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Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable.
Died. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected.
Died. Doña Rosa Ester Rodríguez de Alessandri, wife of President Arturo Alessandri Palma of Chile; of peritonitis; in Santiago.
Died. Alfred William Erickson, 60, Manhattan adman (McCann-Erickson), one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, board chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. (linoleum); of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Charles Edward ("Ed") Ballard, 63, oldtime hotelman, gambling house and circus proprietor of French Lick, Ind.; from a bullet fired by his onetime Partner Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander of Detroit, who next shot himself; in Hot Springs, Ark. (see p. 27).
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, 65, Naval Aide to King Edward VIII, who rose from a cadet at 13 to first lieutenant in the Boer War, Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1931; in London. When Atlantic Fleet sailors rebelled at pay-cuts in 1931, he dashed to Invergordon, quelled mutiny.
Died. Henry Bourne Joy, 72, onetime (1905-16) president of Packard Motor Car Co.; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks.
Died. Grant McCargo, 72, onetime (1928-32) president of Standard Oil Co. of Pa., for 25 years head of Pittsburgh Hotels Corp.; in Pittsburgh.
Died. Colonel Moorhead Cowell Kennedy, 74, onetime (1920-32) vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Wartime deputy director-general of transportation for the A. E. F.; in Chambersburg, Pa. Famed were the annual outings at his estate, Ragged Edge, to which special trains from Washington and Philadelphia took Governors, Senators and tycoons.
Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday.