Milestones, Nov. 7, 1949

Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. (“57 Varieties”) Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight: 6 Ibs. 12 oz.

Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Ginette Neveu, 30, brilliant Paris-born violinist who was bravoed by critics after her Manhattan appearance two years ago; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 49, U.S. industrialist (General Motors, U.S. Steel), onetime (1944-45) U.S. Secretary of State, later rector of the University of Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Greenwich, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting.

Died. Vladimir Hurban, 66, Czechoslovakia’s veteran diplomat, onetime minister (1936-43) and ambassador (1943-46) to the U.S., who in 1939 refused the German demand that he surrender his embassy, thereafter stood as a wartime symbol of resistance to Naziism; of a heart ailment; in Prague.

Died. John Robert Clynes, 80, pioneer in the British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country’s first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute.

Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln’s tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield, Ill.