Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928

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Died. Robert Weeks Kelley, 75, president of the U. S. Navy League, executive member of the American Olympic Committee; suddenly in Paris.

Died. William S. Taylor, 76, onetime (1900) governor of Kentucky, self-exiled to Indiana following the assassination of his Democratic rival, William Goebel (see p. 12); of heart disease; in Indianapolis.

Died. John C. Cutler, 82, president of the Deseret National Bank of Salt Lake City, onetime (1905-09) governor of Utah; by suicide; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Eugene Levering, 82, onetime (1878-1921) president of the National Bank of Commerce (Baltimore), and after its merger with the Merchants National Bank, chairman of the board, trustee and patron of the Johns Hopkins University, ofttime contributor to the Anti-Saloon League; in Baltimore. His twin brother, Joshua Levering, was the Prohibition party's nominee for the presidency in 1896.

Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Mrs. B. H. Wyman, 89, California pioneeress, sister of Writer Bret Harte; in Victoria, B. C.

Died. Peter Rudak, 136, claimant (with documentary proof) of military service 120 years ago in the Russian Army fighting against Napoleon; in Pitchania, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

Died. Sam Houston, six-weeks-old Texas burro, presented to Mrs. Alfred E. Smith in Houston the night of her husband's nomination for presidency; of pneumonia brought on by cold northern winds; in Albany, N. Y.

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