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Died. Zinaide Trotsky Volkov, Leon Trotsky's only surviving daughter, by his first (preWar divorced) wife; by her own hand (gas); in a suburban furnished room in Berlin, Germany. On Trotsky's 1929 exile, her husband was sent to Siberia, she went with her father. When Soviet Russia last year denuded Trotsky and his relatives of citizenship, she lost her passport, became a countryless woman.
Died. Kate Gleason, 67, Rochester gear tycoon, first woman 1) national bank president; 2) receiver in bankruptcy in New York State; 3) member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; of pneumonia; in Rochester, N. Y. Successful at everything (gears, machine tools, real estate), she exported U. S. turkeys to raise French turkey strain, imported French turkey-raisers to raise U. S. turkey-raiser strain. Her will memorialized an oldtime high school teacher with $100,000 for a history alcove in the Rochester Public Library, gave two French estates to the Paris post of the American Legion, $100,000 to "Dr. Lorenzo Kelley" (an error for Baltimore Surgeon & Radiologist Howard Atwood Kelly) and the residuary estate (about $1,000,000) in trust for employe welfare at the Gleason Works.
Died. John Frederick Wolle, 69, famed director of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir; after a long illness; in Bethlehem, Pa.
Died. Charles ("Silent Charley") Wyman Morse, 77, famed in-&-out financial wizard (ice, lumber, banks, insurance, steamship lines, telephones, copper, shipbuilding, stocks of all sorts); of pneumonia; in Bath, Me. In 1907 head of a $60,000,000 steamship combine, nine banks, insurance and telephone companies, he plunged in copper, tumbled. Ruined, convicted of misapplication of funds, he appealed, got out on bail and in two years of court-stalling made $7,000,000, paid off his creditors. Examined in jail, he convinced doctors he would die in six months, won a pity pardon from President William Howard Taft. He made two more fortunes, was indicted twice more, reminisced, "Because I was quiet . . . I was regarded as a 'man of mystery.' "