Born. To the Crown Prince and Princess of Japan, a daughter (see JAPAN).

Born. To Arthur Smith and Mrs. Ann (Hess) Smith, a son. Arthur is the second son of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. It was alleged that Governor and Mrs. Smith had not known until last week of the elopement of this son, 18, and daughter-in-law, 19, a year ago. Al Smith Jr., the Governors eldest son, eloped on Oct. 15, 1924, aged 23.

Engaged. Miss Varina Margaret Webb, great-granddaughter of Jefferson Davis; to one Gerald Webb Bennett of Colorado Springs, Col.

Engaged. Miss Vera Hale, direct descendant of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, famed soldier; to George D. Pratt, President of the American Forestry Association and Treasurer of the Boy Scouts of America.

Died. Ladislaw Stanislaw Reymont, 57, famed Polish novelist (The Peasants), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924, at Warsaw.

Died. Heyward Hall McAllister, '65, last surviving son of famed Manhattan social arbiter, the late Ward McAllister, who coined the phrase "the 400," by remarking to a reporter, "After all, there are only about 400 persons in Society"; at Mentone, French Riviera. The New York Herald-Tribune concluded his obituary notice with the words: "The name of Heyward Hall McAllister is not in the 'Social Register.'"

Died. Thomas Burke, 77, eminent Seattle lawyer, onetime Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory (later the state of Washington); at Manhattan, in the arms of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. He had been stricken with apoplexy while pleading for justice for Japan before his fellow-trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Died. Carroll Smalley Page, 82, at Hyde Park, Vt., of a stroke of paralysis. He was from 1917 to 1923 the "oldest member of the U. S. Senate"; famed "Stormy Petrel of Vermont Politics" and one-time Governor of Vermont (1890-1892); noted senatorial champion of "a big navy."