Engaged. Mary Whittle Moody, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Ravell Moody of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; to Arthur Worthington Packard, son of Mrs. Charles H. Packard of Dorchester, Mass., onetime Rhodes Scholar, Field Secretary of the World Peace Foundation.
Engaged. Jean Dawes, daughter of Rufus Cutler Dawes of Evanston, Ill., public utilities magnate, brother of Vice President Dawes; to Robert Trowbridge Sherman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Sherman, of Evanston, Ill.
Engaged. Capt. Alastair Mackintosh, onetime Seaforth Highlander, divorced second husband of Cinemactress Constance Talmadge; to Lela Emery, daughter of the late John J. Emery, Cincinnati real estate tycoon.
Married. Jascha Heifetz, 27, famed violinist; to Florence Vidor, 33, cinemactress; in Manhattan.
Married. Philip Grandin Strong, son of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; to Emma Thompson Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Livingston Smith of New York and Ballston Spa; at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
Divorce Sought. From James Waterman Wise, 27, only son of Rabbi & Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, of Manhattan; by Mrs. Louise Joan Hahn Wise, 25, in Reno, Nev.
Sued for Divorce. Frederick Beck Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, Ohio; by Mrs. Evelyn H. Patterson.
Sued for Divorce. Henry A. Bishop Jr., son of Henry Alfred Bishop (railroad, bank & telegraph tycoon) of Bridgeport, Conn.; by Mrs. Gloria Gould Bishop, daughter of the late George Jay Gould. She was married in 1923, aged 17, and has at various times since conducted a dance studio in Manhattan, made public appearances as hostess-manageress of the Embassy cinemahouse on Broadway.
Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan, 47, president of the Brooklyn Edison Co.; to be president of the New York Edison Co., succeeding Nicholas Frederic Brady (resigned).
Died. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, famed suffragist, director of Illinois House, hospital in which over 20,000 World War veterans were treated, daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, famed agnostic; in Riverside, Conn.
Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford, Pa. (see p. 47).
Died. George S. Bakhmeteff, last Ambassador of Tsarist Russia to the U. S. (1911-17); of heart disease; in exile; at Paris.
Died. Miles F. Fox, 19, Navy footballer and predicted backfield star, of Steelton, Pa.; from sunstroke; after the first day's practice at Annapolis, Md.
Died. Maurice Bokanowski, 49, French Minister of Commerce and Aviation; in an airplane crash; near Toul, France (see page 16).
Died. Arthur Gustav Sorlie, 54, Governor of North Dakota (Non-Partisan); of heart disease; in Bismarck, N. Dak.
Died. Stephen A. Connell, 55, secret service man who saved President Theodore Roosevelt from an attack by a crazed farmer at the Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home; of heart disease; at St. Louis, Mo. He used to wrestle and box with President Roosevelt, often said, "Teddy could sock."