Engaged. Lieut. Hugh Blanchard Vickery, 25, Annapolis '40, only son of Rear Admiral Howard Vickery, Vice Chairman of the Maritime Commission ; and Dorothy Adams Borden, 25, Washington socialite, daughter of Brigadier General William Borden; in Washington.

Divorced. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, 33, second son of the President, now with the Army Air Forces in England ; by Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, after ten years, nine months of marriage, her first, his second; in Fort Worth. Mrs. Roosevelt charged desertion, cruel treatment, was awarded half of their interest in a chain of Texas radio stations and custody of their three children.

Killed in Action. Lieut. Colonel Thomas Hitchcock, 44, internationally famed poloist; in a plane crash; near Salisbury, England.

Reported Dead. Adolf Wagner, 54, former Gauleiter of Bavaria, longtime crony and "other voice" of Adolf Hitler; in Munich. One-legged Wagner marched in the 1923 beer-hall Putsch, at Nuernberg party congresses delivered Hitler's proclamations in the blustering manner of his chief.

Died. Hans Lachmann-Mosse, 59, former publisher of the late, great Berliner Tageblatt, No. 1 liberal German newspaper, confiscated by the Nazis in 1933; after long illness; in Oakland, Calif. Forced by the Gestapo to flee Germany after relinquishing his publishing business, he settled in France, fled again when France was invaded.

Died. Frederic J. Haskin, 71, dean of question& -answer columnists (over 100 newspapers carried his column); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Washington. He started answering questions 28 years ago, boasted that he could cope with anything answerable.

Died. Edmund Schulthess, 76, four-times President of Switzerland between 1917 and 1933; after long illness; in Bern.

Died. Henry Snell, 1st Baron of Plumstead, 79, the House of Lords's capable Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament.

Died. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 84, longtime Archbishop of Boston; of pneumonia; in Boston.

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