Engaged. John Oliver Crane, son of Charles Richard Crane (onetime U. S. Minister to China), onetime Secretary to President Thomas G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, brother-in-law of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain; and Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti; at Rome.

Engaged. Claire E. Giannini, daughter of Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of Italy); and Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, onetime (1928) captain of Stanford University's football team; at San Mateo, Calif.

Engaged. Smith Wildman Brookhart Jr., son of Senator and Mrs. Brookhart of Iowa, and a Miss Elizabeth Waller, his fellow student at George Washington University (Washington).

Married. Miss Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, granddaughter of John Pierpont Morgan, and Milo Sargent Gibbs; at Greenwich, Conn.

Married. Henry Mason Day, business and jail mate of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair; and a Miss Dorothy Marie Ridenour of Washington; at Ballston, Va.

Married. Robert W. Daniel, president of Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster.

Divorced. Mrs. Lois Knowlston Dodge Manning, onetime wife of Horace E. Dodge Jr., motor maker; from Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Manning. Grounds: extreme cruelty.

Divorced. Dudley Field Malone, lawyer, onetime (1913-17) Collector of the Port of New York, Woodrow Wilson confidant, legal advisor to publicites (James Joseph Tunney, Gertrude Ederle); by Mrs. Doris Stevens Malone, oldtime "suffragette," onetime advisor to the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; at Paris. Grounds: desertion. They first met when she, a member of the National Women's Party, campaigned against Wilson (1916) whom he, a Democrat, supported.

Resigned. Louis Warren Hill, 57, chairman of Great Northern Railway. Son of famed Great Northern Founder James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill, Louis Hill began working for Great Northern in 1893, became president in 1907, chairman in 1912. Said he: "My father advised me to retire from active participation in railway affairs when I reached the age of 40. That time came and passed 17 years ago."

Sentenced. Charles Delos Waggoner, banker, of Telluride, Col.; to 15 years imprisonment in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary; for fraudulently obtaining some $500,000 from Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16); in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Mitchell Langworthy, 38, orthopedic surgeon of Spokane; of three gunshot wounds in the abdomen. One John Salmi, insane Finn miner, thought Dr. Mitchell's report had prevented his receiving additional State compensation, entered the Doctor's office, fired on him, shot the attending nurse in the shoulder, blew out his own brains.

Died. James Rae Clarke, 52, of Manhattan, after serving seven weeks of an eight-year sentence for embezzling with his brothers in the private bank of Clarke Bros. (TIME, July 22); at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary; having been ill of diabetes. During the trial the wife of Partner Hudson Clarke Jr., died. Last month Hudson Clarke Sr., whom Hudson Clarke Jr. had been paroled to care for, succumbed to "a broken heart" (TIME, Sept. 16).

Died. Jonathan Peterson, 63, President of United States Tobacco Co. (onetime Weyman Bluton Tobacco Co.), subsidiary of American Tobacco Co.; at Ridgefield, Conn.

Died. Henry Beer, oldest active member of New Orleans Cotton Exchange; in Paris.

Died. General William Wheelright Skiddy, 84, treasurer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., onetime (1885) Yale oarsman, longtime Yale rowing patron; at Stamford, Conn.; after a heart attack.