Milestones, Feb. 26, 1934

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Left. By James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, famed oldtime jockey who died apparently destitute in Los Angeles last December (TIME, Dec. 11; Jan. 1): $9,500 in trust to his ten-year-old daughter.

Birthdays. John E. Andrus (Yonkers' "millionaire straphanger"), 93; Elihu Root, 89; Charles M. Schwab, 72; Temple University, 50.

Died. Melvin Alvah Traylor, 55, Chicago banker and Democrat; of pneumonia; in Chicago (see p. 53).

Died. Albert I, King of the Belgians, 58; of injuries suffered in a fall while mountain climbing; near Namur, Belgium (see p. 14).

Died. William E. Humphrey, 71, Seattle lawyer, onetime Congressman, Federal Trade Commissioner removed last autumn by President Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 16); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington.

Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums for six years after Thaw's acquittal on an insanity plea; smashed Richard Canfield's famed gambling palace.

Died. Count Miyoji Ito, 76, wealthy conservative Japanese statesman; of stomach ulcers; in Tokyo. In the long bickering over the ratification of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 Count Ito lost to his enemy, Premier Hamaguchi. Japan signed and Count Ito, still a member of the Privy Council, went into virtual political retirement.

Died. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, 79, Boston architect, nephew of Henry; in Portland, Me.

Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts."