Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta. Ga.

Died. Margaret Phillips Mathewson, 23, wife of Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of the late, great baseball pitcher, aviation instructor at Hangchow, China; a fortnight after marriage, on her first flight with her husband; of injuries suffered when Mathewson crashed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong's amphibian plane on a Whangpoo River mudflat; near Lunghua, China.

Died. John Carl Smith (Jack Pickford), 36, onetime film actor, younger brother of Gladys Mary Smith (Mary Pickford); of progressive multiple neuritis when it reached the brain centre; in Paris.

Died. Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford. Conn.

Died. Carl Joseph Wilhelm Cuno, 56, managing director of Hamburg-American Line; of heart attack from overwork; in Hamburg, where he was Rotary Club president. As German Chancellor for nine months (1922-23) Dr. Cuno deliberately inflated the mark in an effort to force a Reparations moratorium from the Allies. Succeeded as Chancellor by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Dr. Cuno rebuilt the Hamburg-American Line (stripped by the Allies down to 4.000 tons in 1918) up to its present 1.087,175 tons.

Died. George Peters Lee, 57, last of the Mississippi steamboat Lees, packet designer & master; after a short illness; in Memphis, Tenn.

Died. Calvin Coolidge, 60. thirtieth U. S. President: suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; in Northampton, Mass, (see P-9).

Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg.

Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati

Reds by the Chicago White Sox, which he managed, he quit baseball until 1926, when he went to work as coach of Connie Mack's world champion Philadelphia Athletics.

Died. Samuel Austin Kendall, 73, Representative-reject from Pennsylvania (Republican), good friend of Ambassador Mellon; by his own hand (pistol), in the House Office Building; in Washington, D. C. Reason: loneliness since his wife's death last August. He was the first Congressman suicide on Capitol Hill.

Died. Gilbert Colgate, 74, soap & toothpaste tycoon, onetime board chairman of Colgate & Co. which his grandfather founded in 1806 (merged in 1928 to make Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.); of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee."

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