Engaged. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri; and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite.
Sued. Edward Beale McLean, fun-loving publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, by Mrs. Evelyn Lucille Walsh McLean, his socialite wife, owner of the 44½-carat Hope diamond ($2,000,000): for separate maintenance ($10,000 a month) for herself & children (two sons, one daughter). Charge: nonsupport.
Elected. Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany, 62, Graf Zeppelin commander; to be president of the Aero Arctic Society, succeeding the late Fridtjof Nansen of Norway (died May 13); in Berlin.
Reelected. Mrs. Clara Bryant Ford, wife of Henry Ford; unanimously, to be president (her fifth year) of the Woman's National Farm & Garden Association.
Birthday. Ignace Jan Paderewski, pianist and onetime (1919) premier of Poland, now touring 70 U. S. cities. Age: 70. Date: Nov. 6. Celebration: reading 300 congratulatory telegrams & cables, in his private car, Superb, on a sidetrack in Buffalo, en route from Toronto to Fort Wayne, Ind.
Died. Clare Jenness Eames, 34, actress (Declassee, Hedda Gabler, Candida, The Sacred Flame), onetime wife of Playwright Sidney Howard (she played in his Swords, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Lucky Sam McCarver) ; after several operations; in London. She was a niece of Mme Emma Eames De Gogorza, famed opera singer, and of Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, wife of Silencer-inventor Maxim.
Died. Don Manuel de Yriarte, social adviser to Governor-General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines and to previous governors since William Howard Taft (1901-1904); of apoplexy while directing the rigodon de honor, stately, traditional dance which he always led at the opening of governmental receptions.
Died. Arthur Webster Thompson, 55, onetime vice president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., president of Philadelphia Co. (utilities) and of United Gas Improvement Co.; of heart disease; in Pittsburgh.
Died. John Lee Mahin, 61, advertising man, onetime vice president of Street Railways Co. and of Barren G. Collier, Inc., president of John Lee Mahin, Inc.; in Manhattan. Tobacco and liquor accounts he never handled, respecting his mother's wishes.
Died. Richard Floyd Clinch, 65, president of Crerar Clinch Coal Co. and of the Chicago Auditorium Association, vice president of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. and of Chicago Rapid Transit Co.; of heart disease; in Chicago.
Died. Sidney Morse Colgate, 68, board chairman of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. (soaps & cosmetics), onetime president of Colgate & Co. (merged 1928 with Palmolive-Peet) ; in Orange, N. J.
Died. Alexis Cardinal Charost, 69, Archbishop of Rennes; in Rennes, France. In the World War, as Bishop of Lille when that city was first occupied by the Germans, he encouraged his flock to passive resistance against the invaders.
Died. Dr. Christiaan Eijkman, 72, professor emeritus of the University of Utrecht, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1929 (with Professor Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University) for his discoveries about vitamins and the causes of beriberi; in Utrecht.