Engaged. Clairenore Stinnes, daughter of the late great German industrialist Hugo Stinnes; and Axel Soederstroem, Swedish cinematographer; at Berlin. Last spring they completed a two-year automobile globetrot (TIME, May 20).

Engaged. Mrs. Gladys R. Byfield, one-time wife of Ernest Byfield of Chicago (president of Hotel Sherman); and one Raymond Tartiere of Paris. Four weeks ago Mr. Byfield married Mrs. Katherine Prest Rend of Chicago.

Married. Mrs.Florence Lincoln Rockefeller, divorced wife of William A. Rockefeller (grandnephew); and George A. Sloane of Nashville, Tenn., president of Cotton Textile Institute (Manhattan); in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Nelson Morris, grandson & namesake of the founder of Morris & Co. (Chicago meatpackers), by Jeanne Aubert Morris, French legitimactress; at Versailles. Grounds: desertion. Since he flew around the world on the Graf Zeppelin he has not gone back to his wife.

Sued for Divorce. Walter Hill, 45, youngest son of the late great Railroader James J. Hill; by Mrs. Mildred Richardson Hill, onetime chorus girl (No, No Nannette); at Livingston, Mont. Grounds: kept secret. When suing him for divorce two years ago she said he was "wild as the Montana scenery."

Awarded. To Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-28) Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; to the company's presidency, left vacant by the death of Daniel Frederick Appel (TIME, Dec. 2).

Elected. Bayard W. Read, son of the late Financier William A. Read (Dillon, Read & Co.); to be an assistant secretary of Central Hanover Bank (Manhattan), successor organization to Central Trust Co., of which his father was a longtime trustee.

Birthday. Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst, illegitimate "eugenic baby" of famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working in her laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi, 50, Japanese Minister to China, onetime Counselor of the Japanese legation at Washington; at Miyanoshita; by his own hand (revolver). Apparent cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard Air Line, director and onetime President of St. Louis & San Francisco R. R.; in Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank.

*Other founders: Frances Willard, Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster, Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer.

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