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Died. Sir Oliver Lodge, 89, famed physicist and spiritualist; of pneumonia; in Wiltshire, England. He intended to communicate with fellow members of the English Society for Psychical Research after his death, and, for verification, left under seal copies of the messages he planned to send...
...Dublin feels quite cheerful about the longer span of life in the U. S., the decrease in communicable diseases, the declining death rate from pneumonia. But, since his chief concern is with causes of death, he is regarded by many laymen as a great viewer-with-alarm. He publishes a series of creepy pamphlets every month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places...
Died. Prince lyesato Tokugawa, 76, longtime (1903-33) president of the Japanese House of Peers, English-educated friend of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Had Emperor Mutsuhito not emerged from seclusion, restored author ity to the throne, Tokugawa would have been Shogun (military ruler) of Japan...
Died. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmermann, 81, German Foreign Minister during World War I, author of the notorious "Zimmer mann Note" of pneumonia; in Berlin. In January 1917, the British Naval Intelligence intercepted and decoded a note from Zimmermann to the German Minis ter in Mexico: If the U. S. entered the war, Germany wanted a Mexican alli ance, promised U. S. territory as booty...
Died. General Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat, 77, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the East (1917), chief of the post-war army of occupation in the Rhineland, onetime (1926) French Minister of War; of pneumonia; in Nantes...