Born. To Baron Jozippie Paucci, vaudeville midget (height 37 in.); and Margaret Lane, diving beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute he was. . . ."

Married. Beatrice Filbert, daughter of Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee William James Filbert of U. S. Steel Corp.; and one Giovanni Tenca, M.D., of Parma, Italy; in Manhattan.

Died. John Barnes Miller, 62, founder and board chairman of Southern California Edison Co. Ltd.; of blood-poisoning following influenza; in Los Angeles. A onetime planter, law student, steamboat operator, he became an employe of a small Los Angeles lighting company at 27, within five years merged 40 local utilities to form Southern California Edison. Under his direction it grew to have assets of $375,000,000 in 1930, 110,000 stockholders.

Died. William Julius Harris, 64, senior Senator from Georgia; following an intestinal operation; in Washington. Prestigeous as a banker, he became State Democratic chairman, managed Woodrow Wilson's Georgia campaign, was rewarded with the Directorship of the Census Bureau, later the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Late in entering the Senatorial contest of 1918, he won over his two opponents when he produced a letter of endorsement from President Wilson. Enemies thereafter accused him of "riding to Washhigton on Woodrow Wilson's coat tails."

Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly all his life, wrote several plays, eight novels, 2,000 poems.

Died. William John Burns, 70, sleuth, founder of Burns National Detective Agency, onetime director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation ("Secret Service") ; of heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall trial in 1927 he was acquitted on appeal. He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went unwhipped of justice."

Died. George Curry, 70, last Territorial Governor of New Mexico and its onetime Congressman (1911-13); in Hillsboro, N. Mex. After his father was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Louisiana, he went to work on a cattle ranch in New Mexico, where also was employed onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. Congressman Curry later punched cows on Secretary Fall's ranch. After the demobilization of the Rough Riders, Curry went to the Philippines with a volunteer regiment, became first civil governor of the Province of Ambose Camarine.

Died. Charles Leavitt Edgar, 71, general manager (since 1890) and president (since 1900) of Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, onetime president of the National Electric Light Association; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City.

Died. Robert A. King, 72, song writer; of heart disease, immediately after hearing a radio broadcast of his last composition ("One Day in May"); in Manhattan. A writer of hits for 50 years, he sold five million copies of his waltz "Beautiful Ohio," written under the pseudonym Mary Earl.

Died. Julia Clifford Lathrop, 74, famed child-welfare worker; after a thyroidectomy; in Rockford, 111. Daughter of Illinois' onetime Congressman William Lathrop, she was trained in Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, was long a member of the State Board of Charities. When President Taft set up the Federal Children's Bureau in 1912, she became the first woman head of a Government bureau, fostered it until 1921. Worker Lathrop fought for the recognition of illegitimate children, advocated U. S. statutes like Norway's. The National League of Women Voters selected her as one of the "twelve greatest living American women."

Died. Sir Patrick Geddes, 78, biologist, sociologist, philosopher, pioneer city planner; in Montpellier, France. Trained in biology under Thomas Huxley, he quickly achieved fame in his subject, then focused this knowledge on sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford.

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