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Died. Edward John Noble, 76, upstate New Yorker who pooled funds with a friend, bought the Life Savers Co. in 1913 for $2,900, poked a hole in the candy mints, packaged them brightly, watched his business grow into Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. with sales well over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration to participate in the presidential campaign of Fellow Businessman Wendell Willkie. In 1943 he bought radio's Blue Network for $8,000,000. created the American Broadcasting Co.
Died. The Rev. Laurence J. Kenny, 94, professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University, veteran of 57 years of teaching, and the oldest member of the Jesuit order in the U.S.; in St. Louis.