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Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy.
Died. Joseph Leblang, 57, founder and proprietor of Joe Leblang's Central Agency for Amusements Inc. and Public Service Ticket Office Inc.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A Hungarian Jew, he was the first ticket broker to buy up blocks of seats, sell them at cut rates. Early this year he took over the distribution system planned by the League of New York Theatres with Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. to reduce ticket speculation. Through his agencies, his real estate deals, his backing of Broadway productions he accumulated some $20,000,000. Among many plays which he saved from failure: Rose Marie, Abie's Irish Rose, The Cat and the Canary.
Died. Howard W. Charles, 65, president of Charles & Co., grocers, after 50 years in the business founded by his father; at his home in Manhattan.
Died. Joseph Bodine Terbell, 68, board chairman of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., director of Guaranty Trust Co., American Sugar Refining Co., et al.; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Robarts Addicks, 70, gas engineer, senior vice president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, onetime (1904-12) president of United Electric Light & Power Co., director of many a utility corporation; of pneumonia, on his 70th birthday; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Edward Robinson, 72, director since 1910 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, onetime (1885-1902) curator, later director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; after several months illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Francis Alonzo Hardy, 80, one-time president of Diamond Rubber Co., onetime board chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co., founder of F. A. Hardy & Co., Chicago optical company which merged with American Optical Co.; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle.
*Largest recorded literary estate. Others: Stanley Weyman, historical romancer ($497,000); Charles Dickens ($400,000); Anthony Trollope ($350,000).