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Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office.
Died. Harry René Lee, 92, onetime (1935-36) commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and a chief sponsor in the South of the Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg. Pa.; of old age; in Nashville, Tenn. "General" Lee joined the Confederate Army at Tupelo in 1862 when he was 16, later enlisted in the British Navy, serving on the same ship with the late King George V.