Milestones: Jul. 28, 1930

Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife.

Engagement Reported. Capt. Marshall Field III, onetime student at Eton College and Cambridge University, sportsman, head of Field, Glore & Co. (Chicago brokers), director of Guaranty Trust Co. (New York); to Audrey James Coats, London society beauty, widow of Dudley Coats, daughter of Mrs. Willie James who was an illustrious hostess in London and a close friend of Edward VII. The present Mrs. Marshall (Evelyn Marshall) Field III is in Reno, expecting a divorce early in August. Last week, Capt. Field made his first solo airplane flight, at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; flew 20 minutes, landed four times.

Engaged. Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklem-bourg, 21; to Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach-Schoenberg, Prince of Michelstadt and of Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, 26; with the consent of the Cabinet of the Dutch Government.

Married. Henry Killam Murphy of New York, architectural adviser to the Nationalist Government of China (TIME, Oct. 14). designer of Peking Union Medical College, Yale-in-China, Ginling College; and Mrs. Dagny Carter, who was given in marriage by Hon. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China: at Gin-ling College. Nanking. Architect Murphy's best man: Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese National Government's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London.

Divorce Annulled. Rumania's King Carol II and Helen, sister of deposed George II of Greece; by the Rumanian Parliament in Bucharest.

Awarded. To Col. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, autoracer, War ace (26 enemy planes), holder of the Distinguished Service Cross (with nine palms), Cross of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre (with four palms): after twelve years, the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux.

Died. Frederick Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin & Ava; Rosemary Millicent Ward, Viscountess Ednam & Sir Edward Simons Ward; Mrs. Henrik Loeffler; Pilot George L. P. Henderson; Assistant Pilot John Shearing; when their airtaxi, returning to London from Mrs. Loeffler's houseparty at Le Touquet, exploded midair; at Meopham, Kent, England.

Died. Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, 62, Vice Admiral commanding the U. S. scouting fleet, Spanish and World War veteran; of lung congestion following pneumonia; in San Diego, Calif.