Engaged. Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 21, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard junior; and Mary Lowe Gaddis, 18, of Milton, Mass.

Engaged. Sarah Paschall Davis, daughter of U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and J. Stirling Getchell, Manhattan adman; in Manhattan.

Engaged. Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man. son of Mayor Howard W. Jackson; in Baltimore.

Engaged. Augusto Rosso, 51, Italian Ambassador to Russia since August, once (1932-36) to the U. S.; and Mrs. Frances Wilkinson Bunker, Washington divorcee.

Married. Lady Isobel Violet Kathleen Manners, 18, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights.

Married. Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach, Fla.

Married. Mary McCormic, 37, opera singer, onetime wife of the late Prince Serge Mdivani; and Chicago Lawyer Homer V. Johannsen, 35; in Kansas City, Mo. Few hours later, clad in blue satin lounging pajamas, she revealed the news at an Excelsior Springs, Mo. hotel, gaily introduced "Mr. McCormic," her fourth, who had proposed to her only that morning.

Sued. Utilitarian Harley Lyman Clarke, 55; by Utilities Power & Light Corp., mammoth Chicago holding company whose presidency he resigned Oct. 29 ostensibly under pressure from Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. which has bought control; for alleged misappropriation of $3,000,000; in "hicago. Utilitarian Clarke, still a P. & L. director, previously sought to intervene in P. & L. reorganization proceedings, charging Atlas Corp. with juggling its stock.

Died. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival.

Died-- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout.

Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell.

Died. Sir Edwin Deller, 53, principal of the University of London; of a broken spine received on an inspection trip of the University's new Bloomsbury buildings when a construction elevator fell on him; in London.

Died. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 86, Greek munitioneer and "Mystery Man of Europe," knighted by King George V, supersalesman for Vickers Ltd.; at Monte Carlo last week; of heart failure. Minimum estimate of the fortune left to Sir Basil's stepdaughters, the Royal Bourbon Princesses Angela & Maria: $50,000,000. Their mother waited 40 years for their insane father Prince Francisco of Bourbon-Sicily to die before she married her lover Sir Basil in 1924 only to die 17 months later. Up in London popped a 67-year-old shoemaker, Hyram Barnett Zaharoff to contest the will and claim he is Sir Basil's son "by an early marriage in Russia."

Died. Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, 91, oldest U. S. actress, cast in some 400 roles over a 63-year career; after long illness; in Montvale, Va. As Blanche Galton, daughter of a British opera singer, she made her London debut in 1865 in Turco the Terrible, appeared in Manhattan three years later, played the original U. S. "Buttercup" in Gilbert & Sullivan's H. M. S. Pinafore. In 1930 she emerged from retirement for a benefit performance of Trelawny of the Wells.

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