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Died. Harry Beach Clow, 63, president, and Gustav Hessert, 66, treasurer, of Rand, McNally & Co. (maps); after short illnesses; in Chicago, within 24 hours.
Died. Louis Evan Shipman, 64. playwright, onetime (1922-24) editor of Life; of cancer; in Boury-en-Vexin, France, his home since 1925. His most lucrative play was The Crisis, a dramatization of Winston Churchill's Civil War novel.
Died. Ignaz Strassnoff, 65, "King of Hungarian Adventurers," swindler, counterfeiter, blackmailer, bigamist; in Budapest. Awed in boyhood by a strutting Hussar officer, he saw the "hypnotic power" of uniform & monocle, embarked with that equipment on a prodigious career of crookery. His most publicized coup was to gull 40,000 gold crowns out of the Cardinal Prince Archbishop of Hungary by posing as Prince Eszterhazy, Captain of the Royal Hussars. Dying in poverty, he still had his shabby uniform; the monocle fell from his eye as he drew his last breath.
Died. Arthur Powell Davis, 72, engineer on Boulder Dam and many another; after long illness; in Oakland, Calif. An advocate of Government control of power, Engineer Davis was ousted in 1923 as director of the U. S. Reclamation Service. By way of vindication, Secretary of the Interior Ickes appointed him last month as Boulder Dam consultant. Died. Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, 83, famed longtime (1880-1913) managing editor of Charles A. Dana's New York Sun; of kidney disease; in Garden City. L. I. Under his direction the Sun became the U. S. newspaperman's Bible. He was the antithesis of the frantic, barking type of editor; his coolness under pressure and the churchlike quiet of his editorial rooms became legendary. When Dana tore up his Associated Press franchise. Editor Lord calmly sent out wires, next day had all the news, thus built up his own news service. Under him, at one time or another, worked Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Will Irwin, the late Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Frank Ward O'Malley, Walter Prichard Eaton.