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Died. Claude George Burnham, 49, executive vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; at Kenilworth, Ill.; after six months' illness.
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against "sweatshops," organizer of the potent Cloak Makers' Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan.
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho.
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass.
Died. Col. Charles Clifton, 74, automobile pioneer, board chairman of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. for 14 years (1912-26) president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; in Buffalo.
Died. Joseph Kittridge Choate, 74, consulting engineer, president of the Morris County Traction Co., for 15 years vice president of the J. G. White Management Corp., nephew of the late famed Joseph H. Choate; of bronchial pneumonia; in San Francisco.
Died. William Rutherford Mead, 81, famed classicist architect (Boston Public Library), partner of McKim, Mead & White; in Paris; of heart disease.