Engaged. Grand Duke George Donatus, 23, of Hesse and H. R. H. Princess Cecilie, 18, of Greece; also, H. R. H. Prince Christophe Ernest August, 29, of Hesse and H. R. H. Princess Sophie, 15, of Greece.
Married. Ruth Mix, 17, madcap daughter of Tom Mix, cinemactor; to Douglas Gilmore, cinemactor; in disobedient elopement to Yuma, Ariz.
Married. James, son of New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Betsy, daughter of famed Dr. Harvey Gushing: at Brookline, Mass.
Married. Helen Byram, daughter of Board Chairman Harry E. Byram of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway; and Don Burdick, of Seattle and Shanghai; in Manhattan.
Married. Lionel Atwill, 45, actor; and Mrs. Louise Cromwell-Brooks McArthur, divorced wife of Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur, onetime superintendent of U. S. Military Academy; at Eccleston, Md. It is the third marriage for each.
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia.
Reelected. Fred Lookout, Progressive, to be Chief of the Osage Indians, by 163 out of 397 oilrich Oklahoma braves who in expensive motors went to Pawhuska, voted against onetime Chief Tom Bacon Rind, Conservative, and Paul Red Eagle, Independent candidate.
Birthday. Edward Payson Bradstreet, retired lawyer, oldest living Yale graduate. Age: 100. Date: June 5. Celebration: dinner of Cincinnati Yale alumni, who gave him a silver pitcher.
Died. Geoffrey Dell Eaton, 36, founder-editor of the young critical magazine Plain Talk, onetime literary editor of the New York Morning Telegraph; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Appointed to succeed him as editor of Plain Talk: Walter W. Liggett, plain-talking writer ("Bawdy Boston"; "Michigan, Soused and Serene"; 'Holy, Hypocritical Kansas").
Died. Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, 38, Chicago Tribune special reporter on gangland affairs; by the hand of an unidentified gangster who shot him three times while he was walking through the crowded entry tunnel of a Chicago railroad station.* Twenty years on the Tribune, Newsman Lingle last year "covered" Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in Florida.
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France.