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Died. Oscar G. Foreman, 69, retired head of Chicago's Foreman banks which after successive mergers were absorbed in 1931 by Chicago's First National Bank; of anemia; in Chicago.
Died. William Robert ("Will") Wood, 72, longtime (1915-33) Congressman from Indiana, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee; of heart disease; at the Manhattan home of Broker Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, famed Radio specialist. Wizend, hard-working Republican Wood was last Republican chairman (1929-31) of the House Appropriations Committee.
Died. Thomas James Walsh, 73, President Roosevelt's Attorney General-designate; five days after marriage (TIME, March 6), two days before taking office; suddenly, of heart disease; on an Atlantic Coast Line train between Daytona Beach and Washington.
Died. Arthur Hind, 77, Utica, N. Y. plush & hotel man, world's No. 1 stamp collector (after Austria's late Count Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari); in Miami, Fla. Rare stamps: the only known British Guiana 1¢ stamp, 1856 issue ($35,000); the Boscawen (N. H.) "Postmaster" provisional ($12,000); 1¢ and 2¢ 1847 Mauritius "Postoffice" issues ($50,000 for a canceled envelop); Confederate and 1851 Hawaiian "missionary" issues. Bored by his collection's completeness, he tried in vain to sell out in 1929 for $600,000.
Died. Hallie Davis Elkins, 79, potent Washington hostess, daughter of West Virginia's late U. S. Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, relict of its Senator Stephen B. Elkins (President Harrison's second Secretary of War), mother of its onetime (1911, 1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins; of pneumonia & arthritis; in Washington, D. C.
Died. Phantom, 16, famed spaniel of Harvard University's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 76, who habitually hooked his cane through deaf, semi-blind Phantom's collar when crossing streets; of old age; in Cambridge, Mass.
*Name adopted from his first wife Belle Sneider, onetime assistant.
*The first: Carter Henry Harrison in 1893.