Birthday. Henry Richard Gibson, probably the oldest living former (1895-1905) Congressman; his 100th or 101st; in Washington. Biographies say he was born in 1837; his family Bible gives 1836. Said he: "What's one year among a hundred? Certainly nothing to worry about."

Divorced, Aidan Roark, 36, Irish-born international poloist (rating: 8 goals), Twentieth Century-Fox scenario executive; by Esther Foss Moore Roark, 32, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Los Angeles. Grounds: rudeness. Mrs. Roark testified that once, driving with her from Carmel to Los Angeles in wind & rain, he insisted on keeping the car's top down.

Divorced. Dmitri Pavolvitch Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, co-assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; from Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Ilyinski, formerly Audrey Emery, inheritor of $6,000,000 from the leather fortune of Cincinnati's John Josiah Emery; in Bayonne, France.

Died, Ted Healy, 41, stage & film funster who invented the disapproving "stooge"; in Los Angeles, two nights after he had been beaten up near the Hollywood Trocadero where he was celebrating the birth of a son. A coroner's autopsy found that death was caused by no thrashing, but by "acute toxic nephritis, induced by acute and chronic alcoholism."

Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies.

Died. Frank Billings Kellogg, 81, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1924), Secretary of State under President Coolidge, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; of pneumonia; in St. Paul, Minn.

Died. Albert F. Houghton, 87, retired publisher (Houghton Mifflin Co.) who turned out books by John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Francis Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis; of heart complications following an illness; in Manhattan.

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