Engaged. Loranda Prochnik, daughter of Edgar Prochnik, Austrian Minister to the U. S.; and Francis Le Compte Spalding, Boston socialite, student at the Foreign Service School in Washington.

Double Engagement. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 53, sculptor, painter, etcher, grandson of the late great Mormon Brigham Young; and Dorothy Weir, painter, daughter of the late Julian Alden Weir, famed portrait painter.

Cecilia Agnes Young, daughter of Artist Mahonri Young; and Oliver Ingraham Lay, architecture student at Yale.

Engagement Broken. Katherine Lowman, daughter of Assistant Secretary Seymour Lowman of the U. S. Treasury; and William N. Jardine, son of U. S. Minister to Egypt William M. Jardine.

Married. David P. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., George Washington University law student and worker on the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and Margaret Lee Fultz. clergyman's daughter; in Washington.

Married. Marcel Garsaud, newly appointed member of the Federal Power Commission (TIME, Dec. 15); and Beatrice Deffarce, his onetime secretary; in Violet, La.

Honored. Charles Richard Crane, 72, of Manhattan, onetime (1920-1921) U. S. Minister to China; named honorary adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government by H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labor. Last week Mr. Crane sailed to visit Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz and Nejd.

Elected. Jean Borotra, Basque tennis player; to be a director of Lower Rhenish Iron Foundries & Machinery Co.; in Paris. An able engineer, he has made a fortune in gasoline pumps, is reputed the richest man of his years (31) in France.

Suit Won. By Col. Zack T. Miller, owner of the 101 Ranch circus; against Cinemactor Tom Mix. Col. Miller charged that Actor Mix had agreed to appear in his circus, had joined instead the Sells-Floto circus. Col. Miller asked $325,000 damages, got $90,000.

Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail.

Died. Anna Pavlova, 45, Russian danseuse; of pleurisy; at The Hague (see p. 20).

Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919--23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From 1918 to 1923 he was in charge of all helium work in the U. S. Bureau of Mines, from 1920 to 1923 a member of the U. S. Helium Board.

Died. Edward Irving Edwards, 68, onetime (1920-23) Governor of New Jersey, once (1923-29) Senator; by his own hand with a revolver, having brooded alone for two days; in Jersey City, N. J. Famed for his vow that he would "make New Jersey as Wet as the Atlantic Ocean," his despondency arose from the death of his wife, from political failure, from financial losses and the realization that he had cancer of the nose.

Died. Capt. Isaac Edward Emerson, 71, drug manufacturer, president and board chairman of Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Inc. (a company controlling Citro Chemical Co. of America, Maryland Glass Corp., and Emerson Drug Co.), hotel and realty owner; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Col. Emerson was a famed yachtsman, and with his daughter Margaret (Mrs. Charles Minot Amory, relict of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the Lusitania disaster) a horse breeder.

Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior.

Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit, N. J.

Died. Michael Constantine de Courcy, Baron Kingsale, Baron Courcy, Baron of Ringrone, 75, premier Irish baron (baronetcy was created in 1181, oldest in the British Isles), one of three persons permitted to wear a hat in the presence of royalty; in Coffinswell, South Devonshire.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Caskie Cabell Ritchie, 78, mother of Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, aunt of Author James Branch Cabell; of paralysis; in Annapolis, Md. During Governor Ritchie's three terms she was hostess in the Executive Mansion. Last fortnight she was too weak to attend his fourth inauguration, heard it by radio from across the street.

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