Milestones, Aug. 31, 1931

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Died. Dr. Aristides Agramonte, 62, medical researcher; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. In 1929 he received a Congressional Medal of Honor for work with the Gorgas-Finlay yellow fever commission in 1901. He was president of the Pan-American Medical Association, recently made head of the department of tropical diseases of the Louisiana State University Medical School.

Died. Charles F. Fischer, 65, president of the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen (Scripps-Howard), which is engaged in a circulation war with its rivals, the Ohio State Journal and the Dispatch (TIME, Aug. 24); of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; in Columbus.

Died. Dr. John William Dickson, 68, president of Upper Iowa University; of heart disease; in Fayette, la.

Died. Enrique C. Creel, 77, former Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S.; of a lingering illness; in Mexico City. Son of a Kentuckian, at 17 he borrowed $300 to start a mercantile business, later established Banco Minero in Chihuahua, lost $7,000,000, the greater part of his fortune, in the Carranza revolution.

Died. John Joseph Albright, 83, philanthropist (Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo; Scranton, Pa., Public Library), water power pioneer, president of Marine National Bank of Buffalo, director of the American Academy in Rome; after an intestinal operation; in Buffalo.

Died. Col. Charles Stewart Stobie, 86, oldtime Indian fighter; in Chicago. As "Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow.