Engaged. Ruth Wallace, 32, sister of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace; and Per Wijkman, commercial counselor of the Swedish Legation in Washington, D. C.

Married. Hugh Smith Gumming Jr.. son of the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Public Health Service; and Winifred West, Washington divorcee; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Marie Standley, third daughter of Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Naval Operations (No. 1 U. S. sailor); and Lieutenant Edwin Warren Herron, U. S. N.; in Washington. D. C.

Marriage Revealed. William Buehler Seabrook, 49, travel writer, confessed cannibal, reformed drunkard; and Marjorie Worthington, novelist, divorced wife of Lyman Worthington, adman, who has since married the first Mrs. Seabrook: seven months ago in Poughkeepsie. N. Y. To cure himself of dipsomania Author Seabrook had himself committed to an insane asylum, told the story in Asylum (TIME, Aug. 12).

Divorced. By Benjamin Anzelevitz (Ben Bernie), 44, jazz-band leader: Rose H. Anzelevitz, whom he married in 1915: in Chicago. Grounds: desertion.

Sued. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Harvard junior; by one Hyman Barlow of Malden, Mass.: for $1,000, for injuries allegedly suffered in an automobile accident last April.

Left. By Edwin M. Rine, onetime vice president and general manager of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R., to Rosa Christoph, maid for the last seven years in the Rine household: the income of a $100,000 trust fund. The income of a $150,000 fund, left to Mrs. Rine, will also go to Maid Christoph, 25, if Mrs. Rine should die first. Explained the widow: "She was more than a maid."

Died, Eliza Rhees Butler, 62, executive secretary of the women's committee on college contacts at Columbia University, sister of Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler; of heart disease, in Manhattan.

Died. William Wallace Atterbury, 69, onetime (1925-35) President of Pennsylvania R. R.; of apoplexy induced by arteriosclerosis; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Son of a lawyer who turned Presbyterian preacher, young William, with a degree from Yale, started in the Pennsylvania's Altoona shops at 5-c- an hour. In 1917 he went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public eye.

Died. William T. Reed. 70. president of Larus & Bro. Co. (Edgeworth tobacco) and of Reed Tobacco Company; suddenly, of a heart attack, at a family dinner attended by his good friend Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; in Richmond.

Died. William De Wolf Hopper, 77, oldtime actor; after long illness (heart disease); in Kansas City, where he had lately been mildly successful as a radio commentator at symphony concerts. New York-born, trained for law, he became a professional actor at New Haven in 1879, played with the Barrymores' grandmother (Louisa Lane Drew), spent more than half a century in the theatre, was noted chiefly for his Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace and Hedda Hopper. Asked the secret of his longevity, he once explained: "I never smoked and never drank until I was 12."

Died. Fannie Coddington Browning, 83, U. S.-born daughter-in-law of Poet Robert Browning; in London. She married Robert Wiedemann Barrett ("Pen") Browning in 1887, left him six years later.

Died. Jules Martin Cambon, 90, "dean of French diplomats," onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. (1897-1901), Spain (1901-07), Germany (1907-14), able brother of able Pierre Paul Cambon who as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's laid the foundations of the Anglo-French entente; in Vevey, Switzerland.

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