Engaged. Eugene Vanderpool Homans, U. S. amateur golf championship finalist in 1930, five times (1922-27) junior champion of New Jersey. Princeton captain in 1928; and Marian Bennett, socialite golfer of New Britain, Conn.

Divorced. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; from Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, for mental cruelty; in Reno.

Elected. Dr. Isaiah Bowman of Manhattan, director of the American Geographical Society: president of the International Geographical Union; at Paris.

Resigned. Lord Byng of Vimy, 69, onetime (1921--26) Governor-General of Canada, commander of Britain's 3rd Army in the War: as Commissioner of London metropolitan police (Scotland Yard). As head of the Yard he commanded 20,000 police patrolling 700 densely populated square miles.

Died, Walter Cleveland Allen Jr., 18, Hotchkiss School senior, son of the president of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks), of a broken neck when he dived, to teach a small relative how, into the shallow end of Stamford Yacht Club swimming pool at Stamford, Conn.

Died. Frank Stanfield, 59. Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia; at Halifax, N. S. A native-born Nova Scotian. he made a fortune manufacturing underwear, was a director of Royal Bank of Canada, a leader in Conservative politics.

Died. George F. Hoan, 60, brother of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee; by hanging himself in his brother's garage. He had been refused a city job by the Mayor, who did not want to favor a relative in hard times.

Died, Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations. He was an anti-Prohibitionist, vivisectionist, author of numerous medical books.

Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole.

Died. Dr. Charles Asbury Stephens, 79, juvenile story writer; at Norway, Maine. Dr. Stephens was on the staff of the Youth's Companion (merged in 1929 with American Boy) more than 40 years, retired last year. He estimated he had written and published well over twelve million words, mostly in short stories & serials.

Died. Clemuel Ricketts Woodin, 86. pioneer railway car builder, father of President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry Co.; in Berwick, Pa.

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