Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., eldest son and daughter-in-law of Col. B. B. McAlpin (hotels, law) of Manhattan; a son (first grandson), 7 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: B. B. McAlpin III.
Engaged. James Cash Penney Jr. of White Plains, air amateur, son of the chain store tycoon, Prohibition patron and Hoover intimate (TIME, Jan. 28); to a Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan.
Engaged. Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings), 34, of Manhattan, mannered novelist (The Enormous Room), playwright (Him), poet (and, is 5) who likes to ignore capital letters, Wartime ambulance driver, son of a Unitarian minister of Cambridge, Mass.; to Anne Minnerly Barton, 31, of Manhattan, onetime wife of Caricaturist Ralph Barton.
Engaged. Arthur Schulte of San Francisco, son of Tobacco Store Tycoon David A. Schulte of Manhattan; to one Luise Meyer of San Francisco.
Engaged. Margaret Hitchcock Sims of Boston, daughter of Rear-Admiral William Sowden Sims, U. S. N., retired; to Robert Holbrook Hopkins, Boston lawyer.
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized.
Married. Marian Dawes of Chicago, daughter of Banker William Ruggles Dawes, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; to Donald Seymour Walker of Manhattan, Annapolis graduate; in Chicago.
Married. Suzette de Marigny Dewey of Warsaw, Poland, daughter of Charles Schuveldt Dewey, financial adviser to the Republic of Poland, onetime (1924-27) U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Frederick Moulton Alger Jr. of Detroit, member of Adviser Dewey's staff, grandson of the late Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War under President McKinley; in Warsaw.
Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work.
Married. Siegfried Roebling, 38, of Bernardsville, N. J., descendant of the engineers Roebling who built Brooklyn Bridge; and one Mildred K. Kunath, 23, of Matawan, N. J.; in Manhattan.
Elected. David A. Crawford of Chicago, executive vice president of Pullman Co.; to be president, succeeding the late Edward Francis Carry of Chicago.
Resigned. Junius Parker of Rye, N. Y.; from the board chairmanship of American Tobacco Co. and the presidency of American Cigar Co. In the latter office he is succeeded by President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco.
Died. Mrs. Fannie Dixwell Holmes of Washington, wife of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court; in Washington. The Holmeses were married in 1872.
Died. Mrs. Ella H. Pancoast Widener, of Elkins Park, Pa., wife of Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia financier, horse fancier, art collector; of heart disease; in Elkins Park.
Died. Joseph S. Otis of New Orleans, President of J. S. Otis Mahogany Co., Inc.; by suicide (poison, shooting); in New Orleans.