Birthday. General John Joseph Pershing, 81; in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington.

Engaged. Laura Marquand Hale, granddaughter of the late Edward Everett Hale; and H. Patterson Hale; in Newburyport,

Mass.

Engaged. John Hay, grandson of the late Secretary of State John Hay; and Kristi Aresvik Putnam; in Washington.

Sued for Divorce. Harry Bouton ("Blackstone the Magician"), 56; by Mildred Rose Phinney Bouton, 34, assistant whom he had often sawed in halves; in Centerville, Mich.

Divorced. Senator W. Warren Barbour of New Jersey; by Elysabeth Carrere Barbour; after 20 years; in Laramie, Wyo.

Divorced. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Hall Braman, cousin of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt; from Chester A. Braman; in Reno.

Died. Harry Grindell-Matthews, 61, inventor of a highly publicized "death ray," fifth husband of Singer Ganna Walska; in his lonely, electrically guarded bungalow laboratory near Swansea, Wales. An electrical researcher, he developed submarine detectors, "aerial mines," remote-control devices, sound-film synchronization, in 1911 established wireless communication with a plane in flight.

Died. James Parrish Lee, 71, named halfback on Walter Camp's first All-America team; of a heart attack while playing tennis; at Southampton, L.I. He made an 85-yard run in 1890 to score a touchdown that gave Harvard its first football victory over Yale in nine years.

Died. Professor Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, 73, of Stanford, one of the few college professors who ever accumulated a fortune; in San Francisco. Emeritus dean of the School of Education, he invested royalties from his numerous textbooks in the stockmarket, grew affluent enough by 1937 to give Stanford a new $575,000 building.

Died. Jonkheer Hugo Loudon, 81, board chairman of the great Royal Dutch Oil Co.; in Wassenaar, German-occupied Netherlands. He remained in The Netherlands when the Germans invaded Holland, though the seat of his company was transferred to Curagao.

Died. Jim Carney, 83; in London. In 1887 he fought Jack McAuliffe, Irish world champion, 74 bare-knuckle rounds in Revere, Mass. The fight was a draw.

Died. Elias Disney, 83, father of Walt Disney; in Hollywood.

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