Born, To Richard Theodore Ely, 78, famed economist, and Mrs. Margaret Hahn Ely, 33; a son; in Paterson, N. J. Weight 8 Ib. Name: William Brewster.

Born. To Prince & Princess Erik of Denmark, a son; in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Princess was Lois Frances Booth of Arcadia, Calif. Upon his marriage the Prince renounced all titles, all rights to the Danish throne. After the marriage the titles were restored.

Engaged. Isaac Swope, son of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.; and a Mrs. Elizabeth Burr, Boston divorcee.

Married, Adolph B. Spreckels, 21, sugar scion; and Mrs. Lois Quantrain Clarke de Ruyter, 21, daughter of Manhattan Banker Lewis Latham Clarke, divorced wife of John Louis de Ruyter, Manhattan socialite; in San Francisco.

Married. Beatrice Vare, 29, daughter of William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Republican U. S. Senator-reject from Pennsylvania; and Dr. John J. Shaw. 44. Mr. Vare's physician; in Atlantic City, N. J.

Married. Maurice Sachs, grandson of Georges Bizet (composer of Carmen); and Gladys Matthews, daughter of Dr. Mark Allison Matthews of the First Presbyterian Church in Seattle (world's largest); in Seattle.

Married. James Nugent Crofton, millionaire sportsman, president of Agua Caliente Amusement Co.; and Mona Rica, film actress; in Mexico. Their marriage was revealed after an airplane crash in Mexico in which both were badly injured, Pilot Carl Gilpin killed.

Married. Jack Kearns, 45, fight manager (Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker); and one Lillian Kansler, 23, of Louisville, Ky.; in Red Bank, N. J.

Married. Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau, 48, British novelist and essayist; and one Susan Harris; in London. In 1925 he complained: "Women are the supreme complication. . . . My present marriage [is] my second and last."

Seeking Divorce. Natalie Talmadge Keaton; from Buster Keaton, film comedian ; in Los Angeles.

Sued for Divorce. Sabin W. Carr. one-time world's champion pole vaulter and captain of the Yale track team; by Virginia K. Carr; in Oakland, Calif. Grounds: cruelty, drunkenness.

Died. Juan O'Donnell Vargas, Duke of Tetuan, 33, son of the War Minister in the late General Primo de Rivera's Cabinet; of appendicitis; in Madrid. In Manhattan several years ago he worked as a bellhop ("John O'Donnell") in the old Waldorf-Astoria, independent of an allowance at home.

Died. Katharine Pope Bulkley, 45, wife of Ohio's Senator Robert Johns Bulkley; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.

Died, Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, 59, wife of Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, Earl Beatty, only daughter of the late Marshall Field, Chicago merchant; in London.

Died. James Strange Alexander, 67, onetime (1911-23) president of National Bank of Commerce, onetime (1929) chairman of Guaranty Trust Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Vannoy Hartrog Manning, 70, consulting engineer; in Queens, L. I. One-time (1915-20) Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, he was active in the formation of the Chemical Warfare Service and the U. S. development of explosives. He was partly responsible for experiments that reduced the price of helium.*

Died. Daisy Allen Story, 72, onetime (1913-17) president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution; of heart disease; in New Rochelle, N. Y.

Died. Fergus Hume, 73, detective story writer; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime barrister, he wrote 130 novels, among them Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1887), a bestseller from which he, then unknown, received but $250.

Died. Field Marshal Lord Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 75, commander of the 2nd Army, B. E. F., onetime Governor of Malta and High Commissioner for Palestine; of lingering illness; in London.

Died. Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, 77, longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to Washington; of uremia; in Paris. He was a member of Theodore Roosevelt's famed "Tennis Cabinet," a prolific author. One of his books, With Americans of Past arid Present Days, won the Pulitzer Prize (1917). To the Press, when he sailed from the U. S. after his retirement, he described his success as "an upright and sincere man, a diplomat and a thinker," then pausing, smiled: "And so am I."

Died. George Fred Williams. 80, one-time U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro; of old age; in Brookline, Mass. In 1914 he exposed a plot against Albanian leaders, was offered the throne of Albania, refused it.

Died. Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Rockefeller, 84, sister-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller, widow of his brother Frank; of a lingering illness; in Cleveland.

*But for the efforts of Engineer Manning & associates, the cost of helium for the U. S. S. Akron would be 16 billion dollars instead of $74,550.

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