Engaged. Margaret Lois Fiske, daughter of Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; to Martin Edwin Walker 3rd, of Wilmington, Del.

Secretly Married. John Hays Hammond Jr., 38 (smart son of a smart father), famed electrical inventor, to Mrs. Irene E. Felton Reynolds, divorced wife of a Gloucester, Mass., shoe dealer.

The spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed last week to the year-old match.

Annulment Sought. By Ottillie Gobel Reed, onetime wife of the famed "Sausage King"; from Sigwart John Reed, architect; at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mrs. Gobel met Dr. Reed while selecting a suitable sepulchre for her first husband. He drew the plans. She paid $50,000. They buried the "Sausage King," married. The mausoleum romance was blasted by the untimely disclosure of a prior Mrs. Reed, undivorced, still living.

Divorced. Charles ("Back-to-Nature") Garland, founder of the April Farm love-colony cult; by Mary Wrenn Garland, at Barnstable, Mass. Mr. Garland, famed refuser of a $1,800,000 legacy, once wrote a letter to his wife: "You probably remember the limerick about the young lady named Perkins, who pickled her internal workings with gherkins. Many, if not all, of those involved in the law, pickle their consciences therein. The fair face of justice must be sought elsewhere."

Last week Judge Colleen C. Campbell read the letter, was vexed, awarded a divorce in 20 minutes.

Divorced. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton, from Barclay Harding Warburton Jr., grandson of the late John Wanamaker and onetime member of the Hoover Commission in Poland; in Paris.

Died. Lieut. E. H. Barksdale, 29, World War "Ace"; at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio in an airplane crash. Once Lieut. Barksdale parachuted to safety when the "flipper" (tail surfaces) of his plane left the ship. Again, this year, he jumped after the wings came off the fuselage in which he was seated. Last week F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation (TIME, July 12) saw Pilot Barksdale's plane go into a tail spin at 2,000 ft.; saw him jump, open his 'chute; saw the silken shrouds foul in the struts; saw the "pilot with a charmed life" dashed crazily into the ground.

Died. Jimmy Calhoun, parachute jumper, at Atlanta, Ga. In "stunting" with his parachute, Mr. Calhoun lost his grip, dove 400 ft. to the ground beside his wife who had been watching him.