Born. To Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, 31, mate of Tarzan on the screen, wife of Lieut. Commander John Farrow of the Royal Canadian Navy off it: a son, 9 Ib. 8 oz.; in Hollywood.

Engaged. Actress Ruth Gordon, 46, just before the Washington opening of Tchekov's Three Sisters, in which she played the sister-in-law; and Private Garson Kanin, 30, ex-boy-wonder cinedirector; in Washington.

Married. Lieut, (j. g.) Anthony B. Akers, 28, one of the PT-boat expendables of the Bataan campaign; and Jane Pope, 24, daughter of the late Architect John Russell Pope; in Manhattan.

Reported Dead. Josephine Carson Baker Lion (professionally: Josephine Baker), 36, rich-brown torchsinger and scorchdancer, longtime toast of the Paris stage; of a lingering illness; in Casablanca. Her mother was a washwoman in St. Louis, her father a porter. At 18, already a veteran of colored revues, she took her elaborate curves and odd distinctions--uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice--from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergere, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend--a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when she married a wealthy young manufacturer and amateur flyer named Jean Lion--her second husband, first white one. After the master race moved into France she moved to Morocco, and was reported to have died broke.

Died. Peadar Kearney, 58, house painter, lyricist of The Soldier's Song, Eire's anthem; in Dublin. The tune was theme song of the 1916 rebellion (in which Kearney fought), was made the Free State anthem in 1932, when the Free State granted Peadar $2,400. Up to then the song had netted him less than $800 royalties. Theater orchestras played the anthem after every show till Kearney asked royalties for each performance; then other tunes were found.

Died. William Stamps Farish, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; of a heart attack; in Millbrook, N.Y. He was a big, tough but easy-talking Mississippian who had meant to be a lawyer but joined the great oil rush to Texas in 1901, worked as a roustabout, saved his pennies, started buying and selling leases in the oilfields, and ultimately wound up as the biggest power in Standard Oil.

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