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Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square.
Died. Charles Coborn, 93, grand old man of British music halls, who wrote and popularized songs (most famed: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo-); in London.
-"As I walk along the Bois de Boolong, With an independent air, You can hear the girls declare 'He must be a millionaire.' You can hear them sigh and 'wish to die,' You can see them wink the other eye At the man who broke the bank at Monte Car-lo!"