Milestones, Apr. 26, 1943

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Married. Cinemactress Linda (Monette Eloyse) Darnell, 19; and Sergeant J. Peverell Marley, 42, peacetime ace cameraman; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Killed in Action. Brigadier Frederick Hermann Kisch, 64, the British Eighth Army's chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain.

Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas Oilman J. Robert Souder, ex-wife of Chicago Packinghouse Heir Nathan Burton Swift, and daughter of the late Melvin Traylor, organizer of the Bank for International Settlements and near-Presidential candidate in 1932; by falling or jumping from a Manhattan hotel window.

Died. Gordon Auchincloss, 56, corporation lawyer, socialite, secretary at Versailles to Colonel Edward M. House, his father-in-law; of Hodgkin's disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Pierre Lorillard, 61, tobacco heir (Old Gold), last direct descendant of fortune-founding Pierre I; of a throat infection; at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Known as Pierre III, he was actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that he and Mrs. Harding had dissuaded the President from seeking Congressional action to limit all Presidents to a single six-year term.

Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup.

Left. By the late Charles M. Schwab, steel tycoon: assets of $1,389,509; debts of $1,727,858. Tax appraisal showed in dividual debts as high as $217,522 (to family friend Elizabeth Scott).