Milestones, Jan. 3, 1949

Born. To Henry Ford II, 31, president of the Ford Motor Co. (and grandson of the founder), and Anne McDonnell Ford, 30, granddaughter of Utilitycoon Thomas E. Murray: their third child, first son; in Detroit. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather’s “doctrine of the strenuous life,” Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp.

Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan’s Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL).

Died. J. Gilmour (“Gloomy Gil”) Dobie, 69, an alltime great among U.S. football coaches; in Hartford, Conn. In his 33 years of power-play coaching, lanky Gil Dobie went through eleven consecutive undefeated seasons, drove his teams (North Dakota State, University of Washington, Navy, Cornell, Boston College) to a record of 180 victories, 45 losses, 15 ties.

Died. Donald Brian, 73, onetime Broadway musicomedy star (the original Prince Danilo in the 1907 Broadway production of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow); in Great Neck, N.Y.

Died. Major General Johnson Hagood, 75, brass-tongued chief of supply in World War I, who suffered a highly publicized removal as commander of the VIII Corps area by Roosevelt in 1936, after he called WPA expenditures “stage money” before a congressional committee; in Charleston, S.C.

Died. Dr. Hugh Smith Cumming, 79, lanky, longtime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1920-36); of a heart attack; in Washington. Dr. Cumming helped set up the national leprosarium in 1921 at Carville, La., also was responsible for establishing the Government’s two rehabilitation farms for narcotic addicts.

Died. Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich, 84, tiny, unassuming wife of the late great German bacteriologist Dr. Paul Ehrlich, whose discovery of salvarsan or 606 (“The Magic Bullet”) was a major landmark in combating syphilis; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Frau Ehrlich fled Germany in 1939.

* Named for his uncle, who was killed in air combat in World War I.