Engaged. Margaret Propert Farrand, daughter of President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; to Harry A. F. Eaton, World War veteran of Washington.

Married. Richard Henry Catling, 58, Manhattan banker, son of famed Gatling-gunman Richard Jordan Catling; to Ann M. Jones, of Baltimore, in Hagerstown, Md. Banker Catling recently divorced Winifred Waters Catling on the ground of desertion. She had gone to Jerusalem, Palestine, to practice Christian Science.

Married. Mr. Tifft, paper box manufacturer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one Ruth Esther Petersonn, of Fryburg, Me.; in South Berwick, Maine. A parental tiff over names left Mr. Tifft first nameless; he remains so, is listed in the telephone book as TIFFT.

Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London.

Married. Frances Teresa Kelley, daughter of Copperman Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda) of Manhattan; to Thomas Mortimer Keresey, publicity director of the International Mercantile Marine, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples.

Divorced. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton and Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; on the ground of desertion.

Appointed. Rt. Rev. Monsignor J. Francis O'Hern, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rochester, N. Y.; to be Bishop of Rochester, succeeding Bishop Thomas F. Hickey.

Appointed. Rev. Robert J. Armstrong, rector of St. Paul's. Yakima, Wash.; to be Bishop of Sacramento, succeeding Bishop Patrick J. Keane.

Died. Mrs. Helen Woodford Ruth, 31, onetime Boston waitress; estranged wife of famed Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth by burning and asphyxiation in a fire at the house of Dr. Edward H. Kinder, dentist, in Watertown, Mass. The Ruths were married in 1914, separated in 1925. For a year and a half Mrs. Ruth had lived in Watertown as Mrs. Kinder.

Died. Mrs. Josephine Winslow Carlton, wife of Western Union President Newcomb Carlton of Manhattan, onetime Buffalo socialite; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Wallace Eddinger, 47, famed actor (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captain Applejack, And So To Bed); of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna.

Died. Cornelius P. ("Con") Shea, 55, famed & robust Chicago labor racketeer, onetime dump cartman, onetime President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; after an operation for gall stones; in Chicago. In 1905 Racketeer Shea led a four months' strike of Chicago teamsters. Twenty-one were killed, 416 injured, 4,620 idle. Cost to the union: $1,050,000. Estimated cost to employers: $8,000,000.

Died. Emil Fuchs,* 62, famed Austrian painter, sculptor and etcher of monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings."

Died. Eugenic Cardinal Tosi, 65, Archbishop of Milan; after a long illness; in Milan. His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 33 foreign cardinals and 29 Italian; the first Italian minority since the 14th century schism of Avignon.

Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand.

Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune.

*Not to be confused with Judge Emil Fuchs, president and owner of the Boston Braves base-bailers.