Engaged. Robert Johns Bulkley Jr., son of the U. S. Senator from Ohio; and Lorraine Warner, Boston socialite.
Engaged. Walter Joseph Smith, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence E. Watson of Schenectady, N. Y., stenographer in the State Department of Education. Son Smith is a senior at Manhattan College.
Engaged. Prince Gustave Adolphe, grandson of King Gustave of Sweden; and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, his second cousin.
Married. Florence T. Baker, daughter of George Fisher Baker Jr., granddaughter of the late, great financier; and Thomas Suffern Tailer, Manhattan & Newport socialite, Princeton sophomore, metropolitan amateur golf champion (last fortnight) ; in Locust Valley, N. Y.
Married. Nelson Doubleday, president of Doubleday, Doran & Co. (publishers), son of Founder Frank Nelson Doubleday; and Mrs. Ellen McCarter Violett; in Rumson, N. J.
Married. Anne Marie Wallace, of Manhattan, great-great-granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Don Rodolfo del Drago. son of the late Prince Ferdinando del Drago; by Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli; in Rome. A witness for the groom: Senator Guglielmo Marconi.
Left. By the late Edmund Roebling, brother of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge engineer), an estate of $13,195,000, largely in municipal bonds. Last of the sons of the late John Augustus Roebling (designer of Brooklyn Bridge), he left his estate to twelve nieces & nephews.
Died. Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, 34, leading Brooklyn racketeer; shot to death while returning with his family from a tap & strut dancing exhibition by his 7-year-old daughter; in Brooklyn. Mrs. Higgins said her husband had been fired upon by two gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least 300 people knew he would attend her performance. A search began for Gangsters Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, onetime "Lindbergh emissaries." Gangster Spitale broke a golf appointment, was nowhere to be found.
Died, Easton Boiling, consulting engineer (heating & ventilating), cousin of
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson; by his own hand (.22 revolver); in Mountain Lakes, N. J. He left a note to a friend: ". . . A .22 may not work. I hope it does. But if it doesn't remember the fellow who had a one-inch piece of steel rammed through his head and lived. ... I have learned recently that the dollar is divided into increments as small as five cents. . . ."
Died. John George Milburn Jr., 52, retired member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, Manhattan law firm; brother of Polo Player Devereux Milburn; suddenly of an internal hemorrhage; in Manhattan.