Milestones: Aug. 25, 1930

Honored. With knighthood in the French Legion of Honor: Daniel Guggen-heim, for the international services of his Fund for the Promotion of Aviation and for his gift of a library to the French Aero Club.

Resigned. George Palmer Putnam, 42, author, publisher, publicist, onetime mayor of Bend, Ore.; from the vice-presidency of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, publishers (see p. 39).

Left. By the late James Duval Phelan (died Aug. 7), California Democrat, one-time (1897-1902) Mayor of San Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, “California’s great authoress,” $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art “in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California”; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand; to two nieces and a nephew, most of the residue. Excerpt from the will: “I declare on my honor that I have never been married, and never have been a parent of a child in or out of matrimony, but in case anyone claiming or pretending to be my wife or child or grandchild should establish such claims in any court of competent jurisdiction, to each such person I give and bequeath the sum of $50.”

Died. William E. Swift, 35, son of Louis Franklin Swift, Chicago meat-packer; by his own hand with a revolver in Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles’s Park Avenue sanitarium for rich neurasthenics, dope-fiends and alcoholics (TIME, June 9), on the same floor where Actress Jeanne Eagels died in convulsions (TIME, Oct. 14). He had been under Dr. Cowles’s care for eight months. Some hours before the suicide Swift’s nurse saw the revolver strapped to his arm, told Dr. Cowles. Dr. Cowles instructed the weapon be removed when Swift fell asleep. Dr. Charles Norris, New York medical examiner, decided to investigate the circumstances, said: “So far nothing suspicious has been discovered. However, there are certain angles of this suicide that have not been cleared up. . . .”

Died. Thomas B. Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, “richest independent operator in the world”; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice-ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled.

Died. George Burdett Ford, 51, Manhattan architect, early advocate of regional planning, consulting engineer and architect for New York and 70 other cities, including rebuilt Rheims, France; after an operation in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Asa Barnes Davis, 68, famed gynecologist and obstetrical surgeon, for twelve years chief of staff of Manhattan’s Lying-in Hospital, a founder of the American College of Surgeons; of angina pectoris, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Manhattan.

Died. Rt. Rev. James Henry Darlington, 74, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Harrisburg, Pa., of pneumonia after an operation for an intestinal disorder which had been complicated by diabetes; at Kingston, N. Y.

Died. Ira Nelson Hollis, 74 longtime (1893-1913) professor of engineering at Harvard University, onetime (1913-25) president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, designer and builder of the stadium at Soldiers’ Field in Cambridge; after a short illness; in Cambridge, Mass.

Died. Gustave Frohman, 75, oldtime theatrical producer, tour manager for William Gillette, Margaret Anglin, Maude Adams, John Drew, onetime office boy of Horace Greeley, brother of Producer Daniel Frohman; after a four-week illness; at his home in Manhattan.

Died. John George Milburn, 78, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange, onetime defender of trusts (old Standard Oil, Union Pacific R.R.), president of Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition (1901), father of famed Poloist Devereux Milburn; three weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Stocking Milburn; in London. When President McKinley was shot by Assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, it was to the Milburn home that he was carried, there that he died one week later.

Died. Patrick A. (“Paddy”) Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, 86, widow of the late James Hulme Canfield (onetime president of Ohio State University), mother of Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher (The Bent Twig, The Brimming Cup, Her Son’s Wife); at her country home near Arlington, Vt.

Died. Edward Bushrod Stahlman. 86, oldtime German-born southern newspaper man, owner & editor since 1895 of the Nashville Banner, onetime vice president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; after long illness; at Nashville.