Born. To Ghazi I and Alia, King & Queen of Irak: a son, their first; in Baghdad.

Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME, Dec. 24).

Married. Dorothy Williams Ranney, 25, daughter of George Alfred Ranney, Chicago utility man; and Gaylord Donnelley, 25, son of Chairman Thomas Elliott Donnelley of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), printers of TIME; in Chicago.

Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member of a Manhattan socialite family, he inherited a fortune estimated at between $10,000,000 and $40,000,000, went to Harvard (Class of 1910) where he knew Franklin D. Roosevelt. Going to New Mexico for his health, Cutting became a follower of Theodore Roosevelt, was State Progressive Committee Chairman from 1914 to 1916. Appointed Senator by New Mexico's Governor Richard C. Dillon in 1927, he was elected for a six-year term the following year. Friends called him "the most cultured man in the Senate."

Died. William Ford, 69, onetime board chairman, controlling stockholder of $47,000,000 Owens-Illinois Glass Co.; of apoplexy; in Ojai, Calif.

Died. Percy Procter, 83, brother of William A. and Harley Procter who with James Gamble founded the Cincinnati soap firm, uncle of its late Board Chairman William Cooper Procter; in Atlantic City. Connected for a time with the firm, Percy Procter left it to found Procter-Collier Advertising Co.

Died. Mrs. Maria Y. Dougall, 84, oldest surviving daughter of Mormon Brigham Young; in Salt Lake City. Of the 56 children born to Young and his 19 wives, four sisters and two brothers survive.

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