Engaged. Miss Leslie Bancroft, of Brookline, Mass., famed lawn tennis player, to one Charles F. Aeschliman of Cannes, France.

Engaged. Mrs. Alada Mills, widow of Brigadier General Albert L. Mills (Superintendent of West Point from 1898 to 1906), to Brigadier General Samuel W. Miller, retired. General Miller, 67, was a classmate of General Mills at the Military Academy.

Died. Robert Allen ("Jack") Wakefield, member of the St. Louis National League Baseball club; in Memphis, suicide by shooting. He had quarreled with his fiancee, had received a disheartening letter from the management of the St. Louis Club, had become morose.

Died. Martin H. Glynn, 53, one-time Governor of New York; in Albany, after a long illness. Famed for his eloquence, he made his greatest speech before the 1916 Democratic Convention which renominated Wilson.

Died. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney, retired, 66, in Washington, after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey.

Died. William Van Arden Hester, 66, President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; at Glen Cove, L. I., of heart disease. His father, the late Colonel William H. Hester, was head of the Eagle before him. Under the Colonel's guidance, Mr. Hester worked his way up "from selling extras to general manager's desk."

Died. August Belmont, 71, famed sportsman-financier; in Manhattan, of blood poisoning.

Died. Samuel Gompers, 74, President of the American Federation of Labor; in San Antonio, Tex., of Brights disease and heart failure.

Died. George St. John Sheffield, 83, "grandfather of Yale rowing," son of Joseph E. Sheffield (founder of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University) ; at Providence, R. L, after a three weeks' illness.