Born. To their Imperial Majesties Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito of Japan; a third daughter; at Tokyo. (See p. 30.)
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston.
Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan; by Mrs. Marie Louise Hamilton, daughter of C. Ledyard Blair, rich Manhattan broker; at Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion, mental cruelty.
Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year."
Died. Frederica Billings, 3, only child of John Shaw Billings (National Affairs Editor of TIME) ; in Atlanta, Ga., of cholera infantum.
Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster boats, two yachts, two seaplanes had searched many days.
Died. Walter C. White, 53, Coca-Cola director, longtime motor maker, who last year sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise U. S. Army motor transport, was made Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur.
Died. Miller J. Huggins, "mite manager" (1918-29) of the New York American League baseball team ("Yankees"); in Manhattan; of erysipelas.
Died. Samuel Clay Hildreth, 63, famed oldtime turfman; in Manhattan; after an operation to correct intestinal disorders.
Died. Baron Giichi Tanaka, 66, onetime (1927-29) Japanese Prime Minister, leader of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party; at Tokyo; of angina pectoris.
Died. Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., 77, son of the U. S. President; at Sandberg Lodge, near Los Angeles, Calif.; of heart failure. A Harvard graduate (1874), for a short time his father's secretary at the White House, he turned to law in Manhattan, practiced there 17 years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost of $1,500,000; 3) His second marriage, to a Mrs. America Workman Will, which was disapproved by Grant friends and kin.*