Engaged. Edith Curtis Martin, daughter of John Charles Martin, stepson-in-law of the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis (see below), publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Evening Ledger; and Gerard H. Cox Jr., son of Dr. Gerard H. Cox of Glen Cove, Long Island.

Married. Dorothea E. Gay, socialite daughter of Manhattan Broker William Otis Gay; and Dwight Filley Davis Jr., son of onetime (1925-29) Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Mrs. Mary Atwell Hitchcock; from Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, son of the late Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr.; in White Plains, N. Y. Grounds: "a woman other than the plaintiff."

Suit Dismissed. A $1,500,000 breach of promise suit; brought by Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday, divorced wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday); against Harold Fowler McCormick, International Harvester chairman; in Chicago. Reported settlement: $100,000.

Left. By Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Satevepost publisher: a personal estate valued at $18,603,187.94. of which Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, his daughter, receives the net income.

Died. Julia Anderson Blanshard, 42, woman's page editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association (Scripps-Howard), wife of New York City's Commissioner of Accounts Paul Blanshard; after long illness; in Sunnyside, Queens, N. Y.

Died. Dr. Mather Almon Abbott, 60, headmaster of the Lawrenceville School; of coronary thrombosis following pneumonia; in Lawrenceville, N. J. Born in Halifax, Dr. Abbott ("Bot" to his students) taught Latin and Greek at Groton, where President Roosevelt was one of his students. In 1916 he went to Yale as professor of Latin, resigned three years later to accept the Lawrenceville headmastership. A $3,000,000 building program was two-thirds completed at the time of his death.

Died. Willis John Abbot, 71, oldtime newspaperman, columnist ("Watching the World Go By") and contributing editor of the Christian Science Monitor since 1921; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Dr. Edward William Nelson, 79, naturalist, chief (1916-27) of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey, for whom Nelson Range and Nelson Lagoon in Alaska were named; of heart disease; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, 80, school-teacher of Herbert Hoover (fourth grade) and his first luncheon guest at the White House; of a paralytic stroke; in Wrest Liberty, Iowa.

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