Divorced. Guy Mitchell, 27, jukebox favorite (My Heart Cries for You) turned cinemactor (Red Garters); by Jackie Loughery, 23, Miss United States in the Miss Universe of 1952 competition; after 17 months of marriage; in Hollywood.

Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp.

Died. Noel Gay (real name: Reginald Moxon Armitage), 55, popular British songwriter of the '30s best known for The Lambeth Walk, which became a favorite in England and the U.S. on the eve of World War II; of cancer; in London.

Died. Lieut. General Robert Charl-wood ("Nellie") Richardson Jr., 71, old-time cavalryman, World War II chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific (1943-46); of a heart attack; while visiting in Rome.

Died. William Harrison (Will) Hays, 74, pioneer guardian of Hollywood's celluloid morals (as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home to Indiana to practice law.

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