Born. To Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, England's No. 1 tennis amateur and Phyllis Konstam Austin; their first child, a girl, in London. Next day, after staying up late to welcome his daughter, Tennist Austin defeated California's Gene Mako in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships.

Died. Donald Jolley Foss, 54, Wooster, Ohio, brush manufacturer; in Detroit. In a letter to TIME (Dec. 31, 1934), Mr. Foss started a readers' controversy by calling burial expenditures "heathenishly extravagant," advocated a 100% tax on them. Last week, under the terms of his will, the remains of Donald Foss were cremated, the ashes scattered on his farm with no extravagant monument to mark them.

Died. Andrew James Peters, 66, one-time U. S. Representative from Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Democratic Mayor of Boston during its great 1922 police strike; of pneumonia; in Boston.

Died. James Weldon Johnson, 67, famed Negro educator, author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve.

Died. Edward Verrall Lucas, 70, old and mild English essayist (Wanderings and Diversions, The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb), Punch contributor, head of the publishing house of Methuen & Co.; after an operation; in London.

Died. Princess Jane di San Faustino, 74; of pneumonia; in Rome. Born plain Jane Campbell in Bernardsville, N. J. she married a prince, became the sharp-tongued social queen of Rome for nearly half a century.

Died. Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 75, mother of England's Queen Elizabeth; of heart disease; in London.

Died. Philip Livingston, 76, retired lawyer, sportsman, socialite, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. George James Short Broomhall, 82, British grain broker, international authority on wheat, founder and onetime editor of Liverpool's Corn Trade News; in Liverpool.

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