Engaged. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, ex-wife of three, author of Ex-Wife; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent and ex-husband of two; in Manhattan.

Married. Claude Stroud, 31, younger (15 min.) half of the radio team of twin comics, Clarence & Claude; and Gloria Brewster, 20, elder (4 min.) half of the team of twin cinemactresses, Barbara & Gloria; in Miami Beach.

Died. (Thomas) Gilbert White, 61, famed, long-maned U. S. expatriate muralist, brother of Novelist Stewart Edward White and Violinist Roderick White; after an intestinal operation; in Paris. Four years ago Henry Wallace tried to have one of Painter White's murals (once called "Ladies in Cheesecloth") removed from the Department of Agriculture Building, failed, thereupon attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde."

Died. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies--simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers.

Died. Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley, 69, editor-in-chief of the Columbia University Press and of the 5,000,000-word Columbia Encyclopedia; after long illness; in Solebury, Pa.

Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk with the necessary funds to become President. Later his daughter, Frances, married Masaryk's son, Jan (since divorced).

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