Died. Prince Rudda di Trabia, seven times a prince, thrice a duke, four times a marquis, overlord of seven Italian towns, head of reputedly the oldest family in Sicily.

Died. Prince Scipione Borghese, 56, seven times a prince, six times a duke, seven times a marquis, twice a count, once a baron, overlord of twelve towns; from progressive paralysis, in Florence. With Luigi Barzini,-- he won the famed Peking-to-Paris automobile race in 1907.

Died. Walter Henry Rothwell, 56, Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (see p. 20).

Died. Augustus F. Kountze, 57, of Kountze Bros, (international bankers); at Atlantic City, of apoplexy. Recently his adopted son Leslie Bartindale Kountze, eloped and was still awaiting forgiveness.

Died. Governor Henry Lewis Whitfield, 58, onetime (1907-20) president of Mississippi State College for Women; in Jackson, Miss.; of cancer of the bone.

Died. President Jan Tschakste, 67, first president of Latvia (unanimously elected in 1922, by the first Latvian parliament, re-elected in 1925 for a second term of three years); in Riga, Latvia.

Died. Sir Robert Bond, 70, one-time (1900-1909) Premier of Newfoundland; at Whitbourne, Newfoundland. Sir Robert was once ducked by his opponents when attempting to make a speech.

Died. Benjamin Franklin Smith, 96, perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter/- attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down into the Smith workings, but whenever the fan was removed the fire was rebuilt. After three weeks the General gave up, returned east.

Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage.

*Now editor of Corriere d'America, Italian newspaper in Manhattan.

/- Dismissed from the Army during the Civil War, having failed to relieve Major General Pope in the second battle of Bull Run.