Milestones, Dec. 18, 1933

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Died. Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess, 58, Manhattan pediatrician, famed rickets researcher and authority, brother-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; of a heart attack; in New York City. He discovered a method of producing vitamin D in foods by exposing them to ultraviolet rays.

Died. George Lytton, 59, president of Chicago's Hub (department) store, onetime amateur heavyweight boxer, bull-fiddle-playing founder of Chicago's Businessmen's Orchestra (TIME, May 22) and of Chicago's Better Business Bureau; of angina pectoris, suddenly, in Chicago.

Died. Karl Jatho, 60, oldtime German flyer and airplane builder; in Hanover, Germany. In 1901 he had a hangar and flying field, had built gliders and a benzine-powered biplane. He claimed that he made one of his machines fly four months before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk (1903). This year the Nazis suddenly decided he was right, erected a monument to him.

Died. Felix Zamenhof, 65, Esperanto poet, brother of Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto; in Warsaw.

Died. Henry Smith Olser, 70, Canadian lawyer and big game hunter, nephew of the late great Sir William Osler; in Montreal. He was president of the defunct Continental Trading Co. Ltd. which a U. S. Senate investigation showed had handled "slush funds" in the naval oil lease scandals.

Died. Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 78, longtime (1899-1925) president of Ohio State University, onetime (1926-27) moderator of the U. S. Presbyterian Church; after a month's illness following a heart attack; in Columbus, Ohio.

Died. William Armistead Wall, 87, Civil War veteran; in St. Louis. A lieutenant on General Lee's staff, he carried the message from Lee to Pickett that launched Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.