Milestones, Jan. 23, 1950

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Born. To Jack Roosevelt Robinson, 30, Brooklyn's fleet infielder, National League batting champ (.342) and Most Valuable Player in 1949, and Rachel Robinson, 27, onetime nurse: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, 56, hard-driving Lutheran teacher (Concordia Theological Seminary) and preacher, whose sternly fundamentalist radio sermons (The Lutheran Hour), begun in 1935, reached an audience of millions in 36 languages through 1,200 stations; of a coronary thrombosis; in St. Louis.

Died. Carroll ("Cal") Shilling, sixtyish, hell-for-leather No. 1 jockey of his day (969 winners in 3,838 races), rider of victorious Worth in the 1912 Kentucky Derby; in Elmont, N.Y. Suspended since 1912 for rough riding, Shilling took to the bottle, was found dead under a horse van near the Belmont Park track with 99¢ in his pocket.

Died. General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold, 63, wartime commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces; of a coronary occlusion; in Sonoma, Calif, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 66, Harvard economist, onetime (1919-20) Finance Minister of Austria, author of a major treatise on economics (Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Statistical and Historical Analysis of the Capitalist Process); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Taconic, Conn.

Died. Ernest Poole, 69, author of the first Pulitzer Prizewinning novel (His Family, 1917); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born into a wealthy Chicago family, Princetonian Poole (voted "Most Useless" by his class of '02) submerged himself in Manhattan's lower East Side to gather material on how the other half lived, won fame a dozen years later with a tale of New York's poor (The Harbor, 1915).

Died. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 79, owner through both World Wars of the giant Krupp works in Essen, Germany (70% destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II); after long illness; in Salzburg, Austria. Gustav Halbach, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, changed his name when he married Bertha Krupp, heiress to the huge Ruhr steel and ammunition works. In World War I he built the famed long-range German cannon that bombarded Paris (the Allies called it "Big Bertha" after his wife). An early supporter of Hitler, he was indicted as a top war criminal, escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile.

Died. Ann Louisa Lewis, 91, mother of the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis; in Springfield, 111.