Milestones: Dec. 31, 1923

Married. Miss Lila Ross Hotz, 23, of Chicago, to Henry Robinson Luce, editor of TIME, the Weekly News-Magazine.

Married. Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon, widow of the late Earl of Carnarvon who discovered TutankhAmen’s tomb, to Lieutenant Colonel Ian Dennistoun, 44, in London. The Countess, “La Petite Marquise,” is considered one of England’s best-dressed women.

Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuck, 82, oldest Social Democrat in Germany, friend of Karl Marx, La Salle and Engels, Honorary President of the Weimar General Assembly in 1919 and member of the Reichstag since 1884, in Berlin.

Died. Baron Naibu Kanda, 66, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University, member of the House of Peers and graduate (1884) of Amherst College, at Tokyo.

Died. Giuseppe Ballignani, 73, director of the Milan Conservatory of Music for 32 years, friend of Verdi, Boito and other Italian composers, in Milan, after falling from the fourth floor of his home.

Died. Frank I. Cobb, 54, Editor of The New York World. (See page 22.)

Died. Rev. John Henry Jowitt, D.D., M.A., 59, former pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, and of Westminster Chapel, London. (See page 19.)