Born. To Ella Raines, 31, cinemactress (Hail the Conquering Hero, Brute Force), and her second husband, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robin Olds, 30: their second child, second daughter; in Cornwall, N.Y. Name: Susan, Weight: 7 lbs.

Died. Klement Gottwald, 56, Moscow-trained President-Dictator of Czechoslovakia; in Prague (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Joseph Raleigh Bryson, 60, teetotaling Democratic Representative from South Carolina since 1939, leader of the dry forces in Congress who tried to put the nation on the wagon during World War II; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Fred Toney, 63, National League pitcher (1911-23); of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lumbering Righthander Toney made major-league history in 1917 by pitching a ten-inning no-hitter for the Cincinnati Reds while Chicago Cubs Pitcher Jim Vaughn pitched nine hitless innings, let in the Reds' winning run in the tenth.

Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway, etc.).

Died. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 80, physician, financier, former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (1947-49), brother of Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch; in Wyandanch, N.Y.

Died. Newcomb Carlton, 84, longtime (1914-43) president and chairman of the board of Western Union; in White Plains, N.Y. Originator of the Night Letter to keep Western Union's wires humming full time, Carlton led the company's expansion from its far-strung web of Morse keys to a giant network of modern telegraphic printers. He scoffed at "stuffed shirts" in business, made a point of never lecturing his messenger boys on the rewards of hard work. Rather: "It's the breaks. Success depends upon which side of the street you were walking on at a certain minute of a certain day."

Died. James A. Hard, 111, oldest veteran of the Civil War and next-to-last survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic (the last G.A.R. survivor: Albert Woolson, 106, of Duluth, Minn.); in Rochester, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

*No kin to Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson.

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