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Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool.
Died. Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, seventyish, oldtime hot trumpeter of New Orleans jazz, best loved in his home town of all the great Negro jazz musicians; of cancer; in New Orleans. At Papa's funeral, more than a thousand friends and ad mirers turned out while two bands of fellow jazzmen played dirges in the two-mile procession to the church.
Died. Arthur Garfield Hays, 73, corporation lawyer and lifelong defender of civil liberties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 78, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels and shops.
Died. Eugene du Pont, 81, a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and great-grandson of its founder, father of Ethel du Pont Warren, onetime wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; after long illness; in Wilmington, Del.