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Died. Sir William Jackson Pope, 69, famed British chemist whose experiments enabled the Allies to produce mustard gas in quantity during World War I; in London, England.
Died. Monsignor Michael Joseph Lavelle, 83, for 52 years pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Vicar General of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese; after long illness; in Manhattan. He was uniquely honored by being the first ecclesiastic below archiepiscopal rank to be buried in the cathedral crypt, in company with three Cardinals, two archbishops, including his old friend and superior, Patrick Cardinal Hayes.
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