Engaged. John Marshall Harlan, Manhattan lawyer (Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine), grandson of the late John Marshall Harlan, famed U. S. Supreme Court Justice; and Ethel Andrews, daughter of Professor Charles M. Andrews of Yale University.

Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London.

Married. Lou Gordon, mechanic of airplane Friendship on its recent trans-Atlantic flight; to Anne Bruce, of Brookline, Mass., in a Chicago public ball room.

Wilmer Stultz, pilot, was best man, Amelia Earhart "honorary maid of honor." After the service (which was broadcast) the 5,000 spectators resumed their dancing.

Married. Marian Miller, daughter of onetime (1921-23) Governor Nathan L.

Miller of N. Y.; and Marcel Pierre Labourdette, son and partner of President Charles Labourdette of P. Labourdette et Cie., Paris exporting company; at Oyster Bay, L. I. The engagement of Elizabeth Miller, another of the seven Miller sisters, to Alvin T. Adams of Denver, was an nounced last week.

Married. Clarence Shepard Day, 53, author (This Simian World), son of the late Clarence S. Day Sr., onetime governor of the N. Y. Stock Exchange ; and Katherine Brigges Dodge, 27, librarian, of Concord, Mass., in Manhattan.

Promoted. Thomas P. Tunney, brother of heavyweight boxing champion James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney* from third grade to second grade detective in the New York City Police Department, from a salary of $2,500 to $2,750; because he had aided in the capture of a onetime convict who was wanted for a series of bold hold ups in Los Angeles.

Died. General Alvaro Obregon, 48, President Elect of Mexico; by assassination; near Mexico City (see p. 18).

Died. William Elmer Harmon ("Jede-diah Tingle"), 66, famed philanthropist and installment-realtor; in Southport, Conn. ; after a long illness. Overtly, studiously, he gave money through his Harmon Foundation ; anonymously, capriciously, he gave under the name Jedediah Tingle.

Died. Dame Ellen Terry, 80, famed British actress; of combined heart attack and cerebral hemorrhage; at Small Hythe, Kent, England (see p. 20).

Died. Charles Delano Henry, 84, Cali fornia banker, father-in-law of Nominee Herbert Clark Hoover; of a paralytic stroke; in Placerville, Calif, (see p. 7).

Born. To Alice, six-ton hippopotamus of the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, a 100 Ib. son. The Menominee (Mich.) boiler works built an iron crib, 8 ft. by 4 ft.

Died. Hermit, about 25, spotted hyena of the Washington, D. C., Zoo. During the entire 12 years of his captivity, he crouched in his black, airless den, fought attendants who tried to drag him out.

Died. Jewell, 97, elephant, for 40 years (1838-78) a Barnum & Bailey trouper until his attacks of "temperament" made touring dangerous; by his keeper's shot, paralysis of the trunk having developed; at the Central Park Zoo, Manhattan.

*The Tunney brothers have a sister who is a nun.