Milestones, Jan. 12, 1931

Engaged. Errett Lobban Cord, 36, president of Auburn Automobile Co. and Duesenberg, Inc.; and one Virginia Kirk Tharpe; in Los Angeles, Calif.

Engaged. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late President James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railroad.

Engaged. A son of "China's Invisible Ruling House," Mr. T. A. Soong; to the younger sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon."

Married. Harriet Johnson (Sylvia Field), 29, actress (The Royal Family, Queen at Home); and Harold LeRoy Moffett, 30, actor (Three's a Crowd); in Manhattan.

Elected. Elihu Root, elder statesman: to be honorary president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness; succeeding the late William Howard Taft, who held the post from 1915 until his death last March.

Birthdays. Maj.-General Clarence Ransom Edwards, "Daddy of the Yankee Division" (71); Author Rudyard Kipling (65); Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield, chaplain of Manhattan's waterfront Sea-mens' Church Institute (60); ex-Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (57).

Died. Lee-Adam Gimbel, 34, Manhattan stockbroker (Sartorius & Smith), onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, onetime vice president and director of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Manhattan department store); by falling or jumping from a 16th story window of the Yale Club; in Manhattan.

Died. U. S. Representative David Joseph O'Connell, 62, of the 9th New York Congressional District (1919-21 and since 1923), author of the bill which sent Gold Star Mothers to France, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sales manager of Funk & Wagnalls Co., onetime president of the Booksellers' League of New York; of a heart attack while seated in a bootblack chair; in Manhattan.

Died. George V's eldest sister, H. R. H. Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, 63, Princess Royal, Dowager Duchess of Fife, called by Edward VII "Your Royal Shyness," ist member of British Royalty to become a cinemaddict.

Died. Edward Judson Ovington, 66, onetime Chicago manager of Ovington Bros. (Manhattan gift shop), nature-lover, founder of Ovington's (Lake Crescent, Wash., summer resort); in Seattle, Wash.

Died. William Hoffman Martin, 67, grain broker of Chicago and New York, father of Managing Editor John S. Martin of TIME, uncle of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME) ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Hugh Campbell Wallace, 67, onetime (1919-21) U. S. Ambassador to France, U. S. representative in the Supreme Allied Council and Council of Ambassadors at the Versailles Treaty conferences, friend and unofficial adviser of President Wilson; of heart disease; in Washington.

Died. Dr. Emil Fronz, 70, Viennese obstetrician who assisted at the birth of 70 imperial Austrian offspring; in Vienna.