Milestones: Nov. 5, 1928

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Inaugurated. The Rev. William Coleman Nevils, onetime Dean, Chancellor, as President of Georgetown University.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick William Hinitt, 61, three times a college president (Parsons, Iowa—1900-04; Centre, Ky.— 1904-15; Washington & Jefferson, Pa.— 1915-18); after a short illness; at his Presbyterian rectory in Indiana, Pa. Died. W. L. Velie, 62, automobile & aircraft manufacturer; after a short illness; in Moline, 111.

Died. George Barr McCutcheon, 62, famed romancer, author of the Graustark saga; of heart disease; at luncheon with his friends in Manhattan.

Died. Brig. Gen. John Rea McQuigg, 62, Cleveland banker-lawyer, onetime Commander of the American Legion (1925); after a year's illness; in Cleveland.

Died. Clayton Darius Lee, 62, veteran newsman, who helped found the United Press in 1907, who served it as president for six years; after four years illness; in Maplewood, N. J.

Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector.

Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops in the U. S.

Died. Charles Arnette Towne, 70, one-time U. S. Senator from New York; of pneumonia, contracted while stump-speaking for Nominees Smith & Robinson; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction—as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy.

Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners.

Died. Blitzen, 20, last surviving dog of the German Canine Sanitary Corps, used by the Red Cross during the War; in Hamburg. Stuffed and wearing battle regalia, Blitzen will go to the Hamburg Zoological Gardens.