Engaged. William Roth Wister, son of Author Owen Wister (The Virginian), and Miss Frances Kearsley Mitchell, granddaughter of Edward Townsend Stotesbury (see p. 54).

Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken, N. J.

Married. John Dos Passes, 33, author (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer) playwright (Airways, Inc.), and a Miss Kate Smith; at Ellsworth, Me. Because to him the married state is not an awesome thing, he did not publicize his wedding, which happened some six weeks ago--he could not remember exactly when.

Married. Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, broker. President New York Stock Exchange, and a Mrs. John Mayer; in Manhattan. He is her third husband, she is his second wife. Sued for Divorce. Bainbridge Colby, Wilsonian Secretary of State (1920-21), and law partner; by Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, novelist, at Reno. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced. William A. Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; by Mrs. Florence Lincoln Rockefeller, his childhood playmate; at Bridgeport, Conn. Said she: ''My husband became addicted to strong drink. He gradually slipped. . . ."

Divorced. The Princess Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, onetime Kansas farm-girl, onetime San Francisco cafe entertainer; from Suad Bey Chakir, Turkish potentate, her third husband; at Reno. Grounds: failure to provide. A month ago --he won a $5,000 slander suit from Turkish Princess Chivekar, who mentioned her in a divorce action against Selim Bey.

Appointed. Alfred Emanuel Smith, to be a trustee of New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.*

Elected. Ferdinand Eberstadt, onetime Dillon, Read & Co. partner. Reparations Conference assistant to Owen D. Young; lo be a member of Otis & Co., Cleveland brokers.

Elected. Robert Winship Woodruff, president of Coca-Cola Co.; to the presidency of White Motor Co., left vacant by the death of his friend, Walter C. Vhite (TIME, Oct. 7)--(See p. 47).

Elected. K. T. Keller, onetime (1928) Vice President and General Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc., to be Vice President and General Manager of Chrysler Corp.

Died. Jeanne Eagels, 35, legitimactress, cinemactress, onetime (1925-28) wife of Edward Harris ("Ted'') Coy, famed Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined two weeks' salary (some $3,600) by Actor's Equity. After the suspension she turned to cinema, appeared in Man, Woman & Sin, The Letter, Jealousy. Her suspension suspended, she had planned to reappear on Broadway before Christmas.

Died. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister; .at Berlin; of thrombosis (see p. 28).

Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15.)

Died. Thomas Eugene Mitten, 65, featful Philadelphia banker (Mitten Men & Management Bank & Trust Co.), tractionist, in whose street cars, buses, subways, taxis rode over 928,000,000 passengers last year; at Sunnydale, near Milford, Pa.; of drowning. His body was found at the bottom of Log Tavern Lake, on the Mitten estate, on which he had been fishing The body lay in state at the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Auditorium. Successively farmboy, railway telegrapher, station agent, in 1901 he became superintendent of Buffalo's International Railway Co. (traction & interurban), president of Chicago City Railway Co. (1905-11). Under the directorate of Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Morgan & Co. member, he became chairman of the executive committee of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. The "Stotesbury plan" (7-c- fare) and the "Mitten plan" (5-c- fare) had a mortal combat in 1921. Since then P. R. T. present fare: (7-c-) has run, stopped, started under Mitten management. His son, Dr. Arthur Allen Mitten, was elected to succeed him. Died. William James ("Fingy") Conners, 71, Buffalo boss; at Buffalo; of a heart attack. His first job was that of a dock laborer. Soon after, he inherited the paternal saloon, invested the paternal insurance money in another. Legend insists that, as a child, he stuck up his thumb for another moppet to shoot at, saw it blown off, proudly proclaimed, "I lost me fingy!". thus acquiring a nickname. In swift succession, he organized Buffalo stevedores, bidding them patronize Conners beer parlors, formed a company to grab Great Lakes shipping lines when Congress forbade railways to own water transportation (1916), entered the transit, brewing, paving, real estate business, bought the Buffalo Enquirer, Courier because "every-body roasts me and now I want to heat a pan." Remembered among his political activities was his management of William Randolph Hearst's first (1906), second (1922) New York gubernatorial campaigns.

Died. The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, 72, of Baltimore, Bishop of Maryland; in Atlantic City, N. J.; of apoplexy as he arose near the pulpit of St. James's Church to address the House of Bishops over which he was presiding. Before entering the Church Dr. Murray practiced brokerage and banking, was known as the richest Bishop.* In 1925 he was elected head of the House of Bishops. This was the first time in 140 years that the position had not gone automatically to the senior active bishop in order of consecration.

Died. John J. Nolan, 79, father-in-law of Actor George Michael Cohan, father-in-law of Producer Sam Harris; at Brookline, Mass.; of pneumonia. Died. Henry Ulick Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, 83; at Harewood House, Yorkshire, England, of pneumonia. He was the father-in-law of Princess Mary, wife of Henry George Charles Lascelles, elder son of the late Earl. Died. George V. Buzdugan, onetime (1924-27) Chief Justice of the Rumanian Supreme Court, member of the Regency; at Bucharest; after an operation to remove an abscess. Reburied. General Peter WTrangel, one-time (1920) Commander in Chief of Russian "White" armies at Belgrade. He died last year, was buried in Brussels. Over the coffin circled airplanes, dropping wild flowers on a shabby procession of Emigres.

*Last week Trustee Smith tore a piece of the cornice off the roof of the Waldorf-Astoria, old-lime Manhattan hostelry, officially began its destruction. An So-story office building will be erected on its site. Another Brown Derby activity: radio-greeting Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd in Little America. *The advantages of his experience in business he dismissed by saying, "It is not so important that clergymen should have business training as that business men should have some religious training."