Engaged. Frederic Cameron Church Jr., Boston insurance broker, onetime husband of Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps; and Agnes Devens Boardman, Boston socialite.

Married. Ethel Peters Butler, daughter of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired; and Lieut. John Wehle, U. S. M. C.; in Holy Trinity Church, West Chester, Pa.

Sued for Separation, Roark Bradford, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which Marc Connolly wrote The Green Pastures; by Mrs. Lydia Sehorn Bradford; in New Orleans. Charge: abandonment. Mrs. Bradford lies abed with tuberculosis in Arizona.

Died. Edward E. Chrysler. 60, one-time executive of General Motors Corp., brother of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler; after a lingering illness; in La Jolla, Calif.

Died. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner, relict of General Simon Bolivar Buckner; of pneumonia; in Louisville, Ky. A Captain in the Mexican War, her husband was the Confederate Brigadier-General who surrendered Fort Donelson to his old friend General Grant. Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, he was nominated for Vice President by gold-standard Democrats when they bolted William Jennings Bryan's free-silver ticket in 1896.

Died. John Philip Sousa, 77, bandmaster, composer, novelist, "March King of America"; of heart disease; in Reading, Pa. Born in Washington, D. C. of a Bavarian mother and a Portuguese father, he was a precocious instrumentalist. At 25 he became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus and The Dwellers in the Western World.

Died. Dr. Frank Wesley Warne, 77, retired Methodist Episcopal Bishop of India (1900-28); of pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn. Once while in Mesopotamia, he learned unexpectedly that no ship sailed in time for him to attend a church conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Undaunted, he radioed a U. S.-bound oil tanker for passage, was told that he would be taken aboard only if he signed on as an engine-room wiper. For three torrid weeks, 66-year-old Bishop Warne wiped engines, was still in greasy dungarees when met at the docks.

Died. Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Brown, So, twice Governor of Georgia; after a long illness; in Marietta, Ga. His political tussles with the late Hoke Smith for party leadership kept Georgia Democrats in turmoil for 25 years. In 1928 Brown and Smith were finally reconciled in support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Undersized son

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