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Died, Henry C. Bohack, 66, president of H. C. Bohack Co., Inc., a chain of 740 grocery stores; of heart disease; in Kew Gardens, L. I. Born the son of a German farmer, he went to the U. S. when he was 17, got a job clerking in a grocery store for $7 per month & board. In three years he saved enough to go into business with a friend, whose sister he later married. He opened the first store under his own name in 1887 at 1291 Broadway, Brooklyn. It is still in operation. In later years he told an interviewer: "Wherever I see baby carriages, I open a new store." In 1900 when he had five stores he retired, went to Germany for a year, but returned and formed the present company. His ambition: to have "the biggest grocery chain in the country—perhaps in the world."
Died. William H. Wattis, president of Six Companies Inc., the syndicate which is building Hoover Dam; of cancer; in San Francisco.
Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward." In 1924 he received the Raphael Hermann peace prize of $25,000. A Cornell graduate, he was president of the National Educational Association in 1915, member of many a learned society, an advocate of simplified spelling. Pioneer "liberal" among educators. Dr. Jordan built up Stanford University, was its well-beloved first president from 1891 to 1913, guided it through difficult financial litigation in 1893, rebuilt it after the earthquake of 1906.
Died. Colonel Zack Mulhall, 84, first Sheriff of Oklahoma, cattleman, Wild West showman; at Mulhall, Okla. where he once claimed 500,000 acres as his "Kingdom," independent of the U. S. He first introduced Will Rogers in a show at old Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. In 1897 he arranged the McKinley inaugural parade, led by Drum-Major Tom Mix at the head of the Oklahoma Territorial band.