Birthdays. King Christian of Denmark, 71; in Copenhagen. "These hard times proceed slowly, ' he said, "but everything is in God's hands." Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), 75; on his farm near New Paltz, N.Y. Cinemadolescent Joe Yule Jr. ("Mickey Rooney"), 21; on a Hollywood movie lot.

Died. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, 50, brother of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; of a chronic liver disease; in Washington (see p. 17).

Died. Gertrude Battles Lane, editor for 29 years of Woman's Home Companion; in Manhattan (see p. 65).

Died. Axtell Julius Byles, 60, president of the American Petroleum Institute, onetime president of Tide Water Associated Oil Co.; in Ardsley on Hudson, N.Y.

Died. Lee Foster Hartman, 61, editor of Harpers Magazine for the past ten years; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec.

Died. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 80, captain of the first U.S. International polo team, trainer of great steeplechase jumpers, hunters, polo ponies, father of famed poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; of coronary thrombosis; in Old Westbury, L.I.

Died. Bishop Warren Akin Candler, 84, oratorical champion of Southern Methodism for over 50 years; brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler; in Atlanta. With a $1,000,000 gift from Brother Asa, he expanded little Emory College into a university, was its chancellor from 1914 to 1921. As active Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1898 to 1934, he was a leader in the fight against unification of his own church with Methodist Protestants and Northern Methodists, commented when unification won in 1939: "It's done now. I'm going to keep on loving the Southern church. Anyway, I'll be in Heaven by the time it gets to working good."

Died. Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, 85, Canada's biggest financier, one of its wealthiest men; in Montreal. Born in Ireland's County Kildare, he emigrated to Canada at 19, rose from railroad laborer to contractor to utilities magnate by the age of 45, when he organized Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co., now capitalized at $64,000,000. He became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, increased its assets more than tenfold, organized the $100,000,000 Canada Power & Paper Corp., went into textiles, mining, insurance, railways, in his lifetime shared control with his associates of some 250 companies with assets of an estimated two billion dollars.

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