Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell (Miss Mary Catherine Hughes) a son, on the sixty-sixth birthday of his grandfather, Charles Evans Hughes; at Manhattan.

Engaged. Herman A. MacDonald, secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, onetime mayor of Beverly, Mass.; to Miss Marion Sarah Young, of Brookline, Mass. Said Governor Fuller last fortnight, "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters" (TIME, April 16).

Reported Engaged. Prime Minister Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, 58, Grandee of Spain and Dictator since 1923, to Senorita Nina Castillano, 47, daughter of the Countess de San Felice of San Sebastien. The prospective bride enjoys an annual income of 500,000 pesetas ($84,000).

Married. Miss Louise Abigail Mayo, daughter of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn.; and George Treat Trenholm, of St. Paul, Minn.

Married. Prince Charles Philippe, Due de Nemours, 23, only son of the Due and Duchesse de Vendome et d'Alenc,on, nephew of King Albert of Belgium and cousin of Edward, Prince of Wales; to Miss Marguerite ("Peggy") Watson of Washington, D. C., sometime fiancee of Angier B. Duke and the late Reginald Vanderbilt; in London.

Married. Colonel George T. Langhorne, U. S. A., veteran of the Spanish War and onetime assistant to the late Major General Leonard Wood; to Miss Mary K. Waller, of Chicago; at Cliveden, England, the home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, cousin of Colonel Langhorne.

Married. John Lowrie Patten, 32, only son of Capitalist James A. Patten of Chicago; to Mrs. Renee Michael Hutchins of Chicago.

Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protege. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett.

Elected. Thomas William Lament, 57, member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan; a director of the U. S. Steel Corp. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Elbert Henry Gary.

Elected. Albert Hall Harris, director of fourscore companies, to be chairman of the executive committee of the New York Central R. R. Co.; to succeed, in duties but not in title, the late chairman of the board of directors, Chauncey Mitchell Depew.

Died. Rupert Alexander George Augustus Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Wuerttemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge.

Died. Lorna Valentine Bowen, 28, wife of Eugene Ambrose Bowen, Manhattan stock broker, and daughter of Hiram Royal Mallinson, silk manufacturer; by a fall from a 12th story pantry window; in Manhattan.

Died. Edward Raymond Thompson ("E. T. Raymond"), 56, editor of the London Evening Standard, author (Uncensored Celebrities and biographies of Balfour, Lloyd George, and Lord Rosebery); suddenly, of heart disease; in London.

Died. Ellsworth Milton Statler, 64, millionaire proprietor of a nationwide chain of hotels (Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Manhattan), suddenly, of pneumonia; in his Hotel Pennsylvania, New York.

Died. Isaac Newton Seligman, 73, famed international financier; in London The Seligmans, eight brothers who founded the New York banking firm of J. & W. Seligman. later opened branches in London, Paris, Frankfort.

Died. William A. ("Trust-buster") Day, 77, chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Assistant Attorney General in 1903, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt to prosecute illegal trusts; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Augustine, Fla.