Monday, Aug. 25, 1924

Reported Engaged. Miss Ishbell MacDonald, daughter of England's Prime Minister, to Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley Baldwin, onetime Prime; Minister.

Engaged. Miss Beatrice M. Beck,, daughter of the Solicitor General of the U. S., to one Pinckney Tuck; in Washington, D. C.

Engaged. Dora Goldberg Gressing; Norworth Clarke Gordon Bayes (known to theatre-goers as Nora Bayes), blond vaudeville actress, to Lew Cody, cinema actor; in London..

Died. Mrs. Sarah Antoinette Warren Jefferson, 74, widow of Joseph Jefferson, famed actor; in Manhattan. Herself an actress, she met her husband when she was playing with the Boston Museum Company.

Died. LeBaron Bradford Colt, 78, senior U. S. Senator from Rhode Island, of heart trouble and nephritis; at Bristol, R. I. (see Page 5).

Died. Anna A. Heckscher, wife of August Heckscher, famed banker and builder; on the liner Minnewaska, of heart disease. She was renowned for her philanthropic activities. With her husband she gave $4,000,000 for the formation of the Heckscher Foundation to support the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and to build the "Home for Happiness" on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Samuel Untermyer, 65, wife of the famed lawyer; in Yonkers, N. Y., after a long illness, following a stroke of paralysis incurred last Autumn. Known for her charities, she was also a patron of Art, 'Literature, Music. Her house in Yonkers ("Greystone") was the scene of many notable gatherings at which poets, artists and visiting celebrities were fed, entertained.

Died. Viscount Francis Knollys, 87, private secretary to the late King Edward and from 1910 to 1913 to King George; in London. He was the last survivor of a line of medieval courtiers who have served the Royal family since the 16th Century. "No man," the Archbishop of Canterbury once said of him, "knew so much and said so little."