Engaged. Elizabeth Alice van Antwerp Manning, daughter of New York's Protestant Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning; and Griffith Baily Coale, 43, Manhattan muralist.

Engaged. Louise Miller, daughter of New York's onetime (1921-23) Governor Nathan L. Miller; and Douglas Robinson, son of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson.

Married. Clarence Linden ("Buster") Crabbe, 24, Olympic swimming champion, cinemactor (King of the Jungle) ; and one Adah Virginia Held, 20; in Yuma, Ariz.

Married. Mona Fox, 30, daughter of retired Cinemagnate William Fox; and Joseph Riskin, 45, Manhattan diamond merchant; in Miami Beach.

Married. Onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York City and his good friend, onetime Actress Betty Compton; by the Mayor of Cannes, France. Said the Mayor of Cannes to the groom: "I hope when you are recalled to America to take another official position, probably as Mayor of New York, you will remember Cannes pleasantly."

Appointed. James Sylvester Bolan, 60, Deputy Chief Inspector of Manhattan's police; to be Police Commissioner, succeeding Edward Pierce Mulrooney who last week resigned to become chairman of New York's State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Like his predecessor. Commissioner Bolan answered the recruiting call of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896, has come up steadily from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called him its "toughest" inspector, "so straight he bends over backward."

Died. Robert ("Bob") Carey, 28, 1932 American Automobile Association racing champion; when, during a practice run on Los Angeles' Ascot Speedway, a frozen steering knuckle sent his car crashing through the guard rail.

Died. Paul B. King, 38, Wartime aviation captain, son of Utah's Senator William Henry King; when he fell/jumped from the seventh floor of Washington's Blackstone Hotel. A nervous breakdown six months ago forced Captain King to quit test piloting at Langley Field, Va., enter a sanitarium which he left last fortnight.

Died. Leah Barnato Blackwell, 40, England's "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barnett ("Barney") Barnato, divorced last month from Carlyle Blackwell, oldtime cinemactor (TIME, April 3); of heart disease; in London.

Died. Eugene Edward O'Donnell, 50, president of Eastern Steamship Lines; of peritonitis; in Boston.

Died. Inspector Alfred Burn, personal detective to Edward of Wales since the War; in Hove, England.

Died. Famed Professor Ashley Horace Thorndike of Columbia University, 61; in Manhattan. Stricken with a heart attack as he was walking home from a club dinner. Professor Thorndike was found unconscious as he lay on a deserted Madison Avenue sidewalk. Best-known Thorndike textbooks: Facts about Shakespeare; Tragedy; English Comedy.

Died. William E. Metzger, 64, automotive pioneer, co-organizer of Cadillac Motor Car Co.; of heart disease after four years' illness; in Detroit. He attended the world's first automobile show (London, 1895), returned to build & operate the first U. S. automobile retail showroom (Detroit, 1897), help stage the first U. S automobile show (New York's Madison Square Garden, 1900).

Died. Samuel Johnson Poe, 69, Baltimore lawyer, grandnephew of Poet Edgar Allan Poe, eldest of Princeton's famed six footballing Poe brothers; of heart disease; in Washington.

Died. Mary Dickerman Woodin, 85, mother of Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin; of a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan.

Died, Alphonso David Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn, N. Y. on Aug. 6, 1890.

Died. Jules Piccard, 93, longtime (1883-1920) University of Basel chemistry professor, father of Stratospherist Auguste Piccard and his twin Chemist Jean Piccard of Wilmington, Del.; in Lausanne.

Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face of impeachment proceedings.

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