Born. To Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt: their second son, 8 lb. 3 oz.; at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

Born. To the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: their first child, a son; in a nursing home near London. The new Prince is fourth in succession to the throne. Preceding him : Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret Rose, the Duke of Gloucester.

Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied for a WPA job in 1938.

Died. Elsie Moore Torlonia, 52, Brooklyn-born hardware heiress who married and divorced the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; in Manhattan. Her son, Prince Allesandro, married the Infanta Beatriz, daughter of Alfonso XIII; her younger daughter, Donna Marina, is the wife of Tennist Francis X. Shields. Mrs. Torlonia dropped her title, regained her U.S. citizenship after her divorce.

Died. Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 59, chairman of the giant Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd. (Sunlight soap in Britain, Lux in the U.S.); in Reigate, England. He succeeded to the chairmanship after the death of Lord Leverhulme in 1925.

Died. Elsie Clews Parsons, 66, woman anthropologist; after an appendectomy; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late banker Henry Clews, in 1906 she published The Family, a textbook which sold like a novel after its treatment of marriage drew the wrath of ministers. She wrote 21 books on anthropology, was a leading authority on Pueblo Indians.

Died. William Banks Caperton, 86, oldest retired Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Commander of the Pacific Fleet in World War I, when he cleared German raiders from the South Atlantic and operated the naval patrol off South America. A diplomat as well as a fighter, he cruised on courtesy visits to the Latin American republics in 1919, won the praise of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt for being of "inestimable value" in strengthening U.S.-Latin American ties.

Died. Alonzo Bertram See (A. B. See elevators), 94, retired misogynist; in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attracted national attention in 1922 when he recommended that "all women's colleges should be burned," but in 1936 he entertained 15 career women in his home, told a reporter: "Up to tonight I still had the same opinion. But I changed it tonight."

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