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Died. Norman Edward Mack (McEachran), 74, potent Buffalo Democrat, longtime (1900-32) New York Democratic National Committeeman, publisher of Buffalo's Sunday & Daily Times (sold to Scripps-Howard in 1929 at an estimated price of $5,000,000); of asthma & heart trouble; in Buffalo. Famed as New York's "original Bryan man," he fought for three Bryan nominations (1896, 1900. 1908), stayed regular-party in 1904 when Bryan split. Long a fighter for Prohibition modification, he lined up last February for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President, resigned his National Committeemanship after the convention.
Died. Alexis Caswell Angell, 75, Detroit lawyer (Angell, Turner, Dyer & Meek), brother of Yale's President James Rowland Angell, son of the late James Burrill Angell, onetime president of the University of Michigan; of a heart attack; in Detroit.
Died. Henry Lane Wilson, 76, Ambassador to Mexico during the 1910 revolution and the assassination of President Madero (1913); of pneumonia; in Indianapolis. Son of a U. S. Minister to Venezuela, grandson of the founder of Lafayette (Ind.). he published Lafayette's Journal (1882-85), turned lawyer-banker in Spokane, lost much of his fortune in the 1893 panic.
Died. Katherine Mead Sloan. 81, mother of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp.; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. Brigadier General John Fred Pierson, 93, next to last-surviving Federal general of the Civil War; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Direct scion of Yale's first President Abraham Pierson, he won his generalship in 1865.
Died. Rev. Luther Gustavus Barrett, 94, oldest Harvard College graduate.† onetime (1894-1911) president of Jackson College (Jackson, Miss.); in Melrose,
Mass.
Last: Adelbert Ames, 97, of Tewksbury, Mass.
†New oldest Harvard College graduate: Henry Munroe Rogers, 93, Boston lawyer.