Engaged. Miss Mariquita S. Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation, to Louis Warren Hill Jr., of St. Paul, Minn., who now functions with the Great Northern Railway, built by his grandfather, the late famed James Jerome Hill, and of which his father, Louis Warren Hill, is chairman of the Board of Directors.

Married. John Randolph Hearst, 18, third son of publisher William Randolph Hearst, to Miss Dorothy Hart of Los Angeles, Calif.; in Manhattan.

Elected. John Stewart Baker, 34, to be President of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., in New York, thereby becoming the youngest bank president in New York;* to succeed his father, Stephen Baker, who becomes chairman of the board (see p. 26).

Died. Father Jean Gerault de la Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines.

Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise.

Died. Benjamin Purnell, 66, "King of the House of David," "Seventh Messenger announcing the Millennium"; at Benton Harbor, Mich., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He taught, as many before him had taught and still conscientiously teach, that the Bible foretells the exact date at which the Millennium will begin. As the "Seventh Messenger," he also taught, he would never die; nor would 143,999 others who believed in his Messianic pretentions. About his dead body last week his disciples sat, waiting for his resurrection--in vain.

Died. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, 85, educator, author; in Chicago (see p. 18).

Died. William Hodges Mann, 84, onetime Governor of Virginia (1910-1914), Confederate veteran; at Richmond, of heart disease.

--In Baltimore is a younger, James McHenry, 28, active head of the Morris Plan bank. Banker McHenry is great great grandson of George Washington's Secretary of War, James McHenry.