Born.To Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 45, and Crown Princess Ingrid,
34, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf: their second
daughter, second non-heir to occupied Denmark's throne ; in Stockholm. Born. To torchy Cinemactress Alice Faye and “sweet” Orchestra Leader
Phil Harris: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Weight: 6 lb. Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, caf-society glamor girl of 1937,
Bromo-Seltzer heiress ; and Brigadier General Edward
Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air
Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor
rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr.,
tin-plate heir , who is now a naval lieutenant overseas,
ended in divorce last year. Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the
Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk;
in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter
signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the
similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk
phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to
his Kenosha estate. Died. Humphrey Cobb, 44, author of 1935's best-selling war story ; of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was
his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan
advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who
ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted
for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him,
and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency. Died. Theodore Bissell Parker, 54, one time chief engineer of TVA's 1,400
engineers, short-time head of M.I.T.'s civil engineering department; after long
illness; in Wellesley, Mass. Died. William Franklin Knox, 70, Secretary of the Navy; of a
heart attack; in Washington . Left. By the late Leslie Howard, stage & screen star: to his widow, son and
daughter, an estate of $251,000; to Violette Cunnington, his secretary, his
Beverly Hills house. Miss Cunnington died six months before the actor was
lost in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane, reportedly shot down by the Nazis.
