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Died. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, 87, onetime (1924-29) Secretary of the Navy; of a circulatory ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Chief Justice of the California supreme court when Calvin Coolidge appointed him to the Cabinet in the nasty wake of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil-reserve scandals, Jurist Wilbur was one of the first to warn against Japanese and Communist imperialism, tried without success to push a $725 million naval-expansion program through the disarmament-and-economy-minded Coolidge Congress.