Awarded. To Hernand Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum.

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Died. John D. Ryan, 68, board chairman of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Because his father was an able copper man, he shied away from copper, bought into a chain of Montana banks at 37, lined up with Amalgamated Copper Co.'s famed Henry H. Rogers in a copper war with Fritz Augustus Heinze. His spoils included Amalgamated's presidency in 1908. In 1910 he merged it into Anaconda, was set for the Wartime copper boom, built Anaconda by cheerful pugnacity and serious business into a $700,000,000 company. Of his Montana Power Co. he admitted: "It is a monopoly because the service ... is so good and the charges so low there is no possibility of competition. . . ."

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Died. James Fletcher Pershing, 71, clothier & insurancer, younger brother of General John Joseph Pershing (72); of cerebral thrombosis; in Manhattan. General Pershing, ill with bronchitis in a Texas blizzard, could not get to the Manhattan funeral.

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Died. Sir William Robert ("Wullie") Robertson, 72, only Briton to rise from private in the British Army to Field Marshal; of a heart attack in the night; in London. He rose to Wartime chief of the Imperial General Staff by no spectacular feats, by detailed, hard-headed executive service. Making no secret of his backstairs origin (onetime hallboy), he educated himself, impressed Horatio Herbert Kitchener in the Boer War by doing jobs others had failed at. In the World War he believed in concentration on the Western front, opposed dispersal of Britain's armies in Mesopotamia, Suez, Eastern Africa, opposed a supreme war council of Allied generals, quarreled with Lloyd George, resigned in February 1918 as staff chief. After Germany's great March offensive, he succeeded Lord French as Commander-in-Chief in Britain.

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Died. Count Albert Apponyi, 86, Hungary's Grand Old Man and No. 1 League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary.

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