Milestones, Aug. 14, 1939

Birthdays. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this age."

Born. To Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, 30, and Prince Bernhard, 28, a daughter; in Amsterdam (see p. 23).

Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood.

Married. Lady Rachel Howard, 34, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, who is Britain's No. 1 Roman Catholic peer; and Colin Keppel Davidson, 43, Clerk of the House of Lords; in Arundel, England.

Died. Sonyu Otani, 53, onetime chief abbot of the Honganji sect of Japanese Buddhists; in 1937-38 Minister of Overseas Affairs; head of the Japanese-controlled North China Development Co.; of pneumonia; in Kalgan, China.

Died. Royal Cleaves Johnson, 56, longtime (1915-33) Republican Representative from South Dakota; of a heart attack, in Washington, D. C. In 1917 he voted against U. S. entrance into the World War, then left Congress to enlist as a private, in France won promotion to a first-lieutenancy, a wound stripe and the Distinguished Service Cross.

Died. Lord Howard of Penrith, 75, who, as Sir Esme Howard, was British Ambassador to the U. S. from 1924 to 1930; in Hindhead, Surrey, England.

Died. The Abuna Abraham, 77, blind Patriarch of the "Independent National Church of Ethiopia" (Coptic), who was appointed in 1937 by the Italians when the Abuna Cyril fled to Egypt and started a schism between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Churches; in Addis Ababa.

Died. Frank Wheeler Mondell, 78, longtime Republican Congressman from Wyoming, party Floor Leader from 1919 to 1923, chairman of the 1924 Republican Convention; of leukemia, in Washington, D. C.

Died. Charles Steele, 82, lawyer, unobtrusive partner (since 1900) in the banking firm J. P. Morgan & Co. ; after a long illness; in Westbury, L. I. A quiet philanthropist, he gave $500,000 to Manhattan's St. Thomas Church for its choir school.