Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., eldest son and daughter-in-law of Col. B. B. McAlpin (hotels, law) of Manhattan; a son (first grandson), 7 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: B. B. McAlpin III.

Engaged. James Cash Penney Jr. of White Plains, air amateur, son of the chain store tycoon, Prohibition patron and Hoover intimate (TIME, Jan. 28); to a Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan.

Engaged. Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings), 34, of Manhattan, mannered novelist (The Enormous Room), playwright (Him), poet (and, is 5) who likes to ignore capital letters, Wartime ambulance driver, son of a Unitarian minister of Cambridge, Mass.; to Anne Minnerly Barton, 31, of Manhattan, onetime wife of Caricaturist Ralph Barton.

Engaged. Arthur Schulte of San Francisco, son of Tobacco Store Tycoon David A. Schulte of Manhattan; to one Luise Meyer of San Francisco.

Engaged. Margaret Hitchcock Sims of Boston, daughter of Rear-Admiral William Sowden Sims, U. S. N., retired; to Robert Holbrook Hopkins, Boston lawyer.

Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized.

Married. Marian Dawes of Chicago, daughter of Banker William Ruggles Dawes, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; to Donald Seymour Walker of Manhattan, Annapolis graduate; in Chicago.

Married. Suzette de Marigny Dewey of Warsaw, Poland, daughter of Charles Schuveldt Dewey, financial adviser to the Republic of Poland, onetime (1924-27) U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Frederick Moulton Alger Jr. of Detroit, member of Adviser Dewey's staff, grandson of the late Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War under President McKinley; in Warsaw.

Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work.

Married. Siegfried Roebling, 38, of Bernardsville, N. J., descendant of the engineers Roebling who built Brooklyn Bridge; and one Mildred K. Kunath, 23, of Matawan, N. J.; in Manhattan.

Elected. David A. Crawford of Chicago, executive vice president of Pullman Co.; to be president, succeeding the late Edward Francis Carry of Chicago.

Resigned. Junius Parker of Rye, N. Y.; from the board chairmanship of American Tobacco Co. and the presidency of American Cigar Co. In the latter office he is succeeded by President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco.

Died. Mrs. Fannie Dixwell Holmes of Washington, wife of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court; in Washington. The Holmeses were married in 1872.

Died. Mrs. Ella H. Pancoast Widener, of Elkins Park, Pa., wife of Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia financier, horse fancier, art collector; of heart disease; in Elkins Park.

Died. Joseph S. Otis of New Orleans, President of J. S. Otis Mahogany Co., Inc.; by suicide (poison, shooting); in New Orleans.

Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner.

Died. William George Sickel, 61, of Baltimore, onetime president of United American Lines; on board the S. S. Albert Ballin en route from Hamburg to Manhattan.

Died. Alastair Ian Valentine, 73, of Chicago, onetime manager and financial director of Armour & Co., onetime President of the Armour Grain Co. and the Armour Elevator Co.; in Chicago.

Died. Henry Roberts, 76, Hartford, Conn., financier (banks, public utilities), onetime (1905-07) governor of Connecticut; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford.

Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance."

Died. George Augustus Peabody, 97, of Danvers, Mass., oldest living graduate of Harvard College (1852), gentleman farmer, big game hunter, world traveler; in Danvers. Among his classmates was the late Joseph Hodges Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1899-1905).