Milestones, Apr. 10, 1944

Born. To Master Sergeant Ezra Stone, 26, radio’s brash Henry Aldrich, and Sara Seegar Stone, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Josef Seegar.

Killed in Action. Stuart Emeny, 40, distinguished London News Chronicle war correspondent; in the Burma plane crash which killed Major General Orde Charles Wingate. Courageous Emeny first became known for his coverage in 1935-36 of the Ethiopian War. In 1942 another correspondent disquieted Indian press officials with a cable from Cairo: ENEMY REACHES CAIRO INDIAWARDING TOMORROW.

Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso (“Pepin”), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba’s oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia University.

Died. Rear Admiral Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham (pronounced boddom-wettem), 57, famed British sea dog; on active service at Gibraltar. Huge, salty, genial Boddam-Whetham commanded destroyers through World War I, in 1939 retired. Five weeks later he rejoined the Service, during the next three years took some 30 convoys safely through the seven seas, was in charge of a famed, fanatically assaulted Archangel convoy in the fall of 1942. Once during the eight-day air attack one of his escorting destroyers picked off a crippled German plane. Boddam-Whetham flashed a message: “Thought it not done to shoot a sitting bird.”

Died. Dr. Gina Lombroso Ferrero, 73, crusading intellectual, Italy’s first woman physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction — the evil of the machine age.

Died. Stephen Butler Leacock, 74, famed Canadian humorist and economist; after a throat operation in Toronto, Ont.