Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles.

Engaged. Lieut. Rudy Vallee, 42, Coast Guard bandmaster; and Bettejane Greer, 18, model, his film-singer protegee; in Hollywood. Cinemactress Fay Webb, the crooner's second wife, divorced him in 1936, died the same year.

Married. Maria Sieber, 18, daughter of Marlene Dietrich and Rudolf Sieber, onetime Berlin movie director; and Dean Goodman, 23, drama student, department-store employe; in Los Angeles.

Married. Ensign Evan Welling Thomas II, 23, son of Socialist Norman Thomas; and Anna Davis Robins, 18, daughter of Hewitt Rubber Co. President Thomas Robins Jr.; in Buffalo.

Married. Alice Barr Dollar, 52, granddaughter of "Captain" Robert Dollar, San Francisco's rags-to-riches shipowner; and Curtiss Hayden, 25, salesman; in Manhattan.

Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20-c- bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy.

Died. Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, 44, since 1939 chief of staff of the German air forces; "of a serious illness"; at Reich Marshal Hermann Goering's headquarters. A World War I lieutenant at 15, one of Corporal Hitler's youngest generals, he planned the Luftwaffe's Polish knockout.

Died. Sir Frederick Phillips, 58, joint second secretary of the British Treasury; in London. Suave, Cambridgeman Phillips had been a Treasury fixture since 1908, visited the U.S. in '1940 to help organize fallen France's and fighting Britain's credits in America.

Died. Abraham Merritt, 59, editor Hearst's American Weekly; of a heart ailment ; in Indian Rock Beach, Fla. An associate editor of the Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants.

Died. William Lyon Phelps, 78, famed Yale teacher, writer, lecturer; two months after a stroke; in New Haven (see p. 56).

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