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Died. Louis Timothy Stone, 58, managing editor of the Evening Citizen of Winsted, Conn., which he put on the U. S. map with his freak animal stories; after long illness; in Winsted. Famed lies: the 1895 "Winsted Wild Man" who ran naked in the hills, the cat with the harelip that whistled "Yankee Doodle," the spinsters' cow that was too decent to be milked by a man, Pete the tunneling trout, the chilled cow that gave ice cream, the man who kept flies off his bald head by painting on a spider, mares who bore twin calves, and the windstorm that blew a sheet of paper into a typewriter and typed off the alphabet backwards.
Died. Cora Helen Coolidge, sixtyish, able president of Pennsylvania College for Women, sister of Massachusetts' Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge; after long illness; in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Died. Charles Henry Forbes, 66, Phillips Academy's acting headmaster, author (The Sham Argument Against Latin, Chapel Prayers), able woodcarver; of a heart attack; in Andover, Mass.
Died. Robert Beecher Howell, 69, Nebraska's junior U. S. Senator since 1922, chairman of the Senate's Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures; of a heart attack after a neck abscess and pneumonia brought on by overwork; in Washington, D. C. After being a U. S. Navy ensign and a lawyer, he became an Omaha waterworks manager, entered politics via state engineering jobs.
Died. Robert Lee Luce, 70, onetime New York Supreme Court Justice, director of TIME Inc.; of cardio-nephritis; in Manhattan.
Died. Johnny Heinold, 73, keeper of the famed First & Last Chance Saloon in Oakland, Calif., good friend & employer of the late Writer Jack London; after a paralytic stroke; in San Francisco. Advised to make the First & Last Chance, now a soft drink parlor, a Jack London shrine, Heinold answered, "It wouldn't be doing right by Jack to commercialize it that way."
Died. Jane Dowie, 78, relict of founder John Alexander Dowie (Elijah III) of Zion City, Ill., eccentric Evangelist whom she helped depose in 1906 after he was said to have practiced polygamy, and who made & lost $15,000,000 in real estate; in poverty, of a stroke; in Zion City.