Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929

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Engaged. Margaret Propert Farrand, daughter of President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; to Harry A. F. Eaton, World War veteran of Washington.

Married. Richard Henry Catling, 58, Manhattan banker, son of famed Gatling-gunman Richard Jordan Catling; to Ann M. Jones, of Baltimore, in Hagerstown, Md. Banker Catling recently divorced Winifred Waters Catling on the ground of desertion. She had gone to Jerusalem, Palestine, to practice Christian Science.

Married. Mr. Tifft, paper box manufacturer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one Ruth Esther Petersonn, of Fryburg, Me.; in South Berwick, Maine. A parental tiff over names left Mr. Tifft first nameless; he remains so, is listed in the telephone book as TIFFT.

Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London.

Married. Frances Teresa Kelley, daughter of Copperman Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda) of Manhattan; to Thomas Mortimer Keresey, publicity director of the International Mercantile Marine, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples.

Divorced. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton and Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; on the ground of desertion.

Appointed. Rt. Rev. Monsignor J. Francis O'Hern, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rochester, N. Y.; to be Bishop of Rochester, succeeding Bishop Thomas F. Hickey.

Appointed. Rev. Robert J. Armstrong, rector of St. Paul's. Yakima, Wash.; to be Bishop of Sacramento, succeeding Bishop Patrick J. Keane.

Died. Mrs. Helen Woodford Ruth, 31, onetime Boston waitress; estranged wife of famed Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth by burning and asphyxiation in a fire at the house of Dr. Edward H. Kinder, dentist, in Watertown, Mass. The Ruths were married in 1914, separated in 1925. For a year and a half Mrs. Ruth had lived in Watertown as Mrs. Kinder.

Died. Mrs. Josephine Winslow Carlton, wife of Western Union President Newcomb Carlton of Manhattan, onetime Buffalo socialite; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Wallace Eddinger, 47, famed actor (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captain Applejack, And So To Bed); of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna.