Milestones, Apr. 26, 1937

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Born. To British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 64, famed sex libertarian; and Countess Patricia Helen Spence Russell, 26, his third wife and onetime secretary; his second son; in London. She was named co-respondent in the divorce won by his second wife who had meantime had an illegitimate son by a journalist.

Birthday. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, 80; in Chicago. His standard birthday speech: "Nobody has ever been able to give me proof that there is another life and I don't know that I would want it if there were."

Birthday. Willis Van Devanter, senior and second eldest Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 78; in Washington.

Married. Gina Malo (Janet Flynn), 30, Cincinnati musicomedienne; and Romney Brent (Romulo Larralde), 35, Mexican-born comic with whom she is playing in On Your Toes; in London.

Married. Evelyn Waugh, 33, British satirist (Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies); and Laura Herbert, 20; in London.

Married. Edgar Albert Guest Jr., only son of the poet; and Betty Maynard, of Detroit; in Detroit.

Divorced. James Hilton, 36, sentimental British novelist (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips), now a Hollywood scenarist; from Alice Helen Brown Hilton, in Juarez, Mex.

Left. By Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, Spanish-American War hero; to Widow Grizelda Houston Hull Hobson; an estate valued at less than $5,000; in Manhattan.

Died. Paul G. Jeans, 42, editor of Moses Louis Annenberg's Miami Tribune since its founding in 1934; when he swerved to avoid striking cattle on the highway, skidded into another automobile; near St. Augustine, Fla.

Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police.

Died. Brigadier General Jay Johnson Morrow, 67, U. S. A. retired, onetime (1921-24) Governor of the Canal Zone, Wartime chief engineer of the First Army, uncle of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; of cerebral hemorrhage, in his sleep; in Englewood, N. J., where his famed younger brother Dwight died the same way six years ago. General Morrow's ashes will be scattered over the Canal Zone's Chagres River.

Died. Alfred Harris Swayne, 67, General Motors vice president since 1921, board chairman of General Motors Acceptance Corp.; after two months' illness; in Manhattan. In 1898 he assisted in establishing Cuba's national banking system.

Died. Edward G. ("Foxy Ned") Hanlon, 79, guileful oldtime manager of the Baltimore "Orioles" when that baseball club won three successive National League pennants (1894-96), president of the Baltimore Park Board; in Baltimore.