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Died. Right Rev. Christian Schreiber. 61, first Catholic Bishop of Berlin since the Reformation, close friend of onetime Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; in Berlin. Hostile at first to Hitler, he changed his mind after the Papal Concordat with Germany, proclaimed: "Our Chancellor has been appointed by God."
Died. Warren A. Bechtel, 61, president of Six Companies, Inc. (syndicate of contracting companies building Boulder Dam, of which his W. A. Bechtel Co. is one); of an overdose of insulin (diabetes remedy) ; in Moscow, en route to inspect Dnieprostroy Dam.
Died. Dr. Jan Herman van Roijen, 62. Dutch Minister to the U. S. since 1927; in The Hague, where he was on vacation.
Died. Right Rev. John Joseph Dunn, 63, Bishop Auxiliary and Vicar-General of the Roman-Catholic Archdiocese of New York, right-hand man of Cardinal Hayes; of heart failure; in Manhattan.
Died. Georges Jean Claude Leygues. 74, onetime (1920-21) Premier of France, longtime (1917-18, 1921-33) Minister of Marine, known as the "father of the after-War French navy"; of apoplexy; in St.-Cloud.
Died. Dr. Paul Van Dyke, 74, longtime (1898-1933) professor of Modern European History at Princeton University, preacher, author (The Age of the Renaissance, Renaissance Portraits, Catherine de Medicis), brother of Princeton's late patriarchal Henry Van Dyke (TIME, April 17), whom he preceded on the Princeton faculty; at his summer home in Washington, Conn.
Died. Cecile de Wentworth, 80, U. S.-born painter, resident in France since 1886; in poverty at the Municipal Hospital at Nice. For her portrait of Pope Leo XIII she was made a papal Marchesa; for many years she and the late famed Rosa Bonheur were the only women painters to hold the Legion of Honor cross; her work hangs in the Vatican Museum, Paris' Luxembourg, Manhattan's Metropolitan.