Born. To Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australian transatlantic & transpacific aviator; and Mary Powell Kingsford-Smith; a son; in Sydney, Australia.

Born. To Colonel Oscar von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, son of Germany's President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg; and Frau Margarita von Hindenburg; a daughter. President von Hindenburg's eleventh grandchild; in Berlin.

Engaged. Hugh Bullock, son of Banker Calvin Bullock of Denver and Manhattan; and Marie Leontine Graves, cousin of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot.

Married. Helen Choate, 26, Manhattan poetess, socialite, granddaughter of the late U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Hodges Choate; and Geoffrey Platt, 27, architect son of Architect Charles Adams Platt; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. By Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt: Marmaduke, 1st Viscount Furness. London shipping man; in London. Charge: misconduct.

Appointed. Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein, master of North German Lloyd's Bremen, as Commodore of the Fleet, succeeding the late Nicolaus Johnsen, Enropa's master (TIME, Dec. 19); Captain Paul Wiehr, master of Hamburg-American's Albert Ballin, as Commodore of the Fleet; Harold Spencer Jones. Cape of Good Hope Observatory's astronomer, as Britain's Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory; Orville Wright, "first man to fly a powered heavier-than-air craft" (see p. 19), as first Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; Newton Diehl Baker, as trustee of Ohio State University.

Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy, 18.

Died. Gloria, 9, eldest of Broadway Colyumist Walter Winchell's two daughters; of septic pneumonia, Christmas night; in Manhattan.

Died. Levi Cooke, 50, Washington beer lobbyist, lawyer, potent in pushing the Collier beer bill through the House of Representatives (TIME, Dec. 26); of acute indigestion; in Washington. Beer associate of St. Louis' Adolphus Busch and Manhattan's Col. Jacob Ruppert, he long lobbied for the U. S. Brewers' Association, led the American Bar Association fight to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress, at one of which his beer bill was finally passed.

Died. Carl S. Carlton, 53, farmer brother of Florida's Governor Doyle Elam Carlton; by a charge of buckshot fired, while deer-hunting, by his brother Alton Carlton. ricocheting off a cypress tree full into his face; in the Everglades near Immokalee, Fla.

Died. Ella Nirdlinger Nathan, 70, mother of Theatre Critic George Jean Nathan; after an illness of several months; in Philadelphia.

Died. Edwin Musser Herr, 72, onetime (1911-29) president of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., vice chairman of the board of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan.

Died. Norman Edward Mack (McEachran), 74, potent Buffalo Democrat, longtime (1900-32) New York Democratic National Committeeman, publisher of Buffalo's Sunday & Daily Times (sold to Scripps-Howard in 1929 at an estimated price of $5,000,000); of asthma & heart trouble; in Buffalo. Famed as New York's "original Bryan man," he fought for three Bryan nominations (1896, 1900. 1908), stayed regular-party in 1904 when Bryan split. Long a fighter for Prohibition modification, he lined up last February for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President, resigned his National Committeemanship after the convention.

Died. Alexis Caswell Angell, 75, Detroit lawyer (Angell, Turner, Dyer & Meek), brother of Yale's President James Rowland Angell, son of the late James Burrill Angell, onetime president of the University of Michigan; of a heart attack; in Detroit.

Died. Henry Lane Wilson, 76, Ambassador to Mexico during the 1910 revolution and the assassination of President Madero (1913); of pneumonia; in Indianapolis. Son of a U. S. Minister to Venezuela, grandson of the founder of Lafayette (Ind.). he published Lafayette's Journal (1882-85), turned lawyer-banker in Spokane, lost much of his fortune in the 1893 panic.

Died. Katherine Mead Sloan. 81, mother of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp.; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Brigadier General John Fred Pierson, 93, next to last-surviving Federal general of the Civil War; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Direct scion of Yale's first President Abraham Pierson, he won his generalship in 1865.

Died. Rev. Luther Gustavus Barrett, 94, oldest Harvard College graduate./- onetime (1894-1911) president of Jackson College (Jackson, Miss.); in Melrose,

Mass.

Last: Adelbert Ames, 97, of Tewksbury, Mass.

/-New oldest Harvard College graduate: Henry Munroe Rogers, 93, Boston lawyer.

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