Milestones: Aug. 11, 1930

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Died. Meyer Lissner, 59, Los Angeles lawyer, founder of the Los Angeles City Club, famed oldtime Republican reformer, director of the campaigns for Theodore Roosevelt (1912) and Hiram Johnson (1919), member of the U. S. Shipping Board from 1921 to 1926; after a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

Died. Siegfried Wagner, 61, orchestra conductor, composer of unsuccessful operas, son of the late great Composer Richard Wagner, director of the memorial festivals at Bayreuth; of pneumonia; at Bayreuth.

Died. Alfred Thomson Martin, 65, oldtime Chicago grainbroker, vice president of Bartlett Frazier Co., after a year's illness; in Wheaton, Ill.

Died. Richard Sutro, 66, Manhattan financier and railroad man, after a five month illness; in Port Chester, N. Y.

Died. William Mehard Davidson, 67, author, educator, Superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools; of influenza, after the recurrence of an old infection; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Professor Allvar Gullstrand, 68, famed Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prizeman for Medicine in 1911, holder of degrees from the Universities of Upsala, Jena, Dublin; in Stockholm.

Died. Charles C. Bolton, 75, Cleveland financier and philanthropist, business associate of the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna, father of Congressman Chester Castle Bolton; after a long illness; in Cleveland.

Died. Joseph Gilpin Pyle, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., librarian of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library; onetime (1899-1903) editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and of the St. Paul Globe (1895-98, 1903-05); in St. Paul.

Died. Capt. Charles Russell Davis, 80, Minnesota lawyer, U. S. Representative (Republican) from the 3rd Minnesota District from 1903 to 1925; at Washington.

Died. James Morford Taylor, 86, professor emeritus and head of the mathematics department of Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), teacher of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; at a sanitarium in Greenwich, Conn.

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