Engaged. Charles Francis Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. P: To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. P:Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through 5 & 10-c- stores the five Tower Magazines (Love, Mystery, Home, New Movie, Tiny Tower). P:P:Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. P:Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). P:Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. P:Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against him. tried to block Hoover's renomination. In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Mann were converted to Catholicism. P:Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. P:Died-- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died-- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.P: Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell; the lumber, used for sheds, he did. He formed a lumber company which became the largest in the world operating under one ownership (present total assets: $90,385,000). To Longview (pop.: 10,652) he gave a $150,000 library, a $650,000 high school, $1,000,000 worth of parks and landscaping. P:Died. Mrs. Richard Robert Donnelley, 88, relict of the founder of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), of old age; after long illness; in Chicago.

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