Evening star., 1935-12-31
BY MELVIN E. COLEMAN,

Associated Press Biographical Editor.
Political assassination, after long
absence from the American scene,
marked the death list Of 1885 with the
demise on September 10 of Senator
Huey Long of Louisiana, two days
after he had been shot in the State
Capitol at Baton Rouge.
Tragedy, striking swiftly, also made
the year notable through the plane
crash that took the lives of Will Rog-
ers and Wiley Post in Alaska and the
automobile smaSh-up in Switzerland
that killed Astrid. Queen of the Bel
gianS.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, neStor Of the
Supreme Court, Succumbed TO great
age, bequeathing his estate to his
country.
War Figures on Death List"
World War figures passed in Gen.
William l.. Sibert, commander of the
1st Division, A. E. F.; Gen. William
w. Atterbury, head of American mil
itary lines in France; Lord Byng Of
Vimy, Admiral Earl Jellicoe of Jutland
fame, Gen. Alexander Won Linsingen,
who conquered Galicia for the central
powers, and Pilsudski of Poland. With
them went Arthur Henderson, Brit
aims apostle of disarmament.
Feminism lost Jane Addams of Hull
House and M. Carey Thomas Of Bryn
Mawr College.
Among the deaths of the year were:
January George Pierce Baker,
teacher of playwrights at Harvard and
Yale; Msgr John P. Chadwick, chap
lain of the U. S. S. Maine when she
was blown up at Havana in 1898.
January 11-Marcella Sembrich, op-
cratic soprano.
January 24-John Barton Payne, di-
rector of the American Red Cross un-
der four Presidents.
January 26-Admiral Robert E.
Coontz. administrative genius of the
American Navy
February Hugo Junkers, German
airplane designer.
February 9-MrS. Cora Harris, the
circuit riders wife,
February 12-Dr. Lyon G.. Tyler,
Virginia educator and son of President
Tyler.
February 25-Stockton Arson, Texas
educator and Fidus AchateS of Wood
row Wilson.
Holmes Died March 6.
Marcb G N1iyar UyapdaII uoIvoae
Civil War soldier and great dissenter
of the Supreme Court
March 12-Michael Pupin, scientist
and inventor of telephone transmits
sion devices.
March 22-Rev. John w. Cava-
naugh, former president of the Uni
verSity of Notre Dame.
April 8-Adolph S. OchS, newspaper
publisher of New York and Chatta-
nooga; Patrick J. Sullivan, former
Senator from wyoming.
May 12-Marshal Joseph Pilsudski,
Polands emancipator and dictator.
May 13-John S. Cohen, Atlanta
publisher and Georgia Senator.
May 14-Edwin B. Frost, blind as
tronomer of Yerkes Observatory, Will
liams Bay, Wis.
May 21-Jane Addams of Hull
House, Chicago
May 30-William Dudley Foulke
Indiana's contribution to the civil
service reform movement of the '80s
June 6-Lord Byng of Vimy one of
Britains World War idols; Alexandria
Won Linsingen, German soldier, who
defeated the Cars troops in Gahcia
June 15-Edwin P. Morrow, ex-
Governor of Kentucky.
July 3-Andre H. Citroen, "the
Henry Ford of France"
July 12-Maj. Alfred Dreyfus. CEN
ter of Frances great cause celebre."
July 17-Daniel Salamanca, ex-
President of Bolivia.
July 29-Walter Williams, journalist
and ex-president of the University of
Missouri.
July 31-Frederick H. Gillett, ex-
Speaker of the House and former SEN
ator from Massachusetts.
August 5-Frank H. Hitchcock,
former Postmaster General, Repub-
lican campaign manager and news
paper publisher at Tucson, Ariz.
August 15-Will Rogers, actor, and
Wiley Post, around-the-world flyer.
August 26-John N WHY'S, automo-
bile pioneer and ex-minister to Poland.
August 29-AStrid, queen of the
Belgians, in auto crash near Kuss-
nacht, Switzerland
September 8-Edward L. Doheny,
oil magnate accused with Albert B.
Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the
scandals of the Harding admins
tration.
September 10-Huey Long, Senator
from Louisiana, two days after he had
been shot in the State Capitol at
Baton Rouge
September 19-Jules Cambon, French
diplomat, who STAYED of the Euro
pean war on several occasions prior
to 1914.
Atterbury Taken in September.
September 20-William w. After
bury, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and director of American
military lines in France.
September 23-De Wolf Hopper,
actor, who made Casey at the Bat"
known.
October 5-Charles M. Lockwood,
last of Minnesota's Last Mans Club"
October 16-Gen. william L. Sibert,
Panama Canal engineer and COM
mander of the 1st Division, A. E. F.
October 20-Gen. Adolphus w.
Greely, "farthest north" explorer of
the early 80s; Arthur Henderson,
British apostle of disarmament.