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Died. Gerald ("Gerry") McGeer, 59, bellicose Senator from British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver, of a heart ailment; in Vancouver. For two years McGeer had been trumpeting warnings of War III, exhorting the U.S. and Canada to arm from the tip of Alaska to California because "the Northwest will become the Belgium of the future...
Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany's late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely...
Died. Joseph ("Big Joe") Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital...
Died. Harry Bartow Hawes, 77, one-time Representative and later Senator from Missouri, co-author of the Hawes-Cutting (Philippine Independence) Act and a great booster for conservation of the wild game he loved to hunt; of a heart ailment; in Washington...
...English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...