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Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner.
Died. William George Sickel, 61, of Baltimore, onetime president of United American Lines; on board the S. S. Albert Ballin en route from Hamburg to Manhattan.
Died. Alastair Ian Valentine, 73, of Chicago, onetime manager and financial director of Armour & Co., onetime President of the Armour Grain Co. and the Armour Elevator Co.; in Chicago.
Died. Henry Roberts, 76, Hartford, Conn., financier (banks, public utilities), onetime (1905-07) governor of Connecticut; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford.
Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance."
Died. George Augustus Peabody, 97, of Danvers, Mass., oldest living graduate of Harvard College (1852), gentleman farmer, big game hunter, world traveler; in Danvers. Among his classmates was the late Joseph Hodges Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1899-1905).