Engaged. Captain Hubert Ward Beyette, one of the U. S. army aides at the White House; to Miss Jessica Idanthea Moffat of Washington, D. C.

Engaged. Earl S. Baruch, quarterback for the Princeton University football eleven; to Miss Phyllis H. Fox of Merion, Pa.

Married. Martin Egan, able publicity representative of J. P. Morgan & Co. and onetime newspaper correspondent for the Associated Press in London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila, war correspondent during Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Uprising and Russo-Japanese War, onetime (1908-13) Editor of the Manila Times, personal assistant (1917) to Chairman Henry P. Davison of the American Red Cross War Council, Civilian Aide (1918) to General John Joseph Pershing; to Miss Cornelia Cousins; in Manhattan. General Pershing was best man. In 1905 Mr. Egan married in Yokohama, Eleanor Franklin, famed war correspondent for Leslie's Weekly. She died in 1925.

Married. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, sister of the onetime Kaiser of Germany, widow of the late (1916) Prince Adolphus zu Schaumburg-Lippe; to Alexander Zubkov, 27, onetime Russian refugee and onetime dishwasher, professional dancer, cinema "extra".

Divorced. Thomas Jefferson, actor (Rip Van Winkle, Lightnin'), son of the famed late (1905) Actor Joseph Jefferson (who made the dramatic version of Rip Van Winkle); from Eugenie Paul Jefferson; at Reno, Nevada.

Elected. Leigh Richmond Powell Jr., 43, to be President of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Baltimore; to succeed the late Solomon Davies Warfield.

Died. Theodore ("Tiger") Flowers, Negro, 32, onetime (Feb.-Dec., 1926) middleweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; unexpectedly, after an operation for the removal of a growth over his left eye. Rightly known as "the Georgia Deacon," he uttered as his last words: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."

Died. Reuben S. Sleight, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; when the airplane in which he, enroute to a conference on New England flood relief, was flying from Mitchell Field, N. Y., to Montpelier, Vt., overturned in attempting a landing at Montpelier.

Died. Anna B. von Moll, 91, who sewed the buttons on Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inaugural suit; in Chicago.