Engaged. Prince Carl of Sweden, 26, nephew of King Gustav V and brother-in-law of King Leopold III of Belgium; and Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, mother of three, divorced two years ago; in Stockholm. Since she is a commoner, the Prince had to renounce his titles and succession to the throne. Two of his cousins. Princes Sigvard and Lennart. have previously given up their royal rights to marry commoners.

Married. Natalie Cantor, 20, second of Funnyman Eddie Cantor's five daughters; and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 22, Hollywood antique dealer; in Los Angeles.

Married. Nikolai Sokoloff, 50, director of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, longtime (1918-33) conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Mrs. Ruth Haller Ottaway, 50, chairman of the National Council of Women; in Manhattan.

Divorced, Ethel Spencer Moseley. one-time sister-in-law of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson at whose first wedding (1916), to Lieutenant Earl Winfield Spencer, she was a bridesmaid; from George C. Moseley, Chicago broker, Yale's 1916 All-America end; in Geneva, Ill. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort.

Awarded. To Caroline Pafford Miller, 33, 1934 Pulitzer Prize novelist (Lamb in His Bosom); a final decree of divorce from William D. Miller, her high-school English teacher whom she married at 17; in Waycross, Ga. Grounds: "He became nagging, unbearable and . . . insanely jealous." Retorted Teacher Miller: "[She] got pleasure-mad after writing the book."

Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood, N. J.

Died. Wilhelm Henie. 65, Oslo fur dealer, father of Sonja Henie, world's greatest figure skater; of a bloodclot in the lung, following an abdominal operation; in Hollywood.

Died. Dr. Harry Yandell Benedict, 67, president of the University of Texas since 1927; of heart disease; in Austin.

Died. Paul Chabas, 68, French portraitist who painted the famed September Morn; after long illness; in Paris. The model, who for two summers (1910-1911) stood ankle deep in chilly Lake Annecy while he painted slowly and meticulously, is now the wife of a French industrialist whose name he has kept a secret. Said Painter Chabas, who only last month began "involuntary retirement": "Although several fortunes have been made from my picture, nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars."

Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats.

Died. Effie Wise Ochs, 76, relict of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, mother-in-law of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; of heart disease; in White Plains. N. Y. Her father, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, founded Reformed Judaism in the U. S.

Died. Harry Stewart New, 78, onetime (1923-29) U. S. Postmaster General, Republican National Chairman (1907-08) and Senator from Indiana (1917-23); of pneumonia; in Baltimore. He established the U. S. air mail service, in 1922 made the first political campaign speech by radio.

Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course.

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