Milestones: Feb. 24, 1930

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Birthday. Elihu Root, 85, onetime (1899-1904) Secretary of War, of State (1905-09), onetime (1909-15) U. S. Senator, most famed U. S. Elder Statesman; at Manhattan, in good health.

Died. Draper M. Daugherty, 41, son of onetime Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty; in Sarasota, Fla."; following appendectomy. Wounded in the World War, in 1923 he was questioned by the police concerning the murder of one Dorothy Keenan ("Dot King"), spent a year in the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane.

Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast.

Died. Alexander Pollock Moore, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Poland; at Los Angeles: of bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting.

Died. Charles James Webb, 71, founder-president of Charles J. Webb & Co., "dean of the woolen industry''; at Elkins Park, Pa.

Died. Dr. David Perrie, 72, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada; at Wingham, Ont.

Died. John J. McGrane, 80, railroader, jeweler, real estate developer, Papal Knight of St. Gregory the Great; in Manhattan. Adviser to Cardinals Merry del Val, Bisleti, Gasparri (see p. 23), he was decorated by Popes Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV.