Milestones: Oct. 4, 1926

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Died. Herbert Booth, third son of the late William Booth, who was founder of the Salvation Army, and brother of Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army in the U. S.; at Yonkers, of heart disease.

Mr. Booth had composed some 200 widely-sung hymns.

Died. Walter Trimble, 69, president of the Bank for Savings in Manhattan (a position which both his father and grandfather had held before him); at his home in Hewlett, L. I.

Died. His Eminence Cardinal Arthur S. Touchet, 78, Bishop of Or- leans, who established the rights of Joan of Arc to canonization in the Roman Catholic Church in 1909, who defended the French occupation of the Ruhr against the protest of German clericals; at Orleans.

Died. Charles Dewar Simons, 79, retired Manhattan banker and brother-in-law of the late E. H. Harriman; in Manhattan. His wife had died the week before. Mr. Simons is survived by two sons who have long spelt their name Simmons — E. H. H. Simmons, President of the New York Stock Exchange, and one Harriman N. Simmons, of Elizabeth, N. J.

*Baron Plettenburg married after she espoused Eitel. The letter containing this sentence was produced in court on the occasion of his recent divorce.

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