Born. To Sidney Howard, playwright, and Mrs. Howard (Clare Eames, actress), a daughter, Clare Eames; in Manhattan.

Born. To Mr. and Mrs, Barklie McK. Henry (Barbara Whitney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), a daughter; in London.

Engaged. Ernest du Pont, Wilmington powder man, to Miss Anne Thompson, Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse, who attended him in a recent illness. Divorced two years ago, he has four children, the eldest 21.

Engaged. Miss Dorothy Gould, 21. daughter of Princess Vlora (onetime wife of Frank Jay Gould, rail-road man), to Baron Roland de Graffenweid, 25, of Switzerland. She has become a Roman Catholic, to be of the same religious faith as her husband.

Married. Miss Alexandra W. Stirling, sometime (1916, 1919, 1920) National Women's Golf Champion, to Dr. Wilbert G. Fraser of Canada; in Atlanta.

Married. Elliot Holt, 30, son of Publisher Henry Holt, to Miss Elizabeth B. Keene, 22, Greenwich Village Follies dancer; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Jim Thorpe, famed Sac and Fox Indian athlete, by Iva M. Thorpe, Cherokee; in Tulsa, Okla. She charged desertion.

Divorced. Alexander Kerensky, Premier of the Russian revolutionary Government of 1917, now editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper in Prague, by Mme. Kerensky; in Leningrad. She charged desertion.

Died. Judge Charles L. McKeehan, 49, of the U. S. District Court, onetime member of the law firm of Roberts, Montgomery & MeKeehan, of which Owen J. Roberts is the senior partner; in Philadelphia, of bronchitis, accompanied by a nervous breakdown.

Died. Warner M. Leeds, 57, tin-plate man, brother of the late William B. Leeds, "Tin-plate King"; in Manhattan, of tuberculosis of the lungs. The bulk of his estate, valued at several millions, will go to Joy Leeds, twelve-year-old adopted daughter. Two years ago, Mrs. Leeds died from a fall from the fifth-story window of their home.

Died. General Lord Henry S. Rawlinson, 61, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in India; in Delhi, of appendicitis. He was made a General in recognition of his services during the first Battle of the Somme, where he commanded the first British offensive. The French called him "Le General Bonne Humeur" because of his unfailing cheerfulness and optimism; his tactical genius was praised by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener.

Died. Mrs. Annie M. Battelle, 62, Republican National Committee woman from Ohio; in Washington, D. C., of a heart attack.

Died. T. F. Evers, 72, onetime baseman of the old Washington Club of the Union Association, uncle of Johnny Evers, onetime second baseman of the Chicago Cubs; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament.