Engaged. Francis C. E. Hitchcock, youngest member of the famed Long Island polo family (see p. 24); and Mary, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George J. Atwell; at Manhasset, L. I.

Engaged. Jack Pickford, 33, film actor, brother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, onetime husband (1921) of the late Olive Thomas and (1922-27) of Marilynn Miller; and Mary Mulhern. 22, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl; at Salinas, Calif.

Married. Mrs. Margaret Adams Train Embree, daughter of Author Arthur Train (the Mr. Tutt series, His Children's Children, many a famed crime novel); and Col. Boris Samsonov, onetime Russian Imperial guardsman; at the Russian church of St. Serge, Paris.

Elected. Henry Louis Mencken, babbitt-baiting editor of the American Mercury: to honorary membership in the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, Ala., hometown of Miss Sara Haardt whom he last fortnight engaged to marry.

Resigned. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, 1st Baron of Carmarthen, 67, Chairman of 40 steamship lines (including Royal Mail, White Star, Union Castle) and building companies, a bank, a railroad, an insurance company; from the chairmanship of Harland & Wolff. Ltd. (-L-12,000,000 Belfast shipbuilders). When shareholders commented on his multifarious activities and companies in March, he retorted: "I do not consider 40 as many."

Retired. Rev. John W. Chapman, D.D., 72, Episcopal missionary, explorer, ethnologist; after 43 years among Alaskan Indians at Anvik on the Yukon where he will be succeeded by his son, H. H. Chapman (first white man born on the Yukon).

Birthday. Herbert Clark Hoover. Age: 56. Date: Aug. 10. Celebration: pondering the Nation's drought at his Rapidan Camp (see p. 13).

Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen.

Killed. Robert Whalon, 37, President of the National Automobile Racing Association; when he was struck by a racing car while he was warning spectators off the Sterling, Ill., track.

Killed. Edwin Jones Clapp, 48, publicity director for Motormaker William Crapo Durant, onetime Hearst financial editor, onetime professor of economics at New York University, onetime (1901, 1903-4) holder of the intercollegiate record for 120-yd. high hurdles; when he jumped from the roof of his hotel in Manhattan.

Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown.

Died. J. Robert ("Bob") Moran, 45, longtime night city editor of the Atlanta Constitution; at a sanitarium in Atlanta.

Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose.

Died. Philip Shepheard Teller, 69, San Francisco merchant, successor to Meyer Lissner (died fortnight ago, TIME, Aug. 11) on the U. S. Shipping Board (1926-29), onetime chairman of California's Republican State Central Committee; after long illness, at Alameda. Calif.

Died. James Duval Phelan, 69, one-time (1915-21) U. S. Senator, longtime force in California Democratic politics, friend of Woodrow Wilson; after a three-month illness, at San Jose.

Died. Mrs. John Tilden (Maria Filley) Davis, mother of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines; of old age, at her home in St. Louis.

Died. Richard Delafield, 76, Manhattan banker, board chairman of National Park Bank and Mutual Bank; of an illness induced by a fall four years ago; at his home in Tuxedo Park, N. Y.

Died. Lewis J. Link, 79, retired preserve manufacturer, uncle of Composer Joseph Deems Taylor (The King's Henchman, Through the Looking Glass); on July 19, in Buenos Aires.

Died. Isabella ("Pansy") Macdonald Alden, 88, Christian tract writer since the age of 8; after long illness, at Palo Alto, Calif.

Died. Crowell Hadden, 89, board chairman of Brooklyn Savings Bank, father of President Howard Hadden of Dorland Advertising Agency (Manhattan), grandfather of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; after a three-week illness, in Brooklyn.

Died. Luigi Vittorio Fugazy, 92, Manhattan banker, champion of Italian immigrants, father of Fight Promoter Humbert Fugazy; after long illness; in New York.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.