Milestones, Sep. 19, 1932

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Reconciled. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallée, crooner; and Fay Webb Vallée. At midnight of her first day in Reno, Mrs. Vallée telephoned "many many minutes" to her husband in Atlantic City. Next day she said: "I was just a little fool. . . . We love each other more than ever now." He exhibited to reporters a telegram: "I will love only you always." Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Julia Davis Adams, daughter of famed Democrat John William Davis: Boston Socialite William McMillan Adams, who has been U. S. Rubber Co.'s representative in Denmark. Died. Professor William C. Schluter, 38, able professor of finance in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia. At his death were detectives with a warrant charging him with attempted rape of Negress Victoria Jones, 21. Died. Gerardo Scarpato, 42, Brooklyn racketeer; of strangulation. He was the fifth man to die in supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant at Coney Island. Although Scarpato presented a perfect alibi, he lived in mortal dread of vengeance, insisted that police record his fingerprints, had his full name tattooed on his left arm. Died. Florence Agnes Amberg Hurley, 47, second wife of famed Chicago Businessman Edward Nash Hurley; of injuries received in an automobile accident; at Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties, was attending a directors' meeting of Central Illinois Co. when he was told of his wife's injuries. He reached his wife five minutes after her death, resolved on an investigation of the Illinois Central grade crossing where a locomotive hit Mrs. Hurley's La Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from injuries inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y. Died. Magnus Washington Alexander, 62, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An expert on industrial planning, in 1928 he called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty, The Right of Way, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Trespasser, The Power and the Glory, etc., etc.) ; after a heart attack; in London. At Trinity College, Toronto, he passed his examination for deacon's orders in the Church of England, turned literature lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever seen. Having burnt them all, he noticed a woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress Amy Van Tine in 1895, was knighted in 1902, raised to a