Engaged. Peggy Anne Landon, 24, daughter of Alfred M. Landon; and William Mills, 25, Topeka attorney; in Topeka.

Sued for Divorce. Lieut. Commander Giles Chester Stedman, ex-Commander of the United States Lines; by Florence Leavitt Schick Stedman, ex-widow of Razor-Inventor Colonel Jacob Schick; in Reno.

Died. Sarah Haynes, Lady Maxim, widow of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, stepmother of the late Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the silencer; in Norwood, England.

Died. Robert Eneas Lamberton, 54, Republican Mayor of Philadelphia since January 1940; in Longport, N.J. Onetime judge, he succeeded Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who also died in office.

Died. Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, 56, who fought for, won, and organized the U.S. Army's first Armored Force (TIME, Aug. 18); of cancer; in Boston. Son of the late Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, onetime Chief of Staff, he served in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives in World War I, postulated more than a decade ago the principles of armored forces which the Germans adopted.

Died. John Lawrence Baird, Viscount Stonehaven, 67, onetime (1925-30) Governor General of Australia; in Stonehaven, Scotland. Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1931 to 1936, he created a minor political sensation in 1939 when his fear that Chamberlain appeasement meant restoration of German colonies led him to refuse to be a candidate for the presidency of his local Conservative group.

Died. Claira Valerie Coleman Manville, 74, onetime wife of asbestos-wealthy Thomas Franklyn Manville, mother of Playboy "Tommy"'; in Manhattan. She divorced Manville in 1909. When he died in 1925 his will left most of his fortune to his son and daughter, made no mention of his exwife.

Died. Dr. Frederick N. Bonine, 77, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete who in 1885 did the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds--a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases.

Died. Mary Park Brockbank, 98, last surviving member of the great Mormon trek to Utah in 1847; in Murray, Utah.

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