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Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore.
Died. Irwin R. Heilbroner, 39, vice president of Weber & Heilbroner, famed Manhattan clothiers, cousin of Founder Louis Heilbroner; from a 14-story fall supposedly caused by vertigo; in Manhattan.
Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior.
Died. Ford F. Harvey, 62, President of Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME, May 28).
Died. Emile Daeschner, 66, French Ambassador to the U.S. (1925); of heart attack; in Paris.
Died. Theodore Roberts, 67, famed & beloved cigar-smoking cinemactor, onetime sea captain; of influenza; in Los Angeles.
Died. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 77, Secretary of War in the Taft administration, native of Mississippi, anti-Bryan Democrat, Confederate veteran, of Chicago; in Chicago.
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan.
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers.