Birthday. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League, who said: "I'm confident this movement will be successful during my lifetime"; his 85th.
Engaged. Frances Tracy Pennoyer, 19, wealthy debutante granddaughter of Banker J. P. Morgan; and August Hamilton Schilling, 25, Manhattan engineer son of San Francisco Utilities Executive Rudolph Schilling.
Died. Robert Carrothers, 18, national junior tennis champion; in an overturned car after a tire blowout on a road near San Diego, Calif.
Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah, N. Y.
Died. Dr. Chang Shan-tse, 62, China's famed tiger painter (TIME, July 24, 1939); of heart disease; in Chungking. Born of a Catholic Chinese mother, Artist Chang was converted to Catholicism in 1937, received his Church's last rites from his friend Bishop Paul Yu-pin, highest Catholic cleric in China.
Died. Matthew ("Matt") Chauncey Brush, 63, retired (1933) head of American International Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Among present-day Wall Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs, others as small as doodlebugs.
Died. Dr. Fred Puleston, 78, who in his adventurous life was a prisoner of Jesse James, knew the Irish Patriot Sir Roger Casement, Explorer Henry M. Stanley and Missionary David Livingstone, saw his own brother eaten by a crocodile in the Congo and wrote a book about it all (African Drums, 1930); in Daytona Beach, Fla. His last request: that his death be noted in TIME.
Died. John N. Ridgely, 107, Civil War veteran; in Portland, Ore. Last year he objected that his 78-year-old son was too old to be appointed guardian of his $77,000 estate, got his great-granddaughter appointed personal guardian instead, and a bank to manage his affairs.