Milestones, Mar. 30, 1931

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Died— Howard Trumbo, 56, president of Cuban-American Mining Co. (manganese), onetime president of the American Club in Havana, classmate of Herbert Clark Hoover (1895) at Stanford University.; of a kidney ailment; in Havana.

Died. Edwin Haldeman Dennison, 58, U. S. Consul in Quebec since 1919; in Quebec. A partial paralytic, he slipped in his bathtub, struck the hot water tap, was scalded head-to-foot before he could be pulled out. He died two days later.

Died. Thomas ("Tom") Boucher, 60, oldtime rugby footballer, father of Coach George Boucher of the Montreal Maroons hockey team and of Hockey-players Frank (New York Rangers), "Billy" (New Haven Eagles), "Bobby," Carroll and Joseph Boucher; of heart disease, while at work in the composing room of the Ottawa Journal; in Ottawa, Canada.

Died. Archibald James Carey, 62. Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; in Chicago. Son of a plantation slave, Bishop Carey was educated at Atlanta University, Chicago Theological Seminary and University of Chicago.

Died. William Gray Clyde, 62, onetime president of Carnegie Steel Co., largest subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.; at his home in Pittsburgh; of a lingering illness.

Died. Harry M. Kaiser, 71, strict warden of Clinton state prison, abode of New York State's 1,800 most vicious criminals; at Plattsburg, N. Y.; of paralysis caused by overwork. His wards rioted last July, and ever since have threatened new riot.

Died. Mrs. Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, 75, president of the Rhode Island School of Design since 1913, member of the advisory council of Pembroke College (women's college in Brown University), sister of U. S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf and of Banker, Publisher & Textile Manufacturer Stephen Olney Metcalf; in Providence, R. I.

Died. William Webster Mills, 79, board secretary & treasurer of Marietta (Ohio) College, uncle of Charles Gates Dawes; in Cincinnati.

*Named for their paternal grandmother and their mother, the twins were first reported named Elsie French and Edith Hyde (TIME, March 9) for their grandmothers. The mother of William Henry Vanderbilt was an Ellen French, known as Elsie.

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