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Died. Willard B. Howe, 64, publisher of the Burlington, Vt., Free Press, president of the Vermont Press Association; at Burlington.
Died. Capt. William Edward Luckett, 74, of Washington, D. C., longtime and only civilian pilot of the presidential yacht Mayflower (now decommissioned); in Washington.
Died. William ("Sailor Bin") King, 75, of Bognor Regis, England, onetime shipmate of King George V, first civilian to visit His Majesty after his recent illness (TIME, April 22); at Bognor Regis.
Died. Mrs. Katherine Tingley, 77, of Point Loma, Cal., head of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society; in Stockholm; of heart attack.
Died. James R. Cummins, 82, of Higginsville, Mo., onetime associate of Bandit Jesse James; in the Higginsville Confederate Home.
Died. John Sumner Runnells, 84, board chairman of Pullman Co.; in Chocorua, N.H.
* Mr. Poli was sued last week for $1,300,000, by Edward P. Egan of East Hampton, Mass., Pascuale Breglio and James A. Mahoney of Springfield who claimed the sum as their due commission for negotiating the sale of Mr. Poli's New England cinema theatres (Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Meriden, Bridgeport and Norwich, Conn., Springfield and Worcester, Mass.) for $25,000,000 last year. In August 1928, a month after the sale, Hancock Co. filed an attachment for $1,000,000 commission.