Engaged. Margaret Whigham, "Britain's most beautiful" socialite, daughter of George Hay Whigham, board chairman of Celanese Corp. of America; and Charles Sweeney, U. S. captain of the Oxford golf team. Last April Miss Whigham broke off her engagement to the Earl of Warwick, one of England's marital plums. Engaged-- Marilyn Reynolds Carter Pickford (Marilyn Miller), 32, film & stage actress; and Jose Paige ("Don Alvarado"), 28, film actor; after an involuntary trip together to Southampton on the S. S. Bremen when they overstayed at a sailing party in Manhattan; in London. Birthdays. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 76; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 73; McGill University Principal General Sir Arthur William Currie, 57; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, 37.

Died. Spencer T. Rudd, 40, onetime secretary to Andrew J. Volstead; by his own hand (revolver); on the archery court in Chicago's Lincoln Park. A dog uncovered the body under a snowpile.

Died. Kaku Mori, 49, Japanese Jingo politician; of pneumonia; in Kamakura, Japan. Credo: "We should part company with the materialistic civilization of the Occident, which we have followed blindly for 60 years, and return to the old spiritual life of Japan"; "Our relations with the U. S. . . . are likely to become worse"; "We must prepare for the worst."

Died. Walter Clyde Davis, 51, fugitive president of Colorado Springs' (Colo.) City Savings Building & Loan Association; by his own hand (hanging with his neck-tie); in his cell in Manhattan's Police Headquarters, soon after his arrest in a Gramercy Park apartment where he had been living for two of the six months world police searched for him. Six thousand investors were ruined when his company went into receivership in June with $1,270,000 in assets missing.

Died. George Porter Baldwin, 58, a vice president of General Electric Co.. good friend of President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was working on a Hoover committee to plan maximum usefulness to the railroads of Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s $300,000,000 loan. Died. Commodore Nicolaus Johnsen, 63, master of S. S. Europa, senior deck officer of the North German Lloyd fleet; after an appendicitis operation on the Hamburg-to-Manhattan run; in Brooklyn. His dying wish: "Turn my face to the sea." Died. James G. Sterchi, 65, board chairman of Sterchi Brothers' Stores, Inc., Southern chain of 63 retail furniture stores, nine factories; after a short illness; in Knoxville, Tenn. Died. Horace Newton Allen, 74, Toledo doctor who, fresh from medical school, saved the life of Korean Prince Min Ung-ik in 1884, when the Chinese drove the Japanese out of Korea, later became U. S. Consul to Korea (1897-1901), Minister (1901-05); of diabetes and a leg amputation; in Toledo. Died, Albert Carpenter Loring, 74, president of Pillsbury Flour Mills Inc.; of bronchial pneumonia; in Minneapolis. He became president in 1923 when British-owned Pillsbury returned to U. S. control. Died. Eugene Brieux, 74, famed French playwright (best known: Damaged Goods); of pleurisy; in Nice, France. A play-a-year man, he posed, rarely solved, social problems. Died-- Julia Gabriella McAllister, 81, niece of the late great Manhattan Social Boss Ward McAllister; of apoplexy; in Manhattan.

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