Engaged. Sabin W. Carr, world's champion pole vaulter & Olympic victor; to Virginia Elizabeth Karr, of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Engaged. Laura Volstead, daughter of onetime Representative & Mrs. Andrew J. Volstead, of Granite Falls, Minn.; to Carl Lomen,* of Alaska (see p. 11).

Engaged. Eleanor Donnelley, daughter of Reuben H. Donnelley (telephone books); to the Rev. Calvin Pardee Erdman, Professor of Biblical Literature at Occidental College, son of famed Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, of Princeton, N. J.

Engaged. Lieut. Commander John S. G. L. Dundas of H. M. S. Vindictive, son of the late Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and of Lady Cordeaux; to Miss Ruth Northrop Coleman, daughter of the Postmaster of Minneapolis.

Engagement Rumored. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of the onetime All-Highest; to Countess Mellin, onetime Baroness Wolff. When her husband contracted tuberculosis a few years ago, the Countess earned her living by keeping house for the Prince; later she divorced Count Mellin. Prince Eitel has divorced Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Oldenburg.

Divorced. Charles Spencer Chaplin, famed international buffoon; by Lita Grey Chaplin, onetime actress; in Los Angeles. Comedian Chaplin did not contest the action. Mrs. Chaplin was awarded approximately $500,000 and the custody of her two sons.

Elected. L. Ames Brown of Manhattan, to be president of Lord & Thomas & Logan, Inc., advertising agents, Chicago, New York and London.

Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia.

Died. Augustin MacHugh, 45, playwright (Officer 666); of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Louis Adams Frothingham, 57, Representative from Massachusetts, onetime Harvard baseballer, Major in the U. S. Army, onetime (1909-11) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; of heart disease; on his yacht at North Haven, Me.

Died. William Hodge Coats, 62, famed English threadman, last of 12 related millionaires of the firm of J. & P. Coats (authorized capital over $100,000,000); in Paisley, England.

Died. Capt. Wilhelm Mueller, 63, of the Hamburg American liner Reliance, friend of countless West Indian tourists; of heart failure; on shipboard, returning to New York from a cruise to Iceland, Spitzbergen & the North Cape, during which he sent relief supplies to the Nobile expedition.

Died. Robert Grain, 63, Maryland politician & corporation lawyer; owner of the largest private estate in Maryland, famed host; of intestinal trouble; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Rear Admiral Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, 64, who for two months during the World War defended the German colony of Kaio-chow against the Japanese ("I shall never surrender while I live unless ordered to"); in Bad Kissingen, Germany.

Died. Mrs. Helen Costigan Cohan, 74, retired actress, mother of famed Actor-producer George M. Cohan; of stomach trouble; in Monroe, N. Y. The vaudeville team of "The Four Cohans" (Jere J. Cohan, Mrs. Cohan, son George, daughter Josephine) was famed in the '90s; a Chicago theatre is named for them. George M. Cohan is the only survivor.

Died. Marie Emile Fayolle, 76, Marshal of France, over-commander of U. S. troops at Chateau Thierry; in Paris; after a long illness.

Died. James Bowron, 84, chairman, acting president & director of the Gulf States Steel Corp., potent steel entrepreneur in Alabama; of heart disease; in Birmingham, Ala.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, 100, flower girl in 1838 at the coronation of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria; in Newkirk, Wales.

* Not to be confused with able, active Carl Lohmann, Secretary of Yale University.