Born. To the Count & Countess Folke Bernadotte of Sweden (she is daughter of Hiram Edward Manville, U. S. asbestos man); a son; at Stockholm. Name: Gustav Edward, for his royal granduncle. Two months ago the U. S. grandparents sailed to Europe in their yacht Hi-Esman, to be present at the event (TIME, Dec. 2).

Engaged. H. R. H. Princess Ileana (Hohenzollern) of Rumania to Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fuersten-stein, German descendant of the 12th century Pist kings of Poland. She, whose private fortune is $260,000, and to whom the Rumanian Parliament plans to give a wedding present of $240,000 said: "I am marrying for love."

At a court reception in Belgrade in 1926. H. M. Queen Marie of Jugoslavia exclaimed in the hearing of numerous persons, "it was disgusting of mother [Queen Marie of Rumania] to take that Miss Stirby with her to America!" Thus putting the stamp of royalty on the popular belief that Princess Ileana's father was not the late King Ferdinand of Rumania but is Prince Barbu Stirby. The wide currency of this belief in the Balkans was a decisive factor in thwarting efforts by Queen Marie of Rumania to arrange a marriage between Princess Ileana (legitimate under Rumanian law) and Tsar Boris of Bulgaria.

Married. Prince Takamatsu, 25, naval officer, sportsman, art connoisseur, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Princess Kikuko Tokugama, 19; in Tokio.

Married. Margaret, 21, daughter of Senator & Mrs. James Couzens of Michigan; and William Jeffries Chewning, 25, Washington socialite bank clerk. Because she is a Catholic, he a Protestant, they had to get special dispensation from Archbishop Curley at Baltimore, whither they eloped.

Married. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; and a Miss Edna Louise Johnson of Brooklyn, music student; in London. She is his third wife (Doris Stevens, feminist, divorced him last fall). Explaining why he did not want to pose for photographers with a background of glasses and liquor bottles at the wedding breakfast, said he: "Remember, I am an American--but God knows I am not Dry."

Married. Dorothy Binney Putnam, divorced wife of Publisher George Palmer Putnam (TIME, Dec. 30); and Captain Frank Monroe Upton, Wartime winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an officer of the S. S. President Roosevelt during the Antinoe rescue; at Fort Pierce, Fla.

Divorced. Onetime Princess Xenia of Russia; from William B. Leeds, heir to his late father's $120,000,000 fortune; at Huntington, L. I. Grounds: kept secret.

Elected. Peter A. Bogdanov, onetime chairman of the Soviet Supreme Economic Council; to be board chairman of Amtorg Trading Corp. (semiofficial commercial liaison).

Elected. Alexander M. Levy; to be president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing).

Birthday. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross; at Washington. Date: Jan. 26. Age: 75. To felicitate him at Red Cross headquarters came General John Joseph Pershing. Ogden Livingston Mills, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Cornelius Newton Bliss, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.

Assassinated. Barney J. Mitchell, Treasurer of Checker Taxicab Co., and one George Jackson, Checker driver; in Chicago; by unknowns suspected to be thugs recently laid off by the company. The bodies, found slug-riddled in a Checker, had been shot by rear seat occupants.

Died. Emmy Destinn, 51, oldtime opera singer (she created the title role of Puccini's Madame Butterfly); at Budweis, Czechoslovakia; of a heart attack, while being Xrayed.

Died. Most Rev. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, Presiding Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Church in America, a position he had held eleven weeks (TIME, Nov. 25); at Chicago; of heart disease.

Died. Major General Harry Taylor, 67, U. S. A., retired A. E. F. Chief of Engineers; at Washington; of pneumonia.

Died. William Herbert Perry Faunce, 71, longtime (1899-1929) president and president emeritus of Brown University; at Providence, R. I. To his funeral went famed Brown Alumni Charles Evans Hughes and John Davison Rockefeller Jr., with whom he had attended the induction of Clarence Augustus Barbour as his successor four months ago (TIME, Oct. 28)

Died. Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden, 72, U. S. N., retired, onetime (1908-10) commander of the presidential yacht Mayflower, wartime squadron commander of the Atlantic Fleet; at Washington; after a long illness.

Died. Peter C. Larkin, 73, since 1922 Canadian High Commissioner in London, wealthy teaman, sportsman, philanthropist, native Montrealer; in his sleep, after a heart attack; in London.

Died. Mrs. William J. McConnell, 83, relict of Idaho's second Governor, mother-in-law of Senator William Edgar Borah; at Moscow, Idaho; of heart disease.

Died. Francis Rawle, 83, onetime (1902-03) President of the American Bar Association, last surviving founder of that organization; at Philadelphia; of a heart attack.

Died. Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, 85, son and literary executor of the late Poet-Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson; at Concord, Mass.

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