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Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight.
Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn, 12.
Died. Richard Reti, 40, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, famed chessman; in Prague. His record: 25 games of chess played while blindfolded.
Died. Harry Herbert Frazee, 48, of Manhattan, onetime prizefight promoter, onetime (1915-23) owner of Boston Red Sox, theatrical-producer (A Pair of Sixes, Nothing but the Truth, No No Nanette); in Manhattan.
Died. William Bliss Carman, 68, of New Canaan, Conn., famed poet, descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1928 winner of Canada's Poet Laureate Medal; at New Canaan.
Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy.
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw).
* Son of a Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go—this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please and won't have to worry about the aches and pains. . . . This world has been very good to me. . . ."