Died. Ann Cooper Hewitt Nicholson, 41, famed in the 1936 tabloids as the "sterilized heiress" after she charged that her mother and two San Francisco doctors had her sterilized without her knowledge to prevent her from bearing an heir to the family fortune (her great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child.

Died. Emmanuel Tsouderos, 74, who was named Premier of Greece in 1941 while Nazi invasion troops marched towards Athens; headed the government in exile in Cairo until 1944; in Genoa.

Died. Luis Maria Martinez, 75, Roman Catholic Archbishop and Primate of Mexico, who by his own conciliatory policies did most for his church in achieving cordial church-state relations after the violent anticlerical upheavals of the late '20s: of arteriosclerosis; in Mexico City.

Died. Leonora Speyer, 83, winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, onetime (1934-36) president of the Poetry Society of America; in Manhattan.

Died. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Viscount Trenchard, 83, longtime philosopher of air warfare, first Marshal (1927) and principal founder of the R.A.F. chief (1931-35) of London's Metropolitan Police; after long illness: in London. During World War I "Boom" Trenchard commanded the Royal Flying Corps in France, was the most vigorous advocate of the use of air power to break through the trench-fought stalemate.

Died. Robert Morss Lovett. 85, longtime (1893-1939) leftist faculty member of the University of Chicago, associate editor (1921-40) of the New Republic, Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands (1939-43), co-author with William Moody of the oldtime college textbook, A History of English Literature; in Chicago. Charged with Communist sympathies by the old Dies Committee. Lovett was fired from his Virgin Islands post, was cleared in 1946 by the U.S. Court of Claims.

Died. Ada Ochs Adler, 89, sister of the late Adolph S. Ochs, longtime (1896-1935) publisher of the New York Times and the Chattanooga Times (1878-1935), mother of the late Major General Julius Ochs Adler, vice president (1919-55) of the New York Times; in Manhattan.

Died. Connie Mack, 93, longtime manager (1901-50) and part owner (1901-54) of the old Philadelphia Athletics; in Philadelphia (see SPORT).

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