Adopted. By Cinemactress Loretta Young: James (three years) and Judy (23 months), two children she first saw when decorating a tree last Christmas at a Los Angeles Catholic orphanage. Three years ago she had her marriage to Actor Grant Withers annulled.

Married, Robert Pierre Raskob. 25, third son of Financier John Jacob Raskob; to Dolores Hartor of Reno, Nev.; in Reno.

Married. Ralph Heyward Isham, New York financier and one of the world's foremost authorities on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; to Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Expert Isham made his greatest find in Malahide Castle, Ireland, two months ago when he discovered in an old iron trunk Dr. Johnson's diary from 1765 to 1784 (TIME. April 5).

Married. Andre Tardieu. 60. thrice (1929, 1930. 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mme Julia Angelique Largen-ton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne.

Married. Judge Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran, 69, famed Reno divorce judge; to Mrs. Jessie M. Smith, longtime clerk of his court; in Reno. A grandmother, she gave her age as "over 21."

Marriage revealed. Rose Bampton, 27, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; to Wilfred Pelletier, 40, Metropolitan Opera Company conductor; May 24; at Elkton, Md.

Elected. Maurice Duperrey, French industrialist and linguist (French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Esperanto); to the presidency of Rotary International; at the 28th annual convention in Nice. Backed by France's No. 1 Rotarian, genteel President Albert Lebrun. Maurice Duperrey breaks the longtime U. S. grip on Rotary International's presidency. Rotary-International's immediate objective: improved Franco-German relations.

Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside her.

Birthday. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, U. S. A. retired, 100, oldest man in the Army roll, veteran of the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion; in West Roxbury, Mass. On his 98th birthday the House of Representatives congratulated him. On his 99th birthday he received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. On his 100th birthday President Roosevelt wrote to congratulate him "personally as well as officially."

Suicide discovered. Dr. John Wyckoff, dean of New York University Medical School, whose death was at first supposed to have been caused by heart failure brought on by his innocent association with an insurance racket (TIME, June 14); by a deliberate overdose of morphine.

Died, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, 59, favorite and last surviving sister of the late Nikolai Lenin, chief of the complaint bureau of the Soviet Control Commission; after several days' unconsciousness due to high blood pressure; in Moscow.

Died. Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, 77, mother of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin; of pneumonia; near Tiflis, Georgia. Wife of a shoemaker, she wanted her son to be a priest, entered him in Tiflis Theological Seminary from which he was expelled for revolutionary activity. On entering the Communist Party he took a new name. Son Stalin, whom she called "Soso," did not attend the funeral. Reported she on his last visit to her in 1935: "We spent the whole day together joking and laughing a lot."

Died. Sir Robert Laird Borden, 82, longtime (1911-20) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; of heart failure; in Ottawa, Ont.

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