Milestones: Milestones: Aug. 21, 1939

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Died. Philip Albright Small Franklin, 68, Wartime director of the U. S. merchant marine and onetime (1916-36) president of International Mercantile Marine Co.; in Long Island.

Died. Daisy Green (real name Mrs. Marie MacGillivray), 57, one of the original six Florodora Girls of 1900; after an 18-months illness, in Los Angeles. Sang the Sextet in ruffled petticoats with parasols:

Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?

There are a few, kind sir, but simple girls and proper too.

If I loved you, would it be a silly thing to do?

For I must love someone, and it might as well be you.

Died. T. E. Powers, 69, oldtime cartoonist ("Joy" & "Gloom"); in Long Island.

Died. James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn, 70, gay blade; of shock following a tragic report that his daughter's foot had been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written "solely for money"), telling about his three marriages, two divorces (wife No. 2 recommended him as "an altogether delightful person, but absolutely impossible"); the loss of a $1,500,000 inheritance, mostly by gambling, which fascinated him as a mathematical problem to which he was always finding a new "solution."

Died. Leonard Merrick, 75, novelists' novelist, whose whimsically unhappy stories (When Love Flies Out o' the Window, Cynthia, Conrad in Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors—including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett—published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention to him.