Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average of .341.

Died. Tiny, dapper, cocoa-skinned Prajadhipok of Sukhodaya, 47, former King of Siam and last of the nation's absolute rulers; of heart disease; at his country estate in Surrey, England. Educated at Eton and the officers' school at Woolwich, he ascended the Siamese throne in 1925. For nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform.

Died. Jenny Dolly, 48, of the once famous Dolly Sisters dancing team; by her own hand (hanging); in Hollywood.

Died. Sir Hugh Walpole, 57, indefatigable writer of British regional and family novels; of heart disease; at his home near Keswick, England, Heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic, he wrote heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic novels, in densely populated series (the Herries series, the cathedral town series), averaged more than a book a year from the appearance of his first novel in 1909 to the end of his life. "I write as I breathe," he remarked once.

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