Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940

Married. Lee Powell, who plays the cinema role of the Lone Ranger; and Norma Rogers of York, S. C.; in Chicago. (Three days later, radio's Lone Ranger, Earle Graser, became the father of a daughter, Gabrielle Ann, in Detroit.)

Married. Joan Bennett Fox Markey, 29, veteran (since 1929) brunette (since 1938) cinemactress; and her boss, Producer Walter Wanger (Algiers, Blockade), 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in Phoenix. Ariz.

Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force.

Died. Rosalynd Amper, fortyish, once the toast of Shanghai night-lifers; in an opium den, pipe in hand; in Shanghai. Blonde, lissome Rosalynd Amper began singing in 1923 in Shanghai's Del Monte Cafe, surrounded herself with generous suitors. In 1928 she was maimed in an automobile crash, lost her beauty and her lovers. To get money, she borrowed on the strength of a mythical special delivery letter, which never came but earned her the name of "Special Delivery Rose."

Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times.

Died. Ralph Hitz, 48, Viennese immigrant to the U. S. who floor-scrubbed, dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell out of 'em."

Died. Roy Gardner, 56, onetime notorious train robber, since his release from Leavenworth in 1938 a film salesman, crime lecturer, author (Hellcatraz), exposition barker; by his own hand (poison gas of his own mixing); in San Francisco.

Died. Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), 59, Norwegian-born painter (landscapes and seascapes), onetime president of the National Academy; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tagged a reactionary by younger artists, Jonas Lie was regarded as a rebel by conservative Academicians.