Baptized. Marie Frederica Sterling, infant daughter of Frederick Augustine Sterling, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State; in Dublin; by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. Among those adding their blessing: Pope Pius XI, by telegraph.

Engaged. Virginia Dawes, 18, daughter of General Charles Gates Dawes; and Ensign John Gardner Tennent, U. S. N., of Fredericksburg, Va.; in Chicago.

Engaged. William Barry Wood Jr.. 21, of Milton, Mass., high ranking Harvard scholar, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and captain of the 1931 Harvard football team; and Mary Lee Hutchins, Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar. where she led the daisy chain in 1929.

Married. Eleanor Allen Lamont, daughter of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Charles Crehore Cunningham Howard Jr.; in Manhattan.

Married. Betty Lipe, daughter of President Raymond P. Lipe of Defiance Spark Plug Co.; and Howard De Vilbiss, son of the late Thomas De Vilbiss, president of De Vilbiss Co. (atomizers); in Toledo.

Married. Roscoe Conklin ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 45, onetime film funnyman and director; and one Addie Oakley Dukes McPhail, 26; in Erie, Pa. Mr. & Mrs. Arbuckle are in vaudeville together.

Sued for Divorce. Paul Robeson, 34, Negro baritone, actor and athlete; by Eslanda Goode Robeson; in Manhattan. Reason: "ennui." Grounds: infidelity. Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Lady Nancy Cunard.

Divorced. Thomas Graham McNamee, radio announcer and Universal Newsreel "Talking Reporter"; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. Mrs. McNamee testified she peeked through a bedroom window, saw her husband with another woman.

Separated. Eleanor Boardman. film actress; from King Wallis Vidor, director, former husband of Florence Vidor who is now the wife of Jascha Heifetz, violinist; in Los Angeles.

Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead.)"

Died. Francis Patrick Duffy, 61. War-time chaplain of the "Fighting 69th" Regiment of New York, pastor of Holy Cross Church; of colitis and a liver infection; in Manhattan. He was born in

Cobourg, Ontario, the son of a laborer. He went to France with the 69th (which became the 168th Infantry) as its chaplain and later was commissioned a Major. For bravery under fire Father Duffy received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palm; he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, cited for valor. He was called "the ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish and very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music for her. He inherited his fortune from his father, Isaac Merritt Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines. Died. William ("Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Died. Alexander Winton, 72, pioneer automobile manufacturer; of old age; in Cleveland. He was born in Scotland, son of a farm tool maker. His Winton Motor Carriage Co. (incorporated 1897) was first to use a self-starter (compressed air) in the U. S. In Detroit in 1901 he raced with Henry Ford and lost; lost another race in Ireland because a frightened Irishman put candles in the gasoline tank to "keep away the devils." In 1924 he stopped making automobiles, to concentrate on marine and air motors. Pioneer Winton was four times married, last time in his 70th year to Mrs. Mary Ellen A very, two weeks after divorcing his third wife.

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