Engaged. Allan Henry Hoover, 30, younger son of the 31st. President, California rancher; and Margaret Coberly, of Los Angeles.

Married, Anne Rebe Wertheim, niece of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., daughter of liberal Banker Maurice Wertheim who supports The Nation; and Dr. Louis Langman, Manhattan physician; in Greenwich, Conn.

Married-Augusto Rosso, 51, Italian Ambassador to Russia since August, once (1932-36) to the U. S.; and Mrs. Frances Wilkinson Bunker, Washington divorcee; in Paris. Witnesses were U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt and Italian Ambassador to France Vittorio Cerrutti.

Divorced. James Andrew Moffett, 50, vice president of Standard Oil Co. of California, onetime (1934-35) Federal Housing Administrator; by Mrs. Adeline Moran ("Kim") Moffett; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, his "ungovernable temper."

Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record of 87 hr. 47 sec.

Died. Sir Percival Phillips, 59, last active newshawk of Britain's official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began. For his Wartime service he was knighted in 1920. In 1935 he was the first to discover and reveal the short-lived Rickett oil concession in Ethiopia.

Died. Edward Frowde Seagram, 63, famed Canadian racehorse owner, president since 1920 of J. E. Seagram & Sons, Ltd. (distillers) ; after an abdominal operation; in Toronto.

Died. Ethnologist Stephen Chapman Simms, 73, director of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History since 1928, Portuguese Consul at Chicago since 1918; of heart disease; in Chicago.

Died. James Joseph Couzens, 88, one time soap manufacturer, father of Michigan's late Republican Senator James Couzens; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles.

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