Born. A son: to Senator and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey; in Washington. There are now two Edge boys, two Edge girls.

Engaged. Charlton MacVeagh of Manhattan (J. P. Morgan & Co.), son of Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan; to Adele Katte Merrill, Manhattan socialite.

Married. Melville Elijah Stone II, of Chicago (Lee, Higginson & Co.), namesake grandson of the Associated Press' late general manager; and Katharine Temple Lapsley of Bedford, N. Y., granddaughter of the late Manhattan financier Howard Lapsley; in Bedford. Mr. Stone was once described and painted by Artist Thomas Casilear Cole as "the genuine, cleanminded young man of today in these United States" (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927).

Married. Phyllis Haver, cinemactress, onetime bathing beauty; and William Seeman, Manhattan wholesale grocer; in the Manhattan home of Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; by Mayor James John Walker who later, exhilarated, escorted the bride and groom to the Berengaria.

Married. Rufus T. Bush of Manhattan, Oxford undergraduate, only son of Founder-President Irving T. Bush of Bush Terminal Co.; and Joan Price Jeffery, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.

Married. Barbara Prudence Barnard of Manhattan, daughter of Sculptor George Grey Barnard; and Gordon MacGregor of Manhattan; in Sculptor Barnard's Cloisters (personally collected group of medieval art), a branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum.

Married. Virginia Waddill Shepherd of Richmond, Va., step-daughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen); and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer; in Richmond.

Elected. Charles L. Bradley of Cleveland; to be board chairman of Erie R. R.; succeeding Frederick Douglass Underwood, resigned.

Died. Butcher Matthias Sticz of Kecskemet, Hungary, 506 Ibs., "fattest man in Europe"; by suicide; in Kecskemet. He shot himself because he could no longer afford beef in the quantity (two roasts) which he required at breakfast.

Died. Capt. A. E. S. Hambelton of London, "Mark Twain of the Atlantic," retired White Star Line master (Celtic, Baltic, Belgic, Adriatic, Olympic); in London.

Died. Lieut. Col. Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne, 48, of Buckinghamshire, England, Conservative member of Parliament, military author, board chairman of 30 companies (phonographs, rubber, books, oil, wine, mines, banks); in Buckinghamshire.

Died. Willis W. Thornton, 58, of Akron, Ohio, journalist, onetime president of the

Scripps-McRae league and of Scripps-Howard chainpapers; in Akron.

Died. Tom Finty Jr., 61, of Dallas, Tex., longtime (1914-29) editor of the Dallas Evening Journal, associate editor of the Dallas Morning News; in Dallas.

Died. Edward Francis Carry, 62, of Chicago, president of Pullman Co., financier (banks, mail orders, cement, tools), Irish history student, onetime stenographer; of cerebral embolism; in Chicago.

Died. Mrs. Lucy Burgess Farnsworth, 63, of Dedham, Mass., mother of the late Henry Farnsworth of the Foreign Legion, first U. S. citizen to die in the World War; in Dedham.

Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary of $2,000.

Died. Countess Santa Eulalia, 71, of Philadelphia, Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif.

Died. Dr. Charles Euchariste de' Medici Sajous, 76, of Philadelphia, outstanding U. S. ductless gland specialist, occupant of the world's first chair of endocrinology (University of Pennsylvania), scion of French-Flemish nobility, member of the French Academy; of heart disease; in Philadelphia.

Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night.

Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days, 5 hrs.

Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash.