Milestones: Aug. 18, 1924

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Married. Albert B. Gatling, grandson of Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the famed gun, to Miss Helen Ryan, cinema actress; in Manhattan.

Married. William Wilkinson, 76, "Bishop of Wall Street," to Mrs. Pauline Travilla MacNab, 74; in Manhattan. Dr. Wilkinson's rotund figure is a familiar sight to noonday crowds in Manhattan's financial district, where he preaches open-air sermons from the curb.

Married. Lillian Scharman, No. 4 on U. S. ranking tennis list for women (1923), to one William Van Anden Hester Jr., of Brooklyn; in Paris.

Married. Miss Elza Heifetz, sister of Jascha Heifetz, famed violinist, to one Harold Stone of Manhattan; in Greenwich, Conn.

Died. Andrew S. Anderson, 54, Democratic nominee for Governor of South Dakota, near Beresford, S. D., gored to death by an enraged bull on his farm.