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Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet.
Died. Gilbert Nelson Haugen, 74, longtime U. S. Republican Congressman from Iowa's 4th District, co-author of the famed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill vetoed in 1927 by President Coolidge; of heart disease brought on last winter by influenza; in Northwood, Iowa. When he was displaced March 4 by Democrat Fred Biermann, he had completed 34 consecutive years in the House, an all-time record.
Died. Admiral August Ludwig von Schroeder, 79, "Lion of Flanders," Wartime commander of the German naval base on the Flanders coast, whence he directed Zeppelin raids on London, submarine attacks on Dover; in Berlin. He was one of twelve German admirals whose extradition was sought by the Allied Powers for the much publicized "judicial murder" of Captain Charles Fryatt, executed for trying to ram a U-boat with his noncombatant vessel.
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March 6).