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Died. Major-General Enoch Herbert Crowder, 73, "father of the draft," onetime (1917-23) judge advocate general of the U. S. Army; of a general breakdown ; at Washington. Small, calm, "whispering" General Crowder in Wartime said, "Work or fight," had a list of 13 million men to tell it to soon after Congress passed the selective draft act in 1917. Later (1919) President Wilson sent him to Cuba to reform finances and election laws. A special act of Congress in 1923 enabled him as a retired Army officer to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba under President Coolidge.
Died. John P. Clum. 80, Be-Tunni-Ki-Yea ("High Forehead' in the Apache country), captor of Apache Chief Geronimo (1877), editor of the famed Tombstone, Ariz., Epitaph; after several months' illness; in Los Angeles. He was Mayor of Tombstone in 1881 when Peace Officer Wyatt Earp and the Clanton boys met in the O K Corral shooting, rated Arizona's most spectacular gunfight (34 shots, 3 dead, in 30 sec.).
Died. Jo Lane Stern, 83, Confederate veteran, Richmond, Va. lawyer; in Richmond. Early in the Civil War, he became General Robert Edward Lee's telegrapher, aged 14. A socialite, he led the Richmond German, Virginia society's outstanding event, for 51 years.
Died. Mrs. Martha J. MacFarland Stone, 85, relict of General Manager Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press; after long illness; in New York.
Died. Rear Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, principal in the famed "Chester Concession" affair (1923); of old age; in Rye, N. Y. Appointed by President Roosevelt to work for a commercial "open door" for U. S. capital in western Asia, he obtained from Turkey a billion dollars worth of private concessions (later annulled) for oil, mines, railroads. He was one of the naval astronomers who discredited Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's North Pole claims (1908).
Died. Mrs. Anna Shouse, 90, mother of Jouett Shouse, Democratic National Executive Committee chairman; after a brief illness; in Omaha, Neb.