Engaged. Joan Bennett, 20, film actress; and Gene Markey, 36, scenarist and writer.

Married. Alicia Patterson, aviatrix daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson, divorced wife of James Simpson Jr.; and Joseph W. Brooks, broker, aviator, onetime (1909-10-11) All-American footballer (Colgate); in Manhattan.

Elected. John William Davis, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate: to the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John in Lattingtown. L. I. Senior warden: John Pierpont Morgan.

Retiring. Dr. Harvey Gushing, famed surgeon and brain specialist; as professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Reason: When he becomes 63 next April 8; hospital regulations will oblige him to resign.

Birthdays. Faith, Hope and Charity Jenkins (112); Frank Billings Kellogg (75); Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), (69); Harvey Samuel Firestone (63); Edwin Arlington Robinson (62); Princess Maria of Italy (17).

Died. Cole Blease Bowers,* 21; in Hampton, S. C.; by his own hand (shooting) ; because his father would not let him open a package marked "Do not open until Christmas."

Died. Gardner Hale, 32, fresco painter and interior decorator; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Santa Maria, Calif. A Harvard graduate and son of Prof. William Gardner Hale, first director of the American Academy in Rome, he decorated many mansions in Europe and the U. S. in true fresco in the early Italian manner, was best known for his murals in Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Manhattan Cloud Club. He also carved totem poles.

Died. W. Evarardus Bogardus, 36; of infantile paralysis; in Manhattan. He was vice president of Bishop First National Bank of Honolulu for eleven years, returned to the U. S. last autumn, entered the insurance firm of Wainwright & Page, Inc. In October he married Mrs. Marie Louise Blair Hamilton, ex-wife of the late J. P. Morgan's grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton.

Died. Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, 62, broker, president of Booth Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest.

Died. Wilson Alwyn Bentley, 66, famed authority on s,owflakes; of pneumonia; in Jericho, Vt. He had a collection of 5,300 photomicrographs he had made of snow crystals, no two alike. He also photographed frost and dew.

Died. David Robertson Forgan, 69, vice chairman of the executive committee of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, first Western amateur golf champion (1899); of heart disease; in Evanston, Ill.

Died. Frank Henry Cook, 69, grandson of Founder Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook & Son (tourist agency) and onetime head of the firm; in Wonersh, Surrey, England.

Died. Lionel Powell, famed impresario who introduced Paderewski, Caruso. Chaliapin, Tetrazzini, Kreisler, Jeritza et al. to London, visited the U. S. 40 times during the course of his career; after an operation for a gastric ulcer; in London.

Died. Jose Figueroa Alcorta, 71, president of the Supreme Court of Argentina, onetime (1906-10) President of the Republic and of the Senate; after an appendectomy; in Buenos Aires.

Died. John Perrin, 74, onetime (1914-26) board chairman of San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Rev. Dryden W. Phelps, 77, retired Episcopal clergyman, brother of Yale's Professor William Lyon Phelps; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Richard Joseph Cooke, 78; retired Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; of apoplexy; in Athens, Tenn. For 23 years (1889-1912) professor at Chattanooga University, he was vice chancellor in 1893, acting president in 1897.

Died. Dr. Edvard Brandes, 84, one-time Finance Minister of Denmark, founder of the radical paper Politiken, younger brother of the late Litterateur Georg Morris Cohen Brandes; in Copenhagen.

Died. Alfred Perceval Graves. 85, two-time president of the Irish Literary Society, father of Author Robert Ranke Graves (Goodbye to All That); in Harlech, Wales.

Died. Dr. Daniel Draper, 90, New York City's official meteorologist for 42 years (retired 1911), inventor of many a weather-recording instrument; of heart disease; at Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Died. Encarncion Mamaxe, 106, last of the Sobaipuris tribe of Indians; in San Xavier del Bac Mission, Ariz.

*No kin of South Carolina's onetime Governor & Senator Coleman Livingston Blease.

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