Engaged. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, youngest daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, onetime fiancée of Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fünstenstein (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930), and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, aviator, employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in Umkirch Castle, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. After the betrothal ceremonies the couple took off for a short Verlobungsfahrt (engagement trip) in an airplane.
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America."
Engagement Denied.By Elisabeth Morrow, kindergarten teacher, eldest daughter ofU. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, once reported engaged to Charles Augustus Lindbergh* and Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, widower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of North Arlington, N. J. (ten miles from the Morrow home).
Married. Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 20, freshman at Williams College, adopted son of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Gates Dawes; and Eleanor Frances Dillingham, 20, sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, daughter of Professor Frank T. Dillingham of the University of Hawaii; secretly, last month; in Belchertown, Mass.
Married. John Sterling Rockefeller, Manhattan bank employe, grandson of the late President James Alexander Stillman of National City Bank, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; and Paula Watjen, daughter of Alexander W. Watjen, representative of Guaranty Trust Co. for Central Europe; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Ansel Strong, 47, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, president of The Chicago Daily News Inc. which bought it in 1925 after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily.
Died. Dr. George Daniel Olds, 77, president emeritus of Amherst College (retired 1927), mathematics professor from 1891 and dean from 1909 until he succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn who resigned as president in 1923; after long illness; in Amherst. Mass.
Died. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson. 78, Nobel Prize physicist, measurer of Light's speed; of paralysis following apoplexy; in Pasadena, Calif, (see p. 36).