Born. To Ethel Merman, musical-comedy star last seen in Panama Hattie, and Husband Robert Levitt, Captain, Quartermaster Corps: a girl. Name: Ethel Merman. Weight: 7 Ib. 1 oz.

Married. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 34, former wife of Cinemactors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone; and Cinemactor Phillip Terry (real name: Frederick H. Kormann), 33, at Hidden Valley Ranch near Ventura, Calif.

Married. Helen Jepson, 35, Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Walter Dellera, 29, engineer for Electric Boat Co.; in Juarez, Mexico; she for the second time.

Divorced. Cinemactress Mae West; from Vaudeville Dancer Frank Wallace, from whom she had been separated since a few weeks after their marriage in Milwaukee, 31 years ago; in Los Angeles. Said Divorcee West: "He has been a pain in the neck for a long time."

Died. Mrs. James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, 27, wife of Wake Island's defender, U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel ("Send us more Japs") Devereux; of diabetes; in Washington, D.C. An Army daughter (of Colonel John P. Welch, in command of the Quartermaster Depot at Richmond, Va.), pretty Mrs. Devereux's illness had apparently been aggravated by worry over the fate of her husband, last reported in a Shanghai prison camp. Orphaned for the duration was Son Patrick Devereux, 8.

Died. Captain H. Clyde Balsley, 48, early member of the Lafayette Escadrille and first U.S. flyer to be shot down in World War I; of complications from wounds received in 1916; in Los Angeles.

Died. Major General Frank C. Mahin, commanding officer of the 33rd Division, U.S. Army; in an Army plane crash near Waynesboro, Tenn.

Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church.

Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping.

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