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Died. Ezekiel Sarasohn, 69, longtime (1905-28) editor & publisher of the Jewish Gazette, founded by his father in 1874, and the Jewish Daily News, first Yiddish papers published in the U.S.; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Died. Anton Witek, 63, Bohemian-born violinist, concertmaster of the Berlin (1894-1904), Boston (1908-1918), Frankfort (since 1918) Symphony Orchestras; suddenly; in Winchester, Mass.
Died. Benjamin Thaw, 74, Pittsburgh socialite banker and philanthropist, half-brother of Harry Kendall Thaw; after long illness; in Pittsburgh.
Died. Frederick Starr, 74, famed anthropologist, authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students.
Died. John H. Waters, 74, president of National Radiator Corp., of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at the Treasury Department during a hearing on the reorganization of Johnstown, Pa.'s. United States National Bank, of which he was president; in Washington.
Died. John Milton Dodson, 74, long-time (1901-24) dean of medical courses at the University of Chicago and dean of students at Rush Medical College, one-time editor of Hygeia; of uremia; in Chicago.
Died. Philip Alexander Bruce, 77, historian of the U.S. South (History of Colonial Virginia, Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers), brother of Maryland's onetime U.S. Senator William Cabell Bruce: after long illness; in Charlottesville, Va.
*In 1927, Mrs. MacPherson divorced Robert Menzies McAlmon, penniless Greenwich Villager whose poems she had read during a visit to the U.S. in 1921. Because Poet McAlmon was awed by her wealth, she proposed the match herself, married him two weeks after their first meeting.