Born. A son, 8 lb., to Violinist & Mrs. Mischa Elman of Manhattan. They have a daughter, Nadia, 4.

Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish vice-consul.

Married. John Taber of Auburn, N. Y., U. S. Representative (Republican); and Gertrude J. Beard of Auburn; in Auburn.

Married. Anne F. Moore of Manhattan, daughter of famed International Jurist John Bassett Moore; and Karl Frederick, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan.

Elected. Henry J. Cochran of Plainfield, N. J., longtime vice president of Bankers' Trust Co. of New York, cousin of Morgan-Partner Thomas Cochran; to be president, succeeding Albert Arthur Tilney of Plainfield, who becomes board vice chairman.

Resigned. Andrew Watson Armour, 47, of Chicago, vice president of Armour & Co.; because of ill health.

Died. Arthur Morgan Smith, of Cleveland, secretary-treasurer of Gas Machinery Co.; in Manhattan. Early one morning Mr. Smith left a party in Manhattan's Hotel Marguery with Oilman Samuel E. Bell of Baltimore and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull.

Died. Col. Ernest Lester Jones, 52, of Washington, D. C., since 1915 Director of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; in Washington.

Died. Charles David Carter, 60, of Ardmore. Okla., longtime U. S. Representative from Oklahoma (1907-27); in Ardmore.

Died. Charles Philip Coleman, 64, Manhattan engineer (Singer Tower); of pneumonia; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Owen Bernard Corrigan, 80, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Vicar General of the archdiocese; in Baltimore.