Reported Engaged. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, 51, onetime (1929-31) U. S. Representative from Illinois at large, relict of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick, who died in 1925; and Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime (1929-31) U. S. Representative from New Mexico at large; in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where she went to meet her 14-year-old son, Medill McCormick Jr. Said she: "It's screamingly funny. Both myself and Mr. Simms are getting a great kick out of it."

Engaged. Conway Howard Olmstead, stepson of Publisher Vance Criswell McCormick (1916 chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee); and Mary Elizabeth Johnston, niece of President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin Watch Co.; in Chicago.

Engaged. Francis X. Shields of Manhattan, second-ranking U. S. tennis player; and Rebecca Williams Tenney of Greenwich, Conn., Smith College junior.

Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington, D.C).

Married. Sigourney Thayer, divorced husband of Mrs. Emily O'Neil Davies Vanderbilt Thayer (the first Mrs. William Henry Vanderbilt), son of Rev. Dr. William Greenough Thayer who is headmaster of St. Marks School (Southboro, Mass.); and Mary Van Rensselaer ("Molly") Cogswell, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Rafael Sabatini, author and dramatist (Captain Blood, Scaramouche) ; by Mrs. Ruth Goad Sabatini; in London. Grounds: misconduct in a Paris hotel with one Kathleen Fellside Grandin.

Died. Ernest Sargent Barnard, 56, president since 1927 of the American League of professional baseball clubs (he succeeded Byron Bancroft ["Ban"] Johnson), onetime president of the Cleveland Indians; of heart disease; in Rochester, Minn.

Died. Robert Edeson, 62, stage and cinema actor, oldtime matinee idol (Soldiers of Fortune, The Little Minister, Strongheart); in Hollywood, Calif.

Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought himself a yacht, moved in and wrote of high society. But his greatest works were the earlier simple, realistic chronicles of his native Staffordshire: the "Five Towns" novels.

Died. George Amos Dorsey, 63, famed anthropologist, author of Why We Behave Like Human Beings; of a heart attack, while he was correcting copy for the final chapter of a new two-volume book on which he had worked for several years; in his Manhattan home.

Died. Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson, 66, co-founder and longtime (1900-27) president of the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; of diabetes, after a long illness; in St. Louis, Mo. Once a baseball reporter, he became president in 1894 of the Western League. In 1900 he enlarged it, called it the American League to rival the National League, then the only major U. S. baseball group. By 1903 he had raised the game to a new, cleaner basis, aided in forming the National Commission to govern the industry. After the World's Series scandals of 1919, when members of the Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to "lose" to the Cincinnati Reds, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis became the industry's tsar. Ever thereafter Ban Johnson resented his power, fought with him on many occasions, lost ground steadily until he was obliged to resign in 1927. He died 18 hours after his successor, Ernest Sargent Barnard.

Died. Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, 67, U. S. N. retired, commandant (1922-28) of the Third Naval District, New York; of heart disease; in Washington. His most famed exploit was to silence Germany's "Big Berthas" in 1918 by mounting a battery of long-range 14-in. naval guns on special carriages, moving them to the Allied front lines. This work, said General Pershing, left the enemy "nothing but surrender or an armistice."

Died. Henry Ives Cobb, 71, Manhattan architect (Chicago Opera House. University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, No. 42 Broadway, Harriman Bank) member of the board of architects of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892-93; in Manhattan.

Died. Ira Barnes Button ("Brother Joseph"), 87, Trappist monk, for more than 40 years head of the Baldwin Home for leprous orphan boys at Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii; after long illness aggravated by eye cataracts; in Honolulu. A Civil War hero, he joined the Roman Catholic Church, became a lay brother in his order, went to Molokai in 1886 to work with Father Damien, a Belgian monk who was then dying of leprosy.

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