Milestones: Sep. 3, 1965

Died. Wilbur Clark, 56, Las Vegas innkeeper and sometime craps dealer who parlayed tips and gambling earnings into the Green Shack, pioneer Las Vegas gambling house of 1938, and became a full-fledged Nevada nabob in 1950 when he opened his gaudy, $4 million Desert Inn which, increasingly, he ran as a front for a group of sometime Cleveland gamblers; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif.

Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in Terre Haute, Ind.

Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born “world shoe king” when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada’s Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil.

Died. George R. Lamade, 71, second-generation publisher of the conservative, family-owned weekly newspaper Grit (circ. 1,170,000), a favorite in 16,000 U.S. small towns, who kept up his father’s policy of salting the news with cracker-barrel sayings (sample: “When things begin to appear hopeless and desolate, try looking in the other direction.”); by his own hand (gunshot); in Williamsport, Pa.

Died. Clarence James Brown, 72, outsized (257 Ibs.) and outspoken Old Guard Republican Congressman and top G.O.P. member of the Rules Committee, who at 26 started out as Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor, went on to Capitol Hill in 1939 where he waged a desk-thumping campaign against Big Government from the New Deal through the Great Society; of uremia; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), 77, brilliant, Swiss-born, French architect of the reinforced concrete age; of a heart attack while swimming off Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (see ART).

Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and now worth an estimated $1 billion; of complications following a fall; near Straubing, Germany.