Milestones, Nov. 11, 1935

Born. To Morton Downey, radio singer, and Barbara Bennett Downey, sister of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance Bennett: a son, their third child; in Manhattan. Name: Anthony Patrick.

Married. Mina Miller Edison, 69, widow (second wife) of Thomas Alva Edison, daughter of the late Co-Founder Lewis Miller of the Chautauqua Institution (TIME, Jan. i. 1934); and Edward E. Hughes, 73, retired lawyer and steelmaker of Franklin, Pa.; in Chautauqua, N. Y.

Separated. Margaret (“Margo”) Couzens Chewning, Washington socialite, daughter of Michigan’s rich Senator James Couzens; and William Jeffries Chewning Jr., Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. employe, with whom she eloped five years ago after obtaining a dispensation from Baltimore’s Archbishop Michael J. Curley.

Divorced. By Perry Hale, oldtime Yale footballer (All-America. 1900) who was accidentally blinded some 25 years ago: Anne Howarth Geary Hale, who married him in 1921, lived with him intermittently for nine years; in Middletown, Conn. Grounds: desertion.

Left. By Colonel Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard Oilman: a personal estate of $26.000,000: to his widow, his daughter, his grandson and his son, Henry Jr., whose physicians say he has been in a state of nervous collapse since the shooting of Actress Evelyn Hoey at his farm (TIME, Sept. 23).

Died. Moffat Johnston, 49, able, long-time Broadway actor (Twentieth Century, Within the Gates, Camille, Macbeth, Hamlet); following an appendectomy; in Norwalk, Conn.

Died. John (“Old Itchfoot”) Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890’s, staked out the “Little Minook” mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and “Klondike Kate” Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion.

Died. Frederick Shander Moody, 70, San Francisco businessman, father-in-law of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, uncle of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.; in San Francisco

Died. Benjamin Warner. 79, onetime Polish emigrant, cobbler and delicatessen dealer, father of the cinema’s three Warner Brothers (Harry. Albert, Jack); in Youngstown, Ohio.

Died. Dr. Bernard Kornelius Johannes Loder, 86, Dutch authority on international law, first president of the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court); at The Hague.