Milestones: Jan. 2, 1928

Born. To Captain and Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, a third daughter; in Manhattan.

Married. Katherine Sedgwick Colby, daughter of Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under President Wilson, and Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, novelist, (Green Forrest, 1927); to one Frederick Prime Delafield.

Married. Mrs. Thyra Samter Winslow, short story writer, novelist (Picture Frames, Show Business, People Round the Corner), of Manhattan, to Nelson W. Hyde, engineer, of Kew Gardens, Long Island.

Elected. Otis Wiese, to be editor in chief of McCall's Magazine (monthly circulation 2,500,000). He was highly recommended to William B. Warner, president of the McCall Co., by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, and has worked for McCalls for just a year. He is just 22.

Elected. Edwin Rogers Embree, 44, onetime vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in Manhattan to be president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, active welfare organization in Chicago.

Elected. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, to be president of the American Chemical Society for 1928, to succeed Dr. George David Rosengarten of Philadelphia.

Died. Mrs. Lillian A. Rothschild, wife of Simon F. Rothschild, president of Abraham & Straus, Inc., of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Keable, 40, novelist (Simon Called Peter, 1921); at his home on the Island of Papeete, Tahita.

Died. Sir Frederick William Young, 51, in London. He was responsible, as head of British Admiralty Salvage Section, for salvaging 500 ships before the war, and even more famed for directing the rescue of the British submarine K-13 when she sank near the Clyde in 1917 with 73 men aboard, of whom 42 were saved.

Died. Charles W. Gray, 52, president of the famed Yellow Cab Co.; thrown from his horse while riding, in Chicago.

Died. Andrieus Aristieus Jones, 56, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; of heart disease, in Washington, D.C.

Died. Albert Alexander Murphree, 57, President since 1909 of the University of Florida, described in 1924 by William Jennings Bryan as a Presidential possibility; of heart disease, in Gainesville, Fla.

Died. Sergius Sazanov, 61, onetime (1914-16) Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire; at Nice.

Died. George Mason LaMonte, 64, Chairman of Board of Prudential Insurance Co., paper manufacturer, famed philanthropist, Democratic candidate (1918) for U. S. Senate from New Jersey; of heart disease, in Manhattan.

Died. James D. Glennan, retired Brigadier General, 65, onetime chief surgeon of the A. E. F.; in Washington.

Died. Adolphe Valery Coco, 70, one-time (1916-1924) Attorney General of Louisiana, intrepid investigator of the Mer Rouge slayings (1922) involving Ku Klux Klan. It was he who once, unarmed, defended a prisoner from a mob by drawing a line on the ground with his cane and saying: "The first person who crosses that line I kill."

Died. Camille Blanc, 81, founder of Monte Carlo's famed Casino; at Nice.

Died. Joseph Green Butler Jr., 87, a creator of the Mahoning Valley steel industry; at Youngstown, Ohio. Iron and steel men called him "Uncle Joe." President McKinley had called him friend; they had attended village school together in Niles, Ohio.