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Died, Richard Victor Oulahan. 64, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times, dean of the capital's corps of political writers; of pneumonia; in Washington. Suave, gentle, honest, he was the good friend of every U. S. President since Benjamin Harrison. According to legend he once obtained a statement from Admiral George Dewey which, if released, would have raised a tempest. Instead of rushing it to his paper, tactful Oulahan is supposed to have read it back to Dewey, who promptly withdrew it. Died. Arthur von Gwinner, 75, vice chairman and onetime president of Deutsche Bank; in Berlin. ''The Morgan of Germany," he led his country's financial expansion before the War. As a director of Deutsche Bank he cooperated with J. P. Morgan & Co. in the reorganization of Northern Pacific R. R. in the late 1890s. His godfather was Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Died. Charles Oliver Iselin, 78, retired international banker, yachtsman; after three years illness; in Glen Head, L. I. He won five America's Cup races, defeating the first three of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrocks. Died. General Paul Mary Caesar Gerald Pau, 83, one-armed French hero of the Franco-Prussian and World Wars; in Paris. More loudly acclaimed by press & people than Joffre or Foch in 1914, he was known as the "Flying Commander," organized defenses of critical sectors, executed the maneuver which turned von Kluck's flank in the first Battle of the Marne. Died. Charles Prestwich Scott, 85, longtime editor of the Manchester Guardian; after a chill; in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Editor of the Guardian at 26, he steadily enhanced its prestige as a great defender of Liberalism until his retirement two and a half years ago (TIME. July 15, 1929). An opponent of the Boer War, the Guardian incurred such public disfavor that Editor Scott was compelled to accept police protection. Greatest defeat of his and the Guardian's policies was last year's general election.
Died. Frank S. Lahm, 85, oldtime baloonist, one of the oldest U. S. residents of Paris (since 1883); of heart disease; in Paris. He it was who persuaded James Gordon Bennett to donate his balloon racing trophy, owned the first winning Balloon. Died. Mary Day Lanier, 87, relict of Poet Sidney Lanier, mother of Henry Wysham Lanier, onetime (1925-28) editor of The Golden Book; after a lingering illness; in Greenwich, Conn. One of the South's great poets, Sidney Lanier fought or the Confederacy, was captured, lost iis health in a Union prison. After the war he played first flute in the Peabody concerts at Baltimore, died in Lynn, N. C.. n 1881. His widow edited his letters, read ais verses in public. To her he wrote: . dear eyes, dear eyes and rare complete— Being heavenly-sweet and earthly-sweet, — I marvel that God made you mine, For when He frowns, 'tis then ye shine!