Married. Mrs. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles, daughter of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; to Francis Baylor, socialite, of Manhattan; in Mlexico City, where she divorced her second husband, Dr. Edward Spencer Bowles, Manhattan psychiatrist.

Married. Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, 48, of Manhattan; and Joseph Edward Davies, 59, of Washington; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Arturo Peralta Ramos; by Millicent Rogers Salm von Hoogstraeten Umos, daughter of the late Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard Oil heir; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty.

Elected. Raymond Elaine Fosdick, 52, Manhattan attorney, longtime agent and counsel for Rockefeller sociological activties, brother of Rockefeller Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick: to the presidency of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board.

Died. Thelma Todd, 29, blonde cinemactress; in Pacific Palisades, Calif, where she was found dead, possibly of monoxide poisoning, in her automobile.

Died. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, 37, Argentine cattle tycoon; husband of Leonora Hughes, onetime Long Island telephone operator who became the dancing partner of the late, famed Maurice Mouvet; by drowning, when his speedboat overturned in Lake Nahuel Huapi in the Southern Argentine Andes.

Died. Mantis James Van Sweringen, 54, younger and more retiring of Cleveland's famed bachelor brothers of railroading; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Because of his illness he did not accompany his brother Oris Paxton Van Sweringen to the public auction in Manhattan last September where, with fresh backing, they regained control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real estate empire for $3,121,300 (TIME, Oct. 7).

Died. Frank H. Cooney, 62, Democratic Governor of Montana since 1933; of heart disease; in Great Falls, Mont.

Died. Prince Svasti, 70, onetime Siamese Minister of Justice, later Lord Chief Justice, son of the late King Mongkut, brother of the late King Chulalongkorn, father-in-law of ex-King Prajadhipok; in Penang, Straits Settlements.

Died. Joel Owsley Cheek, 83, retired coffee tycoon (Maxwell House), church worker, philanthropist; of pneumonia; in Jacksonville, Fla. After years of peddling coffee from house to house on horseback he organized Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., retired in 1928 when the company was sold to General Foods at a reputed price of $40,000,000.

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