Born. To John Jacob Astor III, 22, and the former Ellen Tuck French, 19: a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz.

Engaged. Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), 34, onetime orchestra leader, onetime husband of Lois ("Lipstick") Long; and Mary Livingston ("Timmie") Lansing, Manhattan socialite. The first Mrs. Arno characterized her marriage as "one long, glorious hoop-la."

Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Szechenyi (TIME, July 22).

Married. K. M. James ("Jimmy") Lin, 27, post-graduate student at Ohio State University, nephew and adopted son of China's President Lin Sen; and Viola Brown, 24, Columbus, Ohio 5-c--&-10-c--store clerk; in Ashland, Ky. Said Father Lin: "I disapprove."

Married. Aloah Dallas Elk, 26, blind musician, protegee of the Dallas (Tex.) Elks Club which adopted her as an orphan, had her legally named Dallas Elk; and William Parks, 30, blind Chicago organist; in Chicago.

Died. Mme Marthe Hanau, 49, French arch-swindler; of pneumonia following a suicide attempt (poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since the War.

Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England.

Died. Charles Bismark Ames, 64, board chairman since 1933 of Texas Co. and its affiliate, Texas Corp.; of a heart attack; in Meredith, N. H.

Died, George William Russell ("AE"), 68, Irish poet, painter, editor, agriculturist; of cancer; in Bournemouth, England.

Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison (5,380 ft.) at 81.

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