Born. To Cinemactress Betty Grable, 30, and Trumpeter Harry James, 31: their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Jessica. Weight: 6 lbs. 14 oz.

Divorced. Anna Dodge Dillman, 70, widow of Automaker Horace E. Dodge; and Hugh Dillman, nightclub operator; after 21 years of marriage; in Detroit.

Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan.

Died. Williamson S. Howell Jr., 54, wealthy Texas attorney-businessman; of a heart attack half an hour before his scheduled departure for his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay:* in Bryan, Tex.

Died. Henry George Charles Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 64, sporting, moose-tall sixth Earl of Harewood, wealthy landowner husband of George VI's only sister, Mary, Britain's Princess Royal; of a heart ailment and asthma; in Leeds, England.

Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate Co.

Died. Minnie Dupree, 72, blonde toast of Broadway (The Music Master, with David Warfield) in the era of David Belasco and Richard Mansfield, veteran of a 60-year stage, screen and radio career; in Manhattan.

Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington.

Died. Lloyd Osbourne, 79, novelist; in Glendale, Calif. As a lad he asked to be told a story without girls in it; his stepfather, Robert Louis Stevenson, complied by writing Treasure Island.

Died. Perry Belmont, 96, son of Banker August Belmont, grandson of Commodore Matthew Perry, onetime Congressman from New York (1881-89), onetime U.S. Minister to Spain (1888-89); in Newport, R. I.

*The second time in three months a new U.S. ambassador has died on the day he was to leave for his new post: in February, North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner was stricken in Manhattan the day he was to sail for the Court of St. James's.

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