Engaged. Cinemactress Constance Talmadge of Los Angeles; to Townsend Netcher, Chicago merchant. Merchant Netcher will be husband No. 3. No. 1 was John Pialoglou, Greek Tobaccoman; No. 2, Capt. Allaster Macintosh, onetime Seaforth Highlander.
Engaged. Hamilton Webster Thayer, of Hopedale, Mass., son of Judge Webster Thayer of Worcester, Mass., who gave the Sacco-Vanzetti decision; to Miss Elizabeth Wood of Manhattan, niece of famed Boston Broker Henry Hornblower (Hornblower & Weeks).
Married. Mary Meeker, Chicago socialite, daughter of Vice President Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co.; and Ambrose C. Cramer, architect, who was divorced two years ago on the ground of desertion by Mary Meeker's older sister, Grace; in Washington, D.C.
Elected. Lewis H. Brown, 35, of Pelham, N. Y., assistant to the president of Johns-Manville Corp.; to be president, succeeding the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles (see p. 49).
Anniversary. Mrs. Blanche Whiffen, oldtime actress (nearly 400 roles), celebrated her 84th birthday on her farm near Montvale, Va.
Died. Col. John Reginald McLean of Phoenix, Ariz., mining engineer; of skull fracture, after an automobile accident; near Montecito, Calif. The accident occurred during the Colonel's honeymoon, one week after his marriage to Kathleen Burke Peabody, famed Wartime nurse, widow of the late Collar Tycoon Frederick Forrest Peabody (Cluett. Peabody & Co.).
Died. Helen Resch, 20, Viennese actress, mistress of Prince Ernest Windischgraetz, 24, grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef; by suicide (gas), in Vienna. The Prince's engagement to an opulent aristocrat had just been announced. Miss Resch also asphyxiated her baby, her mother.
Died. Lee Bible, 45, Florida garage mechanic; after losing control of a 1,500-h. p. automobile moving at 202 m.p.h. along Daytona Beach, Fla. (see p. 30).
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK—THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream was to raze the Woolworth Building.
Died. John B. Barbour, 67, of Pittsburgh, retired financier, onetime president of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange (eight terms); in Pittsburgh.
Died. Right Hon. Stephen Walsh, 70, of Wigan, England, Secretary of War in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, longtime Laborite Member of Parliament; in Wigan.
Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta (see p. 54).
Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years.