Divorced. Oleg Cassini, 34, Hollywood dressmaker, erstwhile Russian count; by Gene Tierney, 26, sulky cinemactress, onetime (1938) Connecticut debutante; after six years, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nuernberg trials; of cancer; in Paris.

Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Cochran, 66, able, longtime (20 years) Representative from Missouri,* foe of Government waste (as chairman of the House Accounts Committee), sponsor of the "Lindbergh Law," which made kidnaping across state lines a federal--and capital--offense; in St. Louis.

Died. Major General John Henry Russell, 74, veteran leatherneck; in Coronado, Calif. At 14, Russell solemnly promised Grover Cleveland that he would succeed if granted a presidential appointment to Annapolis, eventually succeeded in being

1) High Commissioner in Haiti, and

2) Commandant of the Marine Corps (1934-36).

Died. Salvatore Cortesi, 82, famed Italian journalist (who scooped the world on the death of Pope Leo XIII), for 29 years chief of the Rome Bureau of the Associated Press./- father of the New York Times's Rome Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi; in Florence.

Died. Sir Halford John Mackinder, 86, renowned British geographer, onetime professor at the University of London, M.P. for twelve years; in London. Two of Sir Halford's half-forgotten papers on the world's "Heartland" (1904 and 1919) were seized upon by the Germans some years later and converted into the basis for Nazi theories of world conquest, eventually caused Sir Halford to be hailed as "the father of geopolitics."

Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad.

* In 1934, in a three-way race for the Democratic senatorial nomination, he ran a close second to Political Unknown Harry Truman (who won with overwhelming Pendergast machine support in Kansas City).

/- As character references, requested when he joined A.P., he gave two names: "Giuseppe Sarto; occupation, Pope. Victor Emanuel; occupation, King."

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