Born. To Premier Baron Giichi Tanaka, Premier of Japan, a son (see p. 13).

Engaged. The divorced onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally prominent Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan; to a rich Argentinean scion, Arthur Perlata Ramos, of Buenos Aires.

Married. Onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Henry S. Breckenridge, Princeton '07; to Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, onetime wife of a nephew of potent Republican jurist Elihu Root; in Washington, D. C.

Married. John A. Perdicaris, nephew of that Ion Perdicaris whose capture by the late Moroccan bandit lord, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli, created an international stir in 1904;-- to Miss Eunice Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio; at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Manhattan. He, a rich tobacco importer of Manhattan, Paris and Venice, hastened to sail for Europe last week with his bride.

Married. Col. H. H. Sir Hari Singh, K. C. I. E., K. C. V. O., Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, once notorious as "Mr. A.," the victim of a "badger game" staged by international crooks (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924); at Srinagar, India. Despatches, mutilated in transmission, did not state the name or rank of the bride.

Died. Miss Marion Frances Statler, 20, daughter of Ellsworth M. Statler, famed hotelman; at Greatneck, L. I.; of heart disease.

Died. William C. Prout, 40, president of the American Olympic Council (Olympic Games); in Boston; after a long illness.

Died. Harold Bolster, broker, husband of stage and cinemactress Madge Kennedy; at Los Angeles. She raced by airplane from San Francisco to his deathbed, too late.

Died. Major General Leonard Wood, 66, Governor General of the Philippines; in Boston (see page 7).

Died. Rutherford Platt Hayes, 69, son of the late U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, and brother of the President's only surviving son, Col. Webb C. Hayes, who still occupies the old family mansion in Fremont, Ohio; at Tampa, Fla.; after a lingering illness.

Died. John Dillon, M. P., 76, renowned, dynamic, and strapping Irish politician; in London, after a major abdominal operation. A lifelong friend of the Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," he was also the great contemporary and successor to Charles Stewart Parnell in the finally successful fight of the Irish proletariat against the abuses of Irish landlordism.

Died. Mrs. Sophie Ridgely Harrison, 100, sister-in-law of the late U. S. President Benjamin Harrison; in Cincinnati.

--President Roosevelt demanded : "Perdicaris alive or Raivalli dead!"