Birthday. Owen Josephus Roberts, youngest Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court: 62; in Washington.

Birthday. U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, 67; in Washington. Said he: "Time pays no attention when I say 'Whoa!'':

Birthday. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and qf Strathearn, Earl of Sussex, only surviving son of Queen Victoria of England; great uncle of King George VI: 87; at Bournemouth, England.

Engagement Broken. Between Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 34, famed onetime G-Man who now practices law in San Francisco; and beauteous Janice ("Toots") Jarratt, cinemactress, onetime Lucky Strike model, "Sweetheart of the Texas Centennial"; in San Antonio, Tex., three days before the wedding date. For weeks San Antonio had been titillated by Janice Jarratt's talk of the 3,000 invitations she had broadcast over the country, of the cinema celebrities who might attend, of her plans to have the wedding photographed for the newsreels. After a gay round of pre-nuptial parties at which ex-G-Man Purvis was especially polite to other San Antonio belles, the couple met one afternoon in the St. Anthony Hotel lobby, tiffed about her lateness for the appointment, parted. Said she: "I'll see you later."

Married. Amalie Baruch, 28, niece of Bernard Mannes Baruch; and Polan Banks, 32, Manhattan writer; in Havana's National Hotel. Best man was Cuba's swart little Boss, Colonel Fulgencio Batista.

Married. Gladys Cooper, 45, British actress; and Actor Philip Merivale, 50, with whom she is playing in Close Quarters; in Chicago, four days after a final divorce was granted in London to her second husband, Publisher Sir Neville Pearson (Country Life), who named Merivale as corespondent.

Married. Pauline van der Voort Dresser Rogers, 47, relict of Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Walter Hoving, 41, her fourth husband, president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store; in Manhattan.

Married. General Douglas MacArthur, 57, onetime (1930-35) U. S. Chief of Staff, now Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth: and Jean Marie Faircloth, 38, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., daughter of a Nashville flour miller, whom he met in Manila in 1935; in Manhattan's City Hall. His first wife, who divorced him in 1929, was Louise Cromwell Brooks, stepdaughter of Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, now wed to Actor Lionel Atwill.

Awarded. To Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 40; a decree absolute of divorce from her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson; in London. In Salzburg, Austria the Duke of Windsor hustled aboard a train to join her at Monts, France.

Elected. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 33, president of Rockfofd (Ill.) College; to the presidency of Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), succeeding Rev. Dr. William Foster Peirce; in Cleveland.

Resigned. Lee Wilder Maxwell, 55; from the board chairmanship of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home) which he had held since 1934; in Manhattan.

Died. Frederick G. ("Teddy") Oke, 51, Toronto stockbroker; after a month's illness; in Toronto. A onetime hockey professional, he made a market killing in mining stocks, promoted many a women's sports team, sank millions in the International Hockey League. Ruined by the 1929 crash, he ordered his women's softball team disbanded last autumn when he discovered that the girls were smoking.

Died. John Garland Pollard, 65, Virginia's benign onetime (1930-34) Governor, onetime (1920-21) Federal Trade Commissioner, chairman since 1934 of the Board of Veterans' Appeals; of bronchopneumonia; in Washington.

Died. Captain the Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, 61, polo-playing onetime (1921-22) British Secretary of State for Air, cousin of British Tory Winston Churchill, father of famed U. S. Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; of pleurisy; at Sunbury-on-Thames, England. His wife, steel heiress Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, backed Amelia Earhart Putnam's first transatlantic flight in 1928 when Captain Guest dissuaded her from attempting the adventure herself.

Died. Norman Hapgood, 69, oldtime liberal journalist, onetime (1919) Minister to Denmark; after an operation; in Manhattan. He edited Collier's (1903-12), Harper's Weekly (1913-16), Hearst's International Magazine (1923--25), was currently editor of the Unitarian Christian Register.

Died. Edward Milligan, 74. president of Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. since 1913; in Philadelphia.

Died. William Gillette, Sr. oldtime actor-playwright (Sherlock Holmes); of pulmonary hemorrhage; in Hartford, Conn.

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