Engaged, Ethel Peters Butler, daughter of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. U. S. M. C., retired; and Lieut. John Wehle, U. S. M. C. Engaged. Trevor Charles Stamp, M. D., second son of Sir Josiah Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Married. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, cinema baritone, onetime member of the Metropolitan Opera Company; and Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard of Burlingame, Calif.; in Manhattan. It was his second marriage, her third. Married, Joan Hamilton, stepdaughter of Cosmo Hamilton, author, playwright; and Roger de la Vasselais of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Married, John A. Roebling, 68, only son of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Brooklyn Bridge); and one Helen Price, 41; at Rochester, N. Y. Seeking Divorce, Nadjeda de Braganza Dorozynski, daughter of Princess Anita Stewart Miguel de Braganza, Manhattan socialite, and the late pretender to the throne of Portugal; from one Vadim Dorozynski, son of a sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections of Mr. Warren's wife, Edith, Mrs. Storey's cousin. Mrs. Warren filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal is connected with the case." Resigned. James Truslow Adams, U. S. historian, author of The Adams Family, The Epic of America; from the Pulitzer Prize History Committee. Reasons: 1) residence in London (confirmed); 2) friction with the committee (unconfirmed) of which he has been chairman for two years.
Birthdays. Rudyard Kipling, 66; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 58; Rudolph Spreckel, 60; Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 69; all race horses (Jan. 1).
Died. Right Hon. Sir James O'Connor, 59. onetime Attorney General and Lord Justice of Appeal of Ireland, author of a History of Ireland; in London.
Died. Tyrone Power, 62, actor, of heart disease; in Hollywood, Calif. He emigrated to the U. S. from Great Britain at 17 to grow oranges in Florida, became leading man to Mrs. Leslie Carter, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Julia Marlowe.