Monday, May. 10, 1954

Married. Jackie Cooper, 32, ball-nosed onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ) turned Broadway actor (King of Hearts') ; and Barbara Kraus, 26, a Manhattan ad-agency production assistant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington, B.C.

Married. Horace Heidt, 52, radio and nightclub bandleader; and Lorraine Elizabeth Burton, 39, Los Angeles salad-dressing manufacturer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Arlington, Va.

Died. Arthur J. Johnston, 56, popular songwriter of the '205 and '305 (Pennies from Heaven, Cocktails for Two); of cancer; in Hollywood.

Died. Joe Laurie Jr., 61, oldtime vaudeville headliner turned radio comedian (Can You Top This?) and Broadway chronicler (Show Biz: From Vaude to Video) ; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when she fell into the Pacific in 1935.

Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings.

Died. Leon Jouhaux, 74, grand old man of French labor, winner of the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize; of a heart ailment, only a few hours after his re-election as president of the Economic Council, which made him fourth-ranking official in the French government; in Paris. Born and raised in Paris' industrial slums, Jouhaux went to work in a match factory, at 30 was boss of the powerful Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). During the strike-torn '303, he pulled the C.G.T. into the Socialist Front Populaire, alongside the Communists fought Hitler, Franco, Pierre Laval. Imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II, he came home to find the C.G.T. run by Communists, in 1947 broke away to lead an independent, anti-Communist labor movement (Force Ouvriere).

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