Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939

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Married. P'rincess Maria-Francesca-Anna-Romana, 24, youngest daughter of Vittorio Emanuele III, and Prince Louis-Charles-Marie-Leopold-Robert of Bourbon-Parma, 39; in Rome.

Married. Nelson Eddy, 37, radio, concert and cinema singer; and Ann Franklin, 40, divorced wife of Cinema Director Sidney Franklin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles Taylor, second of the five daughters of California's ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (by his three wives,* he had respectively three sons and three daughters; two daughters; no children); from her third husband, Francis Taylor, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty.

Divorced. Charles Butterworth, 39, radio, stage and film funnyman; by his actress-wife, Ethel Kenyon Sutherland Butterworth; in Los Angeles.

Died. Johnny English, 14, who was kept alive during a critical period of his illness last summer by his hopes of a victory for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series; of neurogenic sarcoma (nerve cancer); in Chicago. Told of the fourth straight defeat of the Cubs last fall, he replied: "Well, you can't always win."

Died. Merritt Hulburd, 35, sometime associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, cinema producer (Dodsworth, Dead End, Stella Dallas, The Hurricane); after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Dr. Otto Krause, 55, onetime Austrian cavalry officer, husband of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann; of tuberculosis; at Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn.

Died. Edward Prentiss Costigan, 64, liberal Democrat, onetime (1930-36) U. S. Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack induced by lobar pneumonia; in Denver.

Died. Carl Emil Schultze, 72, famed oldtime cartoonist who created the character of "Foxy Grandpa"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee.