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Died. Wincenty Witos, 71, leader of Poland's Peasant Party, three-time Premier, member of the present Polish Government; of pneumonia, culmination of a long illness begun in a German concentration camp; in Cracow. Wise, independent self-educated Wincenty Witos teamed with Marshal Josef Pilsudski and Ignace Paderewski to form the Polish Republic after World War I; later forced into exile by the reactionary Pilsudski, he became the martyr of Polish peasantry, returned to his people during the 1939 crisis, became their best-loved, most trusted statesman...
Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
When Philadelphia traced six cases of human virus pneumonia to pigeons (TIME, Jan. 8), Chicago and Buffalo gave their pigeons long, hard looks. Chicago found over 47% of its birds infected; Buffalo found its pigeons "a nuisance." Result: Chicago may kill its pigeons soon; Buffalo will begin at once to trap its birds, eat them or let the A.S.P.C.A. get rid of them. But an advisory committee headed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has pooh-poohed the pigeon menace: "There is not sufficient. . . evidence . . . to warrant an indiscriminate elimination. . . . There is good...
Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...
Last week, in his County Dublin home at Booterstown, Irish Tenor John McCormack died, at 61, of bronchial pneumonia...