Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Briggs, of Detroit, daughter of Walter 0. Briggs, chairman of the board of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies); to Charles T, Fisher Jr., of Detroit, son of Charles T. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Body Corp. (automobile bodies) and vice president of General Motors Corp.
Engaged. Miss Mary Belin du Pont, until a fortnight ago student nurse in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; daughter of Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to Dr. James Morrison Faulkner, of Boston. The engagement of her sister, Miss Esther Driver du Pont, to Campbell Weir, of Wilmington, was recently announced.
Engaged. Ernest W. Marland, 53, lavish poloplaying oilman of Ponca City, Okla., owner of many prairie acres upon which he is now building a million-dollar manor house, commissioner of a statue, “The Pioneer Woman” (TIME, Jan. 2); to his adopted daughter, Miss Lydie Miller Koberts, 28.
Engaged. His Imperial Highness Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-No-Miya, 25, of Japan, second son of the late Emperor Yohihito and heir presumptive of his brother Emperor Hirohito, 124th “Son of Heaven” (Tenno); to Setsu Matsudaira, 17, daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. since March, 1925 (see p. 16).
Engaged. Miss Lois Mai Fukushima, active Junior Leaguer of New Rochelle, N. Y., daughter of a Japanese father and American mother; to Charles E. Townsend, editor of the Car Card, house organ of Barren G. Collier, Inc. (advertising;.
Engaged. William Rosenwald, 24; son of Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., multi-millionaire philanthropist, of Chicago; to Miss Renee Scharf, of Vienna.
Married. Julius Fleischmann, only surviving son of the late Julius Fleischmann, yeast manufacturer, sportsman (polo); to Miss Dorette Bouffleur Kruse, of Cincinnati; in Cincinnati.
Married. Sylvanus Stokes Jr., Manhattan yachtsman; to Miss Patty du Pont, cinemactress; in Hollywood, Calif. Eric von Stroheim functioned as best man.
Married. Powers Hapgood, of Indianapolis, ardent supporter of Sacco and Vanzetti, nephew of Socialist Norman Hapgood; to Miss Mary Donovan, of Boston. Secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee; in Manhattan.
Elected. Carl F. Danner, president & treasurer of the Pine Grove Tanning Co., Pine Grove, Pa., to be president of the American Hide & Leather Co.; to succeed John C. Lilly, resigned. To the new office of chairman of the directorate was elected Claude Douthuit, a director.
Elected. Jay Smith, eldest son of Boat Builder Chris Smith (Chris-Craft), to be president of Chris Smith and Sons Boat Co., at Algonac, Mich. Chris Smith becomes chairman. His other sons Bernard, Owen and Hamilton are company executives. His daughter Catherine is treasurer.
Died. Alan Harriman, 29, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank; at Great Neck, Long Island, from injuries received when his car overturned.
Died. Robert Cook Folwell, 43, famed onetime University of Pennsylvania halfback, successive football coach for Lafayette, Washington and Jefferson, Penn, Navy; in Philadelphia.
Died. Dorothy Agnes Donnelly, 48, actress, playwright (Blossom Time, The Student Prince and others); in Manhattan, of pneumonia.
Died. Dr. Alvin C. Kraenzlein, 51, famed onetime Penn track star, holder in 1900 of six world and two intercollegiate records (which stood for many years) for hurdling and jumping; at Wilkesbarre, Pa., of inflammation of the heart.
Died. Sara Agnes Conboy, 58, famed labor leader, mill worker; in Brooklyn.
Died. Rev. Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, 68, active pastor until 1926 (when Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick succeeded him) of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, famed liberal, critic of Fundamentalism, pastor to John Davison Rockefeller & family; in Manhattan, after a lingering illness.
Died. George W. Dickerman, 69, president of Smith-Premier Typewriter Co. of Manhattan; in Manhattan, of arthritis.
Died. David Z. Norton, 76, millionaire and retired ore shipper, of Cleveland, Ohio; of heart disease, in Cleveland; four days after the death of his wife, Mrs. Mary Castle Norton, 73, in Manhattan.
Died. Brigadier-General Owen Jay Sweet, 82, retired, veteran of 86 battles in the Civil and Spanish wars and in Indian campaigns; at the Officers’ Hospital, Fort Totten, Long Island.
Died. Marvin Hughitt, 90, railroader; in Lake Forest, Ill. (See p. 26.)
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