Engagement Denied. Bernard M. Baruch, Jr., 23, to Lois Wilson, famed cinema actress. Said he: "The report is utterly unfounded. Miss Wilson is a friend of long standing. There is no question of marriage."

Married. Miss Eleanor Henderson, daughter of Arthur Henderson, Home Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, to Mr. R. H. Gledhill; in London.

Sued for Separation. Gosta Morner, 26, Swedish Count, President of a toothpaste plant in Chicago, by Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 30, on grounds of nonsupport. Morner denied the charge, asserted that she married him for his title. Said she: "I didn't give a damn for his title. If I wanted one, I could have been a princess or something."

Divorced. Julius Fleischmann, (yeast), 48, onetime Mayor of Cincinnati, by Laura G. Hyland Heminway Fleischmann; in Paris. She charged abondonment.

Died. John Quinn, 54, famed Art collector; in Manhattan. He once conducted a campaign which resulted in the removal of all duties on modern works of Art brought into the U. S.

Died. Joseph Conrad, 66, famed chronicler of the romance of the sea; in Kent, England; of heart disease. (See Page 17.)

Died. Charles E. Townsend, 67, onetime U. S. Senator from Michigan; in Jackson, of heart failure. Mr. Townsend was elected to the Senate in 1910 and again in 1916. In the battle to oust Senator Newberry, he delivered an impassioned defense of his colleague, to which "Newberryism" was attributed his own defeat in 1922.

Died. Charles Addison Ferry, 73, designer and builder of the famed Yale Bowl; of heart disease; at New Haven.

Died. George Shiras, 92, ex-Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, in Pittsburgh of pneumonia. He graduated from Yale in '53--three years earlier than Chauncey M. Depew. Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison, he served from 1892 to 1903.