Milestones: Sep. 22, 1930

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Engaged. Joan Margaret MacDonald, 22, daughter of Great Britain's Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, oarswoman and third-year student of surgery at the Royal Infirmary at the University of Edinburg; and Alastair MacKinnon, 23, a graduate last year of the Infirmary, son of a deceased Scottish physician; at London.

Married. Margaret M. Eddy, daughter of famed Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Leader Sherwood Eddy; and George Kerry Smith, an instructor at the King School, Stamford, Conn.; at Denishawn House (dance school) in Manhattan, where the bride was given in marriage by Dancer Ted Shawn (Mr. Eddy was in England writing a book). Before the ceremony Dancer Ruth St. Denis (Mrs. Shawn) danced a prayer of invocation before an altar of fiery dahlias.

Divorced. Cottonman & Banker Nathaniel Farwell Ayer of Boston; by Mrs. Helen Draper Taft Ayer, niece of the late Governor Eben S. Draper of Massachusetts, onetime wife of Waldbridge Smith Taft who is a son of New York's famed Lawyer Henry Waters Taft and a nephew of the late President & Chief Justice; at Reno. Charge: incompatibility.

Appointed. Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of Chief Justice Hughes: to succeed the late John George Milburn (died, TIME, Aug. 25) as a director of New York Life Insurance Co.

Appointed. Aloysius G. Hogan, S.J., prefect of studies at the novitiate of St. Andrew-on-Hudson; to succeed Rev. William J. Duane, S.J., as president of Fordham University, New York; by the very Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus at Rome (see p. 34).

Birthday. General John Joseph Pershing. Age: 70. Date: Sept. 13. Celebration: usual routine at his office in Washington where he directs the American Battle Monuments Commission. Said he: "To me a birthday . . . is not a milestone." (See p. 19.)

Died. Jr. Lieut. Woodward Phelps, 28, married, son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps who is Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; by his own hand (revolver) aboard the U. S. S. Northampton in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Three days prior his Annapolis roommate and cruisemate, Lieut.-Commander Benjamin F. Staud, had killed himself similarly off the China Coast.

Died. William Clifford Hogg, 55, Texas oil operator, son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael, Thomas and Ima Hogg*; after a lithotomy, at Baden-Baden, Germany.

Died. Arthur Turner Vance, 57, editor from 1900 to 1907 of Woman's Home Companion, editor since 1908 of Pictorial Review; of a stomach disorder; in Brooklyn.

Died. Captain Karl Boy-Ed, 58, one-time naval attaché at the German Embassy in Washington; by a fall from his horse; at his estate Groenwoldhof, near Hamburg. In 1915 the U. S. forced his withdrawal when he became suspect of fomenting rebellion in Mexico and thus distracting the U. S. from the War. The then Kaiser rewarded him with the order of the Red Eagle. In 1921 he married Virginia Mackay Smith, daughter of the late Episcopal Bishop Smith Mackay of Pennsylvania.