Born. To Clara Bow Bell, 29, retired "It"Girl, and Cowboy Rex Bell; a 7 Ib. son; at Santa Monica, Calif.

Born. To Vice President Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Pictures and Virginia Fox Zanuck, onetime cinemactress; a son, their third child; in Hollywood. Name: Richard Frederick. Weight: 6 lb., 13 oz.

Birthdays, Harvard University's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 78; Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75; Hearstman Arthur Brisbane, 70; New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 52; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, 39.

Died. Lieut. William Cunningham Reeves, 25, younger son of Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; when the Army plane he was piloting nudged a treetop, nosed down, burst into flames; near Burlingame, Calif.

Died. Mrs. Cassie Rowland Milnes Hill, relict of President-Founder Percival S. Hill of the American Tobacco Co., mother of American Tobacco's President George Washington Hill; after short illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Anthony Joseph ("Dandy Tony") Drexel, 70, European socialite, onetime Philadelphia banker; of uremia; in Manhattan. In 1893 he gave up inherited partnerships in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Paris' Drexel, Harjes & Co., to live in London. Amid $5,000.000 worth of art in his famed Grosvenor Square house he played host to Edward VII & court until 1915, when he moved to Paris following a divorce from Margarita Armstrong. Credited with the remark that the U. S. was "a hole not fit for a gentleman to live in," he stayed away from it until 1929.

Died. John Elbert Wilkie, 74, vice president of Chicago Railways Co., longtime chief of U. S. Secret Service; of heart failure; in Chicago. Appointed in 1898, he directed counter-espionage during the Spanish-American War, continued to serve as head of the service until 1912.

Died. Thomas Augustus Watson, So, manufacturer of the first telephone; of heart failure; in St. Petersburg, Fla. (see P. 13).

Died. William Thomas Waggoner, 82, "richest man west of the Mississippi" of a paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he found oil on his land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building the $3,000,000 Arlington Downs race track, breeding horses, erecting Texas skyscrapers.

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