Born. To Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 75, son of the tenth President of the U.S., and Mrs. Sue Ruffin Tyler, a nine-pound son; in Richmond, Va.

Born. To Frank G. Allen, Governor-elect of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Allen, a nine-pound son; in Boston.

Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kelch of Luverne, Iowa, a nine-pound son. Alfred E. Smith Kelch. Alfred is the twentieth child. All have been born since 1903; 17 are living.

Born. To the Rev. Dr. Robert Forman Horton, 73, famed English Congregationalist, president of the National Free Church Council; and Mrs. Violet Basden Horton, 36, a nine-pound daughter; in London. Mrs. Horton, when a baby, was baptized by Dr. Horton.

Engaged. Henry H. Ogden, Los Angeles aviation instructor, U. S. Army round-the-world flyer (1924); to Ulela Snook of Hollywood.

Engaged. Margaret Hoffman Gallatin, great-great-granddaughter of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury (1801-14); to Dr. Clement Biddle Penrose Cobb, Manhattan interne.

Engaged. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; to the Honorable Michael Simon Scott of London, brother and heir presumptive to John Scott, fourth Earl of Eldon.

Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington, D. C.

Engagement Denied. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Louisville, Ky., vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo, Col., chairman of the Republican National Committee; by Mrs. Hert.

Married. Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot. famed society actress (The Miracle); and Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin. French engineer and automobile manufacturer; in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France.

Married. Ruth Emery Ledyard, granddaughter of Lewis Gass Ledyard, Manhattan lawyer and bank director; and William de Rham, Manhattan scion; in Manhattan.

Married. Duke Nicholas of Leuchtenberg, 32, descendant of famed families of Beauharnais (France), Romanowsky (Russia); to Ella Miller, hairdresser's maid of Munich; in Munich.

Married. Sally McAdoo, daughter of onetime Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo of Washington and Los Angeles; and Brice Clagget Jr., law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo, in Manhattan.

Elected. Ralph H. Stever, comptroller of the Seaman's Bank for Savings of New York City; to be president thereof, succeeding the late Herbert Kenaston Twitchell.

Elected. Everett Titsworth Tomlinson Jr., vice president of Doremus & Co., international financial advertising agency; to be president. He succeeds the late Founder-President, Clarence Walker Barron.

Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention.

Died. Edward C. Cornish, 57, banking tycoon of West Palm Beach, Fla.; by suicide; in New Orleans. Wrote Banker Cornish, "A few years added or subtracted from eternity make no difference."

Died. Mrs. Alpha May Eldredge Smoot, 65, wife of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; after two years' illness; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Dr. Frank Crane, 67, famed U. S. religious journalist, onetime Methodist minister; of diabetes; in Nice, France. For almost 20 years Dr. Crane's daily, syndicated 600-word sermons reached 20,000,000 readers. They have been collected in 45 volumes. Dr. Crane's estimated annual income was $150,000. "If you should ask me," he wrote, "whether I am a Trinitarian or a Unitarian, a Catholic or a Protestant, Fundamentalist or Modernist, Methodist or Baptist, you might as well ask if I am a Guelph or a Ghibelline."

Died. Charles H. Paper, 69, onetime salesman; of hemorrhage; in the arms of famed Homerunners "Babe" Ruth and "Lou" Gehrig; on a train near Sloan, Iowa.

Died. Calvin Cobb, 75, famed Idaho journalist, for 39 years editor and publisher of the Idaho Statesman of Boise, Idaho; in Boise.

Died. Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, 79, British diplomat, onetime Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1910-16); of heart disease; in London.

Died. Mrs. Julia Cody Goodman, 86, sister of the late famed Col. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody; in Honolulu, Hawaii.