Engaged. Errett Lobban Cord, 36, president of Auburn Automobile Co. and Duesenberg, Inc.; and one Virginia Kirk Tharpe; in Los Angeles, Calif.

Engaged. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late President James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railroad.

Engaged. A son of "China's Invisible Ruling House," Mr. T. A. Soong; to the younger sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon."

Married. Harriet Johnson (Sylvia Field), 29, actress (The Royal Family, Queen at Home); and Harold LeRoy Moffett, 30, actor (Three's a Crowd); in Manhattan.

Elected. Elihu Root, elder statesman: to be honorary president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness; succeeding the late William Howard Taft, who held the post from 1915 until his death last March.

Birthdays. Maj.-General Clarence Ransom Edwards, "Daddy of the Yankee Division" (71); Author Rudyard Kipling (65); Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield, chaplain of Manhattan's waterfront Sea-mens' Church Institute (60); ex-Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (57).

Died. Lee-Adam Gimbel, 34, Manhattan stockbroker (Sartorius & Smith), onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, onetime vice president and director of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Manhattan department store); by falling or jumping from a 16th story window of the Yale Club; in Manhattan.

Died. U. S. Representative David Joseph O'Connell, 62, of the 9th New York Congressional District (1919-21 and since 1923), author of the bill which sent Gold Star Mothers to France, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sales manager of Funk & Wagnalls Co., onetime president of the Booksellers' League of New York; of a heart attack while seated in a bootblack chair; in Manhattan.

Died. George V's eldest sister, H. R. H. Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, 63, Princess Royal, Dowager Duchess of Fife, called by Edward VII "Your Royal Shyness," ist member of British Royalty to become a cinemaddict.

Died. Edward Judson Ovington, 66, onetime Chicago manager of Ovington Bros. (Manhattan gift shop), nature-lover, founder of Ovington's (Lake Crescent, Wash., summer resort); in Seattle, Wash.

Died. William Hoffman Martin, 67, grain broker of Chicago and New York, father of Managing Editor John S. Martin of TIME, uncle of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME) ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Hugh Campbell Wallace, 67, onetime (1919-21) U. S. Ambassador to France, U. S. representative in the Supreme Allied Council and Council of Ambassadors at the Versailles Treaty conferences, friend and unofficial adviser of President Wilson; of heart disease; in Washington.

Died. Dr. Emil Fronz, 70, Viennese obstetrician who assisted at the birth of 70 imperial Austrian offspring; in Vienna.

Died. William James Arkell, 74, onetime owner of Judge and Leslie's Weekly, which he sold in 1905, founder of George Washington Coffee Co., turf man, brother of President Bartlett Arkell of Beech-Nut Packing Co.; in Los Angeles. Legend is that he once staked Leslie's Weekly against $150,000 on one of his horses, won his bet.

Died. Edson L. Pease, 74, vice president and director of the Royal Bank of Canada, onetime president of the Canadian Bankers Association; of apoplexy; in Nice, France.

Died. James Isaac Buchanan, 77, president of Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer Co. and River & R. R. Terminal Co., director of many a utility concern, onetime Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite, longtime member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, holder of other Masonic offices; from a fall on an icy pavement; in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Died. Joseph Jacques Cesaire (beloved "Papa") Joffre, 78, Marshal of France, "Victor of the Marne," at Paris; of arteritis (TIME, Jan. 5). At the supreme moment on the Marne, Sept. 6, 1914, he issued his immortal command:

"Soldiers!

"At this moment, when a battle is about to begin upon the result of which the salvation of our country depends, no one must look behind. All must unite to attack and repel the enemy. Any troops finding themselves unable to advance further must hold their ground at all costs and must fight until death. No retreat!"

Over Joffre's body last week four generals mounted guard, but his simple grave was dug in his own garden, by his gardner.

Died. Unalaska, 5, lead husky in one of the dog teams of the Byrd Antarctic expedition ; killed by a hit-&-run driver while being exercised during a tour with other Byrd exhibits; in Monroe, La.

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