Engaged. Alfonso, 26, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of Alfonso XIII and heir-claimant to the Spanish throne, and Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, 27, daughter of a Cuban merchant, whom the Prince met at a Lausanne sanitarium where he was treated for hemophilia. In the face of his father's bitter opposition to the match, the Prince was quoted: "I love her and want to marry her. Let Juan have the throne."*
Engaged. Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of the University of Chicago's famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; and Martha Ferguson, 25, daughter of Mrs. John C. Greenway, friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The engagement was inadvertently announced by Mrs. Roosevelt at a Press conference, when newshawks asked who her White House visitors "Martha and Chuck" were.
Married. Prince Wilhelm, 26, eldest son of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, 25, commoner; in Bonn. The groom's parents did not attend the wedding. By his act the Prince, considered by monarchists the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration, automatically renounces his claim to the German throne.
Seeking Divorce. Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden, 36, member of Chicago's famed Wartime "Big Four" socialite beauty quartet, † from John Borden, 49, explorer and stockbroker, whose divorced first wife married Composer John Alden Carpenter; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.
Divorce Denied. By Judge Charles A. Walsh to Ferdinand Frazier Jelke, 52, Manhattan broker, and Eugenia ("Nini") Woodward Jelke, 27, Alabama socialite; after a sensationally disgusting trial in Newport, R. I. Grounds: that both were guilty of extreme cruelty. Jelke's allegation that his wife was guilty of infidelity because she kept secret trysts with a mysterious major at the notorious Birmingham flat of a "Madame" Ethel Hartman was denied. The statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan were dismissed as being no more than "indiscreet." But the Court did find that Mrs. Jelke had been cruel to her husband when she cursed him, bit his ear, tore his shirt; that Jelke had been cruel to her when he blackened her eye, abused her in the presence of others. Said the Judge: ". . . For her it was a marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame is attached to her for that, because at her age such things are to be expected." Separated. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, widow of John Jacob Astor who was drowned on the Titanic; and William K. Dick, sugar tycoon.
Elected. Dr. Harold Willis Dodds, 43, to be Princeton University's 15th president.
Awarded. To George Mason, 93, Chicago businessman who conceived the 1893 World's Fair: a University of Michigan diploma as of the Class of 1861.