Milestones, Jun. 17, 1940

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Born. To John A. Roosevelt, 24, young est son of Franklin Roosevelt, and Anne Clark Roosevelt, 23: a 7-lb., g-oz. son, their first (the President's tenth grand child); in Boston. Name: Haven. Father John celebrated by taking the day off from the Winchester branch of William Filene's Sons, Boston clothing store.

Married. Jacqueline Vereker, 25, daughter of John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker (Viscount Gort), Commander of the B. E. F. ; and Captain W. P. Sidney, 28, of the Grenadier Guards; in London.

Divorced. John J. Raskob Jr., 33, son of the former Democratic National Chair man ; from Minerva Aaronson Raskob, 29, former New Haven typist whom he mar ried while at Yale; after nine and a half years of marriage; in Reno.

Died. Norman McLeod Rogers, 45, Canadian Minister of National Defense, onetime (1935-39) Minister of Labor; in an air crash near Newtonville, Ont.

Died. Edward E. Clive, 60, British-born character actor, whose repertory ranged from touty cockneys to gouty earls; of heart disease; in Hollywood.

Watching him buttle, John Barrymore once said: "You played that as if you came from a long line of butlers." Died. Francis Luis Mora, 65, Uru guayan-born U. S. artist, member of the National Academy, whose portrait of War ren G. Harding hangs in the White House ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933 he painted himself and wife as he imagined they would look in 1953, predicted an American Renaissance in that year.

Died. Prince lyesato Tokugawa, 76, longtime (1903-33) president of the Japanese House of Peers, English-educated friend of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Had Emperor Mutsuhito not emerged from seclusion, restored author ity to the throne, Tokugawa would have been Shogun (military ruler) of Japan.

Died. Admiral Hugh Rodman, (U.S.N., Ret.), 81, grim-faced sea dog who commanded the 6th Battle Squadron in the North Sea in 1918; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmermann, 81, German Foreign Minister during World War I, author of the notorious "Zimmer mann Note" of pneumonia; in Berlin. In January 1917, the British Naval Intelligence intercepted and decoded a note from Zimmermann to the German Minis ter in Mexico: If the U. S. entered the war, Germany wanted a Mexican alli ance, promised U. S. territory as booty.

Woodrow Wilson made the message pub lic. Five weeks later the U. S. declared war; Zimmermann lost his job.