Milestones, Feb. 26, 1934

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,...

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