DEATH OF SENATOR WALSH

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1933, Page 7

DEATH OF SENATOR WALSH

HEART FAILURE ON TRAIN JUST APPOINTED TO CABINET HAD BEEN MARRIED A WEEK HIS FLIGHT FROM HAVANA By Telegraph—Pi-ess Assn.—Copyright. New York, March 2. Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Montana) died suddenly from a heart attack aboard the Atlantic Coastline train near Wilson, North Carolina, early to-day. A week ago he had married Senora Mina Ferez Chaumont Detruflin, widow of a wealthy Havana businessman, whom he had known for three years in Havana. The couple were proceeding to Washington, where Senator Walsh was to take up the duties of Attorney-General in the Roosevelt Cabinet. He was aged 74, and had flown to Cuba and, with his bride, had flown back as far as Miami. Though well-known in his own State of Montana, Mr. Walsh was almost unheard of nationally until his sensational discovery of the payment of 100,000 dollars to Secretary A. B. Fall during the Teapot Dome Pil revelations. He was responsible for the famous report on the oil scandals, the terms of which were later proved to be amazingly impartial. Sena* tor Walsh has always been a “dry” De* mqcrat, a strong believer in the League of Nations and the World Court, an op* ponent of high tariffs, and a loud-voiced protester against the control of Govern* ment affairs, as in the Hoover regime, by “big business.” His last public action was the able control of the stormy Democratic Convention in Chicago. Senator Walsh’s appointment as Attorney-General was announced on Tuesday.