Engaged. Robert M. Ferguson. Yale student, son of Arizona's famed Congresswoman Isabella Selmes Ferguson Greenway; and Frances L. Hand, Manhattan socialite.

Married. Hope Harding Davis. 18, daughter of the late famed Author-Journalist Richard Harding Davis, ward of Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; and one Jean Louis Frank Kehrig. 26. of St. Jean-de-Luz. France; in Port Chester, N. Y.

Marriage Revealed. Martha Johns Dodd, only daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd: and George Bassett Roberts, Manhattan banker; year and a half ago in Chicago.

Appointed. Benito Mussolini by King Yittorio Emanuele III (on Benito Mussolini's advice) to take over the Air Ministry from Air Marshal Italo Balbo (who was appointed Governor of Libya) and the Navy Ministry from Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni (who was made Director of the Government-subsidized Cogne Steel Co.).

Left. By Anton Joseph Cermak, martyred Mayor of Chicago: an estate of $545,378-Died. Lieut. Elliott McFarlane Moore, U. S. Naval Reserve. 31, son-in-law of the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett (chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics who died in the Akron disaster), director of Wilmington-Catalina Airline. Ltd.; of injuries suffered when a W.C. A. ten-passenger amphibion plane, taking off for the California mainland, capsized a half-mile from Catalina Island, killing the copilot, injuring the pilot.

Died. Princess Nobuko Asaka, 42, aunt of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. eighth daughter of the late Emperor Meiji, wife of Prince Yasuhiko; of nephritis; in Tokyo.

Died. Hazel G. Chancy, 46, widow of Cinemactor Lon Chancy; after long illness; in Los Angeles.

Died. B. Elaine Fox, 48. president of Clover Farm Stores Co. (4,000 stores), NRA retail and grocery code adviser; of exhaustion after four-and-a-half days of constant hiccoughing; in Charleroi, Pa.

Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn of a chastened decade; she took a troupe to France, was refused admittance at the pier. She was on tour with a 40-girl troupe when she fell ill last fortnight.

Died. William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth.

Died. Lady Hewart. wife of Britain's Lord Chief Justice Gordon Hewart; when she collapsed during a reception for the retiring Lord Mayor; in London's Mansion House.

Died. Dr. Oliver Cummings Farring- ton, 69. curator of geology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History since 1894, authority on meteorites and gems; after long illness; in Chicago.

Died. John Jay Chapman, 71, scholar, critic, playwright, poet; after long illness; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Profoundly religious and militantly Protestant, he popped out of his cloister to attack President Wilson for sidestepping the War (his son Victor was the first U. S. aviator killed in combat), to fight the appointment of a Roman Catholic to the Harvard board of overseers, to combat the Smith candidacy in 1928. He hated mediocrity, timidity, brutality, once conducted a public penance on the anniversary of a lynching. While an undergraduate at Harvard he lost his right hand; student legend was that, having injured a friend in a scuffle, he plunged the offending arm into a furnace.

Died. John Benjamin Kendrick. 76. senior V. S. Senator from Wyoming, cattle tycoon, onetime Governor of Wyoming, oldtime cowpuncher; of uremic poisoning; in Sheridan, Wyo.

Died. Dr. Pierre Paul Emile Roux, 79, director since 1904 of Paris' Pasteur Institute; of pneumonia, after 40 years of tuberculosis; in Paris. With Pasteur, Mechnikov and others he worked on the prevention and treatment of anthrax, hydrophobia, syphilis, tetanus, cholera; was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Dr. Emil von Behring) for work on serum therapeutics. Emaciated, white-bearded, he lived like a troglodyte in a barren room, slept on a camp bed, spent 80-c- per day for his meals of bread and soup, the rest of his $800-a-year salary for books and equipment. He stanchly defended the anti-tuberculosis vaccine (BCG) developed by his subordinate. Albert Calmette, who died last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 6).

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