Born. To Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. and Mrs. Margaret Watson Hoover; their third child, a daughter; at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif. Weight: 6 lb..

Born. To John & Mrs. Dolores Costello Barrymore (Blyth), cinemactors; in Hollywood; a daughter. Name: Dolores Ethel. Said Mr. Barrymore: "Of course, I am disappointed. We had hoped it would be a boy."

Reported Engaged. H. R. H. the Infanta Beatrice, elder daughter of H. M. King Alfonso of Spain; to Aimone of Savoy and Aosta, Duke of Spoleto, second cousin to the King of Italy, Italian Navy captain. Important to Spanish royalists is the addition of sturdy princes, all of King Alfonso's sons being weakly (TIME, Dec. 2).

Engaged. Rodman Wanamaker II, grandson of the late great John Wanamaker, aviation aid to Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York; to Miss Alexandria Van Rensselaer Devereux, Philadelphia socialite.

Engaged. Florence Davenport Rice, daughter of famed Sportswriter Grantland Rice; to Sydney A. Smith, Manhattan socialite.

Engaged. Helen Meany, Olympic swimmer & diver; to one Harry R. Balfe, of New York and Clovis, Calif.

Eloped. Preston Sturges, Manhattan playwright (Strictly Dishonorable); with Eleanor Post Hutton, Manhattan socialite, step-daughter of financier Edward F. Hutton.

Sued for Divorce. Stanley Marshall Rinehart Jr., son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart; by Mrs. Mary Doran Rinehart, daughter of Publisher George H. Doran; at Reno. Charge: mental cruelty.

Nominated. Richard Whitney, 52, broker; to be president of the New York Stock Exchange, succeeding Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, retiring.

Elected. Sir Percy Elly Bates, G.B.E., 50; to be Cunard Steamship Co.'s board chairman, succeeding Sir Thomas Royden, retired.

Reelected. Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, to be Governor of the Bank of England for the eleventh consecutive year.

Birthday. H. M. Albert King of the Belgians. Age: 55. Date: April 8. Celebration: reviewing troops of the Brussels garrison.

Birthday. Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. Age: 68 Date: April 11. Celebration: none.

Died. Chauncey Tasinagi Kills-in-the-Bush Yellow Robe, 63, Sioux chief; in Rockefeller Institute Hospital, Manhat tan; of pneumonia. In 1927 he presided over the Sioux tribal initiation of Chief White Eagle Calvin Coolidge.

Died. Sir Thomas Robert Dewar, 66, Baron of Homestall, Lieutenant of the City of London, sportsman, famed dinner-wit, tycoon son of Whiskey Tycoon John Dewar; after a three-week illness; at Homestall, East Grinstead, Sussex.

Born in Perth, Scotland, he went to London 45 years ago, entered politics, graduated from the House of Commons to the House of Lords in 1919. Rich, he bred winning racehorses, dogs, poultry; brilliant, he was sought by socialites, banqueteers. Dewarisms: "The most recent method of testing whiskey in America is to drop a sledgehammer into it. If it sinks, it is poor. If it floats, it is good. If it dissolves, it is perfect."

"Statesmen are simply dead politicians.''

"Poets are born--not paid."

"Love is an ocean of emotion entirely surrounded by expenses."

His horses Challenger, Golden Dawn, Recorder, Lovat Scout, entered in the 1930 Derby, will not be run.

Died. Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, 70, onetime Governor of New Mexico, onetime U. S. Senator; after long illness; at Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Died. Sigurd Ibsen, 71, onetime (1903-05) Premier of Norway, son of the late great Playwright Henrik Ibsen; after an operation; in Freiburg, Germany. At his bedside was his wife, daughter of the late great Novelist-Poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson.

Died. Dr. Howard Edwards, 75, president of Rhode Island State College; after a month's illness; at Kingston, R. I. He insisted on dying within sight of the institution he had built up since 1906, when it had 49 students, 21 teachers.

Died. Paul Dana, 77, onetime editor-in-chief of the New York Sun, son of the Sun's famed owner-editor, Charles Anderson Dana (1819-97); in Manhattan; of pulmonary embolism following one day of pneumonia.

Died. Theodore Whitefield Hunt, 86, Professor Emeritus of English, oldest Princeton faculty member, second oldest living graduate (class of 1865); after a short illness; at Princeton, N. J.

Died. Sarah Ellen Ross, 92, niece of famed Flagmaker Betsy Ross; of a heart attack; at Catawissa, Pa.

Died. My Play, II, bay racehorse, full brother of famed racehorse Man o' War; suddenly, of unexplained causes; at a breeding farm in Lexington, Ky.

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