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Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of newspapers; spent his money building more than 300 schools and hospitals (his announced goal: 1,100), promoting Chinese nationalism (he gave the Chungking government $4,000,000 to aid in the war against Japan) and ornamenting his showpiece estates in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Died. Rachel, Lady MacRobert, 74, who gave her home and $180,000 to the R.A.F. after her three pilot sons were killed (one in a civilian plane crash and two in the R.A.F.), thus earned the title "Godmother of the R.A.F."; in Douneside, Scotland (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Don Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, 74, for 25 years archbishop of Milan, Italy's largest diocese (3,000,000 Roman Catholics, including many practicing Communists); of a heart ailment; in Rome. Son of a Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal Schuster entered a Benedictine monastery at eleven, in 1929 became (at 49) the youngest prelate in the College of Cardinals. An outspoken, early supporter of Mussolini's Fascism (he hailed the invasion of Ethiopia as a "triumph of the cross of Christ"), he was pro-Ally in World War II, in 1945 acted as intermediary in unsuccessful surrender negotiations between Mussolini and the partisans. After the war, he became a leading figure in Italy's battle against Communism and anticlericalism.
Died. Dr. Rivers Frederick, 80, who began practicing 56 years ago when there were only five other Negro doctors in New Orleans, became the revered chief surgeon of the Flint-Goodridge Hospital for Negroes, proudly claimed that the hospital's Negro and white doctors had a better racial understanding than any other group in the South; of a heart ailment; in Flint-Goodridge Hospital.
Died. Clement L. Shaver, 87, abstemious lawyer who successfully put over the nomination of fellow West Virginian John W. Davis for President at the famed 103-ballot 1924 Democratic Convention, as national chairman managed Davis' unsuccessful campaign against Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Fairmont, W. Va.