Reported Missing in Action. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley ("Tom") Harmon, 24, Michigan's onetime All-America halfback; since Oct. 30; over China. His promotion to first lieutenant came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong.

Died. Lou Costello Jr., youngest child of capering, cornfed Comedian Lou (Abbott &) Costello; after loosening a playpen slat, falling into the family swimming pool; the day before his first birthday; in Van Nuys, Calif. A few hours later his father went on the air for the first time after a seven-month illness and covered up with jokes about such subjects as life insurance.

Died. Oscar Ameringer (rhymes with am a dinger), 73, beloved longtime laborite, Oklahoma City editor of the American Guardian (1931-41); after a long illness; in Oklahoma City. Ameringer ran away from German military service in 1886, tended bar in New York, learned English from a hobo, was Ted Lewis' first music teacher, painted Ohio farmers' portraits, cheerfully wrecked his career as an insurance salesman to garner 103 votes as 1903 Socialist candidate for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat."

Died. John Wilson Dillinger, 79, father of the 1930s' ill-famed John Dillinger; in Indianapolis. To pay his gangster son's funeral expenses, the sad-faced Mooresville, Ind. farmer went on a criminological lecture tour a few days after the son was shot dead by G-men in Chicago (1934).

Died. Josephine Hancock Logan, 81, crusading Chicago patroness of science and "sane" art; in Chicago. Mrs. Logan was much perturbed when the generous art prize she and her husband had endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons.

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