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Died. Harry Payne Whitney, 58; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Scion of a distinguished Puritan line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust Co, New York Transportation Co. In 1909 he organized the first international polo team to beat England, was never beaten while captain. He maintained the largest of U. S. racing stables, championed and improved the breeding of purely U. S. horses. Among his winners: Irish Lad Regret (only filly ever to win the Kentucky Derby), Whiskery, Whichone, Equipoise, Boojum.
Died. Sherman Leland Whipple, 68 , famed Boston lawyer; of heart disease; in Brookline, Mass. Chief counsel in many a great case, he attained prominence in 1917 as counsel for Congress in the investigation of the "leak" of President Wilson's peace note to belligerents, which brought an orgy of speculation in Wall Street and charges that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and others had profited by their advance information.
Died. Cardinal Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada, 76; in Saragossa, Spain.
Died. Joseph Boyer, 82, board chairman of Burroughs Adding Machine Co inventor of the pneumatic hammer, a drill, railway speed recorder; of pneumonia; in Detroit, Mich.
*Other John Fritz medalists: Herbert Clark Hoover (1930), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1927).
*His brother, the late Payne Whitney, left $191,043,582, largest estate ever recorded.