Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope."

Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis Warren Pershing, a son, their first; in Manhattan. Hearing the news as he was taking the cure at Hot Springs, lusty old General John J. Pershing, straight as a ramrod at 80. chortled: "I'm very happy to be a grandfather."

Died. Kenneth Simpson, 45, for 23 days Congressman from New York's 17th Congressional District, from 1937 to 1940 New York's Republican National Committeeman; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see p. 14).

Died. Brigadier General Frederic E. Humphreys, retired, 57, first Army officer to fly solo in a military plane (at College Park, Md., Oct. 26, 1909); after a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla.

Died. John Clarkson Jay, 61, president of Manhattan's portly Fifth Avenue Bank, onetime president of Fierce-Arrow and board chairman of Maxwell Motor Car Co., great-great-grandson of first Chief Justice John Jay; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Daniel Walter Morehouse, 64. astronomer, president of Drake University since 1923; in Des Moines.

Died. Arthur Nelson, 73, retired head of the oldtime Ringling-featured acrobatic family, the Flying Nelsons; after an automobile accident; in Detroit. Few circus acrobatic families traced as authentic a tradition as the Flying Nelsons. Arthur Nelson's English great-grandfather, Robert, turned professional handsprings at news of the victory of Waterloo.

Died. Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, 73, U. S. Public Health Service surgeon whose discovery of the wide prevalence of hookworm disease in the South 40 years ago was, according to late Ambassador Walter Hines Page, "the most helpful event in the history of our Southern States"; of heart disease; in Baltimore.

Died. John Oxenham (real name: William Arthur Dunkerley), about 80, fecund British novelist and poet; near Worthing, Sussex. He wrote 67 books. His daughter, who calls herself Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, has already published 63. His World War I verse had a great vogue and his Hymn, For the Men at the Front sold 8,000,000 copies.

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