Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Europeenne Industrielle et Financiere. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside, including the giant Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. Skoda was allegedly Schneider's "dirty works" plant--handler of contracts Schneider-Creusot would have found politically embarrassing. Through control of the newspapers Le Temps and Journal des Debats, he propagandized on international affairs. When Europe was dreaming of a permanent peace Schneider once confidently remarked that "the only real European union" was the Union Europeenne Industrielle et Financiere.

Died. Lieut. General John Archer Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres.

Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war--that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged it after the Emperor signed.

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