Birthday. The Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact, which 15 leading nations (including Italy, Germany, Japan) signed in Paris, thereby forever condemning and renouncing war as an instrument of national policy; its tenth.

Married. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick; and Nancy Holbrook, 17, his neighbor; in Dundee, Ill.

Divorced. Amy Johnson Mollison, 32, transatlantic flier, onetime London stenographer; from James Allan Mollison, playboyish British airman; in London.

Divorced. Rexford Guy Tugwell, original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry her.

Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass.

Died. Gustav A. Weidhaas, 62, Broadway's No. 1 creator of stage "props" and trick effects; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Sometime master handyman for Belasco, Ziegfeld, Joe Cook and Billy Rose, Weidhaas manufactured such varied marvels as the dragon for the Metropolitan Opera's Siegfried, jellied lobster (which would bounce) for Dinner at Eight, pet snakes for You Can't Take It With You.

Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted shortly afterward. In 1914 she married Captain Jan Smuts, cousin of South Africa's great general, settled down to obscurity minus the unlucky diamond. Last May she was discovered working as a $16.50-per-week WPA clerk.

Died. Aylmer Maude, 80, friend, biographer and translator of the works of Russia's late great Writer Leo Tolstoy; after a heart attack; at Great Baddow, Essex, England.

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