Born. To Nilla Shiles Putnam, 30; and Air Forces Lieut. David Binney Putnam, 29, onetime boy explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, etc.), stepson of the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: their third child, first son, David Binney Jr.; in Fort Pierce, Fla. Weight: 6 Ib. 6 oz.

Engaged. Manuel Ignatius Prado, 22, Oxford-Harvard-educated Manhattan bank clerk, son of Peru's President Manuel Prado; and Natalie Kitchin, 20, San Francisco socialite; in San Francisco.

Died. Alex A. Aarons, 52, veteran musicomedy producer (with Vinton Freed-ley: Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Funny Face, Girl Crazy); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Hans Adolf von Moltke, 58, grandnephew of Wilhelm I's Chief of Staff, German Ambassador to Spain since Jan. 1; of undisclosed causes; in Madrid. He had recently undergone surgery for an ulcerated appendix. A Foreign Office veteran of pre-World War I vintage, he was Ambassador to Poland from 1931 until the German invasion in 1939.

Died. Frank Orren Lowden, 82, onetime Governor of Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination; failing that, he retired to work his Illinois farm on the Rock River, occasionally received political bigwigs who came to him for advice.

Died. Frank Clayton Ball, 85, fruit-jar tycoon; in Muncie, Ind.* When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane.

*Famed among sociologists as the original of "Middletown," scene of the Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd milestone study of a typical U.S. town.

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