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Died. Dave Miller, 36, manager of Middleweight Champion Freddie Steele; after a mastoid operation; in Tacoma, Wash.
Died. Earl C. Thompson, 59. insurance broker, one of the nine original backers of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's 1927 non-stop night from New York to Paris; of dermatomyositis (inflammation of the muscles); in St. Louis.
Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Died. Albert Arthur Tilney, 69, chairman of the board of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., president of the New York Clearing House Association; at a fishing lodge in eastern Canada.
Died. Frederick Burr Opper, 80, famed comic artist, creator of "Happy Hooligan," longtime potent political cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst; of heart disease ; in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Died. Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, 83, longtime (1890-1921) President of Western Reserve University, author of some 50 books on education and allied subjects; in Cleveland, Ohio.
Died. Wilbert Lewis Smith, 85, industrialist, one of the organizers of L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., chairman of the board of L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; in Syracuse, N. Y.
Died. David Corser, 91, for 50 years (until 1933) a doorkeeper of the United States Senate; in Contoocook, N. H. He was one of Union General Philip Sheridan's Scouts.
*Equally potent are the branches of the Rothschild family in France, Germany, Austria.