not serve drinks there any more.