Monday, Jul. 12, 1943

Born. To Naval Chief Petty Officer Artie Shaw, 33, peacetime swingster, and Betty Kern Shaw, 24, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern : their first child, a boy, after 16 months of marriage; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 lb. 1 oz.

Marriage Revealed. Victor Moore, 67, bumble-funnyman, and Dancer Shirley Page, 22; on Jan. 16, 1942; eight years after the death of Emma Littlefield Moore, his first wife and longtime vaudeville teammate; in Chicago.

Married. Betty Grable, 26, pin-up girl, and trumpeting Harry Haag James, 32; six days after he was divorced by Louise Tobin James; each for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Army Air Forces Flight Sergeant John L. ("Jackie") Coogan, 28, onetime cinema juvenile, by Flower Parry Coogan, 21 ; after two years of marriage, his second, her first; in Hollywood. His first wife was Cinemactress Betty Grable.

Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar.

Died. Dr. Robert James Manion, 61, onetime surgeon, leader of Canada's Conservative party (1938-40), head of Canadian air raid defense; in Ottawa.

Died. Will Caton, 66, ace breeder and driver of harness horses ; after long illness; in Cleveland. As a 16-year-old, Caton drove at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was straightway hired by the late Tsar of Russia. After eleven years at the royal reins he signed with a Russian nobleman at an unheard-of guarantee ($20,000 a year and 15% of his winnings). Captured by Bolsheviks in 1917, he worked as a prisoner on a model stock farm. After three years he returned to the U.S.; won the 1932 Hambletonian ; rolled his employers' total purses up to $3,000,000.

Died. Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Tanner, 73, onetime pistol prodigy; of complications resulting from a broken leg; in Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill."

Died. James E. MacMurray, 81, long-time president of Acme Steel Corp., who gave over $2,000,000 to Illinois educational institutions; in Pasadena.

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