Married. Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on a three-day pass, expected to ship overseas soon.

Divorced. Artie Shaw, 34, mercurial bandleader; by his fourth wife, Elizabeth Kern Shaw, 25, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern; after 2 1/2 years of marriage; in Los Angeles.

Died. Josef Buerckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar, Austria and Lorraine ; of pneumonia; in Germany. One of Hitler's earliest henchmen, liquor-swilling Buerckel developed from a dissatisfied elementary schoolteacher into Hitler's top plebiscite fixer.

Died. Frederic Ely Williamson, 68, onetime clerk who rose to be President of the N.Y. Central Railroad (from 1932 until his retirement last September), director of more than 50 U.S. railroads, 1936 winner of the Montclair Yale Club's silver bowl to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 69, expatriate former editor of Harper's Magazine; after long illness; in Paris. The fourth of Harper's able editors (1919 to 1931),* Yaleman Wells reorganized Harper & Bros.' finances, wiped out a $1,000,000 debt, retired to Paris in 1931. He was too ill to be moved during the occupation, died several days before the city's liberation.

Died. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 74, short, swart, startling British economist, onetime M.P. and Encyclopedia Britannica editor; in Bramley, Surrey. Born in Italy as plain Leo Chiozza, he attained a British title, originated Allied shipping strategy against U-boats in World War I. Sir Leo, in letters-to-the-editors, defended Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Japan as "frustrated and deprived nations."

Died. Sir William Mulock, 101, eldest of Canada's elder statesmen; in Toronto. In 1906, he dissuaded a young Harvard graduate from a teaching career, thus introduced William Lyon Mackenzie King to Canadian politics. Sir William spent 23 years in politics, 31 years on the Ontario bench, 20 years as Chancellor of the University of Toronto.

* The others: Henry Raymond, founder of the N.Y. Times; Alfred Guernsey; Henry Mills Alden, sponsor of Mark Twain and Henry James. President editor: Historian Frederick Lewis Al len (Only Yesterday).

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