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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 85, mother of Lord Birkenhead, famed English barrister & Secretary for India; in Eastbourne, England. Mrs. Smith was widowed when the present Lord Birkenhead was 16. She supported her five children on $2,500 a year and constantly encouraged her famed son in his startling ascendancy from sooty Birkenhead, opposite great and smoking Liverpool, to the Lord Chancellorship and the peerage.
Born. A 10-pound orang-outang, first to be born in captivity in the zoological history of the U. S.; in the Philadelphia Zoo. Zoologists remembered that in the second day of its life in the Berlin Zoo, the only other scion of captive orang-outangs had been killed by its mother.
*Fairchild Aviation has sold more than $2,000,000 worth of planes and accessories since Jan. 1.
†Railroads, whose business motor cars, buses and trucks have hurt, are acquiring automotive men to advise them in the competition. The Nickel Plate has Alfred P. Sloan Jr.; the Big Four Fred J. Fisher; the Michigan Central Fred J. Fisher; the Wabash John N. Willys; the Ann Arbor John N. Willys and Walter P. Chrysler; Chicago & North Western Charles W. Nash; Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Henry and Edsel Ford.
**Not to be confused with George F. Baker, banker, or George F. Baker, Yale drama-teacher.