Monday, Jan. 08, 1945
Born. To Erskine Caldwell, 41, novelist, (see U.S. AT WAR) and June Johnson Caldwell, 22, his third wife: their first (his fourth) child, a son; in Tucson, Ariz. Name: Jay Erskine. Weight: 6 Ibs. 12 oz.
Married. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 41, Detroit-born millionaire-owner of the Boston Red Sox; and Jean Hiller, 34, onetime Saks Fifth Avenue model; six weeks after he was divorced by Elise Sparrow Yawkey, ex-cover girl; both for the second time; in Georgetown, S.C.
Marriage Revealed. Ted Husing, 42, high-domed, fast-talking sportscaster; and Iris Lemerise, 27, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System receptionist; in a secret ceremony last April; he for the third time, she for the first ; in Louisville.
Reported Missing. Major Glenn Miller, 39, begoggled, popular trombonist and bandsman, leader of the Army Air Forces Band currently entertaining in Paris; while a passenger on a flight from England to Paris. Born in Clarinda, Iowa. Miller played with Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Bros., Ray Noble; in 1939 he became king of the juke boxes.
Died. Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor ("Shorty") Small, 56, modest, soft-spoken onetime commander of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salt Lake City, the "one ship fleet'' which sank five Japanese warships, saved the U.S.S. Boise in the Solomon Islands Battle of Cape Esperance; of long illness ; in Manhattan.
Died. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, 64, brusque, violent, onetime Commander in Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, strategist of Japanese submarine warfare, 79th Japanese admiral pronounced dead since May 27; in Japan.
Died. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, 64, onetime Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Ohio's President-Maker Marcus Hanna, widow of Illinois' Senator Medill McCormick, wife of a one time Congressman from New Mexico; of pancreatitis; in Chicago.
Died. Mrs. H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach, 77, composer, pride of U.S. women's clubs, famed for such easily negotiable glee-club melodies as Ah, Love, but a Day, The Year's at the Spring, first woman composer to have a work per formed by the N. Y. Symphony (in 1892); of heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Blair Lee, 87, aristocratic, one time Democratic Senator from Maryland (1913 to 1917), first U.S. Senator elected to Congress by direct, popular vote (as provided by the 17th Amendment); in Washington.
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