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Died. Edward Joseph Kelly, 74, four-term mayor of Chicago, shrewdest of the four big Democratic city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth. He once addressed Admiral William Halsey as "Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts of a born politician and a hearty love of power. Working his way up in Chicago's Sanitary District from tree-chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss").
The climax of Boss Kelly's career came when he played host to the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago Stadium. To make sure that third-term plans did not fizzle for lack of help from him, he stationed Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. Garry in a basement room fitted with an electrical pipeline to the stadium loudspeakers; on cue, Garry (ever since known as "The Voice from the Sewer") gave out with a clamorous "We want Roosevelt!" chant that was taken up by Kellymen posted about the floor, swelled to a convention-stampeding roar.
Died. Henry Lewis Stimson, 83, lawyer, soldier and statesman, U.S. District Attorney by appointment of Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War under Taft, Governor General of the Philippines under Coolidge, Secretary of State under Hoover, Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt and Truman through World War II; in Huntington, N.Y. (see U.S. AFFAIRS).
Died. Mme. Julie Bienvenue Foch, 90, widow of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Allied Generalissimo in 1918; in Paris.
* The others: Kansas City's late Tom Pendergast, Jersey City's Frank Hague, Memphis' Ed Crump.