Engaged. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenee du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House.

Engaged. Cinemactress Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart"), 43, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Charles ("Buddy") Rogers ("America's Boy Friend"), 32, curly-haired cinemactor; in Hollywood.

Married. Actress Margaret Garland Sullavan, 25, onetime wife of Actor Henry Fonda; and Leland Hayward, Manhattan theatre & cinema agent (chief client: Katharine Hepburn) ; in Newport, R. I.

Married. Rita Mitchell, 22, daughter of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles Edwin Mitchell (Blyth & Co. Inc.), onetime (1929-33) board chairman of National City Bank; and President George Adam Rentschler Jr., 44, of General Machinery Corp. (Hamilton, Ohio), brother of National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler and of Board Chairman Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; in Manhattan.

Awarded. To Actress Ina Claire, 44; by Yale Professor William Lyon Phelps: the American Academy of Arts & Letters annual gold medal for diction, "for her charm, elegance and naturalness in speech"; in Manhattan, by radio to Chicago where she was performing.

Awarded. To Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard College; the American Woman's Association's 1936 Award for Eminent Achievement; in Manhattan.

Died. Priscilla Murphy, 16, Brookline (Mass.) high-school student and aviatrix, daughter of Dr. William Parry Murphy, co-winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; of injuries received in an airplane crash; in Navarino, N. Y.

Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same way.

Died. John L. Baker, 64, who 47 years ago saw the South Fork Dam crumble, galloped a mile down the valley to warn inhabitants of the approaching Johnstown Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep. 68).

Died, Clark Howell, 73, editor & publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, long-time (1892-1924, 1936) Democratic National Committeeman from Georgia; of an intestinal ailment; in Atlanta. He scooped the country in 1884 when he secured for the Philadelphia Press Samuel J. Tilden's first statement that he would not run again for President. Joining his father's Constitution, Howell was nominated to the Georgia Legislature when he was 23. He inherited the family paper in 1897, fought the Ku Klux Klan, exposed Atlanta's municipal graft, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. One of the earliest editorial backers of Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency, he turned against Governor Eugene ("Our Gene") Talmadge last summer, successfully championed Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. for reelection, rewon his National Committee membership.

Died. Peter Doelger, 75, famed oldtime Manhattan brewer, son & namesake of Peter Doelger Brewing Co.'s Bavarian-born founder; after two years' illness; in Hartsdale, N. Y. With brothers Charles P. & Frank he ran the family brewery until Prohibition, selling out his interest to another branch of the family which continued the brand name after Repeal.

Died. Right Rev. Monsignor Arthur Stapylton Barnes, 75, onetime Catholic Chaplain at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Private Chamberlain to Popes Pius X & Benedict XV; in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England.

Died, John F. Whelan, 75, onetime vice president and one of the founders of United Cigar Stores Co., brother of United Cigar's onetime Presidents George J. and Charles A. Whelan; after two years' illness in Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Died. Henry Clay Hall, 76, Colorado lawyer, member (1914-28) and twice chairman (1917-18, 1924) of the Interstate Commerce Commission; in Ashfield, Mass. To his enterprise was credited the Government's victory in the Shreveport case (1914), in which the Supreme Court first granted the I. C. C. power to set intrastate rail rates.

Died, Alexander De Soto, 96, when he fell into Manhattan's East River while boarding the yacht Centaur, owned by a syndicate of New York and Chicago tycoons, on which he was dietitian. He claimed to have been physician to the King of Norway, to have sunk the first mine shaft in the Klondike, to be directly descended from Explorer Hernando De Soto.

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