Born. To Diana Churchill Sandys, 33, oldest of Winston Churchill's three daughters; and Lieut. Colonel Duncan Sandys, 35, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Supply: a daughter, their third child, the Prime Minister's fourth grandchild.

Married. Harriette Lake Pryor (cine-moniker: "Ann Sothern"), 32; and U.S. Army Air Forces Cadet William J. Hart, 26, her one-time leading man (in Ringside Maisie); she for the second time; in Ventura, Calif.

Divorced. Cinemactor Mickey Rooney, 22; by Ava Gardner Rooney, 20; after 16 months of marriage, two reconciliations; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 31; by Ellen Tuck French Astor, 26; after eight years; in Reno. She got a million-dollar settlement, joint custody of their son William, 7.

Died. William C. Aberhart, 64, Alberta's Social Credit Premier; of a liver ailment; in Vancouver, B.C. Ex-schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts `a la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told by the voters to pitch in, he did not look like a demagogue to small Canadian investors who knew his administration's clean, high-ranking record in developing natural resources.

Died. Joe Clifton Trees, 73, millionaire oil wildcatter; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh. Drill-driving Joe Trees and his lifelong partner, Michael Late Benedum, were probably the widest-ranging, wildest wildcatters in U.S. history: they opened scores of fields from Pennsylvania to California, Oklahoma to British Columbia, made, lost, remade numerous fortunes together.

Died. Mrs. William Howard Taft, 82, widow of the late President and Chief Justice; in Washington. As a young girl guest at the White House, Helen ("fascinating Nellie") Herron set her mind on a husband of Presidential size. She married good-natured, well-proportioned "Will" Taft when she was 25, carefully shepherded him past all the side trails (including a pre-Presidential Supreme Court offer). She was an imperious, efficient reorganizer of White Housekeeping.

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