Died, Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 58, chemist, priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Holy Cross, onetime dean of Notre Dame University's College of Science; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. His researches gave mankind Lewisite (deadliest of war gases) and chloroprene (artificial rubber).

Died. Emily Mary, Lady Shackleton, widow of Britain's great explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton; after a long illness; in Hampton Court Palace, near London. For six years she had lived in the palace at the invitation of King George V.

Died, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 62, famed British poet, critic, novelist, militant Roman Catholic controversialist; of heart disease; at "Top Meadow" at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Proud of his romantic poetry (The Wild Knight, The Ballad of the White Horse), he was best known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned the tag "Chesterbelloc."

Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15-c- a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages.

Died. Daniel McFarlan Moore, 67, retired inventor of television apparatus; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant; on the lawn of his home at East Orange, N. J. Once associated with Thomas A. Edison, slim, mild Inventor Moore had over 100 patents, no known enemies.

Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler.

Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine.

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