Born. To Francis Xavier Shields, 30, onetime No. 1 U.S. tennist, and Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 24, daughter of Princess Torlonia and the late Prince Torlonia of Italy: a son, Francis Alexander (7 3/4 lb.); in Manhattan.

Born. To Harold L. I ekes. 67, Secretary of the Interior, and Jane Dahlman Ickes, 28: their second child, first daughter (8 1/4 lb.); in Baltimore.

Married. Christine Cromwell, 18, daughter of ex-Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell; and Frederick Putnam White, 21, Brown University freshman; at Elkton, Md.

Died. Charles Henry George Howard, 35, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; bombed while on active war service in England. He succeeded to his title at the age of 11 when his father was killed in World War I; his son, 6, succeeds him.

Died. Short, merry, bespectacled Robert Emmons Rogers, 53, professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who from 1913 to his illness a few weeks ago waged a winning battle against pedagogic dullness in the education of young engineers and scientists; in Cambridge, Mass. For one short week in 1929, "Tubby" became, in his own words, "the most notorious man in America" for advising a graduating class to "be a snob and marry the boss's daughter"; ten years later he reversed himself: "The young man should have married the stenographer. She has a job and the boss's daughter is broke."

Died. Joseph Warren Teets Mason, 62, United Press war analyst; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Veteran foreign correspondent, during World War I he wrote a U.P. war column, ten years ago went to the Orient to study Shinto, came home last year to write another U.P. war column.

Died. Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr., 72, onetime (1930-33) U.S. Ambassador to Germany; of heart disease; in Baltimore Md.

Died. Annie Jessup Woodin, 75, widow of onetime (1933-34) Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin; in Atherton, Calif.

Died. Catherine Rzewuska Kolb-Danvin, 83, onetime Princess Radziwill; in Manhattan. Daughter of a Tsarist Army officer, she married Prince Adam Charles Radziwill, before his death was secretary to the German Empress Frederick. In the U.S. she became a prolific and much-disputed writer, drew the wrath and denials of the Soviet Embassy in 1938 when she wrote in Liberty an "interview" with Joseph Stalin hinting at a Russian-German alliance.

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