Engaged. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, Papal Duchess, widow of Manhattan Utilitarian Nicholas Brady; and William J. Babington Macaulay. 44, Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican.
Married. Francis Edward Kelly, 33, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; and Marion McDonald, 20, of East Boston, his nurse during a recent attack of influenza; in Dorchester, Mass.
Died. Gottlieb Baumgartner, 49, chief of the U. S. Senate Restaurant since 1919; after a fortnight's illness; in Washington. Senator Borah: "One of the finest characters it ever has been my good fortune to know."
Died. Samuel Shipman, 53, prolific Broadway playwright; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A cynical melodramatist who said he made $1,500,000 in 1918-22 from East Is West, Friendly Enemies, Lawful Larceny and The Woman in Room 13, he frequently dictated his plays to stenographers working in shifts. In a speedwriting contest with the late Edgar Wallace, he completed The Lady Must Be Found in 38½ hr., but lost to Wallace's Ocean Liner in 35 hr.
Died. Robert Milam Caldwell, 61, nephew of Democratic Elder Statesman Colonel Edward Mandell House; when an electric grindstone at his ranch exploded, hurling a pair of sheep shears against his throat, severing his jugular vein; near Houston, Tex.
Died. Hugh M. Freer, 68, vice president of Standard Brands, Inc., New Jersey cattleraiser, uncle of Federal Trade Commissioner Robert Elliott Freer; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. Milton Dwight Purdy, 70, one-time (1924-34) judge of the U. S. Court for China at Shanghai, onetime (1903-05) Assistant U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Honolulu. Famed as Theodore Roosevelt's "chief trust buster," he won the historic Northern Securities Supreme Court decision (1904) which blocked merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads.
Died. Harry E. Sheldon, 75, president of Allegheny Steel Co., which he and his father-in-law founded with $300,000 in 1900; after brief illness; in Pittsburgh. Orphaned at two, he quit school at nine, five years later became a $2-a-week machine shop apprentice.
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour.