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Died. Christopher Carson Thurber, 50, since 1921 abroad for the Near East Relief and Director in Greece, since 1926. officially called Greece's "precious collaborator and great friend;" sufferer from the after-effects of typhus and of a severe flogging by Turkish gendarmes; of a paralytic stroke; at Athens. Expenses of the funeral, "most impressive tribute ever paid to a foreigner by the church and State," were met by the Greek Government.
Died. Samuel Brinckerhoff ("Brink") Thorne, 56, much-famed (1893, 1894, 1895) Yale footballer, subsequently coalman, sportsman, naturalist, secretary of the American Museum of Natural History, backer of the Museum's bird-collecting expeditions in Africa; of heart failure while apparently recovering from a slight operation on an injured hip; in Manhattan.
Died. William Wilson Cook, 72, one-time general counsel for Postal Telegraph and other Mackay companies, famed authority on corporation law, donor while alive of $3,000,000 to the University of Michigan, author (Cook on Corporations, Power and Responsibility of the American Bar, Principles of Corporation Law, American Institutions and their Preservation); after a brief illness; at Port Chester, N. Y.
Died. William McAdoo, 76, New York City's chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey representative in Congress, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy (resigned to permit appointment of Theodore Roosevelt), onetime Police Commissioner of New York City, long a reforming force in the city courts, author (Guarding a Great City, When the Court Takes a Recess); of apoplexy and arteriosclerosis after a severe cold: in Manhattan.
Died. Sir Herbert Warren, 77, onetime president of Magdalen College, Oxford. He superintended the education of the Prince of Wales, of Prince Chichibu of Japan.
Died. King Tut, P.D., 8, German Shepherd dog reared by President & Mrs. Hoover; six months ago (but not disclosed until last week). When the Hoovers moved from S Street to the White House, King Tut was taken along, with Mrs. Hoover's Irish wolfhound and collie. Nightly he patrolled the South Grounds, grew restless, irritable. Year ago he was sent back to the S Street house to live with Senator Walcott of Connecticut & family.
*It was the eleventh Chicago murder in ten days credited to underworldlings.