Milestones, May 10, 1943

Born. To small, sparkling Mrs. Beatrice Wright, 32, Connecticut-born Conservative M.P., and British Army Captain Paul Wright: a daughter, first baby ever borne by an M.P. in office.

Married. Cinemactress Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 21, "still"-starred cinemactress (her first film, The Outlaw, is yet to be generally released); and her old steady, Robert Staton Waterfield, 22, U.C.L.A. Rose Bowl quarterback; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno.

Died. Major General Robert Olds, 46, former Commander of the U.S. Army's Second Air Force; of complications following pneumonia; in Tucson. From a World War I private, he rose to chief of inspection section of the G.H.Q. Air Force (1935-37), was made a major general after his successes as highballing first boss of World War II's Ferrying Command. His ashes were dead-marched into a Flying Fortress at Tucson, scattered by air comrades over the mountainous quarter of the area he commanded.

Died. Viktor Lutze, 53, one-eyed Chief of Staff of the Nazi Storm Troops since the 1934 purging of Captain Ernst Roehm; of injuries when his car struck another; in Potsdam.

Died. Robert D. ("Bob") Emslie, 84, Canadian-born, oldtime big-league pitcher and longtime "Dean" of National League umpires; of a heart attack; in St. Thomas, Ont.

Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public destitution, the gradualist Webbs spent their lives investigating and reporting. Bernard Shaw called them "walking encyclopedias." In 1932 and 1934 they and their inevitable swarm of secretary-researchers visited Russia, gathered the data for their notable Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?