Engaged. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler; to Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes, Manhattan socialite daughter of the late Broker Waiter H. Sykes.

Married. Stewart Birrell Iglehart, 27, one of three U. S. poloists with ten-goal ratings; to Marjorie Swanee Le Boutillier, 21, captain of the Eastern Women's Polo Team; in Westbury, L. I.

Died. Julia Peabody Lewis Morris, 47, wife of Philadelphia Financier Effingham B. Morris Jr. (Girard Trust Co.); when a horse she was riding caught its knee on a fence in mid-jump, somersaulted onto her; near Narcissa, Pa.

Died. Dexter Parshall Cooper, 57, hydraulic engineer who in 1919 conceived a plan for harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream--a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project.

Died. Fairfax Harrison, 68, onetime 1913-37) president of Southern Railway Co.; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Railroader Harrison was by avocation a scholar who: 1) researched U. S. racehorse genealogies; 2) published, under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer," a book Roman Farm Management, translations of agricultural commentaries by Vergil, Varro, Cato.

Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone, 70, tiremaker; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach, Fla. In 1894, while a buggy salesman, young Harvey met and helped Henry Ford, then devising a chassis for the gasoline motor. Six years later he founded Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., with 17 employes. In three decades he was paying 20,000 workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows, was an active Episcopalian, left five sons and a daughter.

Died. Charles Q. Eldredge, 92, world traveler, founder of the Eldredge Free Private Museum; after long illness; in Old Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities--among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8 1/2-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city."

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