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Died. James Lord Pratt, 76, proprietor of Essex, Conn.'s famed, 260-year-old Pratt's Village Smithy (wrought-iron work), reputed the oldest business in the U. S. run continuously by one family; of a heart attack; in Essex...
Died. Aylmer Maude, 80, friend, biographer and translator of the works of Russia's late great Writer Leo Tolstoy; after a heart attack; at Great Baddow, Essex, England...
...jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down to the attack just as the Air Secretary and his official party were making their inspection. A touch of grim realism was added to the mock war as seven planes crashed, six fliers were killed...
Copy of a higher grade was made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
Died, Frances, Countess of Warwick, 76, Socialist, philanthropist. British authoress who prophesied that George V would be England's last king and Edward, now Duke of Windsor, an admirable first president (TIME, March 17, 1930); at Dunmow, Essex...