Engaged. Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone, niece of Queen Mary of England; and one Henry Abel Smith, captain of the Royal Horse Guards, Lady May's father's aide while he was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. Rumor exploded: that Lady May Cambridge would marry the Prince of Wales.
Engaged-Prince Leopold of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Frendenberg; and Countess Blanca de Treuberg, great-grand-daughter of Dom Pedro, first emperor of Brazil.
Married-Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., son of the board chairman of Guaranty Trust Co.; and Mrs. Dorothy Layman Ransdell, Washington divorcee, at Gloucester, Mass.
Married, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 70, Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India; and Stella Charnaud, 37, his secretary; in London. In 1918 Lord Reading was special ambassador to the U. S. His first wife died in 1930.
Retiring-Dr. James Ewing, 64, for 32 years professor of pathology at Cornell Medical College (TIME, Jan. 12); because that school is merging into the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association Centre and because he wants complete freedom for cancer research; to take effect next summer.
Retired, Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle, commodore of the Cunard fleet, commander of the Aquitania; after 43 years at sea.
Birthdays, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt (70); Stanley Baldwin (64); Sir Harry Lauder (61) ; Herbert Clark Hoover (57); Ethel Barrymore (52); the Duchess of York (31).
Died, Daniel Read Anthony Jr., 60, onetime Congressman from the first Kansas district, after a ten day illness; near Leavenworth, Kan. A nephew of the late fiery Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony, he had served as Representative longer (1907-29) than any other Kansan.
Died. Herbert Savage Ide, 61, president of George P. Ide & Co. (collars) since 1928; at Troy, N. Y.
Died, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, 61, son of the late Rev. Lyman Abbott and his successor as editor-in-chief of The Outlook (1923-28), author (Religious Life in America, On the Training of Parents); at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.
Died, Walter Platt Cooke, 62, internationally famed lawyer, financier, one-time president of the Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation of the Dawes Plan; after prolonged illness; in Buffalo, N. Y.
Died, Judge Alfred J. Murphy, 63, of the Wayne County (Mich.) Circuit Court, president of Federal Bond & Mortgage Co.; by his own hand (shooting); in Detroit. Long distressed by a grand jury investigation of his company's affairs, he left a note to the coroner: "My health is shattered and I am broken in spirit. . . . Robert Louis Stevenson's words might well be written of me: 'Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much.' "
Died-John Munroe, 64, pioneer publisher (with his father) of paperback dime novels ("Fireside Library" series, Dare-devil Dick); after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died-Thomas W. ("Chicago'') O'Brien, 68, racetrack plunger; of cancer; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. One of the few turf gamblers to win consistently, his biggest bet was $100,000 that Man o' War would outrun Sir Barton (which he did) in a match race in 1920 at odds of i to 20. Once a bricklayer, and with no other business than betting, he died a millionaire.