Monday, Mar. 12, 1928

Born. To Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee, famed World War hero, a fourth son, Sam Houston York.

Engaged. Miss Caroline Townsend Wainwright, of Rye, N. Y.; to John Farrand, of Rochester, N. Y., son of Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University.

Engaged. Miss Louise Whitney Martin, daughter of Edward Sanford Martin, a founder of Life, of Manhattan; to Edward S. Blagden of Manhattan, stockbroker.

Engaged. Prince Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck, 30, secretary of the German legation at Stockholm, aviator, grandson of the Iron Chancellor; to Miss Anni Marie Tengbom, of Stockholm, daughter of a Swedish architect.

Married. David Kalakaua Kawamanakoa, second cousin of Hawaii's last male ruler, King Kalakaua, son of Princess David Kawamanakoa, Republican National Committeewoman; to Eileen Hutchins, student at the University of Hawaii, daughter of Captain Charles T. Hutchins, U.S.N.; in Honolulu.

Married. Edwin Rowland Blashfield, 79, famed mural painter; to Miss Grace Hall, 58, writer, of Manhattan.

Married. Dr. John A. Harriss, millionaire, traffic expert (originator of the light system for traffic control) onetime Deputy Police Commissioner, of Manhattan, secretly, two years ago to Miss Carolyn Montreux, of Manhattan; in Duesseldorf, Germany.

Married. Frederick R. Johnson, 19, Dartmouth college sophomore, son of the late Caleb E. Johnson, founder of the Palmolive Soap Co., of Evanston, Ill.; to Miss Lydia Davies, 19, of Louisville, Ky.; secretly a month ago at the Dartmouth college winter carnival.

Married. Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, U. S. N., 61, onetime (1922-23) commander of the European Fleet, recently appointed chief naval adviser of the American Delegation to the Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva; to Mrs. Viola Vetter Fife 37, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Died. G. Herb Palin, famed slogan writer ("Eventually--Why Not Now?;" "Safety First" are his inventions); in Chicago.

Died. Andrew Adie, 61, native of Scotland, President of the Earnshaw Knitting Co., director of many New England woolen mills and knitting companies; in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Died. Max Pine, 62, labor leader, relief worker, a founder of the Forward, famed Jewish daily; of pneumonia; in Maywood, N. J.

Died. Rt. Honr. Sir Sa Tyendra Prassano Sinha, Baron of Raipur, 64, first Indian to be raised to the British Peerage and first Indian member of the Viceroy's Executive Council; at Calcutta, India.

Died. Field Marshal Armando Diaz, 66, in Rome (see p. 18).

Died. John Reese Kenly, 81, president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.; in Wilmington, N. C.

Died. Jeannie Gourlay Struthers, 83, actress, member of the cast that played Our American Cousin in Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C., the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; at Media, Pa.

Died. William Alonzo Hopkins, 88, founder of the famed & authoritative Paris daily Le Matin; at Paris. Wealth acquired by successful iron founding in New Jersey enabled him to migrate to Paris in 1878. Le Matin, as originally founded by him, was merely a French translation of The Morning News published at Paris in English by certain of his rich expatriate U. S. friends. When the News was absorbed by the present Paris Herald, Le Matin became for the first time definitely and independently French.