Born. To James Blake Rogers, 23, and Marguerite Astrea Kemmler Rogers, 20: an 8-lb. son, first grandchild of the late Will Rogers; in Los Angeles. Name: James Kemmler Rogers.

Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London.

Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco.

Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany.

Marriage disclosed. Henry M. Blackmer, onetime Midwest Refining Co. head, fugitive from the U. S. since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired in 1928.

Divorced. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, teary, leery cinema plug-ugly; by his second wife, Mary Arieta Gilman Beery (his first: Gloria Swanson); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty.

Died. Arthur J. Smith, 41, frustrated Fuehrer of the fascistic "Khaki Shirts of America, Inc.", of heart disease; in Shamokin, Pa. In 1933 "Commander-in-Chief" Smith claimed 6,000,000 recruits, established headquarters in Philadelphia, announced plans to march on Washington. When his plans fizzled, Smith got a WPA job.

Died. General Wilhelm Groener, 71, last Quartermaster General of the Imperial German Army, Defense Minister under the post-War republic; in Potsdam. Because, in November 1918, he bluntly told the Kaiser that the Army was no longer with him, monarchists nicknamed Groener the "Red General."

Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis.

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