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Died. William Jerome McCormack, 74, New York City waterfront's tough, shadowy "Mr. Big," a millionaire industrialist and labor manipulator who began his career at 15 as wagon boy on a onehorse truck, wound up owner of a large stevedoring concern and assorted oil, sand-and-gravel, barge, dredging and contracting companies, and became easily one of the most influential forces in the fierce jungle of the city docks; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Spencer Williams, 75, Negro jazz composer and pianist who, in a long career beginning in 1915, turned out a hit parade of pop standards that included I Ain't Got Nobody, Basin Street Blues, Twelfth Street Rag, Careless Love and She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain; of cancer; in New York City.
Died. James Thomson Shotwell, 90, distinguished Canadian-born U.S. diplomat and historian (editor of the 150-volume Economic and Social History of the World War), longtime (1908-42) Columbia University history professor, past president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and tireless advocate of international political cooperation, who served as U.S. delegate to the 1918 Versailles peace conference, founder of the International Labor Organization and International Court, chairman during World War II of the Shotwell Commission to study peace, and member of the U.N. Charter-drafting committee; of a stroke; in Manhattan.
Died. John William Haussermann, 97, the Philippines' "gold king," a one-time Leavenworth, Kansas attorney who fought in the Spanish-American War in Manila and stayed on to become the city's leading lawyer, took over the bankrupt Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. and built it into a $100 million empire before the 1941 Japanese invasion, returned from the U.S. after the war to reconstruct the heavily damaged property, making it one of the world's largest producers of gold; following a stroke; in Cincinnati.