Died. George A. Richards, 62, stormy petrel of radio broadcasting, whose station license renewals in Cleveland, Detroit and Los Angeles are still pending with the Federal Communications Commission because of ex-employees' charges that he slanted news broadcasts, instructed commentators to speak only ill of Democrats, Jews and the Franklin Roosevelt family; of an arterial disease; in Detroit.

Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance.

Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles for the U.S.

Died. Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven in a day coach. But Railroad Baron Dumaine rode home in a Pullman compartment. Working up until the end, he spent a busy day on the telephone, collapsed, was put to bed, died during the night. His last words: "It wasn't worth it."

Died. Franklin W. Olin, 91, "the Gunpowder King," retired president and founder of Olin Industries (leading subsidiaries: Western Cartridge Co., Western Brass Mills, Winchester Repeating Arms Co.); after a heart attack; in St. Louis.

Died. John Arthur Marcum, 98, who at the age of 11 was impressed into the Confederate Army as a guide* in Georgia, lived out the years since the Civil War as a farmer; in Birta, Ark.

*Known Confederate veterans now surviving: twelve.

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