Engaged. Charles Henry George Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 28, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Levi Leiter; and Dancer Mimi Crawford (Mimi Forde Pigott), niece of Robert Chalmers, First Baron of Northiam, onetime Governor of Ceylon.

Married. Louise Frances Gilman, daughter of Bishop Alfred A. Gilman of Wuchang, China; and Francis Stevenson Hutchins, head of Yale-in-China, son of President of Berea College William J. Hutchins, brother of Chicago University's Robert Maynard Hutchins; in Montclair, N. J.

Married. Clendenin John Ryan Jr., 27, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (see below), secretary to New York's Mayor LaGuardia; and Austrian Countess Marie-Anne-Paula-Ferdinandine Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Diana Lucy Munro, 38, eldest daughter of Great Britain's Stanley Baldwin; to George Durant Kemp-Welch. 26, onetime cricket captain of Cambridge; in London.

Divorced. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 28; by Thalia Fortescue Massie, 23; in Reno. Two years ago in Honolulu Mrs. Massie was attacked by five natives, one of whom Lieut. Massie and his mother-in-law kidnapped, later shot to death. Defended by Clarence Darrow, Lieut. Massie was convicted of manslaughter, but sentence was commuted (TIME, May 16, 1932). Grounds for the divorce: extreme mental cruelty, "no connection with the murder case." Three days after the divorce Mrs. Massie was in a Reno hospital, under treatment for acute alcoholism.

Divorced. Actor & Director Kenneth Mackenna (Leo Mielziner Jr.); by Cinemactress Kay Francis, 30; in Los Angeles. It was her third divorce. Grounds: nagging, criticism of her acting, her clothes.

Divorced. Grace Hayes, singer; by Charles J. Foy, son of oldtime Comedian Eddie Foy. Reasons: troubles of money, career.

Sued. John Barry Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his brother Allan A. Ryan; for $164,571, representing payments due (plus interest) from an agreement among Brothers & Sons Allan, John, and Clendenin by which Brother Allan was to receive $50,000 yearly for life from each of the other two. Son Allan was cut off in his father's will from an estate valued at $135,164,110, got only a set of pearl studs worth $14,150.

Left. By Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of Chicago's First National Bank, in trust to his widow, Dorothy Yerby Traylor, the bulk of an estate estimated at $400,000, exclusive of insurance policies reputedly worth more than $750,000.

Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua.

Died. Joseph Lawrence Hooper, 56, Republican Congressman from Michigan; few hours after he had delivered a diatribe against the emergency airmail bill; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. John Joseph McGraw, 60, famed manager of the New York Giants baseball team; of cancer; in New Rochelle, N. Y. After eleven years as a third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, managed the team until he resigned in 1932. He made the Giants the most celebrated as well as the most successful team in baseball. A fiery and autocratic leader, a brilliant baseball strategist, he was famed for his truculence, his fairness, the harsh discipline with which he ran the team. He assumed responsibility for every play. He once fined a batsman, ordered to bunt, for hitting a homerun. In 1908, when the Giants lost the pennant because, in the last game of the season against the Chicago Cubs, Fred Merkle forgot to touch second base, McGraw forgave him, raised his salary the next year. Under McGraw, the Giants won the National League Pennant ten times, the World's Championship thrice, made a record by winning the pennant four times in a row, from 1921 to 1924.

Died. Sam Lloyd, 60, inventor of puzzles and conundrums; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Son of a puzzle-making father, he, too, invented riddles, created some 10,000 at the rate of 300 a year. His most famed: "The combined ages of Mary and Ann are 44 years, and Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was half as old as Ann will be when Ann is three times as old as Mary was when Mary was three times as old as Ann. How old is Ann?" Answer: Ann, 16 1/2.

Died. Corse Payton, 66, actor, of chronic heart disease aggravated by pneumonia; in Brooklyn, N. Y. In his Brooklyn stock company he gave pre-fame employment to Mary Pickford, Ernest Truex, Richard Bennett, Lillian and Dorothy Gish. He charged 10, 20 and 30-c- for seats, made as much as $100,000 a year.

Died. Mme Alexandre Dumas, second wife of the Younger Dumas (La Dame aux camelias) whom she married five months before his death in 1895; in Paris.

Died. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, famed British composer; of an illness contracted after an operation in October; in Worcester, England.

Died. James Butler, 79, first chain-groceryman; after a year's illness; in Manhattan.

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