Engaged. Patten Wise Slemp, of Cincinnati, cousin of C. Bascom Slemp (Secretary to President Coolidge), to Miss Dorothy Dennett of Washington.

Married. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 21, son of Philip Rhinelander, Manhattan real estate magnate, heir to a proud New York name and fortune, and possessor of nearly $400,000 in his own right, to Miss Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of one George Jones, New Rochelle (N.Y.), cabman. The New Rochelle Standard-Star was quick to allege Father-in-law Jones to be a Negro. Said Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets: "BLUEBLOOD WEDS COLORED GIRL," "SOCIETY STUNNED," "COLOR LINE FOR KIP'S BRIDE." Later the more sober dailies investigated, definitely established that Mr. Jones, a onetime British subject, had described himself as "colored" in applying for U.S. citizenship in 1895.

Mrs. Rhinelander is "handsome of face, extremely dark of complexion." Mr. Rhinelander "wears thick-lensed glasses, a sandy mustache and a troubled expression."

Married. Lowell Fess, son of Simeon D. Fess (junior U.S. Senator from Ohio) to Miss Marguerite Loveless of Washington, D.C., secretly, three months ago; at Greenup, Ky.

Married. Lee Adam Gimbel, a Vice President of Gimbel Bros., Inc. (famed Philadelphia; Manhattan and Milwaukee department store), to Miss Ruth Prince, New Rochelle, N.Y.; at New Rochelle. Three of the six ushers were Gimbels--Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel--Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg.

Died. Dion O'Bannion, 32, hierarch of crooks, gangsters, gunmen, shot by three unidentified young men in his flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal--from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services" were held in an undertaker's small chapel. No priest officiated, so one Louis Altiere, lieutenant of O'Bannion, functioned as master of ceremonies. To a stringed orchestra of jazz musicians he whispered the command: "Now play!" Hymn after hymn was played. There was no other service. Mr. O'Bannion is credited by the police with having directed 25 of Chicago's most distinguished murders-- by his friends with innumerable secret charities, kindnesses. Said an old woman: "He put my boy on the right track." Said a newsboy: "He was a swell feller." Said Mayor Dever of Chicago: "The rule of the Gat is ended." Died. Edwin S. Montagu, 45, onetime Secretary of State for India; in London. He held his portfolio in the Lloyd George cabinet of 1917.

Died. Ethel S. Sanford, wife of John Sanford, famed carpet manufacturer, horse owner; at Brookville, L. I. She was several times hostess to the Prince of Wales on his recent visit. On Sept. 28, while she sat with a notable company at dinner in her house, her jewel box was robbed of $50,000 worth of jewels.

Died. William Walton Kitchin, 58, onetime (1909-1913) Governor of North Carolina, and brother of the late (TIME, June 11, 1923) Claude Kitchin, onetime Democratic Floor Leader in the House of Representatives; at Scotland Neck, N.C.

Died. Frances Louise Tracy Morgan, 82, widow of the late J. P. Morgan; in Highland Falls, N.Y. At her bedside were her three daughters: Anne, patron of numerous charitable organizations; Juliet, wife of William Pierson Hamilton, Manhattan banker; Louisa, wife of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Manhattan lawyer. J. P. Morgan, son, was summoned home from a European trip, arrived too late.

Died. John Walter Cross, 84, husband of George Eliot, famed authoress; in England. Cross, who was a friend of the novelist's common-law husband, George Henry Lewes, persuaded her, aged 63, to marry him a few months before her death in 1880. He was 21 years her junior.

Died. Sir Archibald Geikie, 88, famed geologist, onetime President of the Royal Society, the London Geological Society, onetime Director General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; at Haslemere, England. He gained fame at 23 with a book, The Story of a Boulder.