Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected."

Engaged. Katherine Pennington Litchfield, daughter of P. W. Litchfield, President of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; to Howard L.

Hyde, young attorney of the Cleveland firm, Thompson, Hine & Flory, which represents many dissatisfied Goodyear stockholders who hope to overthrow the present control of the company.

Engaged. Vilma Banky, who acted with the late Rudolph Valentino in his last picture The Son of the Sheik; to Rod La Rocque, lanky cinemactor; in Hollywood.

Engaged. Rebecca Lindon Smith, granddaughter of Major George

Haven Putnam, daughter of Archaeologist-Artist Joseph Lindon Smith, who executed the mural decorations in the Boston Public Library and has made numerous excavations in Egypt; to William Ambrose Taylor Jr., onetime U, S. diplomat.

Married. Katharine Green Macrae, daughter of John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. (publishers); to Benjamin Stuart Tongue of Baltimore; in Manhattan.

Married. Mary Hay, nimble dancer, recently divorced wife of Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess; to one Vivian Bath, British rubber man; at Greenwich, Conn., secretly. They will live in Singapore,

Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print--I feel bully."

Married. Ethel J. Elkus, daughter of onetime (1916-19) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Abram I. Elkus; to Moses Hadas, of Atlanta, Ga.; at Red Bank, N. J.

Divorced. By Adele Rosenwald Deutsch, daughter of Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of Sears Roebuck & Co. (mail orders) ; Armand S. Deutsch. She charged abandonment.

Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept. 27).

Died. Henry Miller Jr., son of the late famed actor-manager Henry Miller, disinherited and adrift under the name of Gilbert Miller, afflicted with a gnawing drug habit; in Mexico City.

Died. Louis P. Noros, 77, last survivor of the ill-fated 1879 expedition in search of the northwest passage to the north pole; led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong; in Providence, R. I. Died. Thomas Dixon Lockwood, 78, inventor of the automatic telephone call, retired official of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; at Melrose, Mass.

Died. Baron Auguste Goffinet, faithful friend and guardian of the late mad Empress Charlotte (TIME, Jan. 31) ; onetime secretary of Belgian King Leopold II; in Brussels. He said: "Leopold was right when he told me years ago, 'Empress Charlotte is to bury us all except yourself.' "

Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome,

Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton, N. B.

Died. Mrs. Louise Ketcham Ovington, 90, widow of Theodore T. Ovington, onetime senior member of Ovington Bros, (wedding presents); in Manhattan.

Died. Hugh MacDonald, 97, who helped rivet and weld the Monitor;* at Antigonish, N. S.

*Lightnin' Bill Jones used the same line in Lightnin', speaking of his pension check.

*Famed armored ship, invented by Captain John Ericsson, with a low freeboard and unique revolving gun-turret, used in the Civil War, by the Union to checkmate the ironclad Southern Merrimac.