Engaged. Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, famed Manhattan banker, to Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, of East Orange, N. J., United Cigar Stores President.

Married. S. Parker Gilbert Jr., newly appointed Agent General of Reparations in Europe under the Experts' Plan, to Miss Louise Todd of Louisville; in Louisville. Raymond T. Baker, onetime Director of the U. S. Mint, was best man. Many dignitaries attended. The couple sailed for Europe.

Sued for Divorce. Alfred J. Kvale, the son of Rev. O. J. Kvale, U. S. Congressman from Minnesota, by the onetime "Billie Stanfield" of the Ziegfeld Follies; in Chicago. She charges that her husband--whose father was elected to Congress on his claim that he was "Dryer than Volstead"--has been "drunk for a year and a half," which is the length of time that she has been his wife.

Died. Sydney E. Mudd, 39, U. S. Congressman (Republican) from Maryland; in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, from intestinal obstruction.

Died. Jacob Ellsworth ("Jake") Daubert, 39, Captain and first baseman of the Cincinnati National League baseball team; at Cincinnati, of appendicitis.

Died. Frank B. Brandegee, 60, senior U. S. Senator from Connecticut, in his Washington home; suicide by gas. Called by political writers "stern and rockbound Brandegee," he was one of President Wilson's bitterest opponents in the League of Nations struggle of 1919-'20.

Died. Dr. William Arnold Shanklin, 62, President Emeritus of Wesleyan University (Middleton, Conn.); in Manhattan, on the steps leading from the Grand Central Terminal to the Lexington avenue subway station, of heart failure. Under Dr. Shanklin's administration, Wesleyan University doubled in number of students, trebled in income.

Died. Laurenus Clark Seelye, 87, President Emeritus of Smith College; in Northampton, Mass. He saw Smith's enrollment grow under his guidance from 14 girls in 1873 to 1,635 in 1910, when he retired. His definition of what a graduate of a woman's college should be was "intelligent gentlewoman."